Building amenities include a fitness center, an indoor swimming pool and a recreation room, all attended to by white-gloved staff.

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Many people start their journey at the Uncommon Homestead, which has a sundeck, hot tub, library, greenhouse, recreation room and dining area.

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Other buildings on the property, including a detached recreation room and a guest house, bring the total square footage of the compound to just over 53, 000 square feet.

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Each major port has a recreation room and kitchen sponsored by a local and national religious organization which give foreign seaman a place to relax and make phone calls home.

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When he visited the Cedro dorm, on January 30th, the forty or so students gathered around him in the recreation room often asked the kinds of benign question posed to celebrities on TV shows: Did he miss computer science?

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Built in the same grand neoclassical style as the rest of the development, the Hall originally boasted a gymnasium, library, billiards room and a series of lecture theatres and meeting room for residents to enjoy for recreation.

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But the zones are also supposed to be designed in such a way as to leave room for other activities such as industries and recreation.

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