His office in a two-story brick villa was across the street from the sprawling Stasi headquarters.

Upper Belvedere features a fine church and some modest brick villas.

Mr. Hrawi has his headquarters in a fortress-like brick villa inside the barracks at Ablah.

The David Burdette house, at No. 447, is a wonderful brick villa from about 1850.

It is an exclusive residential area composed of a group of brick villas built mostly in the 1910s and 1920s.

Thomas Lynch's sets are simple but pleasing, with the large facade of a brick villa stretching across the stage and the famously apostrophized tree to one side.

The lawn had vanished away, the sloping gardens, the brick villas, the darkening sky with half a pale moon beginning to show over the chimney-tops.

With the exception of the brick villas of the company executives, Obuasi today looks like a vast and squalid shanty town.

Today's meeting was held at President Mobutu's two-story brick villa on the shore of Lake Kivu.

The house, which was built around 1862, is a two-story, red brick villa built in Italianate architecture.