Here in this riverside city of 10,000, where gracious mansions were seized early in the Civil War by Union forces, a new invader has stormed the town.

It's a gracious white mansion with gardens and extensive grounds that are now used as a state park.

We drove east along Monument Avenue into the district known as the Fan, where gracious mansions lined historic avenues and college students crowded old homes.

You'll find exhibits relating to the island's history in Beaconsfield, a gracious Victorian mansion on Kent Street.

Now they passed a series of stately and gracious mansions, all with perfectly manicured lawns, rose gardens and stone statues and water fountains.

About 30 quilts on view in Glyndor House, a gracious Georgian mansion, were made by 21 members of the Manhattan Quilters Guild.

Auk felt uneasy among the Palatine's gracious mansions of gray stone; until now he had visited them only to steal.

The sight was, briefly, tempting, but I proceeded through the village to Kilmurvey House, a large, gracious Georgian mansion, now a comfortable and welcoming bed-and-breakfast.

Teguise is a fine old town of cobbled streets and gracious mansions and was the island capital until 1852.

The chauffeured car went up the curving drive to the gracious mansion set well back from the street amid the flowers and trees.