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In US usage, a loft is an upper room or storey in a building, mainly in a barn, directly under the roof, used for storage (as in most private houses).In this sense it is roughly synonymous with attic, the major difference being that an attic typically constitutes an entire floor of the building, while a loft covers only a few rooms, leaving one or more sides open to the lower floor.
The name penthouse is derived from apentis, an Old French word meaning "attached building" or "appendage". The modern spelling is influenced by a 16th-century folk etymology that combines the Middle French word for "slope" (pente) with the English noun house (the meaning at that time was "attached building with a sloping roof or awning").
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The St. Regis Chicago is a mixed-use residential and hotel building consisting of the St. Regis Residences, 393 luxury condominium residences, and the St. Regis Hotel, with 191 hotel rooms, including 33 suites. [5] The hotel occupies the first 10 floors of the structure with private residences on floors 11 through 97. [15]
WoodSpring Suites in Davenport. The hotel chain was founded as Value Place in 2003 by Jack DeBoer. [2] In April 2015, the brand changed its name from Value Place to WoodSpring Suites. [3] [4] In December 2017, Woodsprings Suites was sold to Choice Hotels for approximately $230 million.
This is a list of solved missing person cases of people who went missing in unknown locations or unknown circumstances that were eventually explained by their reappearance or the recovery of their bodies, or by either the conviction of the perpetrator(s) responsible for their disappearances, or they confessed to their killings.
Mar Vista is a neighborhood on the Westside of Los Angeles, California. In 1927, Mar Vista became the 70th community to be annexed to Los Angeles. [ 1 ] It was designated as an official city neighborhood in 2006.