Mansion House, London the columned "Egyptian Hall", was so named because Dance used an arrangement of columns deemed to be "Egyptian" by Vitruvius. No Egyptian motifs were employed. It has twenty niches for sculpture. There was originally an open courtyard, later occupied by a saloon. The residence used to have its own court of law, since the Lord Mayor is the chief magistrate of the City while in office. There were eleven holding cells (ten for men and one, nicknamed "the birdcage", for women). A famous prisoner here was the early 20th-century suffragette women's rights campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst. Mansion House is home to
Boracay Mansion years earlier on September 2005, still did not gain any bidders and was also declared a failure. The property is then pegged to value at least ₱142.9 million even it is too deteriorated for residential use at that time. This prompted the city government to take full possession of the property for use by the Office of the Mayor. On the property, the Quezon City Reception House was built as the official residence of the Mayor of Quezon City and later became the official residence of Vice President Leni Robredo. Boracay Mansion The Boracay Mansion was an unfinished residential building