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Waddesdon Manor, built in 1880 by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, is a National Trust property, but is administered by a Rothschild family charitable trust.
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Bournemouth Manor v Senyek Sports FC. Pre Season at Kinson Manor. Please ask if you'd like to use this image. Steve
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
London North Eastern Railway Class 43, 43317 with 43296 passing Manors Station working 1S03 Leeds to Aberdeen, taken 17th September 2018
Burford Priory and the Lenthall Chapel
On Saturday Lawrence and I went west from Oxford to the historic Cotswold town of Burford.
One feature of the main house (Priory) are two very finely carved giants possibly representing Hercules and Antaeus. They would have supported the Tanfield arms, now replaced by the Lenthall arms. The hairy giant Anaeus has a hare between his feet, possibly a play on the name Harman.
If you wish to know or read more about the Priory and its history may I suggest you get the helpful guide ISBN 1 85943 140 2 Enquiries should be sent to “The History House” in Burford
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.
A visit to Wightwick Manor & Gardens in Wolverhampton.
It was a cold Sunday afternoon. The manor is in the Tettenhall area of Wolverhampton.
The legacy of a family's passion for Victorian art and design, Wightwick Manor (pronounced "Wittick") is a Victorian manor house located on Wightwick Bank, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. Owned by the National Trust since 1937, the Manor and its grounds are open to the public. It is one of only a few surviving examples of a house built and furnished under the influence of the Aesthetic movement and Arts and Crafts movement. Wightwick was built by Theodore Mander, of the Mander family, who were successful 19th-century industrialists in the area (Mander Brothers), and his wife Flora, daughter of Henry Nicholas Paint, member of Parliament in Canada. It was designed by Edward Ould of Liverpool in two phases; the first was completed in 1887 and the house was extended with the Great Parlour wing in 1893. Notes taken by Theodore Mander at a lecture given in Wolverhampton in 1884 by Oscar Wilde on the 'House Beautiful' inspired Wightwick's interiors.Taking inspiration from this lecture, Theodore and his wife Flora decorated its interiors with the designs of William Morris and his Arts and Crafts contemporaries.
This family house is a notable example of the influence of William Morris, with original Morris wallpapers and fabrics, De Morgan tiles, Kempe glass and Pre-Raphaelite works of art, including works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Evelyn De Morgan, Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown and John Everett Millais
The Manor has the work of 11 professional female artists on permanent public display, more than any other in the National Trust, including notable examples of works by Lizzie Siddal, Evelyn De Morgan, Lucy Madox Brown, Marie Spartali Stillman, May Morris and other female artists. Most of these artworks were collected by the Manders.
In 1937 Geoffrey Mander a radical Liberal MP and local paint manufacturer who had been left the timber-framed house by his father Theodore, persuaded the National Trust to accept a house that was just 50 years old, under the Country Houses Scheme Act.
This house of the Aesthetic Movement was, by 1937, a relic of an out of fashion era. Yet, so complete was the design that it was worthy of preservation. Having given the house to the Trust, Geoffrey Mander and his second wife, Rosalie, became its live-in curators, opening the house to the public and adding to its contents. In particular they added a notable collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Rossetti, Burne-Jones and their followers.Descendants of the family retain a private apartment in the manor.
The house has 14 acres of Victorian garden and the outbuildings house stables (now a tea room); a gallery in the old malt house; gift shop; and an antiquarian bookshop.
It is situated just off the main A454 Wolverhampton to Bridgnorth road, approximately three miles to the west of the city centre.
The manor has been Grade I listed on the National Heritage List for England since July 1950, and its gardens are Grade II listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Grade I Listed Building
Listing Text
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO89NE WIGHTWICK BANK
895-1/4/178 (West side)
29/07/50 Wightwick Manor
GV I
House, now owned by the National Trust. 1887; extended 1893.
By Edward Ould for Theodore Mander. Interior design by William
Morris and C.E. Kempe. Brick with ashlar dressings and timber
framing; tile roofs with brick stacks. Originally L-plan with
west wing and north service wing with square tower to angle,
later extended to T-plan with east guest wing. Vernacular
Revival Style. South garden facade of 2 storeys, 5-window
range to west. Timber-framed 1st floor; 2 projecting gables
and right end cross wing with enriched bargeboards. Ground
floor has cusped elliptical-headed lights to brick-mullioned
windows; 1st floor has mostly canted timber oriels; small
balcony to left of right end wing. Single-storey hall range to
east has 2-storey cross wing; timber framing on ashlar plinth;
richly carved bressummers, bargeboards etc. Hall has large
gabled bay window with enriched timber mullioned and transomed
windows with leaded glazing; other windows similar; cross wing
has paired canted 1st floor oriels, gabled dormer to left;
east return similar with end cross wings; treatment continued
to north gable end. Many stacks with oversailing caps, those
to east wing with richly moulded shafts. North elevation of
west wing has 2 gables with ingle stack to right; gabled
timber-framed 2-storey porch projects at angle with
inscription over battened door; tower has embattled parapet.
Service wing has simpler details and hipped roof; tile hanging
to 1st floor, plastered east elevation; small kitchen court
between service wing and east wing.
INTERIOR: has Morris wallpapers and fabric hangings
throughout, some brought in during C20; contemporary electric
light fittings by Benson. Drawing room has ingle fireplace
with window seat, panelled dado, fabric hangings, moulded
cornice and ceiling, Kempe glass from his house (Old Place),
fireplace with de Morgan tiles; hall has re-used C17 panelling
from Old Manor (q.v.), window seat, Kempe glass; library has
shelving and panelling, tiled fireplace with monochrome
overmantel painting; morning room has cupboards with Spanish
style ironwork, fireplace with de Morgan tiles; great parlour
has painted arch-braced roof with panelling, fabric hangings
over panelling with painted relief plaster frieze over, large
ingle fireplace with seats and tiles, 2 ogee-headed entrances
to west end; billiard room has ingle fireplace with tiles and
copper hood, dais with balustrading, plaster ceiling, window
seat; dining room has plaster ceiling, built-in sideboard;
stair has turned balusters. 1st floor guest rooms have wall
hangings, wallpapers, and fireplaces; family rooms are
simpler, some fireplaces and built-in cupboards, some C17
panelling from Old Manor House. The house is an important
example of the architecture and design of the late C19,
containing much work by the leading designers of the day; one
of only a few such houses.
(Shell County Guides: Thorold H: Staffordshire: London: 1978-:
P.182-5; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire:
London: 1974-: P.310-11; Girouard M: The Victorian Country
House: London: 1979-: P.375-80).
Listing NGR: SO8694698441
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
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
At Llancaiach Fawr Manor near Nelson in Caerphilly, South Wales.
A house set in the time period of 1645 during the English Civil War.
There was actors inside the house as servants, who know nothing of what happens after 1645 (was supposed to be before Charles I visited the house - time period wise).
You first enter via a visitor centre. After you pay, they give you a guide book, and a note that you have to get stamped when you enter the manor.
Outside the manor. There is a formal garden at the front, and an orchard at the back.
The manor is Grade I listed.
Location
Close to the W community boundary which follows Nant Caeach, a short distance NE of Nelson and reached by a short track from the main road. Fronts a re-created formal garden, the surrounding walls incorporating stone benches.
History
Built early C16 for the Prichard (ap Richard) family and mentioned in Leyland's Itinerary of 1537. First Lord of Manor and Under Sherriff in 1549 was David ap Richard. Alteration in 1628 by his grandson, David Prichard, provided the rear staircase wing, the panelling of the first floor chambers and alterations to some windows, involving the introduction of the rectangular transom and mullion windows. The family were involved in recurrent feuds between Glamorgan noblemen including the Lewis family with whom they had marriage connections. Colonel Edward Prichard (d 1655) played an important role in the Civil War, originally a Royalist - Charles I is reputed to have lunched at Llancaiach in 1645 - he subsequently became a supporter of the Parliamentarians, becoming Governor of Cardiff Castle and playing a significant role in the Battle of St Fagans. Lack of male descendants led to property passing out of family and functioning as a farmhouse when second floor was used for storage. Purchased by Rhymney Valley District Council in 1979 and restored as a visitor attraction which particularly interprets the Civil War. A resistivity survey established the plan for the formal walled gardens which have been recreated to front; to rear was an orchard shown on the Tithe Map of 1842 and the OS map of 1875. A water colour of the building as a farmhouse shows it rendered.
Interior
Interior is characterised by the multitude of staircases which, apart from the later large timber staircase to rear, are incorporated within the walls, thus providing a network of escape routes to an outwardly undefended building. Traditionally the number of staircases was said to equal the number of rooms - fourteen, of which nine staircases remain after periods of remodelling. Walls are mostly lime plastered and limewashed, mostly white though with some renewed colour and fragmentary traces of former colour. Ceiling beams are large and chamfered, some stopped, some supported by corbels, some heavily keyed, some limewashed. Most doorways have heavy double thickness doors comprised of vertical planks to front and horizontal to rear, some retaining their massive iron bolts; barricade holes in the walls behind show where they could be reinforced by bars; doorways are mainly Tudor-arched and chamfered, of stone or wood. Windows have deep splays and the main windows to each room incorporate stone seats; only one of the quarry glazed window panels opens, in Colonel Prichard's study, the westernmost room on second floor. Spiral metal fire escape installed in rear wing at time of modern restoration.
Ground floor is entered through porch with flag floor, stone benches, ceiling, door with vertical fillets and hinges across the whole width. Entrance hall has flag floor, a four-centred ceiling arch, two cupboard recesses in gable end wall, access to main timber staircase left and rear mural stairs to rear; partition opening and doorway to kitchen right. Kitchen has fireplace with wide wooden lintel and bake ovens; under rear window is a stone waste sluice. Servants' Hall access is through a lobby beside the chimney incorporating front mural stairs, the fireplaces back to back. Servants' Hall fireplace has timber lintel and chamfered jambs; wall recess, flag floor; windows to 2 elevations; steps up to store doorway in the rear wing, further mural steps and blocked steps adjacent. Stairs to vaulted cellar.
From entrance hall quarter-turn stone steps with twisted wooden balusters, moulded rails and newel posts rise to first floor landing which extends across the W end of house; a 4-centred arch, part of the C17 remodelling, frames the staircase to next floor. Great Hall is entered through a wide doorway, with original door, studded, 2 boards wide and with long strap hinges terminating in fleur de lys; mural stairs to front and 2 to rear; dais for high table is lit by large windows to front and rear; it backs onto the central chimney breast but there are now no first floor openings to this and the stone Tudor-arched fireplace, with moulded jambs and shallow bracketed mantelpiece, and painted blue with woad, is against the rear wall. Narrow doorway at front to room over porch, used as Stewards' Room, with windows on 3 sides, garderobe, 2 mural staircases, small fireplace with large Tudor-arched stone lintel. Lobby adjacent to dais corresponding with that on ground floor, doors at each end, leads to parlour. This has small-square panelling with a linenfold-type frieze; depressed-arched chamfered stone fireplace in rear wall is flanked by staircases either side with matching panelled doors, one mural, one leading to rear bed chamber and one to former mural staircase. This is also panelled with fluted frieze and billet-moulded cornice; former access to privy.
Main stairs to second floor retain some original balusters, rail and newel post. Corridor runs along rear elevation with timber-framed lath and plaster partition to the main two interconnecting rooms to front; square headed wooden doorways with moulded surrounds. In rear wing is a further chamber with garderobe off lit by tiny windows. At top of stairs is a later partitioned windowless cheese room fronted by matching balusters with stone chute adjacent; over the porch is the steward's upper apartment, access to roof space which has arch-braced trusses and 2 rows of trenched purlins; end room, described as counting house, has stairs flanked by low walls rising in the centre of floor and fireplace in gable end wall with depressed Tudor arch and moulded jambs; at rear a small opening to roof and pigeon loft over stairs.
Exterior
Semi-fortified gentry house. Main range aligned roughly E/W with front porch wing and two rear wings, at W an added staircase wing, at E a contemporary wing with attached garderobe shaft. Three storeys and attic to main house and wings, with first floor hall; vaulted cellar beneath rear wing. Stone rubble walls mostly in narrow courses with ashlar dressings, quoins, rendered W and SW elevations. Windows are of one-, two-, three- or four-lights, some with 4-centred heads and moulded spandrels, some ornamented, some square headed, most with square low hoodmoulds, with chamfered surrounds and moulded mullions, and under wide relieving arches, no sills; transom and mullion windows represent the C17 remodelling; leaded glazing is a mid C20 replacement. C20 Cotswold tile roof; rectangular stone stacks to main roof with caps at centre right ridge and on either side of ridge of NE rear wing; smaller stack at gable end left. Gables have stone coping, moulded apex stones and kneelers. Main house and wings are battered.
S entrance elevation of five bays. Gabled full-height porch wing in second bay from SW has gable end and lateral stacks, small Tudor-arched apex light; 2-light first floor square-headed mullioned window; ground floor Tudor-arched doorway, chamfered and stopped; small side lights and larger rectangular window to first floor. Bay to left of porch is rendered, with small light to second floor and larger to first floor. To right of porch extends the main 2-window range over 3 floors separated by small lobby lights. At left the windows are square headed: 3-light second floor window close under eaves; large first floor window to hall of 4 transom and mullion lights; ground floor window of 2-lights. To right the lights are narrow with 4-centred heads: small 2-light window close under eaves; large first floor 4-light window to parlour; similar smaller 3-light ground floor window - some replaced masonry. W gable end elevation has small lights to the upper floor and a 2-light window to ground floor.
Rear elevation is asymmetrical. Cross wing to right has roof extending lower to right (W), and incorporates two groups of 3 dove nesting holes and ledges; two 3-light windows under shallow hoods, the higher under a relieving arch. Centre 3-storey bay is recessed though stepped out at each side, the left accommodating a gabled garderobe chute corbelled out at eaves and with small lights, the right the flue to the hall chimney. Centre single window range with 4-light square-headed window with arched lights close under eaves, larger 4-light window with arched heads under a hood and relieving arch to first floor with small light adjacent; ground floor has small rectangular chamfered light. Wide more deeply projecting 4-storey cross wing to left also has an asymmetrical gable, though less pronounced; kneelers and quoins; single window to each upper storey all with 4-centred arched lights: single light with hood to attic, paired lights with hood, flat relieving arch, moulded spandrels to second floor; similar triple light window to first floor; cellar access at ground floor with steps down.
E elevation of 4 storeys has again an asymmetrical gable with single window range to left though flush with single window range to right; ridge stacks. Similar arched lights under hoods: single light to attic left; second floor has paired lights to left and right and small adjacent stair light; first floor has similar 4- and 3-light windows with adjacent stair light, the former matching that on the front S elevation which both light the main parlour; ground floor has similar 3-light window to left, and small rectangular window to right without a relieving arch.
Frontage gives onto a walled garden, parts of the E and S walls and the wall adjacent to the front path dating from before the C20 refurbishment, though with substantial sections rebuilt or raised.
Reason for Listing
Listed grade I as an outstanding manor house, especially interesting for its internal defensive arrangements, well repaired, conserved and presented.
References
Newman J, Glamorgan, Buildings of Wales series, 1995, pp 353-8;
RCAHMW, Glamorgan, The Greater Houses, 1981, pp115-126;
Llancaiach Fawr Manor, guidebook, nd;
Gelligaer Tithe Map 1842;
Ordnance Survey, First edition,scale 1:2500, 1875.
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Notes:
Close to the W community boundary which follows Nant Caeach, a short distance NE of Nelson and reached by a short track from the main road. Fronts a re-created formal garden, the surrounding walls inc
Source: Cadw
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
Hyde Manor, Sudbury, Vermont USA • This historic vacation destination was popular around the late 19th century up until the middle of the 20th century with its heyday from 1890 to 1940. Now dilapidated, probably beyond repair, this old tourist attraction now sits off to the side of Route 30 staring at the passers-by with it's glassless windows and collapsed porch, an enormous structure that was one of the most beautiful in its day.
From "Pictorial History of Sudbury" I quote the following; "Sudbury's most famous hotel would no doubt be Hyde Manor. Built in the late 1700's and purchased by Pitt W. Hyde in 1801, it grew to become one of the most celebrated in New England. Situated on the Stage Route between Canada and Northern Vermont, and Whitehall and Rutland, it became a favorite resting place for many. Mr. Hyde came to Sudbury as an innkeeper from Hyde Park, Vermont. A son, James, took over the inn upon his father's death in 1823 and under him it became known for it's excellence of fare and for the cheerful and friendly welcome it extended to all of it's guests. James Hyde also served as Town Clerk for thirty years, as justice of the peace for thirty-four years, he represented the town of Sudbury in the General Assembly, was a Senator from Rutland County in 1850-51 and was Assistant Judge of the Rutland County Court."
In 1862 the hotel was destroyed by fire and the present building was erected by James Hyde in 1865. His son, A.W. Hyde then took over the new hotel, which would accommodate two hundred guests and became the perfect resort for families with children. James K. Hyde was later born to A.W. in 1874 and he grew to be the fourth generation to carry on the business and himself produced the fifth and last generation to own the inn. On March 27, 1944 one of the most spectacular fires to ever take place in Sudbury occurred when the 70 room annex of Hyde Manor burned. No official estimates of the loss was at hand, but it was thought to be a $75,000 loss (in 1944). The annex was built with the best materials; built entirely of clear wood with no knots and tremendously solid. The floor joists were three by twelve inches in dimension and set at a distance of 10 inches on all floors. The central building, barns and the Hyde Cottages to the North were undamaged by the fire."
In the 1960's the Hyde Manor changed hands and for the first time in over 150 years was no longer in the Hyde family. For a short while it was run as a hotel called the "Top of the Seasons" but with the change in times, so came the change in leisure and it did not do as well as in its prime time. It was (is?) owned by Ed Dlhos who started the Green Mountain Spring Water business using the famous natural springs on the property but that too was short lived as was an attempt to resurrect the golf course on the land. Everything now lies abandoned, rotting and all but forgotten. – From a terrific post (with historical photos) by Aron Garçeau, in August 2008.
☞ On April 11, 1980, the National Park Service added this structure (also known as Hyde's Hotel) to the National Register of Historic Places (#80000340).
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Waddesdon Manor was built by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild between 1874 and 1885 to display his collection of arts and to entertain the fashionable world.
Park Manor South is one of the several first-year residence halls on campus. First-year residents reside in the first-year quad. This quad allows students to seamlessly and easily matriculate into the Babson community.
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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.