10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MANSARDED»
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mansarded in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Drawings and engravings of the new Paris made their way to Europe where the
style was immediately imitated. Architects in Germany, Italy, and England built
mansarded buildings, but it was in America that the Second Empire style really ...
2
Golden Snapshots: Real Stories by Real People
Starting with the French Renaissance styled Opera House with mansarded roof,
this just as easily could have been in Paris than Detroit. How fitting that the
generation which built this knew Father Gabriel Richard directly or by association
, ...
Askew, D'Angelo, Greene, 2008
3
Glitter Stucco & Dumpster Diving: Reflections on Building ...
The prototype for these houses as 1930s California homes with mansard roofs;
tall, narrow window openings or French doors; and a symmetrical facade
articulated as a set of pavilions or as one mansarded block. Buildings such as S.
Charles ...
4
Accomplished in All Departments of Art--Hammatt Billings of ...
Renwick had, among his many other credits, designed any number of asylums
and like institutions, most recently the mansarded Charity Hospital on Roosevelt
Island in New York City (185861). He adapted the form and the organization for ...
5
Living Architecture: A Biography of H.H. Richardson
In the 1860s he built a mansarded summer home near that of his father-in-law,
Theodore Lyman. Lyman's was a Federal Palladian house, known as the Vale,
designed in the early years of the nation by Salem's famed Samuel Mclntire. In
1883 ...
6
The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of the City
Tall though they were, these mansarded and towered buildings still did not reach
the height of the Trinity Church spire; nor did the next few buildings around lower
Broadway and City Hall Park. This was the time when a clutch of newspaper ...
7
The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture
The second story is mansarded and there is a three-story tower, also mansarded.
There are brackets below the patterned-shingled mansard roof and also below
the flat, projecting cornice at the top of the first story. The one-story bay has its ...
John Chase, Judith Steen, Daniel Platt Gregory, 2005
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Inventing Times Square: Commerce and Culture at the ...
... of America signed on as sponsors of the towers that would loom over the
Square. Designs were released in which the buildings were dressed to kill by his
architects, John Burgee with Philip Johnson, in mansarded postmodern
costumes.
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The Architecture of Bergen County, New Jersey: The Colonial ...
In scheme, the house combines a one-story mansarded cottage with a two-story
mansarded main block, a rather unusual combination. Hervey-Parker House,
North Arlington. This fine Second Empire-style house was constructed in 1873 by
...
It has two mansarded towers, the taller of them five storeys high. In fact, it has just
about eventhing a mid-Victorian homeowner could Five-bay front with vestigial
tower at left (the tower is generally a full storey) Concave mansard roof with
slates ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MANSARDED»
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mansarded is used in the context of the following news items.
Jazz and architectural history meet in a Broadway penthouse
There's the bebop rhythm of the beautiful 19th-century building, Gilsey House, a columnated, mansarded, over-the-top design to rival the beats ... «New York Daily News, Feb 14»
Twins, Except Architecturally
The Singer sewing machine company had taken up the southern end of the block since the 1890s, in an effusive, mansarded Beaux-Arts ... «New York Times, Aug 13»
Pedestrian Archeology
I was in another old neighborhood atop a hill filled with elaborately mansarded houses. Being the City of Hills, Cincinnati actually has a lot ... «The Smart Set, Jun 13»
Locating love in a chilly climate
He lives alone in a large, mansarded Victorian-style house, rarely answers the telephone, and assiduously avoids journalists. (He did not ... «Financial Times, Sep 12»
Justin Davidson: Preserving the Brooklyn Navy Yard Isn't Just About …
Across the way is the graceful Civil War–era Surgeon's Residence, a mansarded mansion in desperate need of attention yet sturdy enough to ... «New York Magazine, Jul 12»
Useful Vocabulary for Building Watchers
Few listened — certainly not Carl Pfeiffer, the architect for the neat little group of mansarded pavilions for what is now Lenox Hill Hospital, ... «New York Times, Apr 12»
Apartment Houses: The Early Story
... and extra servants' rooms behind a screen of tiny dormer windows on the mansarded sixth floor. The corner of the sixth floor was built out, ... «New York Times, Dec 10»
Remaking the Face of Brooklyn
Different troubles have plagued Warehouse 11, a glassy, mansarded-roof condo on North 11th Street. Its 120 units were about a third sold from ... «New York Times, Aug 10»
Historic committee favors addition atop historic rowhouse
However, across the street, several very similar houses have been mansarded over the course of the 20th Century if not before. The facades on ... «Greater Greater Washington, Jul 10»
State of the Cooper Union
The new building's immediate neighbors are mansarded Second Empire survivals, a domed Ukrainian Orthodox church, and brash ... «Wall Street Journal, Dec 09»
