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  2. Historic country estates in Lake County, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Main house on the summer estate of John E. Newell in Mentor, Ohio View of John E. Newell's estate house from across the pond @1903 [121] Newell, John Edmund(1861-1949) and(M-1891) Amie Sikes Carpenter(1865-1938) [122] President Jefferson Coal Company, trustee for the Society Savings [123] Ami was executive vice-president of the national Garden ...

  3. Medieval Scandinavian architecture - Wikipedia

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    The roof rafters came all the way to the ground in a curved shape that creates a self-supporting structure. While most structures were created in this upside-down boat-looking shape, there were various shapes and styles of boating houses depending on the area and size of the boat being housed.

  4. Stave church - Wikipedia

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    But the roof is a simple hipped one, without the raised central part of the Type B churches. This variation on the common type of church, found in Numedal and Hallingdal , dates to around 1200. Single-nave churches in Norway: Grip , Haltdalen , Undredal , Hedal , Reinli , Eidsborg , Rollag , Uvdal , Nore , Høyjord , Røldal , and Garmo .

  5. Ludowici Roof Tile Company Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The district is made of multiple buildings that comprise the New Lexington plant of the Ludowici Roof Tile Company. The plant was constructed in 1902 by Wolsey Garnet Worcester to be a brick and roof tile plant for the Imperial Clay Company, which was purchased by the Celadon Roofing Tile Company in 1905. The plant began exclusively producing ...

  6. List of the oldest buildings in Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Ohio's Oldest Brick Building: Lisbon, Ohio: 1803 Commercial Often alleged to be Ohio's oldest brick building; built by Picking family, Edwin Stanton practiced law upstairs in building. [7] Betts House (Cincinnati, Ohio) Cincinnati, Ohio: 1804 Residential Oldest building in Cincinnati Old Stone Tavern (Poland, Ohio) Poland, Ohio: 1804 Tavern

  7. Gothic-arch barn - Wikipedia

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    The Tomlinson Lumber Co sold pre-cut materials for a 34 by 50 feet (10 m × 15 m) dairy barn with a Gothic-arched roof supported by three-ply rafters in 1958 throughout Minnesota. [ 10 ] The first published plans by an architect for a Gothic-arch barn appeared in 1916.

  8. Borgund Stave Church - Wikipedia

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    The weight of the roof is thus supported by buttresses and columns, preventing downward and outward movement of the stave walls. [6] [7] The roof beams are supported by steeply angled scissor trusses that form an "X" shape with a narrow top span and a broader bottom span, tied by a bottom truss to prevent collapse. Additional support is given ...

  9. Sod roof - Wikipedia

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    The term ‘sod roof’ is somewhat misleading, as the active, water-tight element of the roof is birch bark. The main purpose of the sod is to hold the birch bark in place. The roof might just as well have been called a "birch bark roof", but its grassy outward appearance is the reason for its name in Scandinavian languages: Norwegian and ...