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mansion house

mansion house \mansion house\ n. A large and imposing house.

Syn: mansion, manse, hall, residence.

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mansion house

n. a large and imposing house [syn: mansion, manse, hall, residence]

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Mansion House

Mansion House may refer to:

  • the official residences of the Mayor or Lord Mayor of various towns and cities in Great Britain and Ireland:
    • Mansion House, Dublin
    • Mansion House, London
      • See also Mansion House tube station on the London Underground
    • Mansion House, Cardiff
    • Mansion House, Doncaster
    • Mansion House, Newport
    • Mansion House, Swansea
    • Mansion House, York
  • The Mansion (Baguio), a summer retreat house of the President of the Philippines
  • Mansion House, Kawau Island, house in New Zealand owned by Governor Grey
  • Mansion House (Public Landing, Maryland)
  • Joseph Smith Mansion House, Nauvoo, Illinois
Mansion House (Public Landing, Maryland)

Mansion House, located near Public Landing, Maryland, United States, is an early-to-mid-nineteenth century plantation house. This "telescoping house" was built in five main parts beginning about 1835. The distinct blocks were designed in a manner that separated the main house from the servants' quarters while keeping them close at hand.

Mansion House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

Mansion House (Trenton, New Jersey)

Mansion House (also referred to as Ellarslie and McCall House) is a historic residence located in Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built as a summer residence for Henry McCall Sr. of Philadelphia in 1848, and is one of the earliest examples of Italianate architecture in the United States.

Since 1978 the building has been home to the Trenton City Museum, which features collections of decorative and fine arts.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 6, 1973.

Mansion House (McDowell, Virginia)

Mansion House is a historic home located at McDowell, Highland County, Virginia. It was built in 1851, and is a two-story, three bay, "L"-shaped brick dwelling in the Greek Revival style. It has a central-passage/single-pile-plan. Also on the property are a contributing frame shed, and the sites of a log kitchen structure and outbuilding. The house served as an American Civil War hospital in the time around the Battle of McDowell on May 8, 1862. In 1886, the building was sold to James and Mary Bradshaw, who operated it as a hotel until 1930.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

The house is now owned by the Highland County Historical Society and operated as the Highland County Museum.

Usage examples of "mansion house".

I thought the room itself, the mansion house and whole Community suddenly creaked and leaned to one side.

But there was shouting now from the other side of the Mansion House —.

My office was two rooms hard by the coffee-shop smell of the Mansion House Hotel.