Sentence examples for surviving house from inspiring English sources

Now a national historic landmark, it is the oldest surviving house in Manhattan.

Manhattan's oldest surviving house, the only one left from before 1776, is the little known Morris-Jumel mansion at 163rd Street, now a museum.

You hear rustling and scraping as he crawls across the room towards the rabbi's two surviving house guests - Jocheved Orpaz and Norma Rabinovich - two helpless women trussed up on a bed..

The gulf is now lapping at the pilings of surviving houses that used to be three rows back.

As it happens Mr. Smith, a professor of architecture at the University of Notre Dame, has for years been studying Colonnade Row, making measured drawings of the surviving houses and interiors.

In recent years, though, the surviving houses have attracted some passionate defenders who are trying to resurrect the spirit of the bungalow colonies.

Most of the surviving houses now sit in Cape May, a resort known for Victorian architecture, where there is nothing to suggest to passers-by that these particular landmarks are survivors of a ghost town.

From the skeletons of a few surviving houses, we could see that the wave had been about one story high here, and fierce enough to tear huge holes in the strongest of the town's concrete walls.

After laboratory analysis of the ash and debris there, some 567 surviving houses and a dozen apartments in or near those neighborhoods have been declared unfit for habitation until a cleanup can be completed.

Environmental experts say the ash left by the fire is so caustic and full of toxins that many surviving houses in the worst-hit neighborhoods must be sealed off, probably until September.

Backfires are being set to rob the wildfires of fuel, teams are moving into position beside surviving houses to guard against the inevitable flare-ups, and, in some cases, firefighters even stand watching as great swaths of terrain burn.