The Bishop family home in Braintree, at 46 Hollis Avenue, is a gabled Victorian with a gracious covered porch.

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The most romantic of all Parisian restaurants, Le Coupe-Chou, is tucked inside a gabled medieval house, just two blocks away from my apartment.

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His pictures were of the gabled ends of buildings displaying huge murals in support of one group or another, the sort of pictures used widely in the press at the time.

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"In the old days, I used to hide modern elements behind traditional structures, " he says, citing a project where he put a gabled roof on a house to help minimize the conspicuousness of large, modern windows.

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