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A twist on the standard apex shape is the reverse apex shed. In this design, the door is set in a side wall instead of the front. The main advantage of the reverse apex design is that the door opens into the widest part of the shed instead of the narrowest, so it is easier to reach into all areas to retrieve or store equipment. [7]
Building a palisade wall for the fort at Jamestown, Virginia The Golden Plow Tavern in York, PA, is a very unusual American building. It is built with corner post construction on the ground floor, half-timbered style of timber framing on the upper floor and has a less common style of wood roof shingles than typical in America.
The Vanna Venturi House, one of the influences of the shed style (note the two shed roofs, rather than a single gable). Shed style refers to a style of architecture that makes use of single-sloped roofs (commonly called "shed roofs"). The style originated from the designs of architects Charles Willard Moore and Robert Venturi in the 1960s. [1]
Hennepin County. Father Louis Hennepin was the first European explorer to visit and name Saint Anthony Falls, the tallest waterfall on the Mississippi River, in 1680.While the falls were familiar to the Ojibwe and Sioux Indians who lived in the area, Father Hennepin spread word of the falls when he returned to France in 1683.
Shed roof attached to a barn. A shed roof, also known variously as a pent roof, lean-to roof, outshot, catslide, skillion roof (in Australia and New Zealand), and, rarely, a mono-pitched roof, [1] is a single-pitched roof surface. This is in contrast to a dual- or multiple-pitched roof.
The fenced front yard of a house in Brewarrina, Australia, with an Australiana painted-tyre-swan lawn ornament.. The history of the Australian front yard is said to have begun with a regulation enacted in New South Wales in 1829 mandating that new houses be built at least 14 ft (4.3 m) from the street to ensure adequate space in front of each house for a garden.
Boomerang is a heritage-listed private house and garden located at 42 Billyard Avenue in the inner eastern Sydney suburb of Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales, Australia.The house was designed by Neville Hampson and the gardens and grounds by Max Shelley (and possibly Hampson and A. J. Doust), and built from 1926 to 1928.
Adams Island (1828) An island on the Lehigh River, accessed via Adams Island Road from N. Bradford Street Map location: An artificial island in the Lehigh River, created when the Lehigh Canal was built in 1828. The canal cut through a piece of land that jutted out from the east bank of the river.