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unusual facts about shingle


Louis Sawyer House

All of these features combine to make it one of metro Cincinnati's best examples of the Shingle variant of the Queen Anne style of architecture.


Aarbergen

Oligocene shingle (Vallendar facies) overlies the older surface near Kettenbach and Hausen über Aar.

Charles H. Baldwin House

William Appleton Potter and Robert Anderson built the house in the mid-nineteenth century as an excellent example of American Shingle Style architecture.

Collieston

The numerous sea caves in the nearby cliffs, and small coves with shingle beaches provided ideal terrain for smugglers.

Elmer Allison

In 1899 the Allisons moved to Washington state where Elmer found employment as a shingle weaver, a millhand who created cedar roofing shingles by means of an automated saw — a very exhausting and extremely dangerous profession.

Hobarrow Bay

Hobarrow Bay is a small secluded southwest-facing bay, with an Oil shale and shingle beach to the southeast of Brandy Bay and to the southwest of Kimmeridge on the south coast of the Isle of Purbeck, in Dorset, England.

House at 491 Prospect Street

The House at 491 Prospect Street in Methuen, Massachusetts is locally significant as an excellent example of a Shingle Style house of the type built for well-to-do businessmen in Methuen and Lawrence around the turn of the 20th century.

John Leventhorpe

By March 1404, he had taken possession of a number of houses belonging to the duchy in Sawbridgeworth, including purchasing the manor of Shingle Hall from William Wyot in August 1400, and, by 1416, he owned the manor of Thorley.

Julian Leonard Street

He is credited with being the art critic who wrote that the painting exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show by Marcel Duchamp called Nude Descending a Staircase, resembled "an explosion in a shingle factory."

Kingston Park, South Australia

Bird, animal and insects include the Harlequin Bird, Dicaeum Hirundinaceum, the Shingle-back Lizard, Trachyosaurus rugosus and the Trapdoor Spider.

L. D. Esty

The Roadhouse maybe the trend setter that led to the Craftsman shingle style Berkeley style made well known by Julia Morgan, Bernard Maybeck and Greene and Greene.

Meyer Township, Michigan

The village of Hermansville was founded in 1878 by Mr. C.J.L. Meyer of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin who built and operated a saw and shingle mill utilizing the abundant native cedar and pine growing in the area.

Nichols Arboretum

Oaks - native oaks including red (Quercus rubra), white (Quercus alba), black (Quercus velutina), bur (Quercus macrocarpa), shingle (Quercus imbricaria), and swamp white (Quercus bicolor), as well as three Asian oaks representing sawtooth oak (Quercus acutissima) and oriental oak (Quercus variabilis).

Norfolk, Connecticut

Norfolk also boasts important examples of regional architecture, notably the Village Hall (now Infinity Hall, a shingled 1880s Arts-and-Crafts confection, with an opera house upstairs and storefronts at street level); the Norfolk Library (a Shingle Style structure by George Keller, 1888/9); and over thirty buildings, in a wide variety of styles, designed by Alfredo S.G. Taylor (of the New York firm Taylor & Levi) in the four decades before the Second World War.

Porlock Bay

The type of geomorphological development seen at Porlock has been noted for coastal shingle systems elsewhere (e.g. west coast of Newfoundland, Canada).

SD1

British NVC community SD1, the only shingle community in the British National Vegetation Classification system.

Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians

The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California is a federally recognized tribe of Maidu and Miwok people in El Dorado County, California.

Shingle Street

Shingle Street was the inspiration of the Thomas Dolby song "Cloudburst at Shingle Street", from the album The Golden Age of Wireless.

The Best Thing That Ever Could Have Happened

While fixing the shingle on Susan Mayer's house, he suffers a heart attack and suddenly dies.

Wendell Thompson Perkins

Staley helped Perkins to purchase a small piece of property to house Perkin's first studio to be called "The Red Shingle Gift Shop and Studio" on Route 302.

William Sturgis House

Vincent Scully, who repeats the Bates attribution, notes that the house is significant as an example of the westward spread of the Shingle Style.


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