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In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings. Eighteenth-century English landscape gardening and French landscape gardening often featured mock Roman temples, symbolising classical virtues. Other 18th-century garden follies imitated Chinese temples, Egyptian pyramids, ruined medieval castles, abbeys, or Tatar tents, to represent different continents or historical eras. Sometimes they represented rustic villages, mills and cottages, to symbolise rural virtues.[1] Many follies, particularly during times of famine, such as the Great Famine in Ireland, were built as a form of poor relief, to provide employment for peasants and unemployed artisans. In English, the term began as "a popular name for any costly structure considered to have shown folly in the builder", the Oxford English Dictionary's definition.[2] Fol

Folly - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Type of building For other uses, see Folly (disambiguation) . Broadway Tower , Worcestershire , England The Dunmore Pineapple in Scotland (attributed to William Chambers ) Built in 1912, the Swallow's Nest is one of the Neo-Gothic châteaux fantastiques in Crimea . Modern reconstruction of the Turkish Tent, a permanent structure at Painshill , Surrey In architecture , a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that i

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