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The Yellow Palace, early 19th-century. Carl Friedrich Busky (1743-1808), a wealthy merchant and Prussian consul, acquired the mansion in 1775. Busky was married to Ana Sophia Gad, a daughter of shiobuilder at Fabritius & Wever's shipyard Ole Gad and his wife Maren Gad. They resided in the building with their five-year-ol
Peasant homes in medieval England were centered around the hearth while some larger homes may have had separate areas for food processing like brewhouses and bakehouses, and storage areas like barns and granaries. There was almost always a fire burning, sometimes left covered at night, because it was easier than relighting the fire.
Copernicus' House in ToruĊ, Poland, built under the rule of the Teutonic Order "House of the three Lepards" in Arras, northern France. The term Brick Gothic is used for what more specifically is called Baltic Brick Gothic or North German Brick Gothic.
The Yellow House (Dutch: Het gele huis), alternatively named The Street (Dutch: De straat), [1] [2] is an 1888 oil painting by the 19th-century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. The house was the right wing of 2 Place Lamartine, Arles , France, where, on May 1, 1888, Van Gogh rented four rooms.
Décoration for the Yellow House was the main project Vincent van Gogh focused on in Arles, from August 1888 until his breakdown the day before Christmas. This Décoration had no pre-defined form or size; the central idea of the Décoration grew step by step, with the progress of his work.
Yellow House Artist Collective, a collective in Sydney, Australia; Yellow House Canyon, a canyon in west Texas; Yellow House Draw, a dry watercourse that extends across the Llano Estacado of west Texas; Beit Beirut or the Yellow House, a museum and urban cultural center celebrating the history of Beirut; The Yellow House, a 2007 film by Amor Hakkar
A medieval manor house built by Hugh de Plais, and comprised a 3-storey tower, a large hall, and a service block, with a separate kitchen positioned near the house. A moat was dug in the 13th century. The house was not fortified, but had architectural features found in castles of the period, and instead formed a high-status domestic dwelling.
Houses were gable-ended, often with stepped designs, and the bricks ranged in colour from yellow or red to blue or black. [27] An account of New York published in 1685 said, "The town is broad, built with Dutch brick, consisting of above five hundred houses, the meanest not valued under an hundred pounds". [28]