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[49] [48] When the mansion was being constructed, Frick had mandated that a large picture gallery be constructed in the same style as his main house. The gallery wing was placed along 71st Street because it was a narrow side street, while the main mansion was recessed from Fifth Avenue to visually distinguish it from neighboring residences. [63]
From 2004 to 2012, it was used in the filming of the TV series Desperate Housewives, in which the street was known as Wisteria Lane. After the production of Desperate Housewives ended, the street underwent a small makeover to remove the essence of Wisteria Lane, so that it could be used in other productions.
Villa Terrace is a historic house in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was built in 1924 for the Lloyd R. Smith family - an Italian Renaissance-style home on a bluff above Lake Michigan. Since 1966 the house and grounds have housed the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum. [2] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Lloyd R. Smith House.
DOVER — A mansion at 32 Wisteria Drive, billed as "a sportsman's paradise," is on the market two years after it last sold, this time for $10.95 million.. The 16.3-acre property, with views of ...
"The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" is one of the fifty-six Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. One of eight stories in the volume His Last Bow, it is a lengthy, two-part story consisting of "The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles" and "The Tiger of San Pedro", which on original publication in The Strand bore the collective title of "A Reminiscence of Mr ...
Wisteria Lodge may refer to: Wisteria Lodge (Reading, Massachusetts), a historic house "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge", a Sherlock Holmes story
Was the third mansion of P.T Barnum, was demolished in 1889 for his new mansion, Marina. Samuel Clemens House (Mark Twain) 1874 Victorian Gothic: Edward Tuckerman Potter: Hartford: Today, a museum Marina 1889 Romanesque and Queen Anne: Longstaff and Hurd: Bridgeport: Was the fourth and last mansion of P.T Barnum in Bridgeport, was demolished in ...
In addition to general architectural influences, this progressive change in style resulted from several other factors. In the 1850s, the abolition of tax on glass and bricks made these items cheaper yet a suitable material and the coming of the railway allowed them to be manufactured elsewhere, at low cost and to standard sizes and methods, and brought to site.