`` 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.

Patriarch Jed moves with his family into a mansion next door to his banker ( Milburn Drysdale ) in the wealthy Los Angeles County city of Beverly Hills, California, where he brings a moral, unsophisticated, and minimalistic lifestyle to the swanky, sometimes self-obsessed and superficial community.

Sarkisov and V. Nadaraia, Beria would point out young women to be detained and escorted to his mansion, where wine and a feast awaited them.

There are nine rooms in the mansion where the murder can take place, laid out in circular fashion on the game board, separated by pathways overlaid by playing spaces.

" In 1856, with Harriet's declining health and Jack's growing reputation and prosperity, they moved into Harriet's childhood home, a mansion with a garden, where the children ran free.

In the southern states, where the climate and sociological conditions differed from the north, the kitchen was often relegated to an outbuilding, separate from the big house, the mansion, for much of the same reasons as in the feudal kitchen in medieval Europe: the kitchen was operated by slaves, and their working place had to be separated from the living area of the masters by the social standards of the time.

He met with Confederate President Jefferson Davis at the executive mansion on June 22, 1861, where he was informed that he had been appointed a brigadier general with date of rank on June 17, a commission he accepted on June 25.

College Hall, the oldest building on the current campus of the University of Pennsylvania, where Addams studied, was also an inspiration for the mansion.

Today, the mansion which was awarded the Europa Nostra prize for its exemplary renovation work, functions as a museum where a collection of artifacts from the Byzantine, Medieval and Ottoman era are displayed.

He owned a luxurious mansion in the elite Belgrade neighborhood of Dedinje where high-ranking politicians and foreign diplomats reside.

At night, Hatcher, Max and Charles ( disguised as a Posse ) head for Screwface's mansion where there is a party.

* The Donigan ' Castle ', a Victorian mansion at 325 S. Bunker Hill Avenue ( where Cloris Leachman's character lived ; it was used for interiors and exteriors ).

They return to the millionaire's mansion, where the Tramp gets a change of clothes, and then go out on the town, where the Tramp inadvertently causes much havoc.

However, when Max informs him that Norma has attempted suicide with Joe's razor blade, Joe leaves the party and returns to the mansion, where he apologizes to Norma and tells her he loves her.

The original plan for Mario's Mansion involved a game where the levels revolved around a large mansion or complex.

Following the cancellation of SMiLE, The Beach Boys relocated to a studio situated in the living room of Brian Wilson's new mansion in Bel Air ( once the home of Edgar Rice Burroughs ), where the band would primarily record until 1972.

Tess and Angel spend their wedding night at an old d ' Urberville family mansion, where Angel presents his bride with some beautiful diamonds that belonged to his godmother and confesses that he once had a brief affair with an older woman in London.

The album was written and recorded in Tennessee and Connecticut and finished in an old mansion in Tuxedo Park, New York, where she lived and worked at that time.

Though the three are briefly captured by the Countess, the Doctor helps them to escape and explore the Count's mansion, where they discover equipment by Dr. Kerensky to experiment with time, the source of the Doctor's time distortions.

Scott's residential buildings are few ; one of the best known is the Cropthorne Court mansion block in Maida Vale, where the frontage juts out in diagonals in order to eliminate the need for lightwells.

Near Crystal Lake lies the famed Dole mansion, where visitors can take tours for a small donation.

The second part to the name " Florham Park " received its name from a second mansion in town that was on about of land situated where the current Brooklake Country Club is located.

The mansion was a medium-sized Jacobean house used as a summer retreat from the heat of London, where the family resided at Burlington House, today the Royal Academy ).

The mansion was then furnished with antique and custom-built furniture and soon became a show place where the Mertzes entertained both local and distant visitors.