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Coordinates. 54°41′10″N 6°39′22″W / . 54.686°N 6.656°W. / 54.686; -6.656. Construction started. c.1680–1689 with notable extensions c.1765 and c.1820. Governing body. National Trust. Springhill is a 17th-century plantation house in the townland of Ballindrum near Moneymore, County Londonderry in Northern Ireland.
Moneymore (from Irish Muine Mór, meaning 'large thicket or large hill') [1] is a village and townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 1,897 in the 2011 census. It is situated within Mid-Ulster District. It is an example of a plantation village in Mid-Ulster built by the Drapers' Company of London.
Horace Trumbauer (December 28, 1868 – September 18, 1938) was a prominent American architect of the Gilded Age, known for designing residential manors for the wealthy. Later in his career he also designed hotels, office buildings, and much of the campus of Duke University. Trumbauer's massive palaces flattered the egos of his robber baron ...
Mentmore Towers. Coordinates: 51.8682°N 0.6906°W. Mentmore Towers. Mentmore Towers, historically known simply as "Mentmore", is a 19th-century English country house built between 1852 and 1854 for the Rothschild family in the village of Mentmore in Buckinghamshire. Sir Joseph Paxton and his son-in-law, George Henry Stokes, [1][2] designed the ...
The manor homes and city seats were designed by prominent architects of the day and decorated with antiquities, furniture, and works of art from the world over. Many of the wealthy had undertaken grand tours of Europe, during which they admired the estates of the nobility. Seeing themselves as their American equivalent, they wished to emulate ...
Elkins Estate. The Elkins Estate is an American 42-acre (170,000 m 2) estate located in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. The estate contains seven buildings, the most notable being Elstowe Manor and Chelten House, mansions designed by Horace Trumbauer. Elstowe Manor was built in 1898 at the location where "Needles", the former family summer home of ...
Richard Taliaferro (/ ˈtɒlɪvər / TOL-iv-ər; c. 1705 –1779) was a colonial architect and builder in Williamsburg, Virginia, in what is now the United States. Among his works is Wythe House, a Georgian -style building that was built in 1750 or 1755. It was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1970. [1][2][3][4] Other works were ...
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