The time when people lived under the open sky has sunk into the abyss of history. In today's 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 structure can you find out? This article will help you figure it all out.
Is a mansion just a big house?
The concept of "mansion" means a residential building in which a rich person lives on a permanent basis (alone or with his family). These buildings are usually one or two stories high. On their territory there are also a garden, a garage, a recreation area. Brick mansions are houses richly decorated outside and inside, with a full range of functions necessary for comfortable living. Nowadays, few people will build a house out of wood. This material is preferred in the construction of country villas or cottages.
How else to say?
Mansion is just one of the designations for richly built buildings. To expand the vocabulary and better understand the meaning of the word, consider a synonymic series for this word.
Synonyms for the word "mansion": villa, dacha, palace, estate, estate, tower, estate, private house.
Mansions become celebrities too
This type of residential building has gained particular popularity due to the large number of amazing stories that have taken place in mansions around the world. Mansions are a favorite place for ghosts, mysticism, mysterious and real stories.
Los Angeles. Nearly 60 years have passed since Harold Perelson murdered his wife in his Los Feliz mansion. In 1959, he brutally beat a woman with a hammer, and then committed suicide 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 that is detrimental to the body. After this incident, the house was sealed and soon sold at auction by will. But the buyers did not dare to settle in the place of massacre. The empty building was used as a huge pantry for all sorts of trash. But the mansion is a huge territory with a winter garden, a lot of office space 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 mansion built at the end of the 19th century on the site of an old building of the 17th century. 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 turned into an educational institution. There was a school for girls here. Then, as a result of a new sale and purchase, the mansion became a college. After it was adapted again, but already 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 it has new owners who want to return the original chic to the mansion, making it their home.
