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While the area may not have been his favorite, the Brolins certainly made the home their own, tapping celebrated interior design studio, Pierce and Ward, to decorate it with a traditional, baronial aesthetic.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
The novel begins with the birth of a boy named Lajos to his aloof, baronial parents, Sándor and Mária von Lázár.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Frederick Douglass depicted his plantation in Maryland as resembling “what the baronial domains were during the Middle Ages in Europe.”
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2024
The castle itself is an example of Scottish baronial architecture, and is classified by Historic Environment Scotland as a category A listed building.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2022
He lived out there, eight miles from any neighbor, in masculine solitude in what might be called the halfacre gunroom of a baronial splendor.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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