Mr. Hill has a fine residence on the estate, which is built in a Malay style of architecture, is admirably suited to the climate, and is surrounded by a lovely flower garden.
This restaurant, more reflective of a fine residence, offers lunch, tea and supper with seasonal, fresh foods.
Prices for apartments in Paris have never been higher, due to a housing shortage aggravated by high demand, said Yves Raphalen, a real estate agent with Belles demeures de France Fine Residences, an affiliate of Christie's International Real Estate.
Early in the 19th century it enjoyed popularity as a site for fine residences and businesses, including the opening of the Maine Avenue Fish Market in 1805, which today reigns as the oldest continuously operating open-air fish market in the country.
Today she is the manager of the Port Richmond Library, which operates out of a stately brick edifice that Andrew Carnegie's largess built a century ago on "one of the finest residence streets on Staten Island," as the area was described in The Staten Islander of March 1905.
"Here is one of the finest residences of Marlboro," she said with mock pride, after negotiating a sticky lock.
The city is situated on the northern slopes of Mount Carmel, except for the port section on the bay; residential and business districts are on the slopes, and finer residences and many resort hotels on the mountaintop, commanding scenic views of the entire bay area.
(Its two huge marble wings—one for the Senate and one for the House of Representatives and Renaissance-style cast-iron dome were later additions). The White House, designed by James Hoban (1792), was inspired by Leinster House in Dublin, Ireland, and is considered one of the world's finest residences for a head of state.
It was constructed during the 1920s to replace Pine Street, which had been lined with factory and warehouses near the river, and fine mansion and rowhouse residences farther north.
Legend further has it that when Morgan was asked why he had built so fine a residence for a mere bishop he replied, "The Bishop of New York should live like everybody else".
Glessner House, which was the subject of a notable preservation battle in the 1960s, is considered to be Richardson's finest urban residence.
