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Island House (Mackinac Island)
Island House may refer to the following structures: United Kingdom * Derwent Island House, Derwent Water, Keswick, Cumbria *Island House, Belle Isle in Windermere * Island House, Birmingham, West Midlands *Island House, Laugharne, Grade II* listed, partly Tudor, sub-medieval town house located in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire *Island House, Barbican, a Grade II listed building in Plymouth, Devon * Island House, Plympton, a Grade II listed building in Plymouth, Devon Other places *Island House, Hong Kong Island House is a historical building located on Island House Lane, Yuen Chau Tsai (), Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. History Built in 1906, Antiquities and Monuments Office. Declared Monuments in Hong KongIsland House/ref> Island Ho ... * The Island House, Elk Rapids, Michigan, U.S. See also * House Island (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derwent Island House
Derwent Island House (often called Derwent Isle House) is a Grade II listed 18th-century Italianate architecture, Italianate house situated on the Derwent Island, Derwent Water, Keswick, Cumbria, and in the ownership of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, National Trust. It is leased as a private home, but is open to the public five days a year. The interior is Classical architecture, classical in style. History Derwent Island was owned by Fountains Abbey and used by monks, but with the dissolution of the monasteries, it became property of the Crown in 1539. In 1569 it was sold to the Company of Mines Royal a subsidiary of a German mining company. The German miners built a camp on the island where they kept animals, grew vegetables and brewed beer. In 1778 Joseph Pocklington bought the island (then known as Vicar's Island) from Miles Ponsonby for £300. He built a house, boathouse, fort and Artillery battery, battery, and Druid Stone circle, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belle Isle (Windermere)
Belle Isle is the largest of 18 islands on Windermere, a mere in the English Lake District, and the only one ever to have been inhabited. It is 1 km in length. The Roman governor at Ambleside built a villa on the island. In 1250 it was the seat of the district's Lord of the Manor. It was also a Royalist stronghold during the English Civil War. Island House was built in 1774 to designs by John Plaw. It is unusual in that it is circular in plan, built of brick, three floors high with a four column portico; it draws closely on the Pantheon, Rome. The house was sold along with the island to the wealthy Curwen family who renamed the island after their daughter, Isabella. It was then sold on to Isabella Curwen by her family in 1781 for £1,720 and was permanently renamed after her. The descendants of Isabella and her husband John Christian Curwen lived on the island until 1993. It is called 'Bell Island' not 'Isabella Island' because of use of the shortened form of Isabella- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island House, Birmingham
Island House was a locally listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ... in Birmingham's Eastside area, with a roughly triangular footprint, and was built in 1912 by the architect G. E. Pepper. It was built in the Edwardian Mannerist style, ornately decorated with both Ionic and Doric decorations. Originally it was designed to be used as office building and warehouse for the prominent “Messrs Churchill & Co” machine tool company. The opening ceremony of Island House was held in 1913. Located next to the Masshouse developments, Island House was occupied by teams from Birmingham City Council's arts team, including Film Birmingham, Urban Fusion and ArtsFest. The building was used in conjunction with other establishments in the city, including the Iko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island House, Laugharne
Island House is a Grade II* listed, partly Tudor, sub-medieval townhouse located in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, in southwest Wales. It sits below the castle between the two mouths by which the River Corran enters the Tâf estuary, known locally as "Earth Lake" and "Mill Orange". The frontage now ranges along Wogan Street but was formerly set in a walled garden. Built principally of stone, the earliest parts date from the 15th century, with additions from the 16th and 19th centuries. The grading status signifies a building of exceptional interest and it is the oldest residence in the township. The historic importance of whole site is shown by separate listings of its garden, walls and outbuildings. Laugharne was a seaport from the early Middle Ages and the first owners of Island House traded goods from the adjoining Gosport Harbour at the head of the Corran navigation. It could then shelter 350-ton vessels but capability slowly declined as the inlet's tidal prism was red ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island House, Barbican
Island House is a former merchant's house and Grade II listed building on the Barbican in Plymouth, Devon, England. History Built between the 1570s and 1600s, it is known for being the last place of accommodation for the Pilgrim Fathers on English soil, prior to them setting sail on the Mayflower on 6 September 1620. Construction It is a local example of a jettied merchant's house. Present day Island House has maintained its Grade II listed status, until 2010 as a tourist information centre and since then an ice cream shop. A blue plaque from 1976 can be found beside the shop entrance describing Island House as "one of the houses where a group of English puritans, since known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were entertained ashore prior to their final departure for America on the 6th September 1620 in the 'Mayflower ''Mayflower'' was an English ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. Aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island House, Plympton
Island House is a Grade II In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ... listed building in Plympton, Devon, England. – Plymouth City Council, January 2008 Standing at 4 Church Street, at the corner with Fore Street, Plympton's main street, it dates to the 18th century. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island House, Hong Kong
Island House is a historical building located on Island House Lane, Yuen Chau Tsai (), Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. History Built in 1906, Antiquities and Monuments Office. Declared Monuments in Hong KongIsland House/ref> Island House served as the residence for the first British Police Magistrate appointed in 1898. It was also the official residence of the North District Officer and the residences of District Commissioners for the New Territories. Island House had been resided in by a total of 15 District Commissioners since 1949. The last resident of the Island House was Sir David Akers-Jones, who became the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong in 1985. Since then, the house has become the Island House Conservation Studies Centre () after it was passed to the custodianship of WWF HK. To increase public understanding and participation in biodiversity monitoring WWF Hong Kong have been increasingly getting involved in Citizen Science Citizen science (CS) (similar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Island House
The Island House, sometimes referred to as the Edwin Noble House or the Elk Rapids Island House, is a historic structure located at 300 Isle of Pines Drive in the village of Elk Rapids in the U.S. state of Michigan. Built in 1865 as a private residence by Edwin S. Noble (1838–1922), it was listed as a Michigan State Historic Site on April 24, 1979. Since 1949, the Island House has served as a public library within the Elk Rapids District Library. The island The Island House is centered on an island at the mouth of the Elk River leading to Grand Traverse Bay in Lake Michigan. The island itself has no official name. The Elk River flows for only a short distance at 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from its source at Elk Lake, but in that short distance, the river had numerous rapids through a seven-foot (2.1 m) drop in elevation. The island encompasses four acres (1.6 ha) and peaks at about 25 feet (7.6 m) above the surface. Edwin Noble radically transformed the island by covering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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