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On average a typical longhouse was about 24.4 by 5.5 by 5.5 m (80 by 18 by 18 ft) and was meant to house up to twenty or more families, most of whom were matrilineally related. The people had a matrilineal kinship system, with property and inheritance passed through the maternal line. Children were born into the mother's clan.
The Shelby Family Houses near Lexington, Kentucky are five houses that together were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1] The listing covers: [2] "Greenfields", 5510 Richmond Road, Lexington "Grassland" (1823), Shelby Lane, Lexington, an L-shaped two-and-a-half-story brick house
A traditional house type of the Sakuddei people, [14] on the island of Siberut, part of the Mentawai Islands some 130 kilometres (81 mi) to the west off the coast of Sumatra (Sumatera), Indonesia is also described as a longhouse on stilts. Some five to ten families may live in each, but they are organized differently inside from those on Borneo.
Today the house is the Unity Mission Church Home Training School Bible Institute. Lindenhurst 1883 Romanesque: Edward Alfred Sargent: Jenkintown: Built for John Wanamaker, was destroyed by fire in 1907. Townsend Castle 1887 Romanesque: GW & WD Hewitt: Philadelphia: Built for John Lister Townsend, today is a private residence. more images: Clayton
Rural slave quarters were usually one or two-room cabins occupied by a family unit. [5] The individual rooms were called pens; houses were single-pen or double-pen. [10] [3] Some two-room cabins were duplexes hosting two families separated by a wall, each with their own entrance. [10]
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The Wright family houses precinct at 98, 100 and 106 Mt Crosby Road, Tivoli, are 3 timber houses on adjoining allotments built c. 1898-1903 for John and Elizabeth Wright. [ 1 ] The allotments on which these residences are situated were originally a part of the land purchased in 1864 as Portion 66, parish of Chuwar , County of Stanley (43 acres ...
Salt Houses follows the story of four generations of the fictional Palestinian middle-class family, the Yacoubs. Beginning in 1963 and concluding in 2014, Alyan details the family's journey through the Six Day War (1967), the First Intifada (1987), the Gulf War (1990), the Second Intifada (2000), 9/11 (2001), and the 2006 Lebanon War.