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An enclosed porch is located on the south side of the carriage house. The structure has two separate basements, one under the house and the other is located under the porch and housed the old boiler. A concrete tennis court is located north of the carriage house and is a contributing structure. [2] It is surrounded by a fence and trees.
Central-passage house evolved primarily in colonial Maryland and Virginia from the hall and parlor house, beginning to appear in greater numbers by about 1700. [1] [2] It partially developed as greater economic security and developing social conventions transformed the reality of the American landscape, but it was also heavily influenced by its formal architectural relatives, the Palladian and ...
Floor plan of a basic Virginia-style hall-and-parlor house. An example from the colonial period of the United States, Resurrection Manor, near Hollywood, Maryland, was built c. 1660 and demolished 2002. A hall-and-parlor house is a type of vernacular house found in early-modern to 19th century England, as well as in colonial North America. [1]
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This house was modeled on the Villa Pisani in Montagnana, Italy, as exhibited in the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio's Four Books of Architecture (1570). Colonial architect William Buckland designed this house in 1774 and the resulting house is a very skillful adaptation of the Villa Pisani for the warmer climate of the Chesapeake Bay region.
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.
In this park, Church planted thousands of native trees (many transplanted from elsewhere on site); created a 10-acre (40,000 m 2) lake from a swamp; built a freestanding studio, summer house, and rustic benches and railings; and designed five miles (8.0 km) of carriage drives paved in crushed red shale mined on site. Church strategically ...
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