`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

He went on to remain there in a mansion which he may have extended, although there is no source attesting to any significant building activity at Aachen in his time, apart from the building of the Palatine Chapel in Aachen ( since 1929, cathedral ) and the palatial presentation halls.

Admiralty House is a moderately proportioned mansion to the south of the Ripley Building, built in the late 18th century as the residence of the First Lord of the Admiralty, serving that purpose until 1964.

Their residence, an old mansion, is guarded by a giant octopus of Dr. Vornoff's own creation which lives in the surrounding swamp.

In 1937, the school moved from the city center to the new Gibraltar Campus, named after the mansion which owned the grounds, where it is now located.

In Homer's Odyssey, Circe is described as living in a mansion that stands in the middle of a clearing in a dense wood.

Cyclops then tells Xavier that he is a distraction that will keep getting in the way and that he must leave the mansion.

To the south of the Living Room is a pool deck, a hot tub, and some of the extensive grounds of the mansion, featuring gardens, hot air balloon landing pads, open fields, fishing holes, and the like.

* In the 2005 Playstation 2 video game, Haunting Ground, there is a garden in the mansion filled with these plants that let out a piercing scream when they are dug up.

The préfecture is located in the palace built by the intendant of Montauban ( the equivalent of a préfet before the French Revolution ), and is a large elegant 18th century mansion, built of pink bricks and white stone, with a steep roof of blue gray slates, in a style combining northern and southern French styles of architecture.

" Whenever someone is depressed, suffering or humiliated, he points to the mansion at the top of the alley at the end opening out to the desert, and says sadly, ' That is our ancestor's house, we are all his children, and we have a right to his property.

( In 1917, jeweler Pierre Cartier purchased the Fifth Avenue mansion that is now the New York Cartier store in exchange for a matched, double strand of natural pearls that he had been collecting for years ; valued at the time at $ 1 million USD.

As the country's head of state, in most countries the president is entitled to certain perquisites, and may have a prestigious residence ; often a lavish mansion or palace, sometimes more than one ( e. g. summer and winter residence, country retreat ) – for symbols of office, such as an official uniform, decorations, a presidential seal, coat of arms, flag and other visible accessories ; military honours such as gun salutes, Ruffles and flourishes, and a presidential guard.

It is recorded as an " evil old river ," and " the mansion of the snake ... we could almost hear the slither of a million copperheads.

The Inglis House is a mansion used to hold various social events, including meetings of the board of regents, and to host visiting dignitaries.

The basic concept of the X-Men is that under a cloud of increasing anti-mutant sentiment, Professor Xavier created a haven at his Westchester mansion to train young mutants to use their powers for the benefit of humanity, and to prove mutants can be heroes.

* September 18 – Valerie Percy, 21-year-old daughter of then U. S. Senate candidate Charles H. Percy, is stabbed and bludgeoned to death in the family mansion on Chicago's North Shore.

* When a Chinese prince ( later to be Emperor Zhongzong of Tang ) is made crown prince, his lavish palatial mansion in Chang ' an is converted into a Daoist abbey.

* The Eram Garden ( Bagh-e Eram ) in Shiraz is a striking location for visitors with a variety of plants as well as a historic mansion.

When Emperor Ichijō died in 1011, Shōshi retired from the Imperial Palace to live in a Fujiwara mansion in Biwa, most likely accompanied by Murasaki, who is recorded as being there with Shōshi in 1013.

The gameboard is a floor plan of Doctor Lucky's mansion, and it is accompanied by a deck of cards representing the objects and opportunities that can be found there.

On Mars, he constructs his image of the perfect haunted mansion, complete with mechanical creatures, creepy soundtracks, and thousands of tons of poison to kill every living thing in the surrounding area.

On Mars he has built his image of the perfect haunted mansion, replicating the building from Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Fall of the House of Usher ", complete with mechanical creatures, creepy soundtracks and the extermination of all life in the surrounding area.

Lucas initially suggested making the film " a haunted mansion movie ", for which Romancing the Stone writer Diane Thomas wrote a script.

The house was depicted as being a dilapidated mansion that had been condemned ( and was seemingly haunted, due to the strange creatures at the top of the staircase ).

The game takes place in a haunted mansion when Luigi wins a contest that he never entered.

The end also sees the haunted mansion disappear.

There is a mansion in Vennesla, Vikeland hovedgård, which is said to be haunted by a ghost known as " the Blue Lady " ( den Blå Dama ).

) Later, Deans settled in Cleveland, where, at one point, he opened a " haunted mansion " to paying customers.

The decision was made to place the attraction in the New Orleans Square section of the park, and thus the building was themed as a haunted antebellum mansion.

The ride uses common elements used in haunted houses and the haunted mansion ride, such as skeletons, in order create the macabre scene.

In an interview, Fisher claimed that Stevens ' ghost haunted her mansion.

The band decided that they would remain inside the mansion for the duration of recording, though Smith, convinced the location was haunted, refused to stay.

It's not just a regular world with a haunted mansion plopped in the middle.

Jack consistently shows an uncommon moral strength of character by helping the poor and defenseless along the way, in one instance even helping talking dogs that worked for Aku, in another, releasing the souls of a family in a haunted mansion.

However, while searching through a haunted mansion, Rena disappears and falls into a coma.

These photographs have been described as “ haunted landscapes of the south, battlefields, decaying mansion, kudzu shrouded landscapes and the site where Emmett Till was murdered.

Recovering a set of mysterious tomes, Caleb may also find time to visit a snow covered mountainous area ( the episode's secret level ), filled with Cabalists and other even less reassuring creatures, before proceeding to another haunted building, a large two-story mansion with many rooms, a kitchen, gardens, a library, a cellar and even an indoor pool.

In most of the series, the gamer plays as private investigator Edward Carnby, who usually goes to investigate a haunted mansion or town that is full of undead creatures.

This game revisits locations from the first two installments along with a new haunted mansion.

The mansion was supposedly haunted and was demolished in the early 1970s during construction of the M6 motorway.

Nitemare 3-D, a game that came out in 1994, is arguably the fourth ( and so far final ) installment of the Hugo series, though Nitemare 3-D, instead of being an adventure game, is a Wolfenstein 3D clone, in which Hugo ventures into the haunted mansion to rescue Penelope by shooting enemies with various guns.

Bowle's Halloween Haunted House: Given its status as a castle, it is a tradition for Bowlesmen to redecorate the hall into a haunted mansion every Halloween for the neighborhood children.