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Houghton Hall is a country house in the parish of Houghton in Norfolk, England. It is the residence of David Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley.
It was commissioned by thede factofirst British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, in 1722, and it is a key building in the history of Palladian architecture in England. It is a Grade I listed building surrounded by ...
To the south-east of Hound Tor, on a north-eastern-facing slope are the remains of Hundatora, a deserted medieval village. This was built on land farmed originally in the Bronze Age and which may have been used for grazing in the Roman period. The village was excavated between 1961 and 1975. It has four Dartmoor longhouses, many with a central drainage channel, and se...
Although only three rooms of this large villa have been excavated by the University of Warsaw, the mosaic floor from the House of Aion is considered one of the most exceptional works of ancient Roman art, if not the only work of its kind, and certainly one of the most enigmatic and most fervently discussed by scholars. It dates from around the mid-4th century AD and i...
This exceptionally rich villa occupies 2000 sq. m of which 556 are covered with mosaic floors decorated with mythological, vintage and hunting scenes. Its is named after the god Dionysos who features on several of the mosaics.
Its rooms are arranged around a central courtyard, or atrium, which functioned as the core of the house. It was built at the end of the 2nd cen...
The House of Hospitality is a building located at San Diego's Balboa Park, in the U.S. state of California. It was originally built for the Panama–California Exposition (1915) as the Foreign Arts Building. Intended to be temporary, and was changed to the House of Hospitality for the California Pacific International Exposition (1935). The building was demolished ...
The House of Loreius Tiburtinus (more correctly the House of Octavius Quartio after its true owner) is renowned for well-preserved art, mainly in wall-paintings as well as its large gardens.
It is in the Roman city of Pompeii and with the rest of Pompeii was preserved by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in or after October 79 AD.
Its Pompeian street address is ...
House of Many Windows Overlook and Cliff Palace Loop Road are open 8 am to sunset from late spring to December 1, or until the first significant snowfall.House of Many Windows is a small cliff dwelling perched on a ten-foot-wide ledge in Cliff Canyon. Its many windows are actually doorways into rooms made of hand-shaped sandstone rock. House of Many Windows is compris...
The House of Menander (Italian: Casa del Menandro) is one of the richest and most magnificent houses in ancient Pompeii in terms of architecture, decoration and contents, and covers a large area of about 1,800 square metres (19,000 sq ft) occupying most of itsinsula. Its quality means the owner must have been an aristocrat involved in politics, with great taste for ar...
The house of Nicolas Flamel is a house located at 51 rue de Montmorency in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris.
Nicolas Flamel, a wealthy member of the Parisian bourgeoisie, commissioned the house after the death of his wife Pernelle in 1397, to accommodate the homeless. It was completed in 1407, as is inscribed on a frieze above the ground floor, and it is the best known...
The House of Paquius Proculus lies on the south side of the Via dell'Abbondanza. It was excavated in 1911 and again between 1923 and 1926. It has fabulous flooring of this abode, one of the most beautiful in Pompei depicting different animals.
The House of Sallust (also known in earlier excavation reports as theHouse of Actaeon) was an elite residence (domus) in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii and among the most sumptuous of the city.
The oldest parts of the house have been dated to the 4th century BCE, but the main expansions were built in the 2nd century BCE during the Roman period. The long history of ...
The House of Soviets is an unfinished building in the center of the city of Kaliningrad (Königsberg prior to 1946) in the Kaliningrad Oblast, an exclave of Russia. The local people often refer to it as the "buried robot" because its appearance resembles the head of a giant robot buried in the ground up to the shoulders. Intended as the central administration buil...
The House of Taga (Chamoru:Guma Taga) is an archeological site located near San Jose Village, on the island of Tinian, United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in the Marianas Archipelago. The site is the location of a series of prehistoric latte stone pillars which were quarried about 4,000 feet (1,200 m) south of the site, only one of which is lef...
The House of the Binns (or simply The Binns) is an historic house near Linlithgow in Scotland, and seat of the Dalyell /diːˈɛl/ family. It dates from the early 17th Century, and is currently in the care of the National Trust for Scotland.
The estate is situated on two hills from which its name is derived. It is set in 200 acres (0.81 km2) of parkland, and the house en...
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