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 | | Palladian villas are usually on just three floors: a rusticated basement or ground floor, containing the service and minor rooms; above this, the piano nobile accessed through a portico reached by flight of external steps, containing the principal reception and bedrooms; and above this, a low mezzanine floor with secondary bedrooms and accommodation. |
 | | English Palladian houses were now no longer the small but exquisite weekend retreats from which their Italian counterparts were conceived, not villas but "power houses" in Sir John Summerson's term, the symbolic centers of power of the Whig "squirearchy" that ruled Britain. |
 | | In Virginia and Carolina, the Palladian manner is epitomized in numerous Tidewater plantation houses: Stratford Hall or Westover, or Drayton Hall near Charleston are all classic American colonial examples of a Palladian taste that was transmitted through engravings, for the benefit of masons—and patrons, too—who had no first-hand experience of European building practice. |
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