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Canal estates are typically constructed on floodplains or swampland in estuaries, providing ready access to larger waterways and the ocean.To build the estate, civil contractors will dredge parts of the site to create deep, navigable channels, and use the resulting fill to form islands and headlands above the flood level.
Omega Bay Estates is a luxury residential estate on the northern central coast of Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands.Omega Bay Estates lies to the north of Prospect Park and east of the Owen Roberts International Airport and Grand Harbour.
The bay that marked the southern edge of the property is now known as Ashbridge's Bay, named for John Ashbridge. [3] On the east and north sides of the bay is the large Ashbridge's Bay Park. Ashbridge's Bay Park North, to the north of the bay, is the site of the Ashbridge's Bay Skate Park, opened in 2009.
Bay Villa 1862 Second Empire: Staten Island: Built for John M Pendleton, it was the summer house of Anson Phelps Stokes between 1868 and 1886, was abandoned in 1910s and later demolished in 1930. Wyckoff Mansion 1895 Tudor Revival: William Henry Miller: Carleton Island: Was built for William O. Wyckoff, the mansion is abandoned today. more ...
Goldeneye estate. Goldeneye is the original name of novelist Ian Fleming's estate on Oracabessa Bay on the northern coastline of Jamaica.He bought 15 acres (6.1 ha) adjacent to the Golden Clouds estate in 1946 and built his home on the edge of a cliff overlooking a private beach.
The footprint of the house covers approximately one acre (0.4 hectares) or 43,000 square feet of the 14-acre (5.7-hectare) estate on the cliffs overlooking Easton Bay of the Atlantic Ocean. [3] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994.
Known for its extreme wealth and lavish estates, the North Shore exploded into affluence at the turn of the 20th century, earning it the nickname the Gold Coast. [1] Historically, this term refers to the affluent coastline neighborhoods of the towns of North Hempstead (such as Great Neck and Port Washington ) and Oyster Bay in Nassau County and ...
Palos Verdes Estates is a coastal city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, situated on the Palos Verdes Peninsula and neighboring Rancho Palos Verdes and Rolling Hills Estates. The city was master-planned by the noted American landscape architect and planner Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.