Mansions Mansions Belcourt Castle is the former summer cottage of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, located in Newport, Rhode Island. ...more on Wikipedia about "Belcourt Castle"
Billingbear House is situated in Billingbear Park, Berkshire, England. Originally owned by the Bishop of Winchester the land was given to Sir Henry Neville (father of Sir Henry Neville, of whom it is claimed wrote Shakespeare) in 1549 by King Edward VI and he took possession in 1567. ...more on Wikipedia about "Billingbear House"
The Biltmore House is the largest private home in the United States. It is located outside Asheville, North Carolina. ...more on Wikipedia about "Biltmore Estate"
Bramshill House has been the location of the Police Staff College, Bramshill since 1960. Previously it had been the home of Lord Brocket, and of the exiled King Michael I of Romania. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bramshill House"
Ca' d'Oro (correctly the Palazzo Santa Sofia) is one of the most beautiful palazzos on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy and surely the most famous. One of the older palazzos, it has always been known as Ca' d'Oro (golden house) due to the gilt and polychrome external decorations which once adorned its walls. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ca' d'Oro"
Ca' Rezzonico is a palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice. Today it is a museum dedicated to 18th century Venice. It is one of the few palazzi in Venice, where the public can gain an insight into what lies behind the ornamental, but often secretive facades of the many exquisite buildings which line the Grand Canal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ca' Rezzonico"
Capernwray Hall is a 19th-century mansion set in 175 acres (708,000 m²) of parkland, just south of England's famous Lake District, and west of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Capernwray Hall was built in the mid- 1800s as a private home for the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Lancaster. ...more on Wikipedia about "Capernwray Hall"
The Chalmers Wood Estate, also known as Little Ipswich, c. 1943, home of Chalmers and Ruby Ross Wood on Syosset-Woodbury Road. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chalmers Wood Estate"
In Britain and Ireland, the term country house generally refers to a large house which was built on an agricultural estate as the private residence of the landowner. The vast majority of country houses in Britain and Ireland were built before 1914. ...more on Wikipedia about "Country house"
Cupples House is an historic mansion in Saint Louis, Missouri, constructed from 1888 to 1890 by Samuel Cupples, a wealthy businessman. It is now a museum on the campus of Saint Louis University. The house is desgned in the Richardsonian Romanesque architectural style. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cupples House"
Doughoregan Manor is a mansion located on Manor Lane near Ellicott City, Maryland at . It is a National Historic Landmark. From 1766 to 1832, Doughoregan Manor was the country home of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. He lies buried in the chapel attached to the north end of the mansion. "Doughregan" was a family estate in Ireland. The Georgian brick plantation house, built by Carroll's father around 1727, was enlarged and remodeled by his son in the 1830s in the Greek Revival style. In its current configuration it is a brick, two stories, U-shaped building. The roof is in gabled sections, some with balustraded decks, and in the center is an octagonal cupola. The front center entrance has a one-story tetrastyle Doric portico and is similar to the rear portico. The chapel and kitchen are attached to the main block by hyphens. The private chapel was built at a time when founding Roman Catholic parish churches was prohibited in the colony. The chapel served as the primary meeting place for the local Catholic community until as late as 1855 when nearby parishes were founded. The chapel continued to be open to the public on Sunday mornings for Mass until the 1990s, when the family discontinued the practice due to overcrowding. Members of the Carroll family still own and live in the manor, which sits at the center of a thousand acre estate. Recently a family member observed, "Only God, the Indians and the Carrolls have owned this land." The estate and Manor Lane are closed to the public. ==External links and references== * Google Satellite image of Doughoregan Manor * For images, go to the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog , and search for Doughoregan Manor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Doughoregan Manor"
Filoli is a famous mansion and 654 acre (2.6 km²) estate located about 25 miles (40 km) south of San Francisco on the eastern slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains in Woodside, California. The house, garden and grounds are breathtaking and it is certainly one of the most elaborately embellished estates in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Filoli"
Greystone Mansion was the home built by Edward L. Doheny for his son. His son died soon after, and he deeded the mansion and its grounds to the city of Beverly Hills. It is now used as a location for special events. ...more on Wikipedia about "Greystone Mansion"
Hammersmith Farm is a Victorian mansion and surrounding property located in Newport, Rhode Island and was the childhood home to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The property hosted the wedding reception of Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy. During his presidency, Kennedy spent enough time at Hammersmith Farm that it was referred to as the "summer White House." ...more on Wikipedia about "Hammersmith Farm"
"Hayvenhurst" was the nickname that the Jackson family from Gary, Indiana gave to their gated mansion, at 4641 Hayvenhurst Ave. in Encino, California. Joseph Jackson bought the estate in March 1971, and most of the Jackson family resided there during the 1970s and into the 1980s, including sons (and Jackson 5 members) Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, Michael, and Randy, and daughters LaToya and Janet (eldest child Rebbie was married, and lived with her husband). ...more on Wikipedia about "Hayvenhurst"
Hearst Castle is the palatial estate of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. It is located in San Simeon, California on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Donated to the state of California in 1957, it is now a state historical monument and a National Historic Landmark. Five tours feature various aspects of the estate. The official name of the estate was actually "San Simeon," which is now the name of the city which has sprung up around the edifice. The hill was named la cuesta encantada ("The Enchanted Hill") by locals in Spanish. Hearst Castle is located at ...more on Wikipedia about "Hearst Castle"
Les Augrès Manor is a 16th century manor house in the parish of Trinity in Jersey. ...more on Wikipedia about "Les Augrès Manor"
Malbone, a Gothic-style castle and National Historic Landmark built in 1741, is the oldest privately owned estate in Newport, Rhode Island, and once served as the country residence of Colonel Godfrey Malbone ( 1695- 1768) of Virginia and Connecticut. Colonel Malbone made his fortune as a shipping merchant and became one of the wealthiest men in Newport during the 1740s through privateering and the triangle trade. ...more on Wikipedia about "Malbone Castle and Estate"
A manor house is a country house, which has historically formed the centre of a manor (see Manorialism). The term is primarily applied to relatively small country houses which belonged to gentry families, rather than to grand stately homes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Manor house"
A mansion is a large and stately dwelling house for the wealthy. The word itself derives (through Old French) from the Latin word mansus the perfect passive participle of manere "to remain" or "to stay". In the Roman Empire, a mansio was an official stopping place on a Roman road, or via, where cities sprang up, and where the villas of provincial officials came to be placed. The English word "manse" originally defined a property large enough for the parish priest to maintain himself, but a mansion is no longer self-sustaining in this way (compare a Roman or medieval villa). 'Manor' comes from the same root— territorial holdings granted to a lord who would remain there— hence it is easy to see how the word 'Mansion' came to have its meaning. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mansion"
Mar-A-Lago ("mahr-ah-lahgo") is the name of the Marjorie Merriweather Post estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Post built the house with her (then) husband, Edward F. Hutton. The house was designed by Joseph Urban. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mar-A-Lago"
"McMansion" is a slang architectural term which first came into use in the United States during the 1980s. It is a pejorative term describing a particular style of housing that—as its name suggests—is both large like a mansion and as culturally ubiquitous as McDonald's fast food restaurants. In addition to ubiquity, almost every reason to poke fun at McDonald's has been applied metaphorically to this style of housing. Some of the characterizations include: misapplication of -- or total disconnection from -- traditional local or regional style; sometimes cheap and mass-produced construction quality; negative impacts on nature and community; a tendency to look the same despite their superficially unique features. ...more on Wikipedia about "McMansion"
Melrose House is a stately Victorian mansion located in Pretoria, South Africa. ...more on Wikipedia about "Melrose House"
Oak Hill Plantation is an National Historic Landmark in Loudoun County, Virginia, approximately nine miles south of Leesburg. The mansion was constructed for James Monroe, the fifth U.S. President, who lived at the estate after his term as President. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oak Hill (plantation)"
To a layman in architecture, the Palazzo del Te standing isolated in the suburbs of Mantua, four square — a golden stone box — is an introductory lecture to the mannerist style of architecture. Mannerism, emerges from the restrained classical High Renaissance, and flouts and conforms at the same time to the basic rules as defined by Leone Battista Alberti's De Re Aedificatoria a century earlier. The Palazzo del Te is a simple building, constructed 1524- 1534 purely for the pleasure of Federico II of Gonzaga, Marchese of Mantua. He decided in 1524 to build a pleasure palace, or 'Villa Suburbana'. The site chosen was that of the family's stables at Isla del Te on the fringe of the marshes just outside Mantua's city walls. ...more on Wikipedia about "Palazzo del Te"
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