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The most prominent served space is the two-story living room that occupies all of the house to the right of the front door. Most of its front wall is occupied by a built-in bookcase (Margaret Esherick was a bookseller) [3] that reaches up to the horizontal window at the second story. The side wall contains a deep fireplace.
Relaxed Boho Living Room. Enter the living room of this Bohemian Santa Barbara beach house toned-down take on your favorite new aesthetic. A velvet green sofa is given pride of place, surrounded ...
The exterior of the house is mostly white stucco. A two-story living room and bedroom block dominated the main facade. Typical of the Prairie School, it has a low-pitched hipped roof with deep overhanging eaves. Along the second story, immediately under the roof-line, is a horizontal band of five square casement windows with dark wood frames.
The Isaac L. Rice Mansion is at 346 West 89th Street, at the southeast corner of Riverside Drive and 89th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. [3] [4] The house occupies an irregular plot with frontage of 148 feet (45 m) wide on 89th Street to the north and 116 feet (35 m) on Riverside Drive to the west; the plot extends 100 feet (30 m) back from 89th Street.
The Second Empire style frequently includes a rectangular (sometimes octagonal) tower as well. This tower element may be of equal height to the highest floor, or may exceed the height of the rest of the structure by a story or two. A third feature is massing. Second Empire buildings, because of their height, tend to convey a sense of largeness.
The Andrew Carnegie Mansion is at 2 East 91st Street [5] [6] in the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. [7] It stands on 1.2 acres (0.49 ha) of land [8] between Fifth Avenue and Central Park to the west, 90th Street to the south, and 91st Street to the north. [9]
The ballroom was the largest room of the house, spanning the entire rear of the house and rising four stories to the roof. It doubled as the art gallery; the satin-paneled walls were hung with Astor's famed art collection, while the marble herringbone floors were covered with four massive Oriental rugs and sixteen long narrow Persian rugs, all red.
The northern part of the neighborhood is dominated by two residential complexes: Grant Houses and Morningside Gardens. Grant Houses, a public-housing development composed of ten buildings, is located on the south side of 125th Street, on two superblocks between Broadway and Morningside Avenue, with the site being bisected by Amsterdam Avenue.