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A mansion is a large dwelling house typically built for the wealthy. The word itself derives (through Old French) from the Latin word mansus the perfect passive participle of manere "to remain" or "to stay".
Mansions, Manors, and Grand Estates in the United States
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An older house, say one built in 1838, could be easily updated in the latest style by applying Greek elements to the façade. An example of this would be the Wilcox Mansion at 641 Delaware Avenue.
A McMansion is the "Big Mac" of residential architecture: large, often mass-produced, and lacking style or elegance.
The mansion is situated directly across from the picturesque Episcopal Seminary gardens and on a block with the last remaining row of continuous Greek Revivals in
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One such mansion is Rock Castle built in 1848 for the owner of the Carpenter and Guerney factory. The castle is perched on the side of the escarpment. It is three stories high on the north side, and one story high on the south.
Photo: Parry Mansion, Main Street, New Hope Boro, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Photo: Edgemont (The Jenks Homestead), National Register of Historic Places, Middletown Twp in Bucks County PA.
probably not allowed, but on either side of the entrance door of a mansion, porticoes set back behind the line of frontage were provided, according to F.
Armstrong Mansion.
9. Savannah, GA. Ardsley Park.
10. Savannah, GA. Ardsley Park.
11. Chicago, IL. c.1897. Chicago Public Library (until 1974). On Michigan Ave.
12. Chicago, IL. Michigan Ave.
13-14. Long Beach, CA.
15. Venice Beach, CA.
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This pattern was also the framework for more lavish complexes-mansions, monasteries, palaces, and, eventually, whole cities. The city of Beijing developed over a very long time, under various rulers.
In addition to palaces there are remains of smaller private mansions built in the same style, with iwans opening on to a courtyard. One of the more interesting features of the site is the bazar from which the site gets its name.
informal version of the Shoin style favored in upper-class mansion
sunburst
an Eastlake decorative element shaped like a sun with radiating rays; often only a semi or quarter circle of the motif is used.
in eighteenth-century France, a city mansion belonging to a person of rank.
Hue
a pure color with a specific wavelength.
Fortified manor, Fortified manor house: During the late 14th and the 15th centuries the necessity of fully defensible castles was on the decline, so that the number of fortified manors increased and developed into the undefended mansions of the ...
During the time of Theodore Roosevelt, Greek architecture was in high demand. The Ansley Wilcox Mansion/ Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site was constructed using the beauty and refinement of the Corinthian column.
His country mansion Prior Park which overlooks the city, is now a school. Extensively fire damaged in 1984, it was meticulously and, somewhat controversially, restored to the condition it was in before the fire.
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As Europe moved into the Renaissance, the role of castles became divided. Some were used as military fortresses, and were controlled by a monarch. Others were unfortified palaces, mansions, or manor homes and served no military function.
pleasance (or pleasuance)A Pleasance (or Pleasuance) is a pleasure ground attached to a castle or mansion, usually outside the fortifications. plinthA Plinth is the square base of a column or of a building.
Steyned - lined (like in a well).
Stockade - solid fence of heavy timbers.
Stringcourse - continuous horizontal moulding on wallface.
Stronghouse - a mansion capable of being defended.
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