Mansion House, Swansea day it has been called the Mansion House. Mansion House, Swansea The Mansion House is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of Swansea. The Mansion House is situated in the Ffynone area of Swansea. Today the Mansion House is used for a variety of public and private functions. The Mansion House was opened in 1863, when a local builder, Evan Matthew Richards built it for his family, it was then called Brooklands. He was the Mayor of Swansea in 1855 and also 1862. By 1880 Brooklands had been sold twice before it was purchased by the County Borough of
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