Word: manors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whoop of joy. His cousin's widow, Mrs. Sibyl Marion Geraldine Gape, had named him heir to an English estate that had been in the family for 500 years; it was worth, even at current rates, a tidy $270,000. There were two fine ancestral houses-Caxton Manor, with 16 rooms, 1,000 acres and three farms in Cambridgeshire; St. Michael's Manor, a 14-room, spacious-lawned house in Hertfordshire that was built by Sir John Gape in 1568. Both were nicely fixed up with central heating, modern plumbing and old family retainers to look after them...
...partnership with Ernest M. Wheeler, who put up the money, she left Wellesley to take over Dana Hall, and has since expanded that institution to include Pine Manor and Tenacre, a school for children from...
...sent by the parents of a young girl in her home town in Vermont to look after their ward while she went to school. Enrolling as a special student in Wellesley College, Miss Cooke was suddenly offered a chance to buy Dana Hall, a prep school attached to Pine Manor, before Dana folded and left her charge without an education...
Briarcliff Manor...
...example, Father Gabriel wanted the new monastery (to be built as soon as the community's "precarious finances" permit) in front of the old manor house, so it would be the first structure visitors would see. "But I was howled down," he said. "The monastery will be built on the heights in back of the building...