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Walkerville, in Windsor Ontario. The 3 acre estate was designed by Albert Kahn ca 1904-6 for Edward Chandler Walker, second son of Hiram Walker, named after his older brother who died young. As the couple never had children, the house is a one bedroom house (!).
The Walkers lived at Willistead until Edward's death i 1915 when Mrs. Walker gave the house to Walkerville. It then served as Walkerville's town hall, then the Art Gallery of Windsor, then a public library. It was rescued from demolition in the 1970's-80's and is now an event space.
Kelmscott Manor, William Morris's country house near Lechlade, Oxfordshire. William Morris (March 24, 1834 – October 3, 1896) was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the British arts and crafts movement, best known as a designer of wallpaper and patterned fabrics, a writer of poetry and fiction and a pioneer of the socialist movement in Britain.
Kelmscott Manor, a grade 1 Listed Tudor farmhouse adjacent to the River Thames, was built in 1570, with an additional wing added to the northeast corner in about 1665. The Manor is built of local limestone on the edge of the village of Kelmscott.
William Morris chose it as his summer home, signing a joint lease with the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the summer of 1871. Morris loved the house as a work of true craftsmanship, totally unspoilt and unaltered, and in harmony with the village and the surrounding countryside. He considered it so natural in its setting as to be almost organic, it looked to him as if it had "grown up out of the soil"; and with "quaint garrets amongst great timbers of the roof where of old times the tillers and herdsmen slept".
Now a five-star hotel, this was once the home of Sabine Baring-Gould, both a squire of his large estate and a parson of his little church. Hence a squireson. Lavish home. Ask about the legend of the beautiful maiden that worked in his mill.
Bhaktivedanta Manor was established in 1973 by His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The estate was donated to ISKCON by the late Beatle, George Harrison
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Harlaxton Manor, Grantham. The North wing, formerly a brewery. Designed by the owner, Gregory Gregory and architect Anthony Salvin, the exterior was largely completed (1832-38) before the two fell out, leaving the interior to be finished in conjunction with William Burn and David Bryce.
Elizabethan Revival style, grade 1 isted, now owned by an American College - the University of Evansville.
Grantham, Lincolnshire, Harlaxton Manor
May 2016
I was a volunteer room guiide here last year. The Manor House is closed at present whilst it is being refurbished for a BBC television programme.." To The Manor Reborn" which will be on BBC1 on a Thursday at 8.00pm 24th November for an hour continuing for 4 weeks. Look out for yours truly!
The gardens and other areas are open whilst the house is closed.
Further information:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/...
The George B. Cox House is a historic residence in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. An Italianate building constructed in 1894, this two-and-a-half story building was built as the home of leading Hamilton County politician George B. Cox.
Largely a self-made man, Cox began to support himself and his mother at age eight after his father's death in 1861; within ten years, he entered politics, and at the age of twenty-four, he was elected to City Council. Before the age of thirty, he had laid the groundwork for political domination of the city, and his position as Cincinnati's political boss was firmly cemented by the late 1880s.
In 1894, Cox arranged for the construction of a new house, to be designed by leading Cincinnati architect Samuel Hannaford. The resulting structure is primarily of sandstone construction, with a foundation of stone and a slate roof. Two of its most prominent elements are a large porch that covers the southern front of the house and half of its western side, and a 3 1⁄2-story circular turret that dominates the rest of the building. Located near the house is a two-car garage; built as a carriage house, its architecture is similar to that of the main house.
Cox's house was built near to the end of Samuel Hannaford's career; in practice since 1858, he retired in 1897 at the age of sixty-two. During his career, he rose to the status of Cincinnati's leading architect, due to his responsibility for such buildings as the Cincinnati Music Hall. Many of his buildings, including the majority of the houses that he designed in Cincinnati, were constructed as the homes of wealthy or powerful members of the city's society; numerous rich and famous individuals of the Gilded Age found his style highly attractive.
Among the owners of Cox's house after his death has been a chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha, which used the building as their fraternity house, and the University of Cincinnati, which purchased the property in 1939 and converted it into a women's dormitory.
In late 1973, the Cox House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, both because of its connection to Cox and because of its historically significant architecture.
Seven years later, it became one of twenty houses included in a multiple property submission to the National Register of Hannaford-designed buildings in Cincinnati and surrounding portions of Hamilton County.
In 2010, arrangements were made to transfer ownership of the property to the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, which announced plans to convert it into a branch library to serve the surrounding Clifton neighborhood. The library stated that the Cox House would replace a small storefront that previously served the Clifton branch.
Parkview Manor is situated on a large lot at the confluence of Brookline, Wentworth and Jefferson avenues in Clifton. It is a polychromatic stone building with a prominent three-story turret (Cox’s poker room) in the Renaissance Revival style. The foundation walls are Indiana limestone and the exterior walls are coursed sandstone backed with limestone. The house contains some unusually shaped rooms—circular and triangular. Of particular note are the numerous secret passageways found throughout the structure, leading between rooms and sometimes to dead ends. Among the other notable architectural elements are stained glass windows, elaborate fixtures, chandeliers, and hand carved mantles and newel posts imported from Europe on the staircase.
NEW CLIFTON BRANCH LIBRARY PROJECT
In the spring of 2010, Michael L. Dever, president of Performance Automotive Network, was asked by Library Trustee Bill Moran to donate the 1895 former home of George Barnesdale “Boss” Cox to the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County for a new Clifton Branch Library. Designed by noted Cincinnati architect Samuel Hannaford, the 10,000 square feet home is located just blocks from the current branch library on a generous lot that would allow for 16 off-street parking spaces behind the house. The home (nearly four times larger than the current 2,520 square-foot storefront facility) would allow the creation of a dedicated children’s room, teen area, program space, meeting rooms, and a computer lab. A feasibility study shows that the collection size could also be increased and an elevator could be added for complete accessibility to the facility.
On April 12, 2010, Library officials submitted a proposal to the Clifton Town Meeting to relocate the Clifton Branch Library from its present small rental facility located at 351 Ludlow Avenue to the former Cox home located at 3400 Brookline Avenue. The Clifton Town Meeting Board voted to support the continuing evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of the relocation. At a subsequent meeting, members of the Clifton Business District also supported this proposal. The Library Board and staff are excited by the opportunity to make this notable building into a much needed larger library facility for Clifton residents while preserving a unique piece of Cincinnati history. Proceeding with this plan is contingent upon raising the $3.5 million necessary to complete the building renovation.
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Walking under the steel bridge. The track crossed over this bridge and then descended around a large spiral to the left before passing back under itself. The area inside the spiral was used as a picnic area and was served by its own station.
Oakhill Manor in Somerset was a small country estate that first opened to the public in the 1970s. The manor house contained an extensive collection of models assembled over the years by owner Walter Harper.
In 1978 a 10 1/4" gauge miniature railway was opened to provide a transport link between the car park and the manor house itself. The track was 1100 yards long and also featured a halfway station/passing loop as well as a short branch line leading up to the stables.
Plans to install balloon loops at either end never came to fruition, despite all the earthworks being completed at one end. The route itself incorporated major civil engineering including deep rock cuttings blasted out by dynamite, a couple of tunnels and a spiral where the track crossed over itself via a large bridge.
The manor and railway both closed to the public in 1986 due to falling visitor numbers. The track and some of the rolling stock was left in-situ whilst the steam locos (some in dismantled condition) were moved to nearby barns where they sat for several years before being sold. The track is presumably still there today, albeit now heavily overgrown.
These photos were taken in 1987 only a year after the line had closed and were taken with the full permission of Mr Harper who accompanied me around the layout.
Medieval hall house
Astleham Manor Cottage was first built in the 1500s in Shepperton, Middlesex, as a three-bayed timber-framed hall house. Henry VIII is alleged to have used it as a hunting lodge.
The building was expanded in the late 17th or early 18th century, and most of the wall timber framing replaced with brick.
It has been moved twice. In 1913 it was dismantled and moved a quarter of a mile to make way for a new reservoir. Then in 1990s it was threatened again. It had been empty for several years, vandalised and a local quarry was about to start extracting gravel outside. This was the point where it was moved to the Museum.
Astleham garden was used for filming Boomers, a 2014 comedy starring June Whitfield, Alison Steadman, Stephanie Beecham, Paula Wilcox and Russ Abbott.
Astleham cottage is not open to the public but is used for staff and volunteer offices and facilities. If you would like to see behind-the-scenes, then please consider volunteering.
The cottage also houses the Museum’s library where there is an interesting archive about the Museum’s buildings and specialist books on rural life and vernacular architecture.
The building began life as a three-bayed timber-framed hall house, of the late Medieval period. In the late 17th century, the roof structure was altered and most, if not all, of the wall timber framing was replaced by brickwork. The building was also extended, by the insertion of an extra bay, incorporating the massive brick chimney stack. It was first dismantled in 1913 by the owner, Sir Richard Burbridge, and moved approximately a quarter of a mile south. The reason for the move was the construction of the Queen Mary Reservoir, one of several reservoirs built by the then Metropolitan Water Board to solve the problem of supplying London’s increasing demand for water.
The exact date of re-construction is not known, no records of the work have been found. The earliest photograph of the completed building is dated 1922. The reservoir was started in 1914 and completed in 1924. The first inhabitant of the ‘new’ cottage was Mr Ferris, Sir Richard Burbridge’s gamekeeper. He may have lived in the building prior to its being moved. He died in the 1930s. His widow lived there until the early 1960s, but the Ferris family continued in the cottage until the 1970s. After six years, it was taken over by Mr & Mrs King. A lot of work was needed at this time, windows were replaced, rooms were re-plastered, a kitchen and bathroom were installed. There was still no mains water or electricity. The King family stayed for only ten years. Once again the house was empty and heavily vandalised. After many years lying unoccupied the building was donated by the Thames Water Authority, as it was threatened in the 1990s by an expanding quarry. As the building was Grade II listed, consent to demolish had to be obtained. The cottages were re-erected at the Museum and are currently used as its offices.
Chilterns Open Air Museum, Newland Park, Gorelands Lane, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire