mansions

Detective Jenna Murphy investigates when a Hollywood power broker and his mistress are found dead in the abandoned, mulitmillion-dollar, beachfront home known as the Murder House located in the Hamptons, New York.

In this book, young readers will discover the Biltmore House built by George Washington Vanderbilt in Asheville, North Carolina. They will learn the history and architectural design of this largest private residence ever built in the United States.

During a family visit to a mansion his father has just inherited, Luke learns about a curse placed on the house--just in time, hopefully, to save his family from being imprisoned (or worse) inside the mansion forever.

Thirteen-year-old Tori Porter and her mother, fun-loving best friends, compete against other relatives in hopes of inheriting a fortune from eccentric Great Aunt Muriel by spending two weeks in a colonial mansion, with no modern conveniences, no outside help, and daily tests.

Traces the history of the Rockefellers' Kykuit estate along the Hudson River, describing how the estate was designed and built, what the house has come to symbolize for the family and American society, and how it represents the family's wealth and dreams.

When Pulitzer Prize?winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her money?.

Two interesting characters who are isolated in their old family mansion refuse to accept the fact that times have changed and are joined by others who share a time of music and liberty.

A reproduction of the first edition of the 1941 novel in which girl detective Nancy Drew sets out to discover what is going on at an old moss-covered mansion she and her friends stumbled across while on vacation.

Twins Felix and Maisie move with their recently-divorced mother into the attic of a historic mansion where they discover secret artifacts,the first of which transports them back in time to the world of Clara Barton.