Word: mansard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turning to sleet. The Reagans swept into town in a 16-car motorcade. They did not stay at the posh Blair House; that had been booked long before the election for a visit by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Instead they were billeted in a four-story beige brick, mansard-roofed town house at 716 Jackson Place, across Lafayette Park from the White House. One of a row of town houses owned by the Government, the dwelling is used as a residence for distinguished guests...
...from unique," Slive countered, calling the frame house "the last gasp of the mansard style...
...most energetic and best preserved" of a series of houses Fogarty built which were Queen Anne mansard hybrids. Susan Maycock, an architectural historian on the staff of the Cambridge Historical Commission, said...
Slive who said the Fogg was "bursting at the seams," called the building "a last gasp of the mansard style," adding that it was "out of context with the neighborhood...