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Reconstruction of a pit-house in Chotěbuz, Czechia. A pit-house (or pit house, pithouse) is a house built in the ground and used for shelter. [1] Besides providing shelter from the most extreme of weather conditions, this type of earth shelter may also be used to store food (just like a pantry, a larder, or a root cellar) and for cultural activities like the telling of stories, dancing ...
Location of Bucks County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
This is a list of historic houses in the US state of Pennsylvania. Delaware County. Allgates; Cobble Court; Nitre Hall; Federal School; Grange Estate; Philadelphia.
First listed on January 1, 1976. In 1999 the house was moved 300 feet and automatically delisted. In 2000 it was relisted. [6] 113: Jacob Zook House: Jacob Zook House: February 24, 1995 : 290 East Lincoln Highway near Exton
The Abraham Rittenhouse House (c. 1720) with a c. 1860 addition on the left. [7] Elfreth's Alley: Philadelphia, Old City: 1720–1830 Houses Claimed to be the nation's oldest residential street; two rows of Federal and Georgian brick houses built between 1720 and 1830, with a total of 32 extant houses [8] Wyck House: Philadelphia, Germantown
Dugout home near Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 Coober Pedy dugout, Australia. A dugout or dug-out, also known as a pit-house or earth lodge, is a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground.
The sites had clusters of 1–20 pit-houses. One of its villages, Shabik'eschee, was the type site for this period. [5] Although most village sites were relatively small during this period, Shabik'eschee (about 550–700 CE) contained 18 pit-houses for an estimated 77 people, more than 50 storage pits, and a large pit-house used for celebration ...
Pittsburgh is the location of 182 of these properties and districts, including 5 National Historic Landmarks; they are listed separately, while the properties and districts elsewhere in the county, including 5 National Historic Landmarks, are listed here. Four properties are split between Pittsburgh and other parts of the county.