She used the example of a house painter who offers multiple bids, but never gets the jobs.
"And of course Wesleyan is a fine example of a house that publishes established poets such as Jean Valentine, but also introduces new voices on a regular basis".
The house declined during the mid 20ths century, was used for flats for several decades, and was in 1985 described by an historian as the "city's worst example of a house which should be preserved being left to decay".
Local historian John Wilson, who in 1984 wrote the book Lost Christchurch, that year called Linwood House the "city's worst example of a house which should be preserved being left to decay".
Mellor converted the Georgian wing to make cutlery workshops: it became, Stephen Bayley has written, "a rare example of a family house containing a 55-ton blanking press, a 180-ton coining press and two grinding machines".
Nevertheless, it is widely acknowledged as a distinctive example of a housing development that perfectly confronts the harsh desert climate and responds adequately to the basic needs of its users.
Lewis's example is of a house with an attached garage.
In the example "roof of a house", the idea "house" is not the idea of a part of the roof of the house.
Witt's example is of a house: the essential house-functional property (what the entity is for, what its purpose is) unifies the different material parts of a house so that there is a house, and not just a collection of house-constituting particles (2011a, 6).
I am pleased that she visited the Owens-Thomas House, considered one of architect William Jay's masterpieces and one of the finest examples of a Regency style house in the United States, but I was disappointed that she did not also visit the Davenport House, since it was this house that gave rise to the historic preservation movement in Savannah.
