Sentences with phrase «by wealthy merchants»

It's lined by beautiful buildings and houses dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries, once owned by wealthy merchants.

Funding was provided by a wealthy merchant, Peter Faneuil, for the construction and local artisan to create the grasshopper weather vane that still perches on the building's cupola.

The first Monterey - style adobe in California was built on State Street of Santa Barbara by the wealthy merchant Alpheus Thompson.

Villa Rufolo was built in the 13th century by a wealthy merchant family.

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The collection of Gianni Mattioli, a wealthy Milanese cotton merchant — 25 paintings and one drawing, including works by Italian futurists — was on long - term loan at the palazzo from 1997 until last year, when it was returned to Mattioli's daughter.

Windyhill, in Kilmacolm, 29 miles from Glasgow, is a sprawling property commissioned by Mackintosh's friend and patron, wealthy merchant William Davidson in 1900.