main house
Estate's central building
The main house is the primary residential building on a property that includes multiple structures.
On estates, farms, or compounds, it distinguishes the principal dwelling from guesthouses, servants' quarters, carriage houses, or outbuildings: The main house has six bedrooms; the cottage by the lake sleeps two.
In theater, the main house is the primary auditorium.
Landed aristocratic residence
- villaStately country residence
- chateauFrench country mansion
- mansionLarge, stately home
- groundsBasis for justification
acreage · property · domain · plantation · homestead · ranch · outbuildings · guesthouse
False outward appearance
- porticoColumned covered entryway
- gableTriangular wall portion
- dormerProjecting rooftop window structure
- columnsUpright structural shafts
balustrade · cornice · pediment · veranda · eaves · masonry · stucco · architrave
Of lasting significance
- ancestralOf one's forebears
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- restorationReturning something to condition
- heirloomInherited family treasure
legacy · provenance · antebellum · colonial · Victorian · Georgian · listed · landmark status
Center of interest
- showpiecePrized display item
- grandeurImpressive splendor and scale
- eleganceRefined, graceful quality
- splendorImpressive, striking beauty
impressive · stately · magnificent · opulent · monumental · commanding · prominent · landmark
manor
Landed aristocratic residence
grounds · acreage · property · domain · plantation · homestead · ranch · outbuildings · guesthouse · servants quarters
façade
False outward appearance
- porticoColumned covered entryway
- gableTriangular wall portion
- dormerProjecting rooftop window structure
columns · balustrade · cornice · pediment · veranda · eaves · masonry · stucco · architrave · frieze
historic
Of lasting significance
- ancestralOf one's forebears
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- restorationReturning something to condition
heirloom · legacy · provenance · antebellum · colonial · Victorian · Georgian · listed · landmark status · conservation
focal point
Center of interest
splendor · impressive · stately · magnificent · opulent · monumental · commanding · prominent · landmark · prestige
- lakoufamily compound, communal space, shared space, peristyle, family altar
- estate buildingsmansion, gatehouse, outbuilding, lodge, greenhouse
- historic American homesmansion, Georgian, antebellum, Georgian style, Palladian
- Japanese Architecturestorehouse, shoji, shoji screens, tatami, tatami room
- plantationsplantation, Melrose, Monmouth, Longwood, plantation owner
- ranch buildingsbarn door, bunkhouse, cattle barn, chicken coop, dairy barn
main houseguesthouse
Lodging for visitors
guest house · outbuilding · annex · dependency · servants' quarters
main, house, household, housing, houses, warehouse, housework, mainstream, mainland