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Aldred Building

The Aldred Building (French: Édifice Aldred; also known as Édifice La Prévoyance) is an Art deco building on the historic Place d'Armes square in the Old Montreal quarter of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Augustin de Lestrange

The edifice occupied the place where now stands St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue.

Barrington United Methodist Church

In 1853 a church, known as the Barrington Center Church, was built on the corner of Old Sutton Road and Dundee Road, in Miller’s Grove, (now Barrington Hills.) It was, a plain, neat frame edifice 34 feet by 52 feet, with a short steeple and a bell.

Benevento Cathedral

In general the foundation is dated to the early 7th century, although later, under duke Arechis II, it was enlarged in the 8th century into the edifice which is the current one's crypt.

Boxworth

Recorded from the mid 12th century, when relics of St. 'Inicius' were said to be deposited there, the church of St Peter is an ancient edifice of flint and stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, north and south porches and a lofty embattled tower containing a clock and one bell: in the church is a monument to Nicholas Saunderson LL.D.

Bridge castle

The largest preserved bridge castle is the rectangular edifice of Valeggio sul Mincio (Province of Verona, North Italy).

Carburton

The chapel of Carburton that is dedicated to Saint Giles is a small edifice that is said to be stood on land liable to flood.

Davenham

The church of St. Wilfrid goes back to the Domesday period but the current edifice is the fourth on the site, dating from a major reconstruction between 1844 and 1870 in the Victorian Gothic revival style.

Duke Chapel

Like the rest of the edifice, its main body is constructed of stone from the Duke Quarry near Hillsborough, North Carolina, while its upper trimmings are of limestone from Bedford, Indiana.

Hutton, Scottish Borders

The present Church, built in 1835 by Ignatius Bonomi, is an impressive Romanesque Revival edifice inspired by Norham Church (where Bonomi also worked).

J. G. A. Pocock

His first book, entitled The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law elucidated the common law mind, showing how thinkers such as the English jurist Edward Coke (1552–1634) built up a historical analysis of British history into an epistemology of law and politics; and then how that edifice later came to be subverted by scholars of the middle to late seventeenth century.

Joe Casely-Hayford

The collections have been sold in prestigious stores and select shops throughout Japan such as Beams; United Arrows; Edifice; History; Deuxième Classe; Tomorrowland; Robehouse; and Dressterior.

Knickerbocker and Arnink Garages

The Flemish Gothic edifice by local architect Marcus T. Reynolds, closely copied from the Cloth Hall in Ypres, Belgium, was meant to be a focal point for traffic coming down from Capitol Hill to the west via State Street.

Kudelstaart

Perhaps the most remarkable edifice in Kudelstaart is the fort belonging to the Stelling van Amsterdam.

La Seu Vella, Lleida

In 1193, however, the Lleida cathedral chapter ordered the construction of a new edifice, following the contemporary Romanesque architectural canons, to master Pere de Coma.

Minot's Ledge Light

Plans for a new stone edifice were meanwhile drawn up for the Lighthouse Board by Brigadier General Joseph G. Totten; model makers built the proposed new structure in miniature; the same location was decided upon; and Barton S. Alexander, of the United States Engineers, started work on its construction in April 1855.

Morse Auditorium

Built in 1906 as Temple Israel, the edifice was intended by the architect and congregation as a replica of Solomon's Temple.

Newcastle East Public School

This impressive edifice was built in 1878 by architect George Mansfield and is listed by the State Heritage Register.

Pantheon, London

Horace Walpole compared Wyatt's work favourably with that of better established and very fashionable Robert Adam, "the Pantheon is still the most beautiful edifice in England" he said.

Pyramidion

A badly damaged white Tura limestone pyramidion, thought to have been created for the Red Pyramid of Sneferu at Dahshur, has been reconstructed and is on open-air display beside that pyramid; it presents a minor mystery, however, as its angle of inclination is steeper than that of the edifice it was apparently created to surmount.

Rachakonda

In 1498, the last governor of Telangana, Qutubul Mulk Dakhani, controlled the territory of Golconda, Warangal, Devarakonda, Rachakonda and Koilkonda and went on to build the edifice of the Qutub Shahi dynasty.

Richard A. Waite

Grand Trunk Railway Company Limited Building, Montreal 1906 - 360 ru McGill now Édifice Gérald-Godin (home to Ministry of Immigration and Cultural Communities)

Salmon Tower Building

The firm of Walter J. Salmon, Sr. which erected the edifice, was known as 11 West 42nd Street, Inc.

Santa Sofia, Benevento

The edifice was modeled on the Palatine Chapel of the Lombard king Liutprand in Pavia and, after the defeat of Desiderius by Charlemagne and the fall of the Lombard kingdom in northern Italy (774), it became the national church of the Lombards who had taken shelter in the Duchy of Benevento.

Shah Mohammad

The poet had rued that soon after Maharaja Ranjit Singh's death, the entire edifice of his kingdom collapsed due to internal intrigues and British machinations.

St. Augustine Parish Church of Baliuag

In 1870, the reconstruction began when a temporary house of worship, the “Provincial”, along Año 1733 street, emerged as a narrow, and simple edifice which was later used by the RVM Sisters of the Colegio de la Sagrada Familia (now St. Mary's College of Baliuag) as classroom.

The Monkey Wrench Gang

Their greatest hatred is focused on the Glen Canyon Dam, a monolithic edifice of concrete that dams a beautiful, wild river, and which the monkeywrenchers seek to destroy.

Villa Arnaldi

Villa Arnaldi is an historical edifice in Meledo di Sarego, Province of Vicenza, Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio in 1547.


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