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The Chateau d'Armainvilliers is a historic château that today extends over the municipalities of Tournan-en-Brie and Gretz-Armainvilliers in Seine-et-Marne, France, approximately 30 miles east of Paris.
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The château was begun by Baron James Edouard de Rothschild in 1879 and finished by his widow, Thérèse von Rothschild in 1882. [1] [2] The house was designed according to James' plans by architect Félix Langlais [], who also designed the Château d'Armainvilliers and renovated the Hôtel de Pontalba and Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey for the Rothschild family.
The Villard Houses are a set of former residences at 451–457 Madison Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, United States.Designed by the architect Joseph Morrill Wells of McKim, Mead & White in the Renaissance Revival style, the residences were erected in 1884 for Henry Villard, the president of the Northern Pacific Railway.
The 37-metre high fortified royal keep is an unusual feature of any Chateau in the Loire Valley, and a "masterpiece" [5] of 11th-century military architecture and one of the most well preserved in Europe. Now a museum, its numerous painted and engraved inscriptions, the city and citadel immerse visitors in the universe of the time.
The home was designed in 1838 by Alexander Jackson Davis, and owned in succession by New York City mayor William Paulding Jr., merchant George Merritt, and railroad tycoon Jay Gould. Paulding named his house "Knoll", although critics quickly dubbed it "Paulding's Folly" because of its unusual design that includes fanciful turrets and ...
The house was the setting for many parties and was a New York City attraction. The ballroom could hold 1,200 people, compared with 400 at Astor’s previous mansion at 350 Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. [1] The mansion was sold to real estate developer Benjamin Winter Sr. [2] and demolished around 1926.