enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Dogtrot house - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogtrot_house

   The breezeway provided a cooler covered area for sitting. The combination of the breezeway and open windows in the rooms of the house allowed outside air to enter the living quarters in the pre–air-conditioning era. [5] Secondary characteristics of the dogtrot house include placement of the chimneys, staircases, and porches. Chimneys were ...

3. Tudor Revival architecture - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_Revival_architecture

   At The Deanery in Berkshire, 1899, (right), where the client was the editor of the influential magazine Country Life, [17] details like the openwork brick balustrade, the many-paned oriel window and facetted staircase tower, the shadowed windows under the eaves, or the prominent clustered chimneys were conventional Tudor Revival borrowings ...

4. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Empire_architecture...

   Additionally, the facades are typically solid and flat, rather than pierced by open porches or angled and curved facade bays. Public buildings constructed in the Second Empire style were especially built on a massive scale, such as the Philadelphia City Hall and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building , and held records for the largest ...

5. A Young Georgia Couple Restores An 1800s Family ... - AOL

   www.aol.com/young-georgia-couple-restores-1800s...

   In keeping with the spirit of the original, the couple preserved the distinct spaces (the foyer, study, and dining room) in the front. But they took a modern open-concept approach in the back ...

6. Green Garden (Upperville, Virginia) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Garden_(Upperville...

   The front facade features a three-bay porch with full Doric order entablature. Also on the property are the contributing root cellar (c. 1833), a smokehouse (c. 1847), a barn (c. 1870), a garage/office building (c. 1950), and ice house .

7. Look inside the Breakers, a 70-room, 138,300-square-foot ...

   www.aol.com/look-inside-breakers-70-room...

   The mansion is now a museum open to the public. Take a look inside. Completed in 1895, the Breakers is now a museum that preserves the extravagant wealthy lifestyle of a millionaire family in the ...

8. Porte-cochère - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porte-cochère

   An ornate 19th-century porte-cochère, at Waddesdon Manor A modern example at a hospital. A porte-cochère (/ ˌ p ɔːr t k oʊ ˈ ʃ ɛ r /; French: [pɔʁt.kɔ.ʃɛʁ]; lit. ' coach gateway '; [1] pl. porte-cochères – pl. portes-cochères) [2] is a doorway to a building or courtyard, "often very grand," through which vehicles can enter from the street [3] or a covered porch-like ...

9. AOL Mail

   mail.aol.com

   Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!