Sentence examples for mansion building from inspiring English sources

The northern limit of mansion building was a topic of concern after Andrew Carnegie built his big house at 91st Street in 1903.

By that time, the age of the great private house was passing; mansion building was reduced to a trickle as apartment buildings perfected their appeal to millionaires.

From the centre's wreckage "elegant mansion buildings" and "impressive town houses" will soar, we are told, some of them arranged in handsome crescents.

What we can be certain of is that none of the 1,314 "elegant mansion buildings" and "impressive town houses" Capco wishes to replace the Earls Court exhibition centre with will be purchased or lived in by anyone who hasn't got plenty of dosh.

In America's middle-class era, the mansion-building, yacht-owning classes had pretty much disappeared.

In 1911 Clark began a 50-foot-wide town house at 46 East 70th Street, in a center of mansion-building activity.

But sales have seldom lived up to expectations, and it may be because India's affluent classes are bipolar on matters of luxury: with a little of the renouncing, homespun ascetic in them, and a little of the mansion-building maharajah.

Here -- as in sections devoted to the original blueprint for the city, the first waves of movie-star mansion-building, the Beverly Hills police force and the influx of Iranian immigrants -- potentially threadbare material is given new interest thanks to the real-estate perspective.

In the late 1990s, Dell cranked out so many millionaires among its employees that it led to a mansion-building boom in the area around its Texas headquarters.

"The children in it are running through their grandmother's mansion and building suspense.

Like Ximeng mansion, the building is decaying and crowded with families.It is unclear if Su will be successful.