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The Mansion House is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. It is a Grade I listed building. [1] Designed by George Dance in the Palladian style, it was built primarily in the 1740s. The Mansion House is used for some of the City of London's most formal official functions, including two annual white tie dinners.
The Joseph Smith Mansion House in Nauvoo, Illinois is a large residence first occupied by Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Smith used the house as a personal home, a public boarding house , a hotel , and as a site for the performance of temple ordinances .
The Atbara House is one of the many remaining black and white houses unique to Singapore. It is the previous French embassy to Singapore, built in 1898 by Regent Alfred John Bidwell. The Atbara house was used for colonial management, unlike other Black and White Houses which were mostly used to house European colonial and wealthy expatriate ...
A mansion is a large dwelling house. The word itself derives through Old French from the Latin word mansio "dwelling", an abstract noun derived from the verb manere "to dwell". The English word manse originally defined a property large enough for the parish priest to maintain himself, but a mansion is usually no longer self-sustaining in this ...
Two semi-detached cottages at Mentmore appear as one Tudor-style house, built circa 1870 The Liberty & Co. department store in London, built in 1924 to emulate a half-timbered mansion. From the 1880s onward, Tudor Revival concentrated more on the simple but quaintly picturesque Elizabethan cottage, rather than the brick and battlemented ...
The Old House, Hereford. The Old House is a distinctive black and white half-timbered house in High Town, Hereford, England, built in 1621. It was restored in the 19th century and became a museum of Jacobean life in 1929. [1] The building was renamed the Black and White House Museum in 2017. It is part of Herefordshire Council's Museum Service.
Townhouse, her second, a 70-room house at 1 East 71st Street, New York. Designed by Whitney Warren. Demolished. Frederick William Vanderbilt (1856–1938) Hyde Park, Hyde Park, NY "Hyde Park" in Hyde Park, New York. Designed by McKim, Mead and White and built in 1896–1899, it is now the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site.
The Beverly Estate is a property built in 1926 [1] [2] at 1011 North Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, California. [3]The estate was designed by architect Gordon Kaufmann for banker Milton Getz [4] and was the residence of actress Marion Davies and her partner William Randolph Hearst after his infirmity forced them to leave San Simeon. [5]