New York Chateau, Estate of the Day

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12-14-2007 @ 10:33AM

Spectacular Bid said...

Beanspants, tour the countryside of England, France, Italy and you'll see plenty of farmhouses and country estates which have grown over time with those quirks.

Gilded Age architects worth their salt took that into consideration with their creations of the ‘teens and 1920s for clients wanting to capture that feel.

Rambling visual effects with rooflines and alternating stone work were used intentionally to make a house look like it was an ancestral center. I have no qualms with the final product – it likely has thicker walls, a sturdier roof, a more sound foundation, and overall vastly better construction materials then found today – and it would always give a first time viewer a wow impact upon seeing it.

The fact that one wing of the building *intentionally* has a lower roofline and with it dormer windows is found in plenty of designs by the best American architects of that era building new homes.

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