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SPRING VALLEY — Rockland County has moved to close down an over-crowded, illegal, boarding house on South Madison Avenue with walls erected to add extra rooms.
Chandler Stone Wall: Chandler Stone Wall: July 19, 2001 : Old Lebanon Rd., 2 miles west of Mount Juliet Rd. Mt. Juliet: 10: John Cloyd House: John Cloyd House: October 1, 1974 : 13988 US-70 Old Hickory
Over 5,000 relief cottages after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake were built using single-wall construction. Box houses (boxed house, box frame, [16] box and strip, [17] piano box, single-wall, board and batten, and many other names) have minimal framing in the corners and widely spaced in the exterior walls, but like the vertical plank wall ...
Christopher Taylor House: Jonesborough: 1777 Residence In 1974, the house was moved intact to downtown Jonesborough to save it from demolition. Dungan's Mill and Stone House: Watauga: 1778 Residence, Mill The mill, later known as St. John, operated continuously from 1778 until 2011. Yancey's Tavern: Kingsport: 1779 Tavern Earnest Fort House ...
A partition wall is a usually thin wall that is used to separate or divide a room, primarily a pre-existing one. Partition walls are usually not load-bearing , and can be constructed out of many materials, including steel panels, bricks, cloth, plastic , plasterboard , wood , blocks of clay, terracotta , concrete , and glass.
A knee wall is a short wall, typically under three feet (one metre) in height, used to support the rafters in timber roof construction. In his book A Visual Dictionary of Architecture , Francis D. K. Ching defines a knee wall as "a short wall supporting rafters at some intermediate position along their length."
The Ramsey House is a two-story stone house in Knox County, Tennessee, United States. Also known as Swan Pond , the house was constructed in 1797 by English architect Thomas Hope for Colonel Francis Alexander Ramsey (1764–1820), whose family operated a plantation at the site until the U.S. Civil War . [ 1 ]
Rear view of Carter House (left) and outbuildings Battle of Franklin reenactment, 2010, Carter House. The Carter House State Historic Site is a historic house at 1140 Columbia Avenue in Franklin, Tennessee. In that house, the Carter family hid in the basement waiting for the second Battle of Franklin to end.