Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...features if he wants to, at the risk of raising the down payment so high that it scares off customers, even though the additional cost is usually small, e.g., $150 added to the cost of a roof will add years to its life. Worst of all, good design, good site placement and all other things that add so much to resale value and the householders' enjoyment go unrewarded. A house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright may be assigned a value for loan purposes no higher than a house using the same materials and plans made by a builder...
...leasehold, which still has nine years to run, on his 51 West 51st Street restaurant, which he has operated since 1940. Purchaser: William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp, which plans to tear down Shor's place, add its 6,000 sq. ft. to an already cleared null building site facing Avenue of the Americas between 51st and 52nd Streets. Likeliest use: a luxury hotel...
ARLINGTON, VA. (pop. 178,500), historic site of Robert E. Lee's mansion, National Cemetery with graves of Civil War generals, and of 3,802 Negro refugees from Confederacy, Tomb of Unknown Soldier World Wars I and II; a pleasant bedroom suburb of Washington, D.C.; many Federal Government workers from North, many new white refugees from Washington's integrated school system, now 73% Negro...
...modern Izmir, is cluttered with Greek, Roman and Christian ruins. When diggers explored this relatively common stuff they did not find Lydian Sardis under it. This summer, a joint Harvard-Cornell expedition led by Professor George Hanfmann of Harvard, made another effort. Last week came the announcement that the site of Lydian Sardis has finally been found...
...Site. After working for a while near Building B, the diggers found the ruins of a luxurious Roman house that seems to have been the mansion of a rich Christian bishop. Under its floor was what they were seeking: a large mass of broken pottery of Lydian manufacture. Nothing like it had ever been found in the Sardis region, so Professor Hanfmann is reasonably sure that he has found the deeply buried site of the Lydian city...