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The Mansion House and New Betting Room, Doncaster, engraved by John Rogers after a drawing by Nathaniel Whittock, published by Isaac Taylor Hinton, [a] London, 1829.. The mansion house stands on the site of the Carmelite Friary, which had been established in Doncaster in 1350 and remained until its dissolution and destruction on 13 November 1538.
The Castle—aka the John Paine Mansion—was deemed the "grandest house" in Troy, New York when it was built in 1896. In its long history, the mansion has served as a private residence, a college ...
Parkwood's architectural, landscape and interior designs are based on those of the 1920s and 1930s. The national Historic Sites and Monuments Board describes it as "a rare surviving example of the type of estate developed in Canada during the inter-war years, and is rarer still by its essentially intact condition, furnished and run to illustrate as it was lived within."
The 103-room mansion has 58 acres (23 ha) of landscaped gardens and private woodland. [1] It was, in 2005, the most expensive private home on the market anywhere in the world, having been listed for sale with estate agencies Savills and Hamptons International for in excess of £70 million (US$138 million).
George Joshua Richard Monbiot (/ ˈ m ɒ n b i oʊ / MON-bee-oh; born 27 January 1963) is a British journalist, author, and environmental and political activist. He writes a regular column for The Guardian and has written several books. Monbiot grew up in Oxfordshire and studied zoology at the University of Oxford.
The Breakers mansion was commissioned to be built by railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt II in 1893 and quickly became the summer home for the Vanderbilt family for generations to come,
Michael Jordan's Chicago Mansion Sells for $9.5 Million After 12 Years on Market The retired NBA legend's sprawling Highland Park estate has been on the market on and off since 2012 Reuters 1 ...
In 1926, the family built a 15,000-square foot French-style mansion on an estate of thousands of acres in present-day Florissant, Missouri, north of St. Louis on the Missouri River. [28] The family hosted Russian ballerinas, Shakespearean actors, King Hussein of Jordan, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh . [ 29 ]