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The building, designed in a French style, is testimony to an era when France asserted greater soft power in the region than either Spain or Portugal. In Latin America, the grand rural estate, the Hacienda, Estancia, in Portuguese speaking Brazil Fazenda or Estância, with the mansion as its stately center, is a characteristic feature.
McMansion is a term for a large house in a suburban community, typically marketed to the middle class in developed countries.. Architectural historian Virginia Savage McAlester, who gave a first description of the common features which define this building style, coined the more neutral term Millennium Mansion. [1]
Miller House, Mid-century Modern, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57, "Conversation Pit". Japanese minimalist interior living room, 19th century. In Western architecture, a living room , also called a lounge room ( Australian English [ 1 ] ), lounge ( British English [ 2 ] ), sitting room ( British English [ 3 ] ), or drawing room , is a room for ...
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 ...
Williams, Tod, Billie Tsien, and Josephine Minutillo. “Tod Williams and Billie Tsien: The Husband-and-Wife Team behind the New Barnes Foundation Building Discusses the Creative Process and Why Smart Architects Work in Pairs.” Architectural Digest 69, no. 6 (June 1, 2012): 62.
The mansion, designed by architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee, was originally built in 1877 in a Victorian Gothic style, and was extensively remodeled in the 1920s in the Tudor Revival style. It is a large, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story, asymmetrical brick building with stone trim, Tudor arches, and plain balustrades .
The mansion was restored and renovated for use by the television station. The restoration and renovation process took two years and cost $1.5 million. The first floor of the building was preserved and restored largely in its original form. A 13,000-square-foot (1,200 m 2) addition on the back of the building housed the station's studios. In ...
Among his buildings for Cornell were the President's House, Barnes Hall, University Library, Boardman Hall, infirmaries, and Prudence Risley Hall. In 1878 he was commissioned by the Cornell University chapter of Alpha Delta Phi to build them a chapter house, it was the first building ever to be designed and built specifically for use by a ...