1. Among the mansard roofs and quaint cobblestoned streets, the Maple Leaf stirs intense passions, even when the red and white flag does not wave. 2. A. A mansard roof has double slopes going down on all four sides, with the lower part set at a very steep angle, often curved. 3. Everybody who was raised in a small Texas town has seen the building with the familiar red mansard roof. 4. Featuring mansard roofs and heavy fixtures, the style became an endearing look in cities and grand country homes. 5. Instead the plan called for four nearly identical towers, sporting paste-on pilasters at the base and sloping mansard roofs. 6. Only the little mansard roof survives, its slate and metal trim largely intact. 7. The house is a three-story Victorian with a mansard roof, just off elegant Brattle Street, where towering trees shade red-brick sidewalks. 8. The mansard roof was removed and three floors were added. 9. The palace is graced by French mansard roofs, a grand Italian baroque central arch, and galleries of columns and arches straight out of the Italian Renaissance. 10. The synagogue, a fortified square structure with a high mansard roof, was heavily damaged by the Nazis but was rebuilt after the war and is a museum. |