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The Villa of Pliny in Tuscis was a large, elaborate ancient Roman villa-estate that belonged to the Plinys (Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger). [1] It is located at Colle Plinio near San Giustino, Umbria, Italy. [2] [3] He named it his villa in Tuscis (in Tuscany) and often mentioned it in letters to his uncle and others. [4]
This is a list of the 100+ largest extant and historic houses in the United States, ordered by area of the main house. The list includes houses that have been demolished, houses that are currently under construction, and buildings that are not currently, but were previously used as private homes.
Villa Medici at Cafaggiolo. Coordinates: 43°57′53.42″N 11°17′41.87″E. Construction of the new Castello Mediceo di Cafaggiolo began in 1452. Castello Mediceo di Cafaggiolo, in a view by Giusto (or Gustav) Utens, 1599. The Villa Medicea di Cafaggiolo is a villa situated near the Tuscan town of Barberino di Mugello in the valley of the ...
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52nd Police Precinct Station House and Stable is a historic police station located in Norwood in the Bronx, New York City. It was built 1904–1906 and is a three-story, red brick structure approximately 50 feet by 80 feet in size. It is in the style of a Tuscan villa. It features a 21-foot square clock tower with large polychrome terracotta ...
Completed in 1861, this historic structure is a two-story, five-bay, brick, irregularly-shaped dwelling. It is a combined Tuscan Villa/ Italianate style building that features round-headed windows, prominent brackets, hipped roof with overhanging eaves, and square roof belvedere. It has an enclosed porch with Corinthian order pilasters.
The facade of the August Wilson Theatre was designed to resemble a 15th-century Tuscan villa, [7] [11] with a stucco surface and a heavy use of quoins around openings. [7] [12] [13] On 52nd Street, the theater's height is shorter than its width. The extreme west and east ends of the facade contain vertical bands of quoins, while the rest of the ...
In 1881, Hunter advertised Abingdon for sale. [30] During the same year, he sold his remaining Abingdon property at auction to the Alfred Richards Brick Company. [48] The property at Abingdon that Hunter once owned is now within Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Crystal City and the Aurora Hills section of the Aurora Highlands ...