Word: dormer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Regula is paying a 1000% premium, I have a four-bedroom, two-bath, with a partial view of the Washington Monument if you hang out of the dormer window, that I'd like to show him. Even allowing for sentimental value, $5 million is a stiff price to pay in this age of balanced budgets. Most presidential properties are bequeathed, gratis, by their owners at death to the National Parks Service. The government already has more parks than it knows what to do with, thanks to congressional pork--such as Steamtown (Pa.) and Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. Meanwhile...
...perpetuate the elaborate wooden trim and complicated roof structure of Lowell's time, with towers and many dormer windows, was economically impossible," says Architectural History. "Buildings thus came to be constructed of prefabricated elements, of poured and prestressed concrete...
...design for the Inn includes red brick, pitch grooves and dormer windows and is sized "to respond to the character of a transitional building between the residential and commercial areas" of Harvard Square, Bechtel says...
Clancy says that he wanted the building to have as much variety as possible in order to achieve a "residential feel." He says that has been accomplished through the use of dormer windows on the roof and bay windows on the face of the building...