Sentence examples for plank house from inspiring English sources

I was therefore agreeably surprised now to comeA across a substantial plank house of clean and attractive appearance in the middle of an orchard.

Afterwards, Mrs. Martin said, "we rented a little old plank house". Tenderness plays little part in her recollection of the years that followed.

Mr. Carlson has already built a dance pit and plans to build a sweat lodge for prayers and a plank house where basket weavers and other artisans can demonstrate their work.

Rectangular plank houses were produced by the Northwest Coast Indians.

Photographs from the turn of the twentieth century show a beach lined with rectangular plank houses and canoe runs, and boardwalks traversing gravel shallows.

Dome-shaped ice houses (igloos) were developed by the Eskimos (called Inuit in Canada) in what would become Alaska; rectangular plank houses were produced by the Northwest Coast Indians; earth and skin lodges and tepees, by plains and prairie tribes; flat-roofed and often multistoried houses, by some of the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest; and barrel houses, by the Northeast Indians.

In April 2013, new plank houses had been built for family members planning to return to Bombas and some residents had replaced their wood and clay houses with plank houses.

When I reached the address that Poore had given me, a one-story brick-and-plank house at the end of a dirt road, she hurried out to greet me.

Down a ditch and across a creek, Peña led us to his wooden plank ranch house.

At the same time, they built next door to it what looks like an old icehouse out of antique planks to house a gas-fired kiln.

Steps lead up to the wide front porch of the green shingle- and plank-clad house.