mansard

A man of average height must stoop under the beams of the little mansard chamber in No. 20 Bonngasse.

Archive 2009-06-01

His mansard-roofed summer mansion- called Bleak House - stood at what is now 13th and Geranium until it was torn down in 1916.

Alaska was hot on the minds of many in D.C. years before it won statehood

It has a mansard roof, and is in northern California.

Bryson's 'Short History' Of Household Objects

Later, in the 1870s, with the French no longer Britain's naturalenemies, Second Empire architecture became popular, with its telltale mansard roofs, dormer windows and bracketed balconies.

British architecture: Victorian and Edwardian

Late Victorian, solidly brick built, it rose through three floors of diminishingly elaborate casement windows, the uppermost arched attractively and poking out from a fine mansard roof.

The Priest

So perhaps the architect should put in for a three-storey building with a mansard roof (which would be a couple of feet taller than the building opposite), getting the developer four storeys.

Matthew Yglesias » Who’s Afraid of a 4 Story Building?

He'd gone up there with another altar boy from Moosup; the two occupied separate rooms in the old Victorian house, a place whose long windows and mansard roof made it look like something out of the Addams Family.

David Margolick: Tommy Deary's Long Overdue Justice

A 1997 fire destroyed the top stories, including the mansard, of what was originally a six-story structure.

Fading Landmark Seeks Future

In "Paris Through a Window," a human-headed yellow cat perches on a window sill; the Eiffel Tower looms above mansard roofs; a parachute-jumper descends from the tower; an upside-down train and two figures float past; a blue-faced, Janus-headed man lurks in a corner, holding a heart in his blue palm.

Beyond Fragile Fantasies

With its mansard roof and intricately ornamental exterior, 901 Broadway was an obvious candidate for landmark status, which it received in 1977.

From Second Empire to Second Chance