From the 12th century onwards, large mansions lined the Strand including several palaces and townhouses inhabited by bishops and royal courtiers, mainly located on the south side, with their own 'river gates' and landings directly on the Thames.

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.

To Mr. Silver, they will recreate an era when grand mansions lined the Hudson.

Staged rows of soaring live oaks form the vaulted arches of a great Gothic cathedral over a grassy esplanade, lined with imposing yet graceful mansions from the 1920's by such eminent architects of their day as John F. Staub and Birdsall P. Briscoe.

Sober mansions and trim lawns lined the wide streets.

Robert Lawrence, a 69-year-old farmer from Newburgh, said that when the Icicle was built in the 1870's, the only practitioners of the sport were the wealthy families whose mansions lined the Hudson.

A mansion of Princess Tongchang that had a water well lined with a railing made of pure gold and silver.

Kadife Sokak - known to everyone as Barlar sokak ("bar street") - is its core, lined with Ottoman mansions that have been converted into clubs and bars.

At one time, mansions lined High Street, as Martin Luther King Boulevard was once called.

TOURING A MANSION Otto Kahn, the turn-of-the-century financier whose philanthropy saved the Metropolitan Opera from bankruptcy, was also a member of the city's Gilded Age gentry whose fabulously elaborate mansions lined upper Fifth Avenue.