But scattered throughout are bulging newer mansions with circular windows, enclosed wraparound porches and deep porticos, their roofs topped by whimsical glass-walled belvederes.
Celia Norbert, CN Realty (347) 449-7928; cnrealty.com TAXES: $28,500 a year PROS: This early-20th-century home has large rooms, elegant woodwork, stained-glass windows, a grand staircase, an eat-in-kitchen, high ceilings, a large dining room, a circular driveway, and a covered porch.
Up-to-Date Colonial $2,650,000 WESTCHESTER1212 Rolling Ridge Road, White Plains This six-bedroom, four-bath house is embellished outside with stone pillars, a circular driveway and a wraparound mahogany porch.
Set close to the road on circular streets, some with itsy-bitsy porches and railings only two feet high, the houses -- no more than 12 feet wide and 60 feet deep, on lots 20 by 100 -- seem more fitting for an amusement park than a suburb.
Most Hoysala temples have a plain covered entrance porch supported by lathe turned (circular or bell-shaped) pillars which were sometimes further carved with deep fluting and moulded with decorative motifs.
After returning to Marshall, Pratt built a house resembling the mansion he had occupied in Honolulu, complete with 10-foot doors, windows that open from the ground up, wraparound porches and a 30-foot circular staircase rising to an observation platform atop the roof.
Beycesultan houses had megarons large central halls with porches at either end arranged in pairs with circular hearths backed by twin stelae and clay horns, suggesting an affinity with Cretan cults and a possible dedication to male and female deities.
The house has two bathrooms, a living and dining area, a family room, a front porch and an attached three-car garage with a circular drive.
