Sentence examples for block was built from inspiring English sources
After the old palace fell into disrepair, a new block was built for Charles II.
In the 17th century a transverse block was built, dividing the inner court into unequal parts.
Even when Gurlitt's apartment block was built in the 1960s, the area was still fairly poor and edgy.
The rest of the block was built up in fairly short order with standard row houses -- and with some others that showed more variation.
The Louvre-side block was built in the 1630's for King Louis XIII's chief minister, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu.
Her apartment block was built in 1912, and from outside it looks so derelict that I cannot imagine anyone living here.
Because the houses on our block are built into ledges, this is not as great an accomplishment as it seems.
He said the rest of the homes on his block were built between the 1920s and the 1950s.
The south side of the block is built up from the framework of two rows of houses: Nos. 10 to 20, built in 1887 by Charles Graham; and Nos.
The homes on her block were built in 1989, the first erected by the New York City Housing Partnership in conjunction with Ridgewood Bushwick.
The principal row houses on the West 144th Street block were built in the late 1880's by William H. De Forest Sr., a silk merchant; his son, William Jr. and Anthony Mowbrayy, a builder.
