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The house was built by Sycamore mason Hosea Willard in 1867. The Willard House is one of the Sycamore Historic District houses to feature the distinctive Jerkin roof, basically a combination of the simple gable roof and the hipped roof. Both the main gables and the smaller gables over the second floor windows contain this roof element.
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Prior to the villas' construction Terry had said also that it was a "glorious opportunity to tidy up a superb site" [3] The villas were constructed from the late 1980s to 2002. [ 1 ] Several of the villas were purchased by foreign buyers upon completion, with some having to be expanded to include extra staff accommodation.
It was a prototype as the physical platform for the mass production of housing. The name is a pun that combines an allusion to domus (Latin for house) [3] and the pieces of the game of dominoes, because the floor plan resembled the game and because the units could be aligned in a series like dominoes, to make row houses of different patterns.
The house is divided into four quadrants, determined by a column grid, separating key living areas that are situated on the top floor and connect to the roof garden, the most easily accessible external area; [4] while the downstairs bedrooms subvert the traditional vertical organization of a residence, also clearly demonstrating the free plan. [18]
With four levels of living space and an indoor swimming pool, the main building encloses 12,000 square feet, complete with curved glass facade, nine bedrooms and 13 bathrooms. Including the five terraces that are part of the house and the rooftop dance floor, the floor plan totals 17,000 square feet.
Villa Lewaro, also known as the Madam C.J. Walker estate [3], is a 34-room 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m 2) [4] [5] mansion located at Fargo Lane and North Broadway in Irvington, New York, 30 miles north of New York City. Entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker commissioned architect Vertner Tandy to build Villa Lewaro
Floor plan and details (Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, 1778) It is uncertain whether this villa was designed by Palladio, but it is one of the centres if not, in fact, the origin of his myth. [ 1 ] For, tradition holds that right here, in the second half of the 1530s, the Vicentine noble Giangiorgio Trissino (1478–1550) met the young mason Andrea ...