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Storybook architecture: 1924 Hugh W. Comstock and his wife designed and built, a 244 ft (74 m) "Fairy Tale" style cottage called "Hansel" on Torres Street near sixth Avenue in 1924. [13]: p88 Johan Hagemeyer House NW of Torres St. and Mountain View Ave. Hazel Watrous (designer), George Whitcomb (builder) English Cottage 1923
Storybook or Fairytale architecture is a style popularized in the 1920s in England and the United States. Houses built in this style may be referred to as storybook houses. Pages in category "Storybook architecture"
A primary example can be found in the 1927 Montclair, Oakland, firehouse, and in a more traditional English cottage-style in the 1930 Montclair branch library. Idora Park in north Oakland, California , is a four-square-block storybook architecture development begun in 1927 on the grounds of the old amusement park.
For an English storybook wedding with old-world charm, Peckforton Castle makes an excellent venue. Just take it from Ciara and Russell Wilson, who wed there in 2016. Located in the England’s ...
Supporting Kiawah Conservancy. But Nurre’s book isn’t just a gift to those who have fallen in love with the barrier island – $3 from every book sale goes to Kiawah Conservancy, a non-profit ...
[5] [6] The converted private home, with its pointy, lopsided roof, tiny windows and stucco with a distressed paint job were then surrounded by an intentionally overgrown English-style garden and a moat-like pond. [1] The first residents of the 3,500 square feet (330 m 2) home, the Spadena family, lent the house their name. A second family ...
Lunna House is a 17th-century laird's house on Lunna Ness in the Shetland Islands.Lunna House is noted for having "the best historic designed landscape in Shetland". [1] In the 20th century it was used as a base of the wartime Shetland Bus operation.
Skaill House is a historic manor house in Sandwick parish on Mainland, the largest of the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The house overlooks the neolithic site, Skara Brae, and the Bay of Skaill. [1] In 1977, the house was included in the List of Scottish Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [2]