Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.
faced (adj.)
when combined with a preposition, takes with or by to designate what confronts you: We were faced with two unattractive choices. We were faced by about fifty angry demonstrators. To mean “covered or surfaced with,” in or with is usual: Faced in [with] red brick, the house front was quite conventional.
