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The Hillforest Mansion, also known as the Thomas Gaff House, is located at 213 Fifth Street, in Aurora, Indiana.Built in 1855 on a bluff above the Ohio River, it is one of the finest surviving examples of an Italian Renaissance estate house, and a rare well-preserved example of the work of architect Isaiah Rogers.
The exterior architecture of the Thomas T. Gaff House is an example of a 17th-century Châteauesque manor, [2] [11] but only two rooms in the house follow French style. [6] Gaff instructed the designers to include novel conveniences such as a hot-air system to dry clothes, a trapdoor to his icehouse so that deliveries could be made directly ...
Constructed in 1855 for Thomas Gaff, the Hillforest Mansion was designed by Isaiah Rogers in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. The home was listed as a National Historic Landmark in 1992, and is operated as a museum by the Hillforest Historical Foundation. Date: Taken on 14 July 2019: Source: Hillforest Mansion (Thomas Gaff House), Aurora ...
Manning the mast for the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh, May 1956. A white ensign flies from the gaff in the foreground. The mast consists of three separate portions, that are stepped (overlapped) where they join. The lower portion is a riveted iron main mast extending some 75 feet (23 m) above ground and a reputed 8 metres (26 ft) below ground.
Thomas T. Gaff House, in Washington, D.C. This page was last edited on 30 December 2019, at 15:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Gaff rig [1] is a sailing rig (configuration of sails, mast and stays) in which the sail is four-cornered, fore-and-aft rigged, controlled at its peak and, usually, its entire head by a spar (pole) called the gaff.
Gaff Memorial is a public artwork by French artist Jules Déchin, located at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C., United States. Gaff Memorial was originally surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture.
With his partner, John Gaff Gillespie, he developed an attenuated high-rise style for the office buildings of the fin de siecle cities. [ 2 ] One of his most famous buildings is the category-A listed "The Hatrack" (1899–1902) in St Vincent Street, a heavily glass-fronted Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) tower, remarkable in execution ...