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The Brazen Head is a pub in Merchant's Quay, Dublin, built as a coaching inn in 1754, on the site of a merchant's dwelling dating back to at least 1613. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] lt received a licence to sell ale in 1661, and the first mention of it as an inn was in 1668.
A depiction of the Old State House, circa 1801. The Brazen Head was located nearby in the adjacent square. Originally owned by Mary Jackson, the Brazen Head was a general store located in Cornhill, an area in the heart of Boston. Located next to the Town House, otherwise known as the Old State House, the Brazen Head was most likely a well-known ...
Avram Davidson's 1969 The Phoenix and the Mirror, set in a fantasy version of the Roman Empire, includes a talking head which gives its name to Vergil Magus's home, the House of the Brazen Head. It guards the house, welcomes visitors, and announces them to Vergil. Robertson Davies's 1970 Fifth Business includes a brazen head used as part of a ...
The style became an iconic part of the architectural landscape in California and throughout the Midwest, with major architects—including Frank Lloyd Wright—incorporating it into their designs.
The first house she visited was a 1904 Craftsman beauty by Samuel Tilden Norton, the architect behind such local landmarks as Griffith Park’s Greek Theatre and the Wilshire Boulevard Temple. The ...
Lovamahapaya. Lovamahapaya is a building situated between Ruwanweliseya and Sri Mahabodiya in the ancient city of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.It is also known as the Brazen Palace or Lohaprasadaya because the roof was covered with bronze tiles.
The I-house is a vernacular house type, popular in the United States from the colonial period onward. The I-house was so named in the 1930s by Fred Kniffen, a cultural geographer at Louisiana State University who was a specialist in folk architecture. He identified and analyzed the type in his 1936 study of Louisiana house types. [1] [2] [3]
During this period, the reign of the four Georges, hence the word Georgian, covers a particular and unified style, derived from Palladian Architecture, which was used in erecting public and private buildings; to describe the modern day surviving buildings in Dublin erected in that period and which share that architectural style; Henrietta ...