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Black granite – a common trade name for gabbro used as architectural material; Austin limestone – a marble-like stone widely used as a building stone for interior and exterior wall cladding and interior and exterior paving
As the name suggests, the buildings are typically grey in color and were most often built with Bedford Limestone quarried from South Central Indiana. [1] In Chicago, there are roughly 30,000 greystones, usually built as a semi- or fully detached townhouse .
The Greystone Mansion, also known as the Doheny Mansion, is a Tudor Revival mansion on a landscaped estate with distinctive formal English gardens, located in Trousdale Estates of Beverly Hills, California, United States.
The Italian term trullo (from the Greek word τρούλος, cupola) refers to a house whose internal space is covered by a dry stone corbelled or keystone vault. Trullo is an Italianized form of the dialectal term, truddu, used in a specific area of the Salentine peninsula (i.e. Lizzaio, Maruggio, and Avetrana, in other words, outside the Murgia dei Trulli proper), where it is the name of the ...
Neighborhood of houses and churches near the industrial area along the Rock River, including the 1848 Lathrop-Munn cobblestone house, [22] the late-1840s Selvy-Blodgett house, [20] the 1858 Italianate-style Parker house, [23] the 1877 Gothic Revival-styled Norwegian Lutheran Church, [24] the 1889 Queen Anne/Stick-style Anderson house (pictured ...
Frederick C. Robie House, an example of Prairie School architecture. An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable and historically identifiable.
This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of houses. African
Grey Towers Castle is designed in a highly eclectic yet elegant fashion, taking inspiration from a variety of styles, periods, and buildings. The house is built of grey stone quarried at nearby Chestnut Hill, and Indiana limestone is used for exterior door and window trim, and other elements, such as the various gargoyles.