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The Round House is a novel by the American writer Louise Erdrich first published on October 2, 2012 by HarperCollins. [1] The Round House is Erdrich's 14th novel and is part of her "justice trilogy" of novels, which includes The Plague of Doves released in 2008 and LaRose in 2016. [ 2 ]
The round houses of the Thames and Severn Canal were featured in Reginald Arkell's novel The Round House (1958); Arkell described the design as "a relic of days when you could travel across England, from Thames to Severn, by canal. [The round house] had been the home of the lock-keeper and was built on the lines of a small observation tower". [43]
The Round House (also known as The Toll House) at Stanton Drew in the English county of Somerset was built in the 18th century. It has been designated as a Grade II listed building. [1] The two-storey thatched building is hexagonal in plan. [1] It is on the road between Chew Magna and Pensford and close to the bridge over the River Chew.
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The Round House was the first permanent building built in the Swan River Colony. Constructed in late 1830 and opened in 1831, it is the second oldest surviving European building in Western Australia , [ 1 ] after the Wiebbe Hayes Stone Fort on West Wallabi Island .
The Round House (or "Circambulant House" [1]) is a house in Wilton, Connecticut, built by architect Richard T. Foster in 1968. [2] The building can rotate 360 degrees, providing every room a view of the landscape. [3] It combines engineering from Germany, local Connecticut steel, and stone from the Dolomites. It was the Foster family’s ...
Reconstructed crannog on Loch Tay, Scotland. A roundhouse is a type of house with a circular plan, usually with a conical roof. In the later part of the 20th century, modern designs of roundhouse eco-buildings were constructed with materials such as cob, cordwood or straw bale walls and reciprocal frame green roofs.
[1] Strathcona Roundhouse, Edmonton, Alberta. Built and used by the Canadian Pacific Railway, it is the last roundhouse in Alberta still in use. Once part of a much larger structure, only one stall remains. No turntable. Roundhouse, Big Valley, Alberta - preserved roundhouse and turntable ruins