Accommodation is in simple chalets, thatched with banana leaves and built in a traditional style, and local families look after the guests and cook the meals.
Units, including the bathroom and kitchen (middle left) were built in a warehouse in Lawrence, Kan., then shipped to the site to be pieced together.
Past stately clapboard houses and equally stately trees, some still with golden and red leaves, the inn, built in 1799, looked familiar and welcoming.
Let's leave a world built in symbols, and approach one that exists in material things.
Diplomats will leave the embassy, built in 1922, the ambassador's residence and the nine acres of gardens in which the buildings sit next year.
So that will leave the arena, built in 1926 for a world's fair -- christened Philadelphia Stadium, later Municipal Stadium, then JFK after the assassination -- a dingy ghost for 365 days a year instead of 364.
The 6-storey steel-framed office building in purplish brick on the south side of the park at Rungestraße 3 6 and 7, opposite the Bärenzwinger, was designed by Albert Gottheiner (his last work before he was forced to leave Berlin) and built in 1931 32 as the headquarters of the Berlin affiliate of the Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse (AOK) insurance group.
Los Angeles is built out (experts here say that "sprawl has hit the wall"), and the suburbs resist more intensive development in neighborhoods elsewhere in the region: those two forces leave downtown almost the last place left to build in.
Many Americans are selling their second homes to raise cash, and there is inventory left over from developments built in recent years.
But Quinnie Richmond's husband, Lawrence — who died a few months ago, at 85 — feared that leaving the home they built in 1947 might upset his wife, who has Alzheimer's.
