On such a farm, in such a house and family, Miss Ophelia had spent a quiet existence of some forty-five years, when her cousin invited her to visit his southern mansion.

The building itself affected no particular style and I guessed that it had gone up in the thirties before anybody figured out that California architecture should imitate southern mansions and Italian villas.

The building, designed to look like a southern mansion, was christened "White Columns", and was located in front of the former TV facility.

There are even the kind of southern mansions once reserved for monied areas of Los Angeles or Virginia.

Here indeed was no southern mansion, merely the usual basic rooms, along with an office decorated by framed photographs of horses.

The area was originally developed between 1832 and 1900 and is considered one of the best-preserved collections of historic southern mansions in the United States.

St. Charles Avenue is famed for its large collection of southern mansions in various styles of architecture including Greek Revival, Colonial, and Victorian styles such as Italianate and Queen Anne Style.

It is one of the southern mansions of the Vermilion Bird.

It was the only thing Jupe could see that did not remind him of a movie about an abandoned southern mansion.

Later the southern mansion became John Paulding School, named for one of the local militiamen who had apprehended André nearby.