LANCASTER IN STYLE, PART 8: SECOND EMPIRE, 1850-1868 Skip to main content Subscribe Today! Register Log In ...

Perhaps the older home didn’t make a grand enough statement or the pair was ready for a change, as by 1872 they had begun construction on a new house in the popular and ornamental Second Empire style.

The French architectural style of this period quickly spread throughout America from 1860 to 1875. The hallmark of the Second Empire style was the mansard roof, named after its inventor François ...

This is one of the few Second Empire–style homes in Santa Barbara ... and are larger and of more solid architecture than those on the middle lots. … The parlors have bay windows and marble mantels.

Archaeologists discovered a 2,000-year-old rock quarry in Jerusalem which may have provided the massive stone building blocks used in the Second Temple ... when the Roman Empire conquered ...

1863-1907) of Joseon rechristened the nation as the Daehan Empire in 1897 and ruled as an emperor until ... newspaper articles and related information on stone architecture existing in Britain and ...