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Century Building

Gem Theatre, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Century Building and Little Theatre



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Armoured Cavalry Branch Training School

A new school for officers from all the cavalry regiments was set up at Saumur, managed and supervised by the "Corps Royal des Carabiniers" - since its inception the school has been hosted in the carabinier regiment's quarter of the town, latterly in a magnificent 18th century building.

Bache, Cheshire

Bache Hall, a large 18th-century building, was once the main house of the Bache estate.

Bowden Hill

This building is an 18th century building designed by James Wyatt.

Braga Cathedral

The original 12th century-building was built in the Burgundian Romanesque style of the monastery church of Cluny.

Curonian Spit

The Teutonic Knights occupied the area in the 13th century, building their castles at Memel (1252), Neuhausen (1283), and at Rossitten (1372).

Edgar Beck

During Beck's chairmanship of Mowlem, the company reconstructed the 18th-century building at 10 Downing Street (1963), built the new London Bridge (1967), and built the NatWest Tower (1979, now Tower 42).

Edward Jenner Museum

The Edward Jenner Museum in Berkeley, England, is housed in a grade II* listed early 18th century building called the Chantry, famous as the home of Edward Jenner, the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, and now used as a museum.

Euler–Lotka equation

The field of mathematical demography was largely developed by Alfred J. Lotka in the early 20th century, building on the earlier work of Leonhard Euler.

Fordwich

The 16th-century building next the Town Hall, now known as Watergate House, was the family home of John and Gregory Blaxland, early 19th-century pioneers of Australia.

Lincoln Tower

Lincoln Memorial Tower, a nineteenth-century building in London, United Kingdom

Medieval architecture

The various elements of Gothic architecture emerged in a number of 11th and 12th century building projects, particularly in the Île de France area, but were first combined to form what we would now recognise as a distinctively Gothic style at the 12th century abbey church of Saint-Denis in Saint-Denis, near Paris.

Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano

The Milan Natural History Museum is located within a 19th-century building in the Indro Montanelli Garden, near the historical city gate of Porta Venezia.

Old Chapel

Old Chapel (Amherst, Massachusetts), also known as Old Chapel Library, a 19th-century building on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Orangefield

Orangefield House, South Ayrshire, an historic eighteenth century building in Scotland

Pontlevoy

The huge 18th-century building - three stories high with a mansard roof - resembles those government ministry buildings around the Palais Bourbon in Paris.

Red Tower

Kızıl Kule, 13th century building considered to be the symbol of Alanya, Turkey

Rue de la Huchette

5 - Le Caveau de la Huchette, a 16th-century building, formerly a hotel (where Elliot Paul lived in the 1920s and 1930s); since 1946, one of Paris's most famous jazz clubs

Scheffel Hall

The building, which served as a beer hall and restaurant, was modeled after an early-17th century building in Heidelberg Castle, the "Friedrichsbau", and was named after Joseph Viktor von Scheffel, a German poet and novelist.

Southwick Bungalow

Southwick bungalow is a 19th-century building in Southwick, a suburb in Ooty, Tamil Nadu, India.

The Syndicate

After a city request for renovation, and the demolition of its long standing neighbor, the Century Building, The Syndicate was reconstructed between 2006 and 2008 to hold luxury condos in a mixed use project.

Visard

A visard recovered from inside the wall of a 16th-century building in Daventry, England.

Whittington, Staffordshire

However, the 13th century building was destroyed by fire in 1760, and was rebuilt in Georgian style using sandstone quarried from Hopwas Hayes wood.

Wool, Dorset

Woolbridge Manor House, a 14th-century building, is a prominent feature just outside the village and the location of Tess's honeymoon in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles.