In 2012, she bought side-by-side lots high in the Hollywood Hills for $250,000 from another spec developer, who could never figure out how to economically build on the steep hillside lots.
Orta San Giulio is built on the slopes of a steep hill (the Sacro Monte) that forms a peninsula jutting out into the lake.
Working from a neglected novel by Dorothy M. Johnson, Daves creates a West very different from the burgeoning democracies of John Ford; built on the slope of a steep valley, the town itself seems ready to slide away.
It's a city of vertiginously steep hills built on the banks of the Erie Barge Canal--Lockport's predominant feature--which cuts through it in a deep swath and divides it approximately in two.
When he bought the house, in 1962, the front yard was a sand dune — there is still sand in the basement — but now it is a fertile perennial garden, built on a steep incline between the house and the front gate.
Because the city was built on a steep hillside, scholars think half of the city's still-buried ruins will remain above water.
The hotel is built on a steep hill; in its days as the house of Prince Roland Bonaparte, carriages would arrive at the front door on the Avenue d'Iéna (as cars do today), but the stables were through a grand arch down the hill at the rear of the building.
The library, built on a steep hill, has entrances on two street levels.
