Standard rooms are spacious and suites with kitchenettes are available, too.
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Did Monroe really eat "lone liver chops broiled in hotel kitchenettes"?
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Guest rooms and suites include kitchenettes, and several have balconies, porches and fireplaces.
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All rooms have combination tubs and showers (upper categories feature separate tubs) and kitchenettes.
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The all-suite property has amenities like kitchenettes with microwaves, stove tops, fridges, and cookware.
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Workers who spoke with Motherboard said they prayed in garages, kitchenettes, and the corners of corridors.
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There are five bedrooms, five full bathrooms and three powder rooms, along with several kitchens and kitchenettes.
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The boxes can snap and connect together to create different furniture, such as beds, kitchenettes, and tables.
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The large family spent the winter living in primitive campers and cramped containers with makeshift bathrooms and kitchenettes.
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These suites, which include private balconies, sitting areas, and kitchenettes, cost about $695 per night in the high season.
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Spacious suites include spa baths, flat screen TVs, separate sitting areas, and impressively outfitted kitchenettes for an apartment-like experience.
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On the 85th floor of One World Trade Center in Manhattan, there are offices, conference rooms, kitchenettes and co-working spaces.
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The American Red Cross provided pre-loaded debit cards so patients and caregivers could buy food to prepare in their hotel kitchenettes.
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Those of us without families are staying in what they call the "Consolidated Bachelor Quarters," a two-story complex of small suites with kitchenettes.
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There are three bedrooms, four bathrooms and two half-bathrooms, as well as kitchenettes on three floors, installed, perhaps, at the request of Mrs.
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The suites feature contemporary Mexican details and range from one- to three-bedrooms, with kitchens or kitchenettes, private balconies, and large living room areas.
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Rooms feature modern furnishings, 47-inch flat screen TVs, plush robes, as well as basic kitchenettes with a microwave, small fridge, and coffee and tea-making gear.
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This newly renovated hotel is built around a 19th-century brick farmhouse and offers traditional guest rooms as well as rustic wooden cabins with kitchenettes (typically for extended stays).
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Some high-rises feature condos as hotel-type stays, including the 41-story Aston at the Executive Centre (1088 Bishop Street; doubles with kitchenettes and ocean views are about $240).
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MARTINIQUE Originally opened in 240, the historic hotel Diamant Les Bains is being rebuilt and set to reopen in December with 7503 contemporary studios, each with their own kitchenettes, and five bungalow suites.
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Located at bustling City Center on the Las Vegas Strip, the all-suite Vdara Hotel & Spa is a non-gaming option with spacious rooms outfitted with kitchenettes, living areas, and high-tech touches.
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As the vacancies were by floor, they decided to do standard renovations on the floors with existing tenants and gut renovations on the empty floors, installing kitchenettes, Murphy beds and other space-saving furniture.
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Book the Hampton Inn & Suites Anaheim Resort Convention Center starting at $134Located a mile from Disneyland, the Hampton Inn & Suites Anaheim Resort, another Hilton-affiliated property, offers a wide range of modern rooms including studio suites with kitchenettes.
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There are also eight fireplaces, four kitchens (two are more like kitchenettes), two dining rooms, two solariums and more than a half-dozen salons, studies and sitting rooms, in addition to the four bedrooms, three full baths and four powder rooms.
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Last month, the hotel's neighbors and its many donors celebrated the completion of a $353 million, top-to-bottom renovation of the building that has finally provided the 200 current tenants their own bathrooms and kitchenettes, and created community rooms to flavor their days with Netflix movies, gab sessions, gardening and more.
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A number of desert kibbutzim, including Kibbutz Eilot Eilat, Kibbutz Lotan and Kibbutz Neot Semadar, have unveiled English-language web pages to market their own private guesthouse options, where double occupancy rates for rooms with kitchenettes, including access to kibbutz amenities like swimming pools and basketball courts, average around 420 shekels ($118) a night.
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Kitchenettes are a common feature in hotel and motel guest rooms and often contain a coffeemaker, a bar refrigerator, commonly called a mini-bar. Some hotel kitchenettes have provisioned refrigerators that have an interior sensor feature used by management to monitor guest use of the refrigerator's contents and thus charge for the consumables, which typically include soda, beer, and liquor.
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It contains four hundred rooms., each with private bathrooms, kitchenettes, and many with terraces. It was being converted to a project for the elderly by January 1970.
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Many of the inn's 67rooms have family heirlooms on display. Suites have jacuzzi tubs, kitchenettes, and fire places. The inn is dog friendly. The majority of rooms have an ocean view.
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The word kitchenette was also used to refer to a type of small apartment prevalent in African American communities in Chicago and New York City during the mid-twentieth century. Landlords often divided single-family homes or large apartment units into smaller units to house more families. Living conditions in these kitchenettes were often wretched; the author Richard Wright described them as "our prison, our death sentence without a trial".Jerry Washington Ward and Robert Butler. "Kitchenettes".
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They have washbasins. Bathrooms are between 6 people per floor. CDE and FGH form longer 'blocks' with rooms the same size as AB/IJ. They all contain small kitchenettes, much like the M, P, Q and R blocks.
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Elements that are not of cultural heritage significance include: lightweight partitions in the store section, linoleum floor linings, kitchenettes, plywood boarding over windows and doors, paint over external brickwork, and wire mesh and timber screens dividing the subfloor area.
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SAIT Residence has two modern high rises located in the northeast corner of its main campus. Both residence towers feature four different floor plans and amenities such as fully furnished units, kitchenettes, high-speed Internet, study lounges and 24-hour security.
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At the time he had been in charge of operations for twenty-five years. In 1980 all units in the hotel had pantries or kitchenettes. Almost two thirds of its four hundred and fifty units were rent stabilized. Long-term occupants paid $300 to $450 per month for studio apartments.
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He worked briefly with Henrique Mindlin (1911 - 1971), and opened his own office two years later. Heep focused on vertical housing projects, producing two dozen residential buildings. His work ranged from luxury apartments in Higienópolis to small kitchenettes in the center of São Paulo. His signature work, Edifício Itália, dates from this period.
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InterContinental Washington D.C. – The Wharf – This 278-room luxury hotel overlooks District Pier and the Washington Channel and features views of many of DC's monuments. Hyatt House Washington DC / The Wharf – This 237-room extended-stay hotel offers suites with kitchenettes. Canopy by Hilton - This 175-rooom hotel overlooks 7th Street Park and Recreation Pier.
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66 Motel, built soon after the war, was constructed (1946–47) in front of the historic Carty's cabin camp. In 1949, the old El Garces railway hotel accommodated its last overnight visitors. In its heyday, the 66 Motel (like many other contemporary lodgings) offered air conditioning, TV and kitchenettes with neon signage pointing the way.
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Occupying the remaining floors of Forbes Hall are a mix of 232 first-year men and women in double rooms that are air-conditioned. Some of the doubles have adjoining semi-private bathrooms. There are communal showers, two kitchenettes, and a laundry area on each floor. Each wing of Forbes Hall has a study room.
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The upper floors of this renovated 10-story building house 372 students in single and double rooms in three-, four-, five-, or six-person suite-like environments that include a shared bathroom. Residents share common lounges with kitchenettes and a centralized laundry facility. This was formerly the headquarters of music publishing company, McLaughlin & Reilly Co.
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The Kollel is located in the premises of the Beth Avraham Yosef Toronto (BAYT) Synagogue, at 613 Clark Avenue West, near Bathurst St. and York Hill Blvd. The building has ample free parking. The Kollel's space features milk and meat kitchenettes, allowing it to host free communal meals and snacks and also offer coffee at all times.
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All classrooms retain their original latticed ceiling vents. Original timber double-hung windows and double doors with large, three-light fanlights remain in the internal corridor walls. A bronze plaque in the entrance reads "Opened 26 September 1941 by HA Bruce MLA". Non-significant elements include modern carpet or linoleum floor linings, cupboards and kitchenettes, and added doors and partitions.
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Thomson Hall was opened in the fall of 2008. It received Energy Star rating in 2009. It serves as a residential building for upper-class students that meet a certain GPA requirement and features 31 suite style living-units which include study areas, living rooms, kitchenettes, bathrooms, and bedrooms. The building is three stories tall, has of space, and cost $5.5 million.
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The main floor also has vending machines, microwaves, an ice machine, two kitchenettes and two computers with a printing station. It also has a grand piano in the formal main lounge. The main office is open 24 hours a day and provides a variety of student services. In the basement, there is a large laundry room with plenty of washers and dryers.
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The architect for the Camlin was Carl L. Linde of Portland, a one time brewery builder, who had built the edifice to resemble an Italian castle. The 94 apartments had all of the latest conveniences, such as "shower baths" and dinettes and kitchenettes. The penthouse comprised the entire 11th floor. On October 31, 1926, the Camlin Apartment Hotel had its official opening.
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Each regular office floor is designed to host open space offices with afferent toilets and connections ready for installing the kitchenettes, accommodating up to 60 working stations, benefiting from a specially designed meeting area. On June 6, 2012, SkyTower has reached the 36th floor and became the tallest building in Romania. The topping out ceremony was held on June 28, 2012.
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The Parkway Courts Historic District encompasses a historic tourist accommodation at 815 Park Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a U-shaped tourist court, with 48 units and a building housing an office and manager's residence. The units come in three styles, some with larger sleeping and living spaces, and some with kitchenettes. Each unit is highlighted architecturally by a steeply pitched gable over the entrance.
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Schweitzer's village currently contains two condominium-hotels: The Selkirk Lodge and The White Pine Lodge. The Selkirk Lodge features traditional hotel- style rooms, some with Kitchenettes, and others with bunk beds, called "Family Suites." The White Pine Lodge features one-, two-, and four-bedroom units with full kitchens and lofts. Hundreds of private residences and condominiums are also available throughout the lower and upper village.
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While Medley Hall is the smallest of the residential colleges, it is not lacking in facilities. It has a newly equipped laundry room with four washing machines and two driers, a lounge room with grand piano, a music room, table tennis and pool, a fully equipped kitchen with TV lounge area and kitchenettes and dining area on each of the three floors of accommodation.
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Kitchenettes were equipped with modern devices and the bathrooms had both a toilet and a bath. There was an on site laundrette. Each flat owner has to contribute to the cost of upkeep/maintenance of the block and pay for things like the caretaker's wage, gardening, heating etc. When originally built, Regent Court had a Tennis court and gardens, some lock up garages and a children's playground.
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Helen Newberry House, view from Maynard St. Barbour houses approximately 120 occupants, 70% of which are freshmen. The residence is one of three all-female residence halls on campus. The hall contains a laundry room, two lounges, front desk, and multiple kitchenettes. It shares resources with its next-door sister hall Helen Newberry House, which contains the exercise/dance room, kitchen, and computing site.
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These contain fire stairs, service risers, store rooms, and kitchenettes. Some levels retain original black bean veneer fire doors. The top level of the tower (L10) contains two large auditoriums. The larger of the two, named the Charles Barton Auditorium, is double-height and has a raised stage with a proscenium arch, velvet curtains, wings spaces either side, and a backstage area with changing rooms.
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The Elbow Lake Environmental Education Centre (400 ha) is a new addition to QUBS properties, and is home to the new Eco-Adventure Camps. The facility consists of several sleeping cabins with kitchenettes, a large main lodge with full kitchen, bathrooms, and classroom, a recreation lodge and a small converted museum area. There is also extensive lake frontage with a large dock off the recreation centre.
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Clemson House held seven floors of rooms and apartments and a three-bedroom penthouse. In the final years before its demise, Clemson House provided housing for sophomore and higher students and visiting faculty. As a dorm facility each room housed multiple students. While serving as a hotel, the rooms of Clemson House featured oversized single beds and other furniture along with private baths, and some apartment-type units included kitchenettes.
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Birtinya is built around Lake Kawana, which includes a buoyed course for flat water competitions. The Lake Kawana Community Centre located beside the lake on Sportsmans Drive () provides 15 spaces (halls and meeting rooms) together with commercial kitchen facilities and smaller kitchenettes for community events. It is operated by the Sunshine Coast Regional council. The centre was officially opened on 5 November 2005 by City of Caloundra mayor Don Aldous.
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Linden Hill School is located on a 15-acre forested campus just 12 miles from the original campus in Northfield. In addition to many purpose-built classrooms, the school building houses classrooms, an indoor basketball court with a climbing wall, a game room, a first aid room and, of course, a large kitchen and cafeteria. The dormitories have 50 single-occupancy rooms and spacious common rooms with kitchenettes.
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Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas – Kidani Village is an African lodge-style resort with accommodations that include kitchenettes or kitchens and multi-bedroom units. Featuring over 30 species of wildlife that roam free on the savannas of a 21-acre wildlife preserve. The lobby and the villas of Kidani Village extend outwards and resemble the curlicue shape of a water buffalo's horns. Inside, the resort features African-inspired architecture and decorations.
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The interior of the B&P; section is lined with panels of flat sheeting, with cover strips, on the walls and ceiling. Vertical members of the structural system are evident on the south wall, between pairs of windows. The classroom layout has been reconfigured (formerly three classrooms) and original partitions removed; however, their former location is evident in the ceiling linings. Non-significant interior elements include modern partitions, cupboards, wall and floor linings, and kitchenettes.
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A self-made man, Wright respected him and allowed him to design many details including all door hardware, the stainless steel kitchenettes and even the diving board support. This sprawling Usonian is one of Wright's most extensive single-story residences. Three wings spin off a central hexagon much as might have happened had Wingspread been based on an equilateral parallelogram rather than a square. The home is organized around a massive angular fireplace.
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Oak Street Hall Completed in 2004, Oak Street Hall is located at 5051 Oak Street. The five-story building houses approximately 559 students in single room and suite-style two-bedroom suites. The ground level is a large common lobby with a kitchen, laundry facility, music practice rooms, pool tables and a widescreen television set. On floors 2-5, kitchenettes, vending machines, quiet study rooms and social lounges comprise the common areas.
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The suites include theater-style seats, televisions, kitchenettes, and bars. The athletes ride to practice in chartered buses and dress beneath a three-dimensional 20-foot lighted longhorn in a locker room that includes a nutrition center, players’ lounge, and "state-of-the-art" ventilation system. Nationally televised games also brought new notoriety, revenue, and growth for leagues that had rarely appeared on television. As the cable networks grew and expanded, they sought more games to fill time.
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The ship has a large lobby, deli and grocery store, a boutique and showroom, fitness center, billiard room, golf simulator and putting greens, a full-sized tennis court, jogging track, a spa, swimming pool, and cocktail lounges. There are six restaurants for dining that supplement the kitchens or kitchenettes in most of the residences. For on- board entertainment there is a movie theater, library and music performances. In addition to shore excursions, various classes have been offered on board.
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The architect Sidney Goldhammer installed bathrooms and kitchenettes in each room, as well as building apartments within the former event spaces. After the conversion of the Beekman Hotel, its clients mostly came from the United Nations, whose headquarters is located nearby, as well as from large companies. The hotel's guests included actor Geraldine Chaplin, musicians Pearl Bailey and Frank Zappa, and UN delegates. After a period of deterioration, the lobby and suites were refurbished between 1989 and 1991.
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The following buildings are located on campus: Alumnae Hall was named in honor of Immaculata University alumnae. This building contains a gymnasium, weight rooms, and a theater. The Mary A. Bruder Center focuses on Campus Health Services (Nurses and Visiting Doctor), Counseling Services and Career Development Offices. The DeChantal and Marian Halls are a residential complex containing 154 residential rooms with kitchenettes on most floors, student and study lounges, and laundry facilities, as well as a chapel.
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Scotch College has provided boarding facilities for students since the school's establishment in 1919. In 2011, the College opened a new Rosevear Boarding Precinct with individual and shared bedrooms, common rooms with kitchenettes, laundry and storage areas, study spaces, a tutors' suite, and a large outdoor barbecue area. The boarding house currently accommodates more than 100 students each year from Years 7–12, both male and female. It is managed by a Director and Deputy Director of Boarding.
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The staples of the urban diet were bread, dairy and canned goods. Dinner might be tomato bisque from a can topped with cream or a salad made of canned string beans and mayonnaise. Many preferred to purchase food at delicatessen's, rather than attempt to prepare meals in the cramped kitchenettes. German delicatessens in cities like New York and Milwaukee sold imported cold cuts, potato salads, schmierkase, wienerwurst, North Sea herring, assorted pickles and other prepared foods.
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" She emphasized that it had "West Coast sunset colors" The campus also houses an exercise room and various kitchenettes with different themes. Yamagami said in 1989 that the "garden den," with furniture styled like those used in outdoor settings, was among the most popular. The Levi Strauss cafeteria has by pavilion spaces, each of which have distinct colors and identities. Yamagami said that the company "didn't want to have an institutionalized cafeteria, they wanted to have a cafeteria that felt like a restaurant.
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By the 1930s, the city of Chicago boasted that over 25% of its residential structures were less than 10 years old, many of which were bungalows. These continued to be built in the working-class South Side into the 1960s. Studio apartments, with Murphy beds and kitchenettes or Pullman kitchens, comprised a large part of the housing supply during and after the Great Depression, especially in the "Black Belt". The South Side had a history of philanthropic subsidized housing dating back to 1919.
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Originally, the animators had drawn the cars driving on the right side. However, Tomi Yamaguchi, a Simpsons layout artist at the time, pointed out that cars in fact drive on the left side of the street in Japan. Because of this, the animators had to redraw the whole scene, and Yamaguchi received a technical advisor credit for the episode. The speech that Homer gives to the audience in The Happy Smile Super Challenge Family Wish Show was originally much longer, and would partially involve kitchenettes from Broyhill.
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In HMOs, bathrooms and kitchens / kitchenettes are typically designated as common areas shared by all tenants, but contractually speaking common areas may also include stairwells, gardens and landings. Houses may be divided up into self- contained flats, bed-sitting rooms or simple lodgings. Legally compliant HMOs are characterised by a higher standing of fire proofing, after a series of deaths in overcrowded houses. According to the Campaign for Bedsit Rights, three people a week died in fires in houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) between 1985 and 1991.
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Each residential area houses classrooms, recreational and social centers, kitchenettes, and cultural centers - in addition to the bedrooms, study areas, laundries, television rooms, and dining facilities you might expect. Each also has its own student governing body and is, in effect, a community unto itself. Located in the central corridor of campus, the Honors Community houses undergraduate members of Commonwealth Honors College. In this community, undergraduates, staff, and faculty share an interwoven mix of double, single, suite, and apartment-style living options spread across six halls.
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Half of each first floor is devoted to community spaces, featuring a two-story lounge, reading room and study areas. Additional space includes pass-through floor lounges on the second, third and fourth floors, designed to promote gathering in community. The building has one full kitchen and three kitchenettes adjoined to the floor lounges, plus food sales in the basement. It opened in the fall of 2016, and it hosted incoming freshmen as well as returning seniors, juniors and sophomores who were able to apply to transfer to Dunne through the interhall application process.
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LLC also features student- friendly amenities such as a recycling room, bike storage, general storage space for students, and an elevator. Additionally, over is dedicated to common space, including modern kitchenettes, classroom space, and individual study areas on each floor. In 2012, a new parking lot was constructed on college- owned land between Sullivan Arena and privately owned Clarke Farm, located in Bedford. This parking lot has replaced the former Joan of Arc parking lot, which was located between the Dana Center, Davison Dining Hall, and the Joan of Arc residence hall (JOA).
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Candela developed a simple courtyard model which emphasized the inner face of the building, rather than the street façade. It was organized as an apartment hotel, with small kitchens for the meals that guests chose not to take outside. In 2003, Obadon Hotels purchased The Brazilian Court, and renovated it from the formal setting of the 1920s to a more cosmopolitan style. In doing so, the kitchenettes were removed, and in their place opened a restaurant, Cafe Boulud, under the James Beard Award nominee, Chef Daniel Boulud. The hotel is located at 301 Australian Avenue.
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The main block (K) houses a library/reading room, bar, table tennis room, piano room, dining hall, computer room, laundrette, the porters lodge, and the largest Junior Common Room in terms of floorspace of the Stoke Bishop Halls. Blocks M-R are the 'new' blocks. These feature significantly smaller rooms than those around old quad, yet share three bathrooms between every 8 rooms, and a small kitchenettes with microwaves, fridges and a sink. As part of the 'new block' redevelopment, a new student building, the 'hexagon', was added.
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Barangay Sabang is classified as an urban place and is composed of 6 puroks or zones. It is generally described as plain and coastal with a total land area of 41.489800 hectares. It is bounded to the north by San Sebastian, Lagonoy, Camarines Sur, south by Lagonoy Gulf , east by Lagonoy Gulf, and in the west by Quinayangan River of Lagonoy, Camarines Sur. Its major sources of livelihood is agriculture (fishing), cargo and baggaging service, inter-island watercraft tourist travel, resorts and hotel services, as well as food kitchenettes.
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By this time a first floor window opening in the south elevation was altered to a doorway and a steel gantry is installed, cutting into the original roof alignment above. The roofscape was further altered by the removal of the chimneys. Internal alterations included refurbishment of fixtures and finishes, replacement of original counter joinery, construction of timber-framed partition walls at first floor level, refurbishment of kitchenettes and amenities. The first floor rooms at the southern end of the building were fully refurbished with acoustic treatment for telegraph exchange.
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Further along the north-eastern side of the building there is a narrow light well, with toilets between it and the central hallway, and a fire escape staircase at its Queen Street end, which was installed during the building's 1978-80 redevelopment. The toilets occupy their original positions in the building but have been renovated since being first installed there. The windows looking into the light well, apart from those to the main stairwell (metal-framed), have been removed and the openings filled in. Kitchenettes and services cupboards sit between the 1979 fire escape and the central hallway.
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This characterization is derived from the perception that Microsoft provides nearly everything for its employees in a convenient place, but in turn overworks them to a point where it would be bad for their (possibly long-term) health. For example, the kitchenettes have free beverages and many buildings include exercise rooms and showers. However, the company has been accused of attempting to keep employees at the company for unreasonably long hours and working them too much. This is detailed in several books about Microsoft, including Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire.
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Like other Disney Vacation Club resorts, the studios offer kitchenettes, bathrooms, one queen bed, and one sleeper sofa. While the resort has one of the lowest costs for villas on property, the Springs area is now premier status, resulting in increased prices due to the popularity. The popularity of this area is a result of the location, being one of the closest areas to the main lobby including two restaurants, the Artist's Palette and The Turf Club Bar and Grill, and the main pool, High Rock Spring pool. In October 2007, the resort received designation in the Florida Green Lodging Program.
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The 1923 building contains two large classrooms (formerly three) separated by a fixed partition. Openings in the former verandah walls connect the classrooms with kitchenettes / amenity areas in the enclosed verandah corners. Steps in the eastern verandah connect with the western verandah of Block A. The southern classroom wall has three large banks of windows, which along with those in the verandah wall have been replaced with aluminium-framed sliders and hoppers. The teachers room has timber-framed casement windows on the east and northern sides; the northern being sheltered by a skillion hood with battened timber brackets.
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In 2011, Electronic Express opened its first store outside of the Middle Tennessee region in Cleveland, TN, and in 2013 opened its first store outside of Tennessee in Decatur, AL in the Decatur Mall. In November 2015, Electronic Express opened its first stand- alone appliance center adjacent to their Hermitage, TN location. It features a standard appliance inventory and has numerous kitchenettes displaying appliances as they would appear in a home kitchen. Electronic Express’s first east Tennessee store opened in 2017 in the Oak Ridge City Center in Oak Ridge, TN. In 2019, Electronic Express expanded in the Alabama region with the opening of two new locations: Huntsville and Florence.
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Up until 1948, Woodlawn was a middle class, white neighborhood, which grew out of the floods of workers and commerce from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. During the first half of the century, many University of Chicago professors lived in Woodlawn. With the Supreme Court ruling outlawing racially restrictive covenants in the 1950s, the combination of the expanding African American urban population, their limited housing options, and exploitive real estate maneuvers that divided up apartments into kitchenettes, Woodlawn began to have its first African American residents. Cayton and Drake described the anxieties and clashes that took place at the edge of the ghetto in Black Metropolis.
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In some motels, a handful of rooms would be larger and contain kitchenettes or apartment-like amenities; these rooms were marketed at a higher price as "efficiencies" as their occupants could prepare food themselves instead of incurring the cost of eating all meals in restaurants. Rooms with connecting doors (so that two standard rooms could be combined into one larger room) also commonly appeared in both hotels and motels. A few motels (particularly in Niagara Falls, Ontario, where a motel strip extending from Lundy's Lane to the falls has long been marketed to newlyweds) would offer "honeymoon suites" with extra amenities such as whirlpool baths.
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The Shamrock initially had a staff of 1,200 managed by George Lindholm, who had been recruited from the socially prominent Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York. There were 23 different employee uniforms. Guests signed the register in "grass-hued" green ink and their luggage was carried by bellhops wearing emerald green, lemon trimmed uniforms past a portrait of McCarthy in the elevator lobby to air-conditioned, green-hued rooms each with generously framed abstract art on the walls, push-button radios (including recorded music from an elaborate in-house system through which an operator played extended-length phonographic records) and television, all somewhat rare amenities for a hotel at the time. Over a third of the rooms had kitchenettes.
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Oakleigh is a Victorian era villa dating from 1880 in Italianate style, built as a gentleman's town house, with five well- proportioned rooms and four smaller utility rooms / bathrooms over three storeys, and a belvedere or tower room. In the early 20th century the building was converted into a boarding house, with a rear "L" shaped three storey addition, comprising 12 more rooms with kitchenettes connected by a timber verandah. On a block next to the house were servants' quarters and stables, however these were demolished in the 1960s to make way for flats. Oakleigh operated for most of the 20th century as a boarding house, owned by the Boucher/Williams family who also owned properties in Kellett Street, nearby.
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Even where rooms were rented overnight to middle-class travelers (and not locals or extended-stay clients) there have been ongoing problems with theft of motel property by travelers; everything from waterbeds to television sets to bedspreads and pillows have routinely gone missing in what one 1970s Associated Press report labelled "highway robbery". The least costly motels sometimes serve as temporary housing for people who are not able to afford an apartment or have recently lost their home. Motels catering to long- term stays occasionally have kitchenettes or efficiencies, or a motel room with a kitchen. While conventional apartments are more cost-effective with better amenities, tenants unable to pay first and last month's rent or undesirable due to unemployment, criminal records or credit problems do seek low-end residential motels because of a lack of viable short-term options.
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