The lobby is dominated by a huge granite fireplace column with broad ceiling beams radiating from its top.

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The new Olympic Studios still has a charming vintage feel, retaining many of the original ceiling beams, wooden floors and exposed brick walls.

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It is an ancient-looking room, with a gleaming floor buffed by many feet for many years, its low willow-branch ceiling and beams brightly painted and hung with banners, the walls depicting floating Buddhas and snarling, dark-faced demons.

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Insulation and wood support beams hung from the ceiling.

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The beams spanned the barrel-vaulted brick ceiling of the Great Hall where Abraham Lincoln would give his famous New York address.

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The living and dining rooms are wrapped in wood planks and have cedar beams stretching nearly 35 feet across the ceiling.

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Iron tension rods spaced every 6 feet suspend burly 10-inch-square ceiling timbers from trusses above, freeing the work space from vertical support beams.

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