He scaled the wall that the authorities had built around his house, and was driven hundreds of miles to Beijing, where activists say he stayed in safe houses before fleeing to the embassy.
He later adopted one, 12-year-old James Candy, who was brought up at Youlbury, the house he built at Boar's Hill, near Oxford.
She seems to have a hard-won clarity about her life her childhood in Ireland on her father's 110-acre Galway estate, her youth in New York City's glamorous '70s fashion scene, her nearly two decades in Los Angeles with Nicholson, and her time with Graham, living in the house he built for them in Venice Beach, his most intimate work of art.
He worked out religiously, partied hard and built a house in the Hollywood Hills where he would hang out with Bradley and try to come up with the next big thing.
Mr Pearce makes only passing reference to what is, for many, Walpole's outstanding monument: the magnificent Palladian house he built at Houghton in Norfolk.
Simultaneously, he drew up plans for a second house to be built at the end of the garden, which measured about 20 feet across and 115 feet long.
He built a circular garage to hold his cars on the hillside behind his house.
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He now lives modestly with his family in a newly built house on the outskirts of Pailin in western Cambodia.
He fell for the house itself, too a Mediterranean Revival built in 1937 as the summer home of Sebastian Spering Kresge, founder of the company that later became Kmart.
He couldn't miss the chatter about how the "House That Mario Built" was too posh for its own good.
In 1986, Mr Li says, his father placed bricks to mark the land he felt his family deserved and, in 1988, built a house on it.
He is also the chief curator of the "House of Slaves, " built by the Dutch in 1776, and is the last slave house remaining on the island and Coly has painstakingly preserved its history.
Like the newly-rich stars of football who followed him, he built a statelyish house.
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He imagined pickers dragging their bags slowly across the steaming landscape and understood whose labor had built the house.
He lived with his mother in the new four-story yellow-brick apartment house built three years earlier on the large empty lot near the corner of Chancellor and Summit, diagonally across from the grade school.
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The man himself often lived up to his bleak dream-world: lean, intense, racked by stomach complaints, and with a special fondness for the rugged limestone island of Faro, off Sweden's east coast, where he built a low stone house on an empty sweep of rock.
He said a new 22-storey residential development was being built "even closer" to the club than the proposed Eileen House scheme.
Frank McKinney, a real-estate developer, says he regrets the number of water features he put into a 15, 000-square-foot spec house he built several years ago in Palm Beach County, Fla.
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