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  2. Oast house - Wikipedia

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    An oast, oast house (or oasthouse) or hop kiln is a building designed for kilning (drying) hops as part of the brewing process. Oast houses can be found in most hop-growing (and former hop-growing) areas, and are often good examples of agricultural vernacular architecture. Many redundant oast houses have been converted into houses.

  3. Walters Ranch Hop Kiln - Wikipedia

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    The Walters Ranch Hop Kiln is composed of three stone kilns (ovens, Oast houses) for drying hops for 20 hours a patch. Hops are used in beer making breweries . In addition to the kilns, the site as a wooden building for cooling the hops and a two-story press for baling the hops for shipment.

  4. Cowl (oast) - Wikipedia

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    Oast with a West Midlands type cowl The West Midlands type of cowl is similar to the Kent type, but without the top board. The weather boards meeting in a point. [5] Other cowls; Preston Mill, East Linton, East Lothian Cowls found outside the main hop growing areas were generally much cruder in construction and very different in looks. Often ...

  5. When houses are fuel: Why firefighting was no match for a ...

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    The number of state firefighters has increased from 5,800 to nearly 10,800, and more than 2,200 treatment projects — including forest thinning, prescribed burns, fuel breaks and other land work ...

  6. Category : Works Progress Administration in California

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    Works Progress Administration—WPA — projects and artists in the state of California. Pages in category "Works Progress Administration in California" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.

  7. List of construction trades - Wikipedia

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    Among the construction trades, in most industrialized countries, each has a distinct 2-5 year craft apprenticeship education and usually once started a worker remains in a single craft and progresses through ranks of skill for the duration of their career (pre-apprentice, apprentice, and journeyman; some countries include a post-journeyman ...

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  9. Affordable housing in California now routinely tops $1 ...

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    More than half a dozen affordable housing projects in California are costing more than $1 million per apartment to build, a record-breaking sum that makes it harder to house the growing numbers of ...