Sentence examples for mansion construction from inspiring English sources

But millionaires can be balky, and in 1876 The Real Estate Record and Guide fumed that lots facing the park had been "a mere football for speculative ventures," without any significant mansion construction.

Parklike malls were then ordered for the area over the cut, and they in turn brought town house and even mansion construction to what was renamed Park Avenue no later than 1860.

IN a throwback to the early years of the 20th century when wealthy Chicago families tended to live in such close-in neighborhoods as Prairie Avenue and the Gold Coast, the city's Lincoln Park area is experiencing a boom in mansion construction.

The LeMarchand mansion construction however would bankrupt him and force him to move to a cottage on Koney Island on Cooking Lake, beside the present day Edmonton/Cooking Lake Water Aerodrome in Strathcona County, until his debts were settled.

The mansion builders didn't go past 96th, and apartment house construction swept up Fifth Avenue in the 1920s -- but how far up was again the question.

IN 1915 Willard Straight built the northernmost mansion on Fifth Avenue, in what proved to be the last gasp of millionaire house construction past the crest of Carnegie Hill.

Swift continued the mansion's construction during his ownership.

The legislature appointed a commission of five, including McCreary, to oversee the mansion's construction.

Similar moulding contours were utilized at varying scales throughout the mansion's exterior construction.

Bowers made one final attempt to save the mansion when she hired construction crews and began renovating the mansion.

He also oversaw renovations to the governor's mansion, and promoted the construction of churches with funding from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.