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The Bartow–Pell Mansion is a historic house museum at 895 Shore Road in the northern section of Pelham Bay Park, within the New York City borough of the Bronx.The two-story building, designed in the mid-19th century by an unknown architect, has a Greek Revival facade and federal interiors and is the last surviving manor house in the Pelham Bay Park area.
The house's plan was logical and efficient, with all of the first floor formal rooms opening onto a large L-shaped hall. [32] A round library (the base of the apse) was tucked into the angle of the "L." [33] It featured two large sash windows with curved windowseats, a recessed chimneypiece carved with flowers, and two curving built-in bookcases.
Elevation view of the Panthéon, Paris principal façade Floor plans of the Putnam House. A house plan [1] is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.
The second floor library was lined with bookcases [30] and decorated with Chinese artwork. [36] In front of each bedroom suite fireplace on the third and fourth floors were an animal skin rug. The second floor bedroom suite in the northeast corner of the house was painted in red. [30] Cissy Patterson originally willed the house to her daughter ...
Built between 1902 and 1905, [16] the Martin House is distinguished from Wright's other prairie style houses by its unusually large size and open plan. [18] [19] On the ground floor an entry hall bisects the house. To the right, behind a large double sided hearth, is a central living room.
In September 2020, a plan was approved to renovate the Fisher Carriage House by local preservation firm CRSA, which included fixing damage it sustained by the earthquake and adapting the carriage house into a river engagement center for the Jordan River In March 2022, in what is believed to be the middle of the night, someone stole the fence ...
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 ...
Two local auto mechanics bought the carriage house and converted it into an auto repair shop. [2] In 1956 the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany bought the house and converted its second floor to office space. A decade later they renovated the first floor, and it served as the bishop's residence for some time after that. [2]