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The Bartow–Pell Mansion is a historic house museum at 895 Shore Road in the northern section of Pelham Bay Park, within the New York City borough of the Bronx.The two-story building, designed in the mid-19th century by an unknown architect, has a Greek Revival facade and federal interiors and is the last surviving manor house in the Pelham Bay Park area.
WELLS, Maine — The new owner of the Carriage House Motel plans to renovate and expand the historic Post Road destination.. The Wells Planning Board on Aug. 7 accepted a site plan pre-application ...
A carriage house, also called a remise or coach house, is a term used in North America to describe an outbuilding that was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and their related tack. [1] Carriage houses were often two stories, with related staff quarters above.
Carriage house. Like the house, the carriage house is of brick on a marble foundation, with marble trim. It is two stories tall. At its roofline is a Doric cornice and balustrade. The door and six-over-one double-hung sash windows are capped with flat marble arches. [2]
The house's plan was logical and efficient, with all of the first floor formal rooms opening onto a large L-shaped hall. [32] A round library (the base of the apse) was tucked into the angle of the "L." [ 33 ] It featured two large sash windows with curved windowseats, a recessed chimneypiece carved with flowers, and two curving built-in bookcases.
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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 ...
It was the first house to have electricity in Nelson County and to accomplish this it had its own power plant on the property. There also was a built-in elevator. There also was a built-in elevator. Like Monticello , Thomas Jefferson 's house 27 miles away, it had a dumbwaiter to bring food up from the basement kitchen to the butler's pantry on ...