pryingeyes
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Post by pryingeyes on Feb 10, 2014 22:44:05 GMT -5
What did you imagine it looked it?
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Post by booboobrewer on Feb 10, 2014 22:55:06 GMT -5
There was an illustration of it in an LS book...Karen's Ghost? I always imagined it like that.
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Post by pryingeyes on Feb 10, 2014 22:58:29 GMT -5
^ Oh I didn't know it was illustrated already. I hardly read the LS books.
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mallorypike
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Post by mallorypike on Feb 10, 2014 23:15:32 GMT -5
I imagined it looking like a white Victorian mansion. Was it ever implied in the books if the mansion was a Victorian mansion?
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Post by pryingeyes on Feb 10, 2014 23:21:55 GMT -5
^ I always pictured it as a white victorian too. Something along the lines of this:  |
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mallorypike
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Post by mallorypike on Feb 10, 2014 23:27:00 GMT -5
I never really imagined as the mansion as a "modern" mansion, more of an old, traditional, Victorian mansion from the 1800s.
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Post by greer on Feb 11, 2014 5:24:31 GMT -5
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Post by Honeybee on Feb 11, 2014 12:22:26 GMT -5
Here's what Victorian Mansion looks like.  |
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Post by pryingeyes on Feb 11, 2014 23:23:55 GMT -5
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Post by greer on Feb 12, 2014 5:16:03 GMT -5
Because Ann based Stoneybrook on the Princeton of her childhood. |
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mallorypike
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Post by mallorypike on Feb 12, 2014 10:40:44 GMT -5
Here's what Victorian Mansion looks like. That's pretty close to how I imagine it. Not the colors of the mansion but the way it's designed and everything. |
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Post by greer on Feb 12, 2014 10:59:43 GMT -5
Here's what Victorian Mansion looks like. That's pretty close to how I imagine it. Not the colors of the mansion but the way it's designed and everything. I think we would have heard about towers and whatnot though. You KNOW Karen would have been all over that. I think Mrs. Porter's house is supposed to be an old Victorian, though. For Kristy's house, perhaps something like this, but in better condition: |
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Post by celaeno on Feb 12, 2014 12:10:18 GMT -5
I guess I always pictured the Brewer house being more of an artless McMansion, which I know isn't accurate since the house is old.
But wasn't Abby's house a new construction? (And so likely to be a McMansion?) I don't know if it's realistic that they would be building new mansions right next to older historical ones.
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Post by greer on Feb 12, 2014 12:51:51 GMT -5
I guess I always pictured the Brewer house being more of an artless McMansion, which I know isn't accurate since the house is old. But wasn't Abby's house a new construction? (And so likely to be a McMansion?) I don't know if it's realistic that they would be building new mansions right next to older historical ones. I thought mrs. Stevenson bought an old house and completely redid it. But it is feasible that, say, someone had an estate and sold it to a developer and they built McMansions there. That's happened on the street where I grew up a few times. |
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Post by pryingeyes on Feb 12, 2014 19:58:10 GMT -5
That's pretty close to how I imagine it. Not the colors of the mansion but the way it's designed and everything. I think we would have heard about towers and whatnot though. You KNOW Karen would have been all over that. I think Mrs. Porter's house is supposed to be an old Victorian, though. For Kristy's house, perhaps something like this, but in better condition: Several times in the early BSC books it was pointed out that Mrs. Porter's house was an old victorian and it had gables and turrets. I don't think the Thomas/Brewer mansion had those, because it would probably be mentioned. We know Watson's mansion had a circular driveway. (It's mentioned in book #8, which is the one I am reading right now.) Now I'm not exactly sure if it was mentioned that Watson's mansion was a victorian, but I found a few pictures:   That's what I found by searching "connecticut mansions" |
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