When the light from the finder's stone's teleportation spell died out, the adventurers found themselves once again on the hillside outside the crumbling stone manor.

Built by Captain Christopher Billopp, this grand stone manor overlooks the Arthur Kill and Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

"Fynmere", a grand stone manor from the early 20th century, erected by Cooper heirs on the eastern edge of town, was designed by noted architect Charles A. Platt.

His stone manor, built in 1931, was bequeathed to the New York State Historical Association and today serves as the Fenimore Art Museum.

One estate of about seven acres has a sprawling stone manor with some 12,000 square feet, a two-story library and a vast stone courtyard.

The road to Avenel winds through the hills and old-growth woods of Potomac, past deer-crossing signs and stately stone manors.

Atop the hill stood the remains of a crumbling stone manor.

In the Forest Hill neighborhood, replete with huge Victorians and old stone manors, the asking prices have also skyrocketed in the last few years, Mr. Baris said.

Le Manoir de la Rivière in Gefosse-Fontenay (+33 2 3122 6465, €65) is a baronial stone manor, with grand rooms or self-contained gîtes.

In 1968 the embassy moved into a stone manor at 700 Echo Drive in Old Ottawa South, which was the site of another unsuccessful attack in 1974.