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Fancy some strawberry shortcake and a game of croquet with a lady from the 1860s? Get out your sun hat or umbrella and head to Shaw Mansion on Sunday for the New London County Historical Society’s open garden event.
“It’s our annual garden party at Shaw Mansion,” says Edward Baker, executive director of the society, whose official duties include whipping up dessert.
The mansion is one of 14 museums and gardens across the state that put on sp… (View original article)
Newcrest Mining boss Ian Smith is selling his historic Brighton mansion.
Source: HWT Image Library
NEWCREST mining executive Ian Smith is expecting his historic Brighton home to sell for $6 million.
Smith and wife Debbie moved into “Totnes”, a 119-year-old home at 36 Middle Crescent, five years ago.
The house has undergone major renovations, updating the four-bedroom, two-bathroom property.
By Blake Guthrie
For the AJC
By Blake Guthrie
Nashville isn’t all honky-tonks, cowboy hats and Grand Ole Opry shows. Away from Opryland and the frenzied pace of Lower Broadway downtown are some pastoral sites worth visiting, one with a mansion of jaw-dropping opulence, the other a home rich with history.
Fontanel Mansion & Farm
Set on 136 acres in the wooded hills and rolling pastures north of downtown, this 27,000-squa… (View original article)
A scene from the hit series Downton Abbey.
DOWNTON ABBEY, one of the most popular programs on television, has an Australian history, its present owner, Lady Carnarvon, has revealed.
But first, to get a few things straight. The ”abbey” is not an abbey and, as depicted on the Channel Seven Sunday night costume drama, it isn’t even in Yorkshire. It is Highclere Castle, arguably one of the most magnificent Victorian castles in England, and it is west of Lond… (View original article)
A Classical Mallorcan Villa Interior Desig
by Alina, posted in Interiors, on June 24th, 2011
When you see the interior of this villa, you cannot avoid thinking about the image that you expect to see when you open a furniture catalogue.
This
villa in general and this
living room in particular has everything you might think of when you
imagine a living: a big modern sofa, a small but so necessary coffee table, parallel doo… (View original article)
Castle covenant shock
12:50pm Friday 24th June 2011
AMMANFORD town councillors have had their hackles raised by a letter from Carmarthenshire county council concerning the town’s motte and bailey castle.
The local authority had agreed to sell the castle – situated in the grounds of Cartref residential home in Tirydail Lane – to the town council for a nominal sum of £1.
The Wildwood Fine Arts Festival returns for its 31st year from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Wildwood Cultural Center.
For $2, art lovers can enjoy the handiwork of local artists and craftsmen. More than 50 sculptors and painters will display their work, much of which will be for sale.
Visitors can also enjoy live jazz music, refreshments and free guided tours of the Wildwood Manor House.
Kids can get their faces painted and compete in the children’s art contest. The… (View original article)
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