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  2. Marcus DeWitt Carlock House - Wikipedia

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    The home is in the Neoclassical style with asymmetrical massing that is common of large, late Victorian residential construction. The home is constructed on a pier and beam foundation consisting of 56 large brick piers. The home contains 53 windows, balconies on the front and side, six columns, and four covered porches.

  3. Foundation (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    In engineering, a foundation is the element of a structure which connects it to the ground or more rarely, water (as with floating structures), transferring loads from the structure to the ground. Foundations are generally considered either shallow or deep. [ 1 ] Foundation engineering is the application of soil mechanics and rock mechanics ...

  4. Deep foundation - Wikipedia

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    Deep foundation. A deep foundation installation for a bridge in Napa, California, United States. Pile driving operations in the Port of Tampa, Florida. A deep foundation is a type of foundation that transfers building loads to the earth farther down from the surface than a shallow foundation does to a subsurface layer or a range of depths.

  5. Connelly–Yerwood House - Wikipedia

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    Connelly–Yerwood House. /  30.27222°N 97.72833°W  / 30.27222; -97.72833. The Connolly–Yerwood House, is an Eastlake-style cottage located in Austin, Texas. The structure was built in 1904 for Kate and Michael Connolly and their nine children. In addition to his occupation as a stonemason and bricklayer, Connolly owned the Silver ...

  6. Braeswood Place, Houston - Wikipedia

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    As of 2002 Braes Oaks has 131 houses. The original houses consisted of ranch-style houses. Most o the newer houses were two story pier and beam foundation houses. The newer houses were priced around $630,000 ($1067211.84 in current money) around 2002. The houses range in size from 3,800 square feet (350 m 2) to 4,000 square feet (370 m 2).

  7. Post and lintel - Wikipedia

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    Lintels. In architecture, a post-and-lintel or trabeated system refers to the use of horizontal stone beams or lintels which are borne by columns or posts. The name is from the Latin trabs, beam; influenced by trabeatus, clothed in the trabea, a ritual garment. Post-and-lintel construction is one of four ancient structural methods of building ...

  8. Beam bridge - Wikipedia

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    Beam bridge. Multispan plate girder bridge deck on concrete piers. Beam bridges are the simplest structural forms for bridge spans supported by an abutment or pier at each end. [1] No moments are transferred throughout the support, hence their structural type is known as simply supported. The simplest beam bridge could be a log (see log bridge ...

  9. Underpinning - Wikipedia

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    The beam and base method of underpinning is a more technically advanced adaptation of traditional mass concrete underpinning. A reinforced concrete beam is constructed below, above or in replacement of the existing footing. The beam then transfers the load of the building to mass concrete bases, which are constructed at designed strategic ...

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