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Wilfrid Worland

Wilfrid V. Worland (1907–1999) was an architect who between the 1930s and the 1990s shaped the suburban landscape of Washington, D.C., by specializing in town houses and who designed two developments named for him --"Worland", a five-story apartment building on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington, D.C., and a town house cluster also called "Worland" on Democracy Boulevard in Bethesda, Md.


1824 in the United Kingdom

2 April - The British government buys John Julius Angerstein's art collection for £60,000 for the purpose of establishing a National Gallery in London which opens to the public in his former townhouse on 10 May.

Benjamin N. Duke House

Benjamin's brother James Buchanan Duke (1856–1925) also built a townhouse on Fifth Avenue, the James B. Duke House, which was designated a New York City Landmark in 1970, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

Charles A. Platt

In 1907 he designed a townhouse for Sara Delano Roosevelt on East 65th Street in New York, now a historic landmark, the Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House.

Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond

He owns Ballyedmond Castle in Rostrevor, Corby Castle in Cumbria, and No. 9, Belgrave Square, London (a 6-storey townhouse purchased in 2006 for about £12m, restored during the following three years).

English country house

It is interesting that while the latter two are ducal palaces, Montacute, although built by a Master of the Rolls to Queen Elizabeth I, was occupied for the next 400 years by his descendants, who were gentry without a London townhouse, rather than aristocracy.

Generosa Ammon

On January 15, 2002, she married her boyfriend, Daniel Pelosi, an unlicensed electrician whom she met when he showed up at the doorstep of her Manhattan townhouse because he was told she was hiring workers for a remodeling job.

Go Europe!

The album was mastered by Doug Shearer at Townhouse Studios, London, England.

Henry Plumer McIlhenny

During his lifetime his collections of French masterpieces, 18th and 19th century silver, furniture and other decorative arts were housed in both his Rittenhouse Square townhouse and at Glenveagh Castle, his country house in County Donegal, part of the Province of Ulster in Ireland.

James Basset

To his unborn child, Charles Basset, he left the lease of his London townhouse near the Savoy Palace in The Strand.

James Joyce Centre

The Centre is situated in a restored 18th-century Georgian townhouse at 35 North Great George's Street Dublin, dating from a time when north inner city Dublin was at the height of its grandeur.

Jean Marie, Duke of Châteauvillain

Jean Marie was born in Paris at the Hôtel de Toulouse, Parisian townhouse of the fabulously wealthy Duke of Penthièvre.

Landis Gores

Gores helped Johnson on Early Miesian inspired houses which included the Booth House, the Rockefeller townhouse, the MOMA garden, and the famous Glass House.

Manor House, 21 Soho Square

It was originally built in 1678 as a townhouse but through its history has also been a notorious brothel, the headquarters of Crosse & Blackwell and is now an office building.

Marble House

There she divided her time between a Paris townhouse, a villa on the Riviera, and the Château d'Augerville, which she restored.

Mathias Hansen

Mathias Hansen House, a former Renaissance-style townhouse located in central Copenhagen, Denmark

Molesworth Street, Dublin

One of the most important building is Freemasons' Hall, home of the Grand Lodge of Ireland designed by the architect Edward Holmes of Birmingham and completed in 1866 on the site of the townhouse of the first grandmaster, the Earl of Rosse.

Nina Munk

Munk is married to the artist Peter Soriano, with whom she owns a townhouse purchased for $3.7 million in 2012 in New York City.

Ocean Isle Beach house fire

According to an Associated Press (AP) news story of November 10, the North Carolina Building Code Council was already reviewing a proposal to modify soffit materials for townhouses following another fire in Raleigh on February 22, 2007 caused by an improperly discarded cigarette that ignited pine needles and raced through the soffit and into the attic and destroyed 38 townhomes.

Rhode Island Route 112

After leaving the village, Route 112 becomes Richmond Townhouse Road, continuing north for a few more miles until it ends at Route 138 near the Meadow Brook Golf Club.

Rittenhouse Square

James Harper, a merchant and brick manufacturer who had recently retired from the United States Congress, was the first person to build on the square, buying most of the north frontage, erecting a stately townhouse for himself at 1811 Walnut Street (c. 1840).

Sauve

In the mid-1990s American underground comic artist Robert Crumb traded six of his sketchbooks for a townhouse in Sauve.

Shared historical authority

Dennis Severs House is a historic townhouse in London (18 Folgate St.) that was restored by Dennis Severs.

Steven Oken

Less than two weeks after Oken murdered Dawn Garvin, he sexually assaulted and murdered his sister-in-law, Patricia Hirt, at his White Marsh townhouse, dumping her body along White Marsh Boulevard.

Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley

The great City of London townhouse of the Berkeleys, known as "Berkeley's Inn", was at Puddle Dock by Baynard's Castle, close to the Blackfriars Monastery.

Townhouse Designhotel Maastricht

Townhouse Designhotel is sponsor for Maastricht football club MVV during the season 2010-11.

Winterton Hospital

New homes have been built to the south of the site in the style of townhouses while the middle section has been used for various high-tech startup companies collectively known as Netpark.

Wordsworth House

Wordsworth House is a Georgian townhouse situated in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England, and in the ownership of the National Trust.


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