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The modern English word domestic comes from Latin domesticus, which is derived from the word domus. [2] Along with a domus in the city, many of the richest families of ancient Rome also owned a separate country house known as a villa .
Kenwood House (also known as the Iveagh Bequest) is a stately home in Hampstead, London, on the northern boundary of Hampstead Heath.The present house, built in the late 17th century, was remodelled in the 18th century for William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield by Scottish architect Robert Adam, serving as a residence for the Earls of Mansfield until the 20th century.
While this house can still be described as Regency, its informal asymmetrical plan together with its loggias and balconies of both stone and wrought iron; tower and low pitched roof clearly are very similar to the fully Italianate design of Cronkhill, [10] the house generally considered to be the first example of the Italianate style in Britain.
The house lacked a certificate of occupancy and required an estimated $20 million in additional construction costs at the time of the sale. [ 7 ] Niami attempted to contest the sale, looking to raise $250 million from investors before the sale could be approved by the bankruptcy court, while other creditors objected to the sale because of the ...
Versailles house in 2014. Built on a constructed hill on 10 acres (4.0 ha) of lakefront property, [4] [11] the residence is expected to include nine kitchens, [2] 14 bedrooms, [12] three indoor pools, two outdoor pools, a video arcade, [4] a ballroom with a capacity of 500 to 1,000 people, [3] a two-story movie theater with a balcony inspired by the Palais Garnier, a 20,000-bottle wine cellar ...
The 16th-century Laws of the Indies included provisions for the layout of new colonial settlements in the Americas and elsewhere. [ 1 ] To achieve the desired effect of inspiring awe among the Indigenous peoples of the Americas as well as creating a legible and militarily manageable landscape, the early colonizers used and placed the new ...
The current Governor's Mansion is on property that belonged to former Atlanta mayor Robert Maddox (no relation to Lester Maddox), who owned a large English Tudor-style home on the site. A fire destroyed a large part of the house and Mr. Maddox sold the property to the state. The remainder of the home was demolished to construct the current mansion.
Mahbub Mansion, also spelt Mahboob Mansion is a palace, named after Mir Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad State, who loved visiting here occasionally, though his permanent residence was the Purani Haveli.