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The design of the Gothick Villa is based on Andrea Palladio's mid 16th-century Villa Saraceno, with the extra 'k' in its name indicating that the villa's style is not purely derived from Gothic architecture. The internal design of the Gothick Villa features details inspired by Combermere Abbey in Cheshire, and Longner Hall in Shropshire. [2]
Villa: a large house which one might retreat to in the country. Villa can also refer to a freestanding comfortable-sized house, on a large block, generally found in the suburbs, and in Victorian terraced housing , a house larger than the average byelaw terraced house , often having double street frontage .
The original construction of the house is poured-in-place concrete, steel, and wood. The home was built with five bedrooms, four and a half [clarification needed] baths, and a living room that was originally completely open to the terrace, protected by only a curtain of forced air. The living room features open space that carries the interior ...
Carleton H. Sheets (August 25, 1939 - January 25, 2020 [1]) was a prominent real estate investor and author who was notable for television infomercials which marketed real estate business learning materials. [2] Sheets appeared on numerous radio and television talk shows.
With his wife, Elizabeth Foster "Miss Betty" Stonorov (March 5, 1906 - December 8, 2003), Stonorov had daughters Katrina Daly, Tasha Stonorov Churchill and Andrea Stonorov Foster as well as a son Derek Stonorov and nine grandchildren. [15] They lived at Avon Lea Farm in Charlestown Township, outside Philadelphia. [citation needed]
Villa Terrace is a historic house in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was built in 1924 for the Lloyd R. Smith family - an Italian Renaissance-style home on a bluff above Lake Michigan. Since 1966 the house and grounds have housed the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum. [2] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Lloyd R. Smith House.
The villa is situated in 7.3 hectares (18 acres) of grounds. The villa has had several notable owners including Gianni and Marella Agnelli, Izaak and Dorothy J. Killam, and, since 1987, by Edmond (1932–1999) and Lily Safra (1934–2022), who inherited the villa after her husband's death.
The property interior was completely re-designed in 2012 by Paulina Biggs Sparkuhl, [3] after being branded "Thriller Villa" by Jonathan Warren in 2011. [4] The property remains the private residence of its owner, the Honorary Consul of El Salvador, and has hosted diplomatic events, as well as performances supporting the Arts.