The time when people lived in the open air has sunk into the abyss of history. In the modern world there are many opportunities to find a home to your liking. In conversations about housing, we come across such words as "cottage", "villa", "mansion" and others. But how exactly does the mansion differ from other structures? What is the correct interpretation of this word? And what interesting facts about this building can be found out? This article will help you figure it out.
Is the mansion just a big house?
The term "mansion" means a residential building in which a rich person lives permanently (alone or with his family). Such buildings are usually one- or two-story. On their territory there are also a garden, a garage, a recreation area. Brick mansions are richly decorated outside and inside the house, with a full range of functions necessary for a comfortable stay. Currently, few will build a house of wood. This material is preferred in the construction of suburban villas or cottages.
How to say otherwise?
A mansion is just one of the designations of richly built buildings. To expand the vocabulary and to better understand the meaning of the word, consider a synonymous series for this word.
Synonyms of the word "mansion": villa, cottage, palace, manor, estate, tower, estate, private house.
Mansions also become celebrities
This type of residential building has gained particular popularity due to the large number of amazing stories that have occurred in mansions around the world. Mansions are a favorite place for ghosts, mysticism, mysterious and real stories.
Los Angeles. Almost 60 years have passed since the day when Harold Perelson killed his wife in his Los Feliz mansion. In 1959, he brutally hammered a woman with a hammer, and then did away with their daughter. When the distraught man finally realized what he had done, it was impossible to fix anything. He committed suicide by drinking a glass of acid destructive to the body. After this incident, the house was sealed and soon sold at a will by will. But buyers did not dare to settle in a place of bloody reprisal. The empty building was used as a huge storage room for all kinds of trash. But the mansion is a huge territory with a winter garden, many office rooms and magnificent halls. But to this day, he has not seen a single new family that would want to settle in it.
There are buildings that played the role of not only a residential building. So, Hafodunos Hall is an impressive-sized mansion built in the late 19th century on the site of an old 17th-century building. The family that settled here could not pay all the expenses necessary to maintain such a "palace." When the Hall was sold in the first third of the 20th century, it was arranged for an educational institution. There was a school for girls. Then, as a result of a new sale, the mansion became a college. After it was adapted again, but for a nursing home. After some time, the Hall had to be closed, and in this state it stood, shrouded in mold, to the present day. Today, he has new owners who want to return the mansion to its original chic, making it their home.