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Castle Howard is an English country house which is situated in the north-east of York. It was mostly built from 1701 to 1724 by the playwright John Vanbrugh for the 3rd Earl of Carlisle, Charles Howard. Howard was a member of the famous Kit-Cat-Club. It took over a hundred years to finish the House. The gardens were planned by George London.
House
The house is built in the Baroque style with two symmetrical wings. Howard Castle is one of the largest and most important country houses in England. It was the first private building with a dome whose ceiling was painted the Venetian artist Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini with a depiction of The Fall of Paethon in 1709. Pellegrini painted the saloon of the mansion with scenes from the Life of Aeneas. On the 9th November 1940 a fire brooke out in the southeast wing of the house and destroyed many rooms, among them the dome. The restoration of the house began in 1962 and was finished in 1981. Today Castle Howard is open for public and is visited by roughly 200.000 people per year.
Sources
Smith, Charles Saumarez. The building of Castle Howard. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
http://www.everycastle.com/Castle-Howard.html
http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/castles/howard.shtml