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The interior plan is oriented around a central hall, flanked by parlors on either side. A stair rises from the hall, and is flanked by bedrooms on the second and third floors. Extensive interior woodwork is located primarily in the entrance hall and the west parlor. [2] The interior was renovated during the Victorian era, but was restored in ...
Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room Neoclassical Revival mansion in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer for industrialist Peter A. B. Widener and built between 1897 and 1899.
Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire is an architecturally significant country house from the Elizabethan era, a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. Built between 1590 and 1597 for Bess of Hardwick , it was designed by the architect Robert Smythson , an exponent of the Renaissance style .
Birch Hall boasts 7 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms and 5 living spaces -- including a gorgeous "summer room." It has charm the charm of its 1740 origins but also modern updates for comfortable living in ...
Hardwick Hall's long gallery, 1811, David Cox the Elder Later, long galleries were built, sometimes in a revivalist spirit, as at Harlaxton Manor , an extravagant early-Victorian house in Jacobean style, and sometimes to house a large art collection, as at Buckingham Palace , which has a long interior space lit from above, called the Picture ...
The Great Hall with Bjørn Nørgaard's tapestries. The Great Hall is the largest and most spectacular of the Royal Reception Rooms. The Hall is 40 metres long with a ceiling height of 10 metres, and a gallery runs all the way around the room. The Hall seats 400 guests and is used for banquets, state dinners and receptions.
Hoveton Hall in 2005. Hoveton Hall in the parish of Hoveton in Norfolk is a Regency-style country house made of gault brick with a slate roof. It was built between 1809 and 1812, on or near the site of the previous ancient manor house of the same name, by Mrs Christabell Burroughes (1764-1843), daughter and heiress of Henry Negus (1734-1807) of Hoveton Hall, an attorney, and wife [1] of James ...
Hagley Hall is a Grade I listed 18th-century house in Hagley, Worcestershire, [1] the home of the Lyttelton family. It was the creation of George, 1st Lord Lyttelton (1709–1773), secretary to Frederick, Prince of Wales , poet and man of letters and briefly Chancellor of the Exchequer .