And their father taught them carpentry when building the house.
The idea of building a house began when the couple, both 35 years old, found the modern homes on the market to be either too small, or millions of dollars.
The fortunes of the building, located near the White House, brightened recently when the Justice Department agreed to sign a new lease and stay on another 15 years after its lease expires next year.
Other avid collectors include Barbra Streisand, who was first drawn to the artist's paintings in the 1970s when she was building a house in Art Deco style.
The portrait of him in Carmarthen was commissioned when the building was used by the old borough council and before it became a court house.
When we started building our digital house, we knew the foundation needed to be the story of the community in which we lived.
When costs go up, they predict, the element of house building that ends up suffering are those less expensive affordable homes.
Baby boomers born in the 1940s to mid 60s bought their first home when prices were low and watched property prices shoot up as house-building slowed while the population rose.
When I--I tend to say "White House"--I mean the actual building itself.
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The first thing Ms. Bower saw when she visited the building was "the large white bubble" located on Second Avenue, a "muck house" used to store rock bored out for subway tunnels.
Decades ago, former Georgetown coach John Thompson drew the ire of Syracuse fans forever when he proclaimed "This building is officially closed" after the Hoyas won the final game at Manley Field House, the old home for the Orange before the Carrier Dome opened.
His family remembers him building a TV set from a kit when he was a kid-and losing a pet garter snake in the house.
America's oldest continuously operating restaurant, and a National Historic Landmark, the Union Oyster House occupies a building so old no record exists of who built it or when.
His family remembers his building a TV set from a kit when he was a kid--and losing a pet garter snake in the house.
When IBM was sued for antitrust in the 1980s, he said, the company had a 14-story building just to house the lawyers and documents for the case.
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