Mansion
A mansion is a large and often luxurious house. It can be big enough for an owner, his family, and their many servants. One of the definitions is a large, imposing house. It was originally the same as a rural manor house, the home of a feudal lord or the earlier Roman villa. When similarly large houses were built in cities they were called "mansions". A "country house" is a common type of mansion in England.
Some famous mansions include:
- Pensmore Mansion in the Ozark Mountains
- Whitehall Palace in south Florida
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Drumthwacket, the official mansion of residence for the governor of New Jersey
Gelbensande Manor, an 1885 Gründerzeit style mansion built for hunting, near Rostock, Germany
Renaissance villas such as Villa Rotonda near Vicenza, Italy were an inspiration for many later mansions, especially during the industrialization.
Harlaxton Manor, England, a 19th-century meeting of Renaissance, Tudor and Gothic architecture produced Jacobethan – a popular form of historicist mansion architecture.
Built in Renaissance Revival style, The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, is one of the best known 19th-century mansions in the United States.
The Palladian inspired Zonnebeek (1907), Enschede, Netherlands
The Quinta Gameros is a Porfirian-era mansion located in Chihuahua, Mexico. The building, designed in a French style, is testimony to an era when France asserted greater soft power in the region than either Spain or Portugal.
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