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Ossian Hall, front elevation, Annandale, Virginia. Ossian Hall was an 18th-century plantation house in Annandale , Fairfax County , Virginia . Ossian Hall was one of three large residences, along with Oak Hill , and Ravensworth , owned by the Fitzhugh family in Fairfax County.
On the front elevation the broken pediment or gable and a purely ornamental applique arch reflect a return to Mannerist architecture and a rejection of Modernism. Thus the house is a direct break from Modern architecture, designed in order to disrupt and contradict formal Modernist aesthetics. [14]
The most prominent served space is the two-story living room that occupies all of the house to the right of the front door. Most of its front wall is occupied by a built-in bookcase (Margaret Esherick was a bookseller) [3] that reaches up to the horizontal window at the second story. The side wall contains a deep fireplace.
A one-and-a-half-story wing with similar treatment, the original house, projects northward from the north (rear) facade, pierced by a central chimney. Next to it is a modern enclosed frame porch. [2] On the south (front) elevation, the main entrance is flanked by double-hung nine-over-nine sash windows with wooden shutters.
The Bettendorf house is considered a well-preserved example of the English Manor Style, and it was once described as "the finest mansion ever built in the Quad-Cities." [4] The north elevation is considered the public facade as that is where the main entrance is located, but the south elevation is more ornate. When it was built it contained ...
At 10,000 square feet (930 m 2) and 22 rooms, it is an unusually large house. The front facade features a flat-roofed center portico supported by four plain columns in front and two engaged columns in the rear. The five-bay elevation is raised above a particularly high raised basement.
Thomas Lee House, East Lyme, Connecticut. A saltbox house is a gable-roofed residential structure that is typically two stories in the front and one in the rear. It is a traditional New England style of home, originally timber framed, which takes its name from its resemblance to a wooden lidded box in which salt was once kept.
The Edward R. Hills House, also known as the Hills–DeCaro House, is a residence located at 313 Forest Avenue in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois. It is most notable for a 1906 remodel by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in his signature Prairie style. The Hills–DeCaro House represents the melding of two distinct phases in Wright's ...