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[D] The term "outhouse" is used in North American English for the structure over a toilet, usually a pit latrine ("long-drop"). However, in British English "outhouse" means any outbuilding, including such as a shed or barn. [50] In Australia and parts of Canada an outdoor toilet is known as a "dunny". "Privy", an archaic variant of "private ...
In 1883, he decided to light his gallery with electricity. An outhouse became a substation, and equipment was installed in the basement, which upset some of the neighbours, and caused others to buy electricity from him. Thus began the system of electrical distribution in use today, but the threat of fire ended these activities, and by 1890 ...
Privy digging is the process of locating and investigating the contents of defunct outhouse vaults. The purpose of privy digging is the salvage of antique bottles and everyday household artifacts from the past. Privy digging is a form of historical digging and is often conducted on private residential properties. Construction sites and major ...
Aerial view of Vista House, Crown Point, and Columbia River. The Vista House was designed by Edgar M. Lazarus, a renowned Oregon architect.With its high-grade marble interior and brass fixtures, some Oregonians at the time derided it as the "$100,000 Outhouse" during its construction. [6]
Outhouse: Attached to the corral; Corral: Wooden structure; Windmill: Attached to a small water tank, now used as a preserve for the Chircahua leopard frog; Frog ponds: Two man-made ponds now used as a preserve for the Chiricahua leopard frog; Old house: Ruins up the trail from the ranch house
Extensive external restoration work, which began in 2002, was completed in 2010 with a new gallery and new shingles on the roof. [1] [2] The guild is now trying to raise funds for restoration of the mill's interior. [3] The mill, together with the miller's house and an outhouse, became a listed building in 1964.
After firing continuously at the outhouse, Dick Brewer (Charlie Sheen) dares Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez) to see if Roberts is still alive. Billy emerges and is greeted with a hail of gunfire. Roberts then kills Brewer with a shot through the chest. The rest of the Regulators again open fire at the outhouse and then flee.
Grades 3–4 were in one room on the east side and grades 5–6 in one room on the west side of the building. There was one teacher for each room of two grades. Ethel O'Brien was the grades 5–6 teacher in the mid-1940s. There were no bathrooms and the outhouse (since razed) was located at the Northwest corner.