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e. The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California, that was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearms magnate William Wirt Winchester. The house became a tourist attraction nine months after Winchester's death in 1922. The Victorian and Gothic-style mansion is renowned for its size and its ...
One red paperclip is a website created by Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald, who traded his way from a single red paperclip to a house in a series of fourteen online trades over the course of a year. [1] MacDonald was inspired by the childhood game Bigger, Better. His site received a considerable amount of notice for tracking the transactions.
Strawberry box houses refers to a style of homes built during World War II [1] and into the 1950s to 1960s and found throughout Canada. The style uses a square or rectangular foundation and named due to the similarity with boxes used to hold strawberries. This style has also been called the "Simplified Cape Cod", or "Victory Houses" in the case ...
The Skinny Building is only 5 feet 2 inches (1.57 m) wide, rivaling the Sam Kee Building in Vancouver which is considered the narrowest commercial building by Guinness World Records. Its narrow lot was created in 1903 by a street widening project, and the building itself was constructed in 1926 by Louis Hendel (c. 1874–1945), partly out of ...
Modern architecture emerged at the end of the 19th century from revolutions in technology, engineering, and building materials, and from a desire to break away from historical architectural styles and invent something that was purely functional and new. The revolution in materials came first, with the use of cast iron, drywall, plate glass, and ...
Storybook architecture. Harry Oliver 's Spadena House (1921), also known as the Witch's House, Beverly Hills, California. Storybook architecture or fairytale architecture is a style popularized in the 1920s in England and the United States. Houses built in this style may be referred to as storybook houses .
A design for the exterior (top) and interior (bottom) of a street of tiny houses. The tiny-house movement is an architectural and social movement promoting the reduction and simplification of living spaces. [1] [2] [3] According to the International Residential Code, a tiny house’s floorspace is no larger than 400 square feet (37 m 2 ).
On the Popeyes app or website, the chain is giving away a free 6-piece order of Boneless Wings with any $10 purchase from now through July 14. Earlier this month, Popeyes entered the fast-food ...