In amongt the modern new highrise buildings in Auckland City is this smaller vintage building that is currently for sale (I'd buy it if I had the money). My research found that: "It was designed by English-born architect Charles Towle and erected in the early 1930s as the Church of Christ, Scientist, the building's Graeco-Roman facade has towering columns that frame its impressive entranceway, with three ornate timber doors decorated with leadlight inserts providing access to the expansive foyer. Arched ceilings dominate the former congregational high stud space beyond the foyer and numerous picturesque windows provide a light, airy feel and an ambience many office buildings lack. The building housed congregational and Sunday school services for 70 years until it was sold and converted into office space in 2003. A significant refurbishment was also carried out with care taken to ensure that the building's distinctive character remained intact. Special architectural ...
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great place we/you live in thanks to these. I like it also,
having a lady pointer, i'm wondering if she has a name and
is famous? I should google the monument.
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We have Indigenous folk in the U.S, they were treated terribly here by the European new folks who took their land and put them in reservations. The reservations still exist but the people don't have to live in them anymore. Mrs. Jim and I visited a Pow Wow dance one evening and my mother was afraid all the time we were gone.
I worked with two one summer when I was young, on a paving project, helping with movement of the steel rail forms from behind the mixer to its new front. I learned a lot; one was a young man and the other fairly old. Although I was only 17, I was the one the bosses had driving the truck. An aside, the cement mix, sand and cement to the mixer truck drivers had a strike and they had me driving a dump truck for a few days.
Our road replaced a gravel road from Tekamah, Nebraska, to Craig 14 miles away.
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