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  • Northampton State Hospital Memorial

  • Description: Detailed Architectural History and Project Description for the Official Memorial at Northampton State Hospital, by artist Anna Schuleit, November 2000.
    http://www.1856.org

  • The Hundertwasser House Vienna

  • Description: Hundertwasser House Vienna - Website about this worldfamous building - Pictures, Infos and Events...
    http://www.hundertwasserhaus.at/

  • Historical Tuscan properties for sale

  • Description: Tuscan/Umbria cottages, country houses, historical villas and dream holiday houses in the Italian regions of Tuscany and Umbria
    http://www.lb-realestate.com

  • Small Italian style hurricane proof Gulf Coast home

  • Description: Step by step construction journal of a DAC-ART Building System guest house in coastal Gulf Shores, Alabama that has been featured in national magazines. DAC-ART product information included.
    http://www.scrapbookscrapbook.com/DAC-ART

  • The Workhouse

  • Description: Peter Higginbotham explores in depth the history of the British buildings where employment was provided for the destitute. Includes a gazetteer by country and county.
    http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/

  • The Mills of Ile-aux-Coudres, Canada

  • Description: Photograph and visitor information from Quebec Web for this complex of a water mill, wind mill, blacksmith's shop and miller's house.
    http://www.quebecweb.com/tourisme/charlevoix/musees/moulinsang.html

  • Lamontage House

  • Description: This interpretation centre provides a comprehensive guide to the development of housing in Québec from the 18th century to today. Includes listings of heritage houses to visit in the region.
    http://www.maisonlamontagne.com

  • The Shoe House

  • Description: Brief illustrated history and description by Kathy Biehl of a house shaped like a shoe built by a shoe magnate in 1948 in Hallam, Pennsylvania.
    http://fortuna.home.pipeline.com/cafe-compendium/shoe.htm

  • The Palace of Diocletian at Split

  • Description: An illustrated essay with bibliography by Michael Greenhalgh of the Australian National University on the Late Roman palace at Split (Spalato) whose ruins survived to influence Neo-Classical architects.
    http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Experimental/split/split1.html

  • Anglo-Chinese Gardens

  • Description: Dominique Césari describes the 18th-century fashion which spread from England to other European countries for parks set with small ornamental buildings. Photographs, descriptions and bibliography.
    http://perso.club-internet.fr/cesarigd/parcsafabriques/

  • Pyramids Without Wheels

  • Description: An illustrated article by inventor Allen Dittmer, with bibliography, from Inventors' Digest July/August 1999. He suggests that heavy blocks could have been moved with sledge and rollers.
    http://members.aol.com/aditt48670/pyramid.html

  • Sacred Spaces in Bendigo

  • Description: A comparative analysis of the 19th-century Sacred Heart Cathedral and Chinese Joss House in Bendigo, Australia. Peter Prevos describes and compares the buildings as sacred spaces. Images and plans.
    http://www.geocities.com/pprevos/bendigo/


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