More show-offy fabulousness comes with superb cocktails at the grand, Corinthian-columned Merchant Hotel.

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The path opened into a dusty plaza with the massive columned Treasury as its centerpiece.

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He built a white-columned mansion outside Nashville, wore Nudie suits and collected cars with bull horns for hood ornaments.

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Twenty yards back was a columned enclosure, between the sidewalk and shoreline.

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The cavernous, granite-columned old Mellon bank branch in the middle of downtown Pittsburgh epitomizes the lender that nurtured Alcoa, Gulf Oil and U.S. Steel in the Old Economy's heyday.

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Sirte, Libya (CNN) -- On the outskirts of Sirte, a mansion with a columned facade lies in ruins, though its opulence is still evident under shattered glass and chunks of concrete.

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Among the highlights in the weeklong Pride of the South itinerary: the frescoed, gilded, and columned Mysore Palace, and the 12th-century Chennakesava Temple at Belur, 103 years in the making, with every inch covered in carvings of symbolic animals and episodes from epics.

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Set up in the 1830s as a residential area for those who did not want to associate with the Europeans living in the French Quarter, the land parcels were large, the money used to fund the buildings was new, and each white-columned mansion was built to outdo the one before it.

BBC: New Orleans outside of the French Quarter