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Name Location Photograph Date Notes Grade Mamhead House: Mamhead, Devon: 1827–33 A country house, later Dawlish College.Also designed by Salvin, and listed separately at Grade II* are the stable yard and service buildings, and structures in the garden, namely the terrace wall, the terrace steps and urns, a sundial, and a pool with a fountain.
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The house also had an observatory in the main complex. Although part of the house, it was structurally independent from the rest of the house in order to damp out vibrations, as they ruined long-exposure space photos. Britannia Manor was designed by designer/architect, Alan Barley, of Barley & Pfeiffer Architects in Austin, Texas.
The mansion, built by Kahn between 1914 and 1919, is the largest private home in New York, and the second largest in the United States, comprising 127 rooms and over 109,000 sq ft (10,100 m 2), as originally configured. It is said to be built on the highest point on Long Island. [2] The castle is now a hotel with 32 guest rooms and suites. It ...
Casa Loma (Spanish for "Hill House") is a Gothic Revival castle-style mansion and garden in midtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that is now a historic house museum and landmark. It was constructed from 1911 to 1914 as a residence for financier Sir Henry Pellatt. The architect was E. J. Lennox, [1] who designed several other city landmarks.
She hired Bernard Maybeck to design one in the Gothic style of a Rhine River castle. The structure was mainly complete in 1902, [13] and cost Hearst $100,000. [1] Maybeck hired Julia Morgan to assist in the design. [14] The castle's layout was fitted to the slope of the site, and to a semicircle of six tall conifers.
Belcourt is located on Bellevue Avenue at Lakeview Avenue, in Newport. A 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m 2), 60-room summer villa, it was designed by Richard Morris Hunt for 33-year-old Oliver Belmont, who during the construction was divorced from Sara Swan Whiting and the father of a daughter, Natica, for whom he denied paternity.
The Z-plan castle has a strong central rectangular tower with smaller towers attached at diagonally opposite corners. [ 1 ] Prominent examples of the Z-plan include Brodie Castle in Moray , Castle Menzies in Perthshire , [ 2 ] Glenbuchat Castle in Aberdeenshire , [ 3 ] Castle Fraser in Aberdeenshire, Claypotts Castle in Dundee [ 4 ] and Hatton ...