Both the brownstone and the library are venerable historic buildings in the classical tradition, but they have little else in common.

The wine museum, in another venerable building, displays old wine-making tools and bottles.

The venerable building was acquired from the city last month by a nonprofit enterprise that plans extensive renovation.

In later times, the venerable building degenerated into an ordinary farmstead.

But Elissa Corso found nothing to complain about in the venerable old building.

As noiselessly as possible, she made her way towards the venerable ivy-covered building.

The venerable building then served, upstairs and towards the front, as a public rental dwelling until 1972.

It was a large, obviously venerable building, with tiers of seats facing several small thronelike podiums.

There was a melancholy to the empty streets lined with venerable buildings, a reminder of a once-thriving community.

As for the venerable building itself, it had barely survived disaster and now served as a theatre seating two hundred.