The windows in the 19th-century part are topped with trefoils (a stonework pattern of three overlapping circles) and set into square frames.
Eyal is restoring Jaffa's unused train station, while the old port is being turned into a chic waterside neighbourhood.Eyal grew up in Old Jaffa and works with his childhood friend, Fayeez Abu-Nasser, a stonework specialist.
Coromandel Cuisine of India 17 Pease Avenue Southport (203) 259-1213 coromandelcuisine.com WORTH IT THE SPACE More modern India than "old Raj," with a bright Hindu processional on a stonework wall and white Eames-style molded chairs under linen-draped tables.
The new west front was given a stonework façade and incorporated the Elizabethan south front.
Its tower is decorated with "herringbone" stonework, a fine example of the abstract patterns that were central to Saxon architecture.
Thomas Fitzsimmons, an architect in Great Neck, said he was working on the conversion of a brick building with decorative stonework that began as a legitimate vaudeville theater in 1922 called the Playhouse Theater in Great Neck Estates.
The style is neo-Gothic, going on neo-Tudor, with decorative stonework of a kind that is hard to reproduce today.
Mr. Gilbert's mansion for Mr. De Lamar was robustly Beaux-Arts, heavy with rusticated stonework, balconies and a colossal mansard roof.
Maxwell Wiesen, Coldwell Banker (203) 869-1711; www.maxwellwiesen.com TAXES: $5,000 a year PROS: Reduced from the original $1.6 million, this house has a deep backyard with extensive stonework and gardens.
Opposite the house is an equally remarkable building -- a minuscule Catholic church, St .Gerard's, built by a Belgian priest in 1966, decorated inside and out like a jewel box with irregular stonework and fretworked concrete.
