28 detailed drawings capture lavish elegance of famed Southern mansions Southerners in the antebellum years loved houses with broad verandas and columned porticoes. Tiled roofs and exotic touches of the Middle East were also popular, as were stately Georgian mansions dating from the eighteenth century. For this entertaining and educational coloring book, A. G. Smith has faithfully reproduced 28 of these magnificent structures--from the majestic Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, to the imposing grandeur of Swan House in Atlanta, Georgia. Also included in this handsome collection of historic Southern homes are: The Hermitage (Hermitage, Tennessee) Stanton Hall (Natchez, Mississippi) Mount Vernon (Alexandria, Virginia) C#65533; d'Zan (Sarasota, Florida) Gallier House (New Orleans, Louisiana) Whitehall (Palm Beach, Florida) Stratford Hall (Stratford, Virginia) Oak Alley (Vacherie, Louisiana) Monticello (Charlottesville, Virginia) Belle Meade (Nashville, Tennessee)