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2. Splanch - Wikipedia

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   The remainder of the first floor sits directly on the slab. The design, which is speculated to have originated on Long Island's South Shore / Nassau County, lacks a full basement because high water tables existed in the area. Developers were only able to dig down 3 or 4 feet for the footings of the house because of the water table.

3. Morris–Jumel Mansion - Wikipedia

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   The house, designed with elements of the Federal, Georgian, and Palladian styles, has a raised basement and three above-ground stories. It has a wooden facade with a double-height portico facing south and an octagonal annex in the rear. The interior consists of a kitchen in the basement; a parlor, library, and dining room on the first floor ...

4. Miramar (mansion) - Wikipedia

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   Miramar is a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m 2) French neoclassical-style mansion on 7.8 acres (32,000 m 2) bordering Bellevue Avenue on Aquidneck Island at Newport, Rhode Island. Overlooking Rhode Island Sound , it was intended as a summer home for the George D. Widener family of Philadelphia .

5. Joseph Raphael De Lamar House - Wikipedia

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   Each floor slab is made of metal arches covered with concrete, which at the time of the house's completion was known as the Roebling method of fireproofing. To prevent fires from spreading inside the house, the various rooms are divided by terracotta partitions. [10] The basement also included white-tiled kitchens in addition to boilers.

6. House plan - Wikipedia

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   Elevation view of the Panthéon, Paris principal façade Floor plans of the Putnam House. A house plan [1] is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.

7. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada

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   The prime distinction between the designs is a preference for a central focus rather than a diffusion of forms. Floor plans for Second Empire residences can be symmetrical, with the tower (or tower-like element) in the center, or asymmetrical, with the tower or tower-like element to one side.

8. Eaton Hall, Cheshire - Wikipedia

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   Eaton Hall from the east, showing the current house at left and the Victorian Eaton Chapel at right. Eaton Hall is the country house of the Duke of Westminster. It is 1 mile (2 km) south of the village of Eccleston in Cheshire, England. The house is surrounded by its own formal gardens, parkland, farmland and woodland.

9. Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania) - Wikipedia

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   The house's plan was logical and efficient, with all of the first floor formal rooms opening onto a large L-shaped hall. [32] A round library (the base of the apse) was tucked into the angle of the "L." [33] It featured two large sash windows with curved windowseats, a recessed chimneypiece carved with flowers, and two curving built-in bookcases.