The Athenaeum Rectory was built with Moorish- Gothic architecture, not typical of the building style of the 1830s. It is the design of Adolphus Heiman, the architect of many buildings and homes in the Nashville and Middle Tennessee area. …

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Athenaeum Ghost Hunt scheduled for Oct. 29

Upscale Gothic — Think stylish haunted mansion, dripping with vintage looking black and white decor. Create an eerily elegant centerpiece by spray painting interesting branches black and securing them in an old silver vase or pitcher so they look like …

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Its opening gala, however, will take place on May 5 — a date chosen because it will be 138 years to the day when the red-brick, Gothic structure originally opened as the Midland Grand Hotel.

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London’s historic St. Pancras Renaissance opens today

The 1867 high-Victorian Gothic church was closed last year because of declining membership and financial difficulties. Later, the interior furnishings and art pieces were sold and auctioned to religious and private parties. ..

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A Glorious Afterlife

A ROW has erupted after plans for a upmarket housing complex were put forward as a way of saving a dilapidated historic building.

The grade II-star Hamsterley Hall, in County Durham’s Derwent Valley, is deemed at risk by English Heritage but would cost more than £5.3m to restore.

The 18th century hall, said to be one of only a few remaining examples of Georgian Gothic architecture in England, had been left to crumble at times in the past and three of its main buildings are in varying states of disrepair.

Now the family that took control of the majority of the estate in 2007 is proposing a novel way of saving the historic hall and reinstating the grade II-listed Handley Cross Bridge, named after his most famous book by Robert Smith Surtees, who inherited the hall in the 1830s.

On the 66-hectare site surrounded by parkland, the current owners want to create a housing estate made up of four and five bedroom homes, each costing between £350,000 and £500,000.

Father and son owners Bill and Steven Spry hope that selling the proposed 60 properties will bring in enough money to meet the £2,694,269 funding gap in the restoration project.

Steven said: “We want to restore the hall to its original use and live in it as a family home.

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