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Marble House, a Gilded Age mansion located at 596 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, was built from 1888 to 1892 as a summer cottage for Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt and was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the Beaux Arts style. It was unparalleled in opulence for an American house when it was completed in 1892. [1]
The Elizabethan era saw growing prosperity, and contemporaries remarked on the pace of secular building among the well-off. The somewhat tentative influence of Renaissance architecture is mainly seen in the great houses of courtiers, but lower down the social scale large numbers of sizeable and increasingly comfortable houses were built in developing vernacular styles by farmers and townspeople.
Today, houses the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum [84] more images: Joseph Raphael De Lamar House: 1902: Beaux-Arts: C. P. H. Gilbert: New York City: Purchased by the Republic of Poland in 1973 to house its Consulate General [85] more images: James A. Burden House: 1905: Italian Renaissance: Warren & Wetmore: New York City
The term big house (Irish: teach mór) refers to the country houses, mansions, or estate houses of the historical landed class in Ireland. The houses formed the symbolic focal point of the landed Anglo-Irish political dominance of Ireland from the late 16th century, and many were destroyed or attacked during the Irish revolutionary period .
Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina, United States.The main residence, Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), is a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 [2] and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 sq ft (16,622.8 m 2) of floor space and 135,280 sq ft ...
A great house is a large house or mansion with luxurious appointments and great retinues of indoor and outdoor staff. The term is used mainly historically, especially of properties at the turn of the 20th century, i.e., the late Victorian or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom and the Gilded Age in the United States.
Though details (and photos) of the event are scarce, we know Beyonce wore a Vera Wang gown and the event took place at their penthouse. 8. David and Victoria Beckham (July 4, 1999)
Perry Belmont House: Washington, D.C. Perry Belmont: Order of the Eastern Star: 1909: Beaux-Arts: Ernest Sanson Horace Trumbauer: 44: 50,316 sq ft (4,674.5 m 2) [72] Otto H. Kahn House: New York, New York: Otto Hermann Kahn: Convent of the Sacred Heart: 1914: Renaissance Revival: J. Armstrong Stenhouse Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert: 45: ...