Large country houses and their grounds, such as the Châteauesque mansion of the Biltmore Estate, the plantation home of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello and the imperial villa and gardens at Katsura in Kyoto. A house belongs here when the cited article calls it an estate, a mansion, a plantation residence or a villa. It excludes the small modernist houses of the twentieth century. The group follows the description the cited article gives.
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Biltmore Estate (Wikipedia)
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Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina, United States.
Monticello (Wikipedia)
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Monticello ( MON-tih-CHEL-oh) was the primary residence and plantation of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third president of the United States.
Katsura Imperial Villa (Wikipedia)
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The Katsura Imperial Villa or Katsura Detached Palace (桂離宮, Katsura Rikyū; Japanese pronunciation: [ka.tsɯ.ɾa ɾʲiꜜ.kʲɯː]) is an Imperial residence with associated gardens and outbuildings in the western suburbs of Kyoto, Japan.
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