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“Built for durable beauty in hand-carved limestone and crowned with soaring two-story copper mansards, the seven-floor, 13,000-square-foot residence embodies the elegance of the neo-French Classic style.”
From MarketWatch • Oct. 24, 2025
Simulated cracks slash across brickwork on townhouse chimney stacks, and mansards seem to be melting.
From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2022
With verve and showmanship, he wedged his pagoda between staid mansards.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2012
Even to find housing and studio space, artists have been forced to spread out far beyond such traditional artists' quarters as Montparnasse and Montmartre, now live in attics and mansards or cellars all over Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was gray and overcast, clouds low down over the roofs which stretched away in a gray huddle of flat tops and slanting mansards and chimneys and clotheslines.
From The Black Eagle Mystery by Bonner, Geraldine
