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awscyh/Flickr. Castles, chateaux, and mansions - these are displays of wealth and power usually reserved for kings and countesses, or at least old-timey movie stars.
Dungeness on Cumberland Island, Georgia, is a ruined mansion that is part of a historic district that was the home of several families significant in American history.The mansion was named after a nearby sandy spit at the southern end of the island, first recorded in a land grant petition in 1765 and almost certainly named after the Dungeness headland, on the south coast of England.
Belle Grove, also known as Belle Grove Plantation, was a plantation and elaborate Greek Revival and Italianate -style plantation mansion near White Castle in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. Completed in 1857, it was one of the largest mansions ever built in the Southern United States, surpassing that of the neighboring Nottoway, today cited as the ...
Mentmore Towers. Coordinates: 51.8682°N 0.6906°W. Mentmore Towers. Mentmore Towers, historically known simply as "Mentmore", is a 19th-century English country house built between 1852 and 1854 for the Rothschild family in the village of Mentmore in Buckinghamshire. Sir Joseph Paxton and his son-in-law, George Henry Stokes, [1][2] designed the ...
In 1929, businessman Liú Róngyù built a three-story baroque-style mansion for his family of nine. In the 1950s, the family abandoned the mansion. Though no one is certain of the reason, there ...
An abandoned 16,000-square-foot mansion in the English countryside is on sale for $500,000 - take a look inside the eerie home emcdowell@businessinsider.com (Erin McDowell) September 18, 2020 at 4 ...
The Smith Mansion, also known as the Smith Family Cabin, is a large, prominent structure standing at roughly 75 ft (22.9 m) in the Wapiti Valley in Wapiti, Wyoming. The mansion can be easily spotted if traveling down the North Fork Highway towards Yellowstone National Park, due to its towering, dark and intimidating architectural style.
Summerwind. Summerwind, formerly known as Lamont Mansion, is a ruined mansion on the shores of West Bay Lake in Vilas County, Wisconsin. Located on private land, its ruins are closed to the public. A number of urban legends and ghost stories in popular culture have contributed to its reputation as a haunted house.