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The affairs of the pol were managed by a group of people. The house property in the pol is to some extent held in common. Formerly no man could sell or mortgage a house to an outsider without first offering it to the people of the pol. Though this rule has not been kept latterly, residents of a pol sold their houses to people of the same caste.
Polite architecture; Prairie Style 1900–1917 US; Pueblo style 1898–1990s; Shingle Style 1879–1905 New England; Queen Anne Style architecture 1870–1910s UK and US; Queenslander 1840s–1960s; Ranch-style 1940s–1970s US; Repoblación architecture 880s–11th century; Spain; Regency architecture; Richardsonian Romanesque 1880s US; Rococo
The Mayan Revival architecture style frequently blends Maya architectural and artistic motifs with those of other Mesoamerican cultures, particularly of Aztec architecture. Examples include: the Mayan Theater in Downtown Los Angeles ; the Hollyhock House by Frank Lloyd Wright in East Hollywood ; and the Aztec Hotel on historic U.S. Route 66 in ...
Split-level home; Stick style; Storybook architecture; Ĺwidermajer; T. Byelaw terraced house; Pre-regulation terraced houses in the United Kingdom; Terraced house;
The 132-year-old, Queen Anne-style structure — now housing an art gallery but a one-time home to cocktail-and-gaming clubs — was donated to the City of Orlando in 2018 earlier by arts ...
The steep slope may be curved. An element of the Second Empire architectural style (Mansard style) in the U.S. Neo-Mansard, Faux Mansard, False Mansard, Fake Mansard: Common in the 1960s and 70s in the U.S., these roofs often lack the double slope of the Mansard roof and are often steeply sloped walls with a flat roof. Unlike the Second Empire ...
George Devey (1820–1886) and the better-known Norman Shaw (1831–1912) popularized the Queen Anne style of British architecture of the industrial age in the 1870s. Norman Shaw published a book of architectural sketches as early as 1858, and his evocative pen-and-ink drawings began to appear in trade journals and artistic magazines in the 1870s.
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