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The McFaddin–Ward House is a historic home in Beaumont, Texas, United States built in 1905 1906 in the Beaux-Arts Colonial Revival style. The 12,800-square-foot (1,190 m 2 ) house and furnishings reflect the lifestyle of the prominent family who lived in the house for seventy-five years.
A carriage house, also called a remise or coach house, is a term used in North America to describe an outbuilding that was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and their related tack. [1] Carriage houses were often two stories, with related staff quarters above.
A mews is a row or courtyard of stables and carriage houses with living quarters above them, built behind large city houses before motor vehicles replaced horses in the early twentieth century. Mews are usually located in desirable residential areas, having been built to cater for the horses, coachmen and stable-servants of prosperous residents.
The ranch has 51 horse stalls, 15 of them super-sized, providing sufficient space for boarding horses or running training programs. And then there’s the massive 360-by-200-yard covered arena.
The Heard-Craig House is a historic house in McKinney, Texas, U.S.. It was built for Stephen and Lillian Heard in 1900. The house has 7,000 square feet and four floors. [2] In 1970, Kathryn Heard-Craig gifted the house to multiple arts organizations as a place to convene and educate.
The CAA maintains directories of carriage collections, carriage museums, museums with carriage collections, and driving and carriage clubs. They organize tours, driving events, educational seminars, and symposia. Since 1963 the association has published the magazine The Carriage Journal approximately five times a year. They maintain a video ...
Coach of a noble family, c. 1870 The word carriage (abbreviated carr or cge) is from Old Northern French cariage, to carry in a vehicle. [3] The word car, then meaning a kind of two-wheeled cart for goods, also came from Old Northern French about the beginning of the 14th century [3] (probably derived from the Late Latin carro, a car [4]); it is also used for railway carriages and in the US ...
The Reality of NYC Carriage Horses. While horse and carriage rides have been a moneymaker for Central Park since it opened in 1858, some folks have noticed that many horses are in poor shape. Even ...