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The north and south walls of the one-story living room are wood framed 4 by 8 inches (10 cm × 20 cm) columns. The columns are carried beneath the floor line to rest on concrete block foundation walls. 2 by 8 inches (5.1 cm × 20.3 cm) floor joists on 16 inches (41 cm) centers carry the rough floor. [2]
The structure measures 40 feet (12 m) by 32 feet (9.8 m). Like the church, it rests on a concrete block foundation and has brick exterior walls. Also like the church, the house's roof is gabled and covered with asphalt shingles. The house has two stories and a basement, with a small projection on the northwest corner.
The foundation is surrounded by concrete walls that are on average 2 ft (0.61 m) thick. The shear walls and columns on the eastern boundary of the site are placed on concrete footings that rest directly on the bedrock, while the shear walls and columns on the southern and western boundaries are placed on concrete caps above the caissons. The ...
They are all frame construction with locally produced brick, clay tile block, or concrete block foundations. Most of the lots are large the house size is a matter of taste or preference. For the most part the houses are 1½-stories, but there are also single-story and two-story structures.
The one-story, nearly-8,000-square-foot fortification is bulwarked by concrete walls 30 inches thick. The two exterior entrances have armored steel blast doors — one paired with a radiation ...
The weatherboarded building is 28-by-25-foot (8.5 m × 7.6 m) with a concrete block foundation. Two square columns with wide entablature flank the entrance. On the inside, six black slate blackboards cover the south wall and a seventh is found on the west wall. Two small windows are found on each side of the entrance.
It is easy to spot the walls that were subsequently added, as all the permanent walls in the building as originally built are concrete block, while those added later are made of drywall. Additionally, to cut costs, the ceiling tiles and grid were not rebuilt to accommodate the new walls, which makes for a small gap at the top and reduces noise ...
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