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1972-1975: Prototype Roof Pond House. This solar house was built in 1972 as a prototype for the roof pond system of heating and cooling invented by Harold Hay. Several aspects distinguish the project: First documented 100 percent heated and cooled passive solar building. Only instrumented solar house in operation during the 1973 energy crisis.
The Ramsey House is a two-story stone house in Knox County, Tennessee, United States.Also known as Swan Pond, the house was constructed in 1797 by English architect Thomas Hope for Colonel Francis Alexander Ramsey (1764–1820), whose family operated a plantation at the site until the U.S. Civil War. [1]
Grey Gardens is a 14-room [1] house at 3 West End Road and Lily Pond Lane in the Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York.It was the residence of the Beale family from 1924 to 1979, including mother and daughter Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale from 1952 to 1977.
It is mainly in two storeys with attics, and has an irregular plan. On the front is a pedimented prostyle porch, and a doorway with a round architrave and a patterned radial fanlight. The windows are sashes, some under shallow segmental arches with voussoirs and keystones, and in the roof are dormers. [12] [13] II* Pond House
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Oheka Castle courtyard view Main staircase. In 1984, Oheka was purchased by Gary Melius, a Long Island developer. Melius undertook the largest private residential renovation project in the United States to restore the house, which was in a state of almost total disrepair, and recreate the gardens from the original Olmsted plans.
Builders filled in the pond and built homes on the land without notifying the buyers. After exploring all the options, the town of Johnstown has been forced to buy back the four homes, demolish ...
Pond House is a historic building in Aislaby, a village near Whitby in North Yorkshire, in England. The two-storey stone house was built between 1782 and 1789, probably by Francis Breckon. Breckon leased the house to Rebecca Boulby, who had a relationship with Breckon's son, which resulted in three children.