1.   Its previous owners had bricked in the old fireplace and put a gas heater there instead.

2.   As well as heat, the old fireplace had been a source of light for reading.

3.   Conditions are so crowded that one office has been fashioned around the hearth of an old fireplace.

4.   Q. I am fixing an old fireplace, and plan to repoint a lot of the bricks.

5.   This week we answer a question from a family that has gotten rid of its old fireplace insert.

6.   Why not just watch money being burned on a continuous reel, like that old fireplace videotape?

7.   So far, the biggest discovery has been an old fireplace that likely belonged in a hut.