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  2. Blocksburg, California - Wikipedia

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    The Blocksburgh post office opened in 1877. The name was changed to Blocksburg in 1893, [3] and was named for Benjamin Blockburger, a local merchant. [3] Blocksburg at one time had hotels, saloons, doctor and dentist offices, and a variety of other businesses. The town declined after the Redwood Highway bypassed it upon its completion in 1920. [2]

  3. List of house styles - Wikipedia

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    This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture ... used in the design of houses. African. Cape Dutch (South ... Art Deco. International Style.

  4. Architectural design values - Wikipedia

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    This pluralistic and diverse aesthetic reality has typically been created within different architectural and industrial design movements such as: Modernism, Postmodernism, Deconstructivism, Post-structuralism, Neoclassicism, New Expressionism, Supermodernism, etc. [2] [3] [4] All of these aesthetic realities represent a number of divergent ...

  5. Art Deco - Wikipedia

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    Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs (lit. ' Decorative Arts '), [1] is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), [2] and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.

  6. House - Wikipedia

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    A house is a single-unit residential building.It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.

  7. House plan - Wikipedia

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    Elevation view of the Panthéon, Paris principal façade Floor plans of the Putnam House. A house plan [1] is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.

  8. Spanish Colonial architecture - Wikipedia

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    The Bahay Filipino houses followed the nipa hut's arrangements, such as open ventilation and elevated apartments. The most obvious difference between Filipino houses would be the materials that were used to build them. The bahay na bato has Spanish and Chinese influences. Its most common appearance is like that of a stilt nipa hut standing on ...

  9. Balinese architecture - Wikipedia

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    Unlike European architecture, Balinese houses and puri (palaces) are not created as a single huge building, but rather a collection of numerous structures within walled enclosures each with a special function; such as a front open pavilion to receive guests, main bedroom, other bedrooms, pelinggihan or pemrajan is a small family shrine, living ...