folly
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thumbnail|Broadway Tower, Worcestershire|Broadway Tower, [[Worcestershire, England]] thumb|The Dunmore Pineapple in Scotland (attributed to William Chambers) thumb|Built in 1912, the Swallow's Nest is one of the Neo-Gothic châteaux fantastiques in [[Crimea.]] thumb|Modern reconstruction of the Turkish Tent, a permanent structure at Painshill, [[Surrey]]
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Characteristics
- History
- Follies in 18th-century French and English gardens
- Famine follies
- Examples
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- United States
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumbnail|Broadway Tower, Worcestershire|Broadway Tower, [[Worcestershire, England]] thumb|The Dunmore Pineapple in Scotland (attributed to William Chambers) thumb|Built in 1912, the Swallow's Nest is one of the Neo-Gothic châteaux fantastiques in [[Crimea.]] thumb|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 it transcends the range of usual garden buildings.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “folly” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.