Items matching manors taken from Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

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manors: stately homes; the home of the local lord in Feudal times, hence the lord of the manor; often manorhouses have become large farmhouses today.

Synonyms: manor-house, stately home

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Pictures from English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott and Company, MCMXV [1915].

Anne Hollingsworth Wharton was born on 15th December 1845 and died on 29th July 1928, more than 70 years ago, so that this work is out of copyright. She was a descendent of Joseph Wharton and hence related to Thomas Wharton Jr. (1735-1778), the first President of Pennsylvania.

Baronial hall, Penshurst Place

Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

“On the left are the buttery and the kitchens and, separated from the stone passage by a screen of carved oak panels, is the Great Hall, the glory and wonder of the castle, with its open timber roof, [...]

Keywords: interiors, fireplaces, manors, furniture

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-03-12

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Methley Hall, Yorkshire

Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

This building was demolished in 1963, and there is nothing left of it. I find no mention of this Hall in the book, unfortunately. Methley Hall was the country house of the Savile family, Earls of Mex [...]

Keywords: manors, animals, sheep, trees

Places shown: Mickletown; West Riding; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2005-04-02

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Penshurst Place, Kent

Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

“In this fourteenth-century castle lived the great English liberal, Algernon Sidney, the friend and counsellor of William Penn, who had a hand in drawing up the famous “Frame of Government” for the Pr [...]

Keywords: manors, trees

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-03-12

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Sulgrave Manor

Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

The English home of the WashingtonsNow little more than a farm house, the manor was a priory of St Andrew’s before the Reformation in the 16th Century. It’s located in Sulgrave, near Banbury in Oxford [...]

Keywords: manors, horses, trees, farms

Places shown: Sulgrave; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2003-12-02

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