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unusual facts about Big House



Bakersfield sound

Love of the Bakersfield Sound has never died, carried on by artists such as the Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers in the 1960s-70s, Highway 101, Hillman and The Desert Rose Band, and Marty Stuart in the 1980s and '90s, and Big House, Dwight Yoakam, Red Simpson, Ferlin Husky.

Liteyny Avenue

The avenue passes by several notable locations including the Big House (Liteyny 4), the 19th-century Varvara Dolgoruky mansion (Liteyny 14), Muruzi House with Joseph Brodsky apartment (Liteyny 24), Nekrasov Museum (Liteyny 36), Zinaida Yusupova mansion (Liteyny 42), Mariinsky Hospital (Liteyny 56).


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Al-Hajjaria

Al-Hajjaria Trust was composed of the "Big House" on Souk Road and the well-known Al-Hajjaria Agricultural farm on Tahhan Road situated on the way out to Quba Mosque.

Castle Rackrent

Castle Rackrent, a short novel by Maria Edgeworth published in 1800, is often regarded as the first historical novel, the first regional novel in English, the first Anglo-Irish novel, the first Big House novel and the first saga novel.

Ernst Kaiser

Ingrid Bacher went to Marbach and read the text in the archive "The Big House" and many letters from Kaiser / Bausinger.

Grumblethorpe

With its strong stone and oak facade, Grumblethorpe was known as "John Wister's Big House." In the early 19th century, Charles Jones Wister gave the house its name, from the popular comical novel Thinks-I-To-Myself by Edward Nares.

The Allman Brothers Band Museum

Dickey Betts wrote Blue Sky in the living room and Ramblin' Man in the kitchen of the Big House.

Tone Dale House

Today the 16 bedroom Tone Dale House is owned by Ben Fox (former Director at Fox Brothers) and Victoria Fox (and run by the Big House Co) and can be hired for celebrations, anniversaries, weddings, reunions or corporate events.