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The Vintage Ballroom boasts soaring ceilings, captivating royal Tudor architecture, vintage chandeliers, silk champagne draperies and dramatic windows. This is the preeminent Boston ballroom for wedding receptions, bar & bat mitzvahs, corporate meetings, holiday parties, fund-raising galas, film and fashion events.
CAPACITY: 400 GUESTS FOR RECEPTION
250 GUESTS FOR DINNER
HIGHLIGHTS:
– original Tudor architecture
– white vinta… (View original article)
This Sunday – 13th May 2012, between 10.00 and 17.00 – Inveraray Castle, seat of the Chief of Clan Campbell, the Dukes of Argyll –
is hosting an Open Day for locals.
Admission will be free and there will also be a 20% discount in the Castle Tearoom and in the Castle Gift Shop.
The opportunity will let resident locals familiarise themselves with the experience the Castle offers to its visitors, form the spaces, to the artefacts to the narratives of the guid… (View original article)
ALEXANDRIA BAY — Opening Saturday for its 2012 season, Boldt Castle will present a short movie created by a California producer to complement its new theater.
Shane K. Sanford, director of the Boldt facilities, said the theater on the castle’s second floor boasts a surround-sound system paired with a high-definition screen that will be showing a 15-minute cut of a longer film about the “life and times of millionaire proprietor George C. Boldt,” who halted construc… (View original article)
For the first time, the historic Glynallyn Castle in Morristown will be open to the public.Â
Built on Morristown’s “Millionaires’ Row,†the castle will be the site of the 16th Mansion in May Designer Showhouse and Gardens.Â
Visitors to Mansion In May 2012 will be able to tour the grand three-story Glynallyn,Â
its dungeon and seven acres of terraced gardens brought back to glory … (View original article)
The Miami New Times Riptide blog is reporting that the Miami, Florida mansion where scenes from the 1972 porno flick Deep Throat were filmed is currently listed for sale. The home was built in 1961 and was owned by aristocrat Baron Joseph “Sepy†De Bicske Dobronyi before he passed away in 2010.
Miami New Times compares the film scenes with some images of the mansion today:
The film follows the plight of Linda Lovelace (playing a fic… (View original article)
Owners of French-style chateau in Wales slash price by £800,000 to beat ‘mansion tax’
Plas Cilybebell is set two acres of gardens and
boasts an indoor pool, jacuzzi, tennis courts and croquet lawnWould-be buyer balks after Chancellor George Osborne announces new levy on £2million-plus properties
By
Tom Gardner
PUBLISHED:
15:54 EST, 9 May 2012
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UPDATED:
16:18 EST, 9 May 2012
Owners of a stunning… (View original article)
The metre long box took 336 hours to build and features the pillars, arches
and famous balcony of the London palace.
It was made by woodcare experts Cuprinol to celebrate the Queen’s 60 years on
the throne.
As well as providing a royal home for wildlife, the box, dubbed ‘Peckingham
Palace’, will send a tweet every time a bird enters or leaves.
It is due to go on display at one of the London Wildlife Trust’s sites aroun… (View original article)
Finally, we reached red carpet and were granted entry to the echoing State
Room, where the picnic was spread out and its creator, the chef Heston
Blumenthal, was available to talk to us about the Sandringham strawberry
crumble’s popping topping. Even so, I was distracted: backstairs at
Buckingham Palace had been so functional, so comfortless.
I found this telling. The Foreign Office, where I once worked, has the
grandest rooms of any government department, but &nda… (View original article)
By Gregory Curley
Contributing writer
SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) — Those already familiar with Seoul can attest that no visit to the city is complete without a walk through at least one of its five historical palaces: Deoksugung, Gyeonghuigung, Gyeongbokgung, Changdeokgung or Changgyeonggung. Pummeled to near ruin during the Japanese invasion (1592-98) and colonial occupation (1910-45), they represent remarkable architectural achievement and the relentless resili… (View original article)
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Royal Palace was Breivik’s third target
Mass murder- and terror defendant Anders Behring Breivik testified in court on Thursday that he originally planned to bomb three targets in Oslo including the Royal Palace, and then go on a shooting spree downtown until he was shot himself. He settled on bombing government headquarters and a massacre at a Labour Party summer c… (View original article)