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Seaview Terrace and hedge.. In 1907, whiskey millionaire Edson Bradley built a French-Gothic mansion on the south side of Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. It covered more than half a city block, and included a Gothic chapel with seating for 150, a large ballroom, an art gallery, and a 500-seat theatre—90 feet by 120 feet, and several stories tall, completed in 1911—known as Aladdin's Palace.
more images: McDonald Mansion (also known as Mableton) 1877: Stick/Eastlake: Santa Rosa: The exterior was used in the filming of Walt Disney's Pollyanna [3] Linden Towers: 1878 Gothic, Italianate and Second Empire: Laver & Curlett: San Francisco: Was built for James C Flood, was demolished in 1936. more images: Mark Hopkins Mansion: 1878 ...
The Gamble House was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977. [2] [6] Today, two 5th-year USC architecture students live in the house full-time; the selected students change annually. The Gamble House was a target for criticism during the 20th century. However, after the Second World War it received newfound popularity. [4]
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 ...
The Frick House was detailed in the book The Henry Clay Frick Houses: Architecture, Interiors, Landscapes in a Golden Era, by Frick's granddaughter Martha Frick Symington Sanger, [278] [345] as well as Colin B. Bailey's book Building the Frick Collection: An Introduction to the House and Its Collections. [70]
The De Lamar Mansion marked a stark departure from Gilbert's traditional style of French Gothic architecture and was instead robustly Beaux-Arts, heavy with rusticated stonework, balconies, and a colossal mansard roof. The mansion is the largest in Murray Hill, and one of the most spectacular in the city; the interiors are as lavish as the ...
The house's insides have appeared in ABC's mini-series North and South as the Mains' mansion interiors. [ Note 1 ] The house was also seen briefly in Show Boat (1951). In South and West: From a Notebook , Joan Didion writes that Ben Toledano's wife suggested she visit Stanton Hall as well as the Asphodel Plantation , the Oakley Plantation and ...
When the mansion was nearing completion in mid-1902, two hundred and fifty workers went on strike to protest low wages; [180] the strike was resolved after less than a week. [181] The mansion's cost was estimated at $1.5 million (equivalent to $52,823,000 in 2023) [88] [73] or $2.5 million (equivalent to $88,038,000 in 2023). [25]