In 1885, The Eagle reported a building boom in Park Slope, with high-end houses selling for $8,000 to $16,000, built in Queen Anne, "modern," traditional brownstone, "French roof" (meaning mansard) and other styles.
The station itself was a 400 feet long brick depot, three stories tall and topped with a French roof.
For example, PAI Partners, a French firm, lost control of Monier, a French roofing company, to its unrelenting creditors.
Proponents of reclamation say that when the exterior of a vacant attic is altered -- to look like an old-fashioned French mansard roof, for example, a common approach -- it can add architectural interest to the building.
NESTLED in a curve of the Mekong River, Vientiane, Laos, is a place where monks in orange robes outnumber tourists, and French colonial roofs and gilded temples form the skyline.
doormen, renovated kitchen and bath, French doors, common roof deck in building; maintenance $668 , 50 tax-deductible; listed at $309,000, 4 weeks on market (Broker: Bellmarc) UPPER EAST SIDE $850,000 422 East 72nd Street (Oxford) 2-bedroom, 2-bath, 1,263-sq.-ft.
Stylistically the complexes are often quite distinct from one another, so that a short stroll can take one past French Gothic mansard roofs, neo-Georgian gabled dormers, and Italian Romanesque/Renaissance towers.
Stylistically the complexes are often quite distinct from one another, so that a short stroll can take one past French Gothic mansard roofs, neo-Georgian gabled dormers, and Italian Ro- manesque/Renaissance towers.
Built from 1633 to 1638 on the banks of the River Po by Carlo Emanuele I, it was meant to indulge his somewhat petulant daughter-in-law, Marie-Christine of France, who among other things demanded a French-style slate roof, rarely found in Piedmont.
The French-style conical roof is a 19th-century attempt by Anthony Salvin to remodel the tower in the fashion of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's recreation of Carcassonne.
This iconic photo was taken on the roof of French Vogue in Paris, for Giovanni Versace's first haute couture line.
