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Westfield’s Frank Lowy’s mansion (far R) & neighbour Salvatore Paino (L) with waterfront views from their homes in exclusive Wolseley Road, Point Piper. Picture: Bob Finlayson
Source: The Sunday Telegraph
Westfield Executive Chairman Frank Lowy pictured at his office in Sydney. Picture: Jane Dempster
Source: The Sunday Telegraph
The Frances J. Dewes mansion, a Gothic-revival masterpiece in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago, has been listed for sale at $9.9 million.
The historic home, designed by architects Adolph Cudell and Arthur Hercz and completed in 1896, was built for Francis Dewes, a Prussian immigrant who made his fortune as a brewer. A six-year effort by the Botti Studio restored the original stained-glass windows, painted panels and ceilings, and tiled-mosaic floors to their original splendor…(View original article)
Isaac Manchester arrived in Washington County in 1797 and built an elegant Georgian manor on a 400-acre farm for his wife, Phebe, and 12 children.
Today, the manor, Plantation Plenty, is an organic farm with a pond, a bank barn, 175 grazing cattle, Berkshire pigs, a crowing Rhode Island Red rooster and two goats named Bella and Frank.
But the survival of Plantation Plenty, which remains in the Manchester family after more than two centuries, is threatened.
Alliance Re…(View original article)
This magnificent Normandy Manor style estate is located at 2945 Lazy Lane Boulevard in Houston, TX.
It is situated on approximately 4.89 acres in the
River Oaks section. The original house was designed by renowned architect John F. Staub and built in 1935. It was then restored and expanded by William Furbish. It boasts 14,365 square feet of living space with 5 bedrooms, 6 full and 2 half bathrooms, grand 3-story reception hall, formal living room with 18th century French …(View original article)
An engine revved and the crowd parted as a vintage silver Rolls Royce rolled onto the lush green lawn of Oheka Castle while mobsters with guns and flappers in feathers surrounded the car.
It was a royal Gatsby-style affair.
More than 600 people attended the Friends of Oheka Garden Party June 15 to celebrate the Otto Kahn Awards Program. The program, established in 2003, honors five talented high school seniors annually with $2500 scholarships. To date, the program has awarded…(View original article)
Summertime in the Haddams conjures up memories of local farmers’ markets, boating on the CT River, live music series, yard sales, lemonade stands and free performances in the park. This summer will not disappoint.
Set against the backdrop of the home and property of famed stage and screen actor, William Gillette, the East Haddam Stage Company will be performing a Victorian drawing-room comedy called All the Comforts of Home.
The performances will take place on weekend…(View original article)
Friday, June 17, 2011, by Adrian Glick Kudler
This 1927 house at the very base of the Outpost Estates takes some design cues from its nearby neighbor the Magic Castle (so dark!), but it’s also got some killer original-looking details (is that a tin ceiling in the kitchen?). The four bedroom, four and a half bathroom house is more than 4,100 square feet and “renovated & restored,” according to its listing. It has a dining room, a spa, a firepit, a built-in…(View original article)
The Castle, the Smithsonian’s original home, is a Medieval Revival building designed by James Renwick Jr. and completed in 1855. Its nine towers, battlements and chimneys make it an easy landmark to spot on the National Mall.
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Begin a Smithsonian visit at the Castle to get up-to-the-minute times and dates for events and exhibitions in all 17 Washington, D.C.-area Smithsonian museums, as well as the Amer…(View original article)
Twelfth Night: The Oxford School of Drama, Blenheim Palace Pleasure Gardens
12:19pm Friday 17th June 2011
“This is very midsummer madness.” This observation by Olivia (Keri Penford Baker) on the yellow-stockinged antics of Malvolio (Matthew Gibbs) seemed apposite, too, for the situation I was in
watching them. Bottom numbed by an unforgiving seat of straw bales in the Pleasure [sic] Gardens at…(Read more)
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