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The Shunned House of the title is based on an actual house in Providence, Rhode Island, built around 1763 and still standing at 135 Benefit Street. Lovecraft was familiar with the house because his aunt Lillian Clark lived there in 1919/20 as a companion to Mrs. H. C. Babbit. [ 1 ]
Release. 6 January 2017. (2017-01-06) –. present. The World's Most Extraordinary Homes is a British documentary miniseries presented by Piers Taylor and Caroline Quentin and is broadcast on BBC Two. [1] The series was also picked up by Netflix between March 2018 and July 2022. [2][3]
Novelty architecture, also called programmatic architecture or mimetic architecture, is a type of architecture in which buildings and other structures are given unusual shapes for purposes such as advertising or to copy other famous buildings without any intention of being authentic. Their size and novelty means that they often serve as landmarks.
The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California, that was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearms magnate William Wirt Winchester. The house became a tourist attraction nine months after Winchester's death in 1922. The Victorian and Gothic-style mansion is renowned for its size and its ...
3,960.77 ha (9,787.3 acres) Website. www.palafittes.org. Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps are a series of prehistoric pile dwelling (or stilt house) settlements in and around the Alps built from about 5000 to 500 BC on the edges of lakes, rivers or wetlands. In 2011, 111 sites located variously in Switzerland (56), Italy (19), Germany ...
The Real Purpose of Little Doors. In some old houses, the little doors are designated storage space for a card table! These small spaces were meant to keep card tables—which almost everyone had ...
Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. Victorian refers to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), called the Victorian era, during which period the styles known as Victorian were used in construction. However, many elements of what is typically termed "Victorian" architecture did ...
English vernacular building, 16th-century half-timbering and later buildings, in the village of Lavenham, Suffolk. A pair of single 1920s shotgun houses in the Campground Historic District of Mobile, Alabama. Vernacular architecture (also folk architecture[1]) is building done outside any academic tradition, and without professional guidance.