It was founded by silent-move star Alla Nazimova, who turned an old Spanish-style mansion into a complex of rented villas popular with the Hollywood set and known for wild parties.
Set on rolling hills among Newport's mansions, the SVF complex, with its restored stone buildings that resemble a Swiss village (the "SV" in the name), is an odd combination of an early 20th-century "gentleman's folly" hobby farm and a scientific facility.
Also available, on Wednesdays through Sundays, are children's tours of the Ballantine House, a historic Victorian mansion in the museum complex.
A decade later, the firm built an additional wing for the mansion, and today, the complex comprises two wings surrounding a U-shaped courtyard.
Across the small bay east of Abidjan, Cocody grew up in isolation as an area of expensive housing (including the presidential tower mansion) with two hotel complexes and a tourist centre.
Thirty years ago, when I.B.M. bought the site from the Rockefeller family, it was stipulated that the new office building would blend in with the surrounding landscape and not degrade the meadowland views from the windows, terraces and gardens of the Rockefeller mansions at the family complex nearby in Pocantico Hills.
Some of those items nearly hit a young child near the pool area of the Mansions at Acqualina apartment complex in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., according to the lawsuit.
Turning the memorable apartment complexes, mansions and Tatooine dwellings into minimalist posters, he's created a collection of illustrations, titled "Archicine," that is fit for the most obsessed film follower.
He takes me to see this place, the Villard Mansion, with a heavy and complex and foreboding interior.
