Mansion House, York site of the old "Common Hall Gates" which provided an entrance to the Guildhall. A chapel and other property and tenements which were once owned by the Guild of St. Christopher and St. George including the Cross Keys Public House also lay on this site. These buildings were demolished to build the current Mansion House in 1724. The fifteenth century York Guildhall is situated behind the Mansion House, where the medieval city council held their meetings. In May of each year the Mayor Making ceremony is still held in the Guildhall before the Lord Mayor takes up residence in the
São Bento Mansion São Bento Mansion São Bento Mansion () or, officially, the official residence of the prime minister () is a late 19th-century building that, presently, serves as the official residence of the Prime Minister of Portugal. It is located in the Lisbon civil parish of Estrela, back-to-back with São Bento Palace, seat of the Assembly of the Republic, the Portuguese Parliament. The house was first built by capitalist Joaquim Machado Cayres in 1877, to serve as his private residence. The plot of land he bought for it had belonged to the adjoining Benedictine Monastery since 1598. In 1928, the newly-established authoritarian