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Westover Plantation - Georgian country house on a James River plantation in Virginia. Versions of revived Palladian architecture dominated English country house architecture. Houses were increasingly placed in grand landscaped settings, and large houses were generally made wide and relatively shallow, largely to look more impressive from a ...
The Upper Svaneti fortifications and the castle town of Shatili in Khevsureti are among the finest examples of medieval Georgian castles. Georgian medieval churches have a distinct character, though related to Armenian and Byzantine architecture, typically combining a conical dome raised high on a drum over a rectangular or cross-shaped lower ...
The interior of the house follows a traditional Georgian plan, with a central hallway flanked by two rooms on either side. The hall is particularly grand, with engaged columns supporting architectural busts and a two-stage stairwell with an ornate twisting banister.
This Federal Georgian house was built in 1845 and sits on a 14-acre property with the original Edward Tyler stone house, circa 1783; a stone spring house from the late 1700s; a pond; a barn; a ...
Nabela Noor and her family are officially starting a new chapter.. After moving into her new home in late October, the 33-year-old designer and author shared a behind-the-scenes look at the ...
A surviving darbazi roof known as "Gorji poush" in Georgian village Dashkasan, Isfahan, Iran. Darbazi (Georgian: დარბაზი; from Persian: darvāze, "gate") is a term used in Georgia to describe a chamber with a distinctive "swallow dome"-type roof structure found in the traditional domestic architecture of Asia Minor and the South ...
There are two pairs of chimneys set near the sides of the house, piercing the hip roof. The main entry has a dentilated triangular pediment, supported by pilasters, with the door recessed into the brick wall. The interior has lavish Georgian styling. [2] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 3, 1991. [1]
The exhibition features the traditional darbazi-type and fiat-roofed stone houses from eastern Georgia, openwork wooden houses with gable roofs of straw or boards from western Georgia, watchtowers from the mountainous provinces of Khevsureti, Pshavi, and Svaneti, Megrelian and Imeretian wattle maize storages, Kakhetian wineries (marani), and ...