One of the first Tudor homes to be made from brick, many of its original features -- including a vast stone fireplace and a wall of intricately carved dark wood panels -- remain to this day.

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Its main room has a large bronze antelope head on a white adobe wall that tops a curved fireplace, known as a kiva.

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The living room is home to those French-style doors and a sizable fireplace, while the family room offers a wall of built-in bookcases and cabinetry.

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If his dream was to live in the woods, with a fireplace and a typewriter and sheaves of notes hooked on the wall, almost like a deaf-mute in his dealings with the world, that was his affair.

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Choo-Choy's six-bedroom home in Godalming, a country town outside London, Mr. Pellizzoni placed a stag's head over a fireplace and mounted about a dozen masks, collected from her travels to India and Africa, on a wall.

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