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Dorothy Draper. Dorothy Draper (November 22, 1889 – March 11, 1969) was an American interior decorator. Stylistically very anti-minimalist, she used bright, exuberant colors and large prints that encompassed whole walls. She incorporated black and white tiles, rococo scrollwork, and baroque plasterwork, design elements now considered defining ...
The E.W. Marland Mansion is a 43,561 square feet (4,046.9 m 2) Mediterranean Revival-style mansion located in Ponca City, Oklahoma, United States.Built by oil baron and philanthropist Ernest Whitworth (E.W.) Marland, as a display of wealth at the peak of the 1920s oil boom, the house is one of the largest residences in the southwestern United States, and is known as the "Palace on the Prairie."
The mansion, designed by architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee, was originally built in 1877 in a Victorian Gothic style, and was extensively remodeled in the 1920s in the Tudor Revival style. It is a large, 21⁄2 -story, asymmetrical brick building with stone trim, Tudor arches, and plain balustrades. The north elevation retains the original 11⁄2 ...
Couple buys Palm Beach house at 215 Seaspray Ave., ... Landmarked 1920s-era house on Palm Beach's Seaspray Ave. fetches $10.4M after restoration. ... with new flooring, doors, hardwood, trim ...
Image credits: bluesaturday444 A century home owner and founder of Old House Dreams, Kelly DeLong, tells Bored Panda that her fascination with old houses started in her childhood. “When I was a ...
Former high-end auction house owner Leslie Hindman has sold her 1920s-era, ocean-block house on Palm Beach’s Australian Avenue to a couple who already owned a seasonal apartment at the opposite ...
Gingerbread trim on a Victorian-era house in Cape May, New Jersey Gingerbread is an architectural style that consists of elaborately detailed embellishment known as gingerbread trim . [ 1 ] It is more specifically used to describe the detailed decorative work of American designers in the late 1860s and 1870s, [ 2 ] which was associated mostly ...
June 5, 2007 [1] Reference no. 874. The Garber House in Los Angeles, California, is an English Tudor Revival building by architect Herbert A. Linthwaite, AlA that was built in 1922 and listed as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 2007. [1] The Cultural Heritage Commission found the building "embodies the distinguishing characteristics ...