Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.

Scott then built additions to the house and made it into a mansion, building into the walls many sculptured stones from ruined castles and abbeys of Scotland.

George Anthony Legh Keck was known to have collected some of Antonio Canovas sculptures and had them on display at his jacobean mansion house of Bank Hall in Bretherton.

For example, the word " house " derives its meaning more as a function of how it differs from " shed ", " mansion ", " hotel ", " building ", etc.

( Form of Content, that Louis Hjelmslev distinguished from Form of Expression ) than how the word " house " may be tied to a certain image of a traditional house ( i. e. the relationship between signifier and signified ) with each term being established in reciprocal determination with the other terms than by an ostensive description or definition: when can we talk about a " house " or a " mansion " or a " shed "?

In December 1588 Oxford had secretly sold his London mansion of Fisher's Folly to Sir William Cornwallis ; by January 1591 the author Thomas Churchyard was dealing with rent owing for rooms he had taken in a house on behalf of his patron.

Upon his return home, Coppola and George Lucas searched for a mansion in Marin to house the studio.

* Palacio de Alegría mansion house.

After he and Conrad separated in 1998, Conrad moved into a house next door to the mansion.

" 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.

They were in fact from a house clearance firm Margaret had employed to clear her late cousin Ursula's country mansion.

The wallpaper had hung previously on the walls of another mansion until 1961 when that house was demolished for a grocery store.

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.

The first of each pair is derived from Old English and the second is of Anglo-Norman origin: pig / pork, chicken / poultry, calf / veal, cow / beef, wood / forest, sheep / mutton, house / mansion, worthy / honourable, bold / courageous, freedom / liberty.

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 house once again became a condemned mansion in the New Scooby-Doo Movies television show, in which the Addamses made a guest appearance.

A house on Elm Street, and another on Dudley Avenue that police once caught him breaking into, are said to be the inspiration for the Addams Family mansion in his cartoons.

Gelli then disappeared on the eve of being imprisoned, in May 1998, while being under house arrest in his mansion near Arezzo.

The site was replaced by a poured concrete mansion, but a large carriage house dating back to 1896 is still on the estate.

Hammersmith Farm, the mansion from which Jackie Kennedy was married, was open to tourists as a ' house museum ,' but has been purchased and reconverted into a private residence.

Judy and Jim go to an abandoned mansion ; Plato finds them there ( he was the one who told Jim about the house ).

In recent years however this view has largely been discounted, not least because each window would have cost around as much as a large mansion house to make – while most of the labourers depicted would have been subsistence workers with little or no disposable income.

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 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.

Though still administered by the Victoria School Board, the College was now completely separated from Victoria High School, moving in 1921 into the magnificent Dunsmuir mansion known as Craigdarroch Castle.

Though Mrs. Harding did keep a little red book of those who had offended her, the executive mansion was now once again open to the public, including the annual Easter egg roll.

At the site of what was originally the Johann D. C. Thiessen mansion and ranch, now Locomotive Park, so named because of the retired locomotive Steam Engine 92 and Camas Prairie RR Caboose on display in the middle, large trees and pathways are decorated with lights from Thanksgiving to New Year's.

* The Warren Hayes, Bromley, a former mansion now sports club used by the Metropolitan Police

The groom's maternal grandfather, William Patterson, one of the wealthiest men in Maryland, gave the couple a mansion ( now Montrose Mansion ) as a wedding gift in an attempt to match the bride's dowery.

* Shelton Abbey, near Arklow, an 18th-century mansion now used as a prison.

The Tsamadou mansion on the left-hand side of the harbour as one enters is now a Maritime Academy.

The Tombazi mansion is now part of the School of Fine Arts.

However the Townsend estate is actually a Long Island Gold Coast mansion that is now the Old Westbury Gardens.

On October 29, 1934, while a guest in a Cudahy mansion at 1844 N. Vine St. ( now the site of the Vine-Franklin underpass of the Hollywood Freeway ), Tellegen locked himself in the bathroom, then shaved and powdered his face.

He was decorated with the Order of Lenin and given a mansion ( formerly belonging to the millionaire Ryabushinsky, now the Gorky Museum ) in Moscow and a dacha in the suburbs.

* Curtius Museum, Jean Curtius's mansion, now a museum

** Hilton Hall, an 18th century mansion house now in use as an office and business centre at Hilton, near Wolverhampton, Staffordshire

All of Cookstown's main educational institutions date from this period, Cookstown High School being housed in the Victorian mansion and former residence of the Gunning family at Coolnafranky and the Catholic Church constructing its convent schools and St Mary's Boy's School in 1939 ( now demolished and replaced by Holy Trinity Nursery School ), all on Loy Hill.

* In the LucasArts computer game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, Guybrush Threepwood – now sporting a long ponytail and a beard – attends a fancy dress party at Elaine Marley's mansion on Booty Island, attired in a dress.

The Garrison House in the centre of town, constructed in 1745, was formerly the barracks / Captain's mansion, then the home of the Earl of Glasgow, and is now in community ownership ( see " Current Developments " below ).

A mile to the west, Dunstan Hall is a mansion incorporating a medieval peel tower, now used as holiday accommodation.

Their mansion has now become the California History Center.

It remains a community landmark at 8151 15th Ave. CASA of Maryland purchased the property in 2009, making the site its home base, and a Multicultural Community Center is now open in the mansion.

The old Baltimore Turnpike, now known as US Route 1, is located to the west of the mansion house.

The Riversdale mansion, now surrounded by eight acres is owned by The M-NCPPC, which purchased it in 1949.

The historic mansion on the rear of the estate was restored in 1999 and is now known as Father Turci Manor.