General view
by PAXTON, Joseph, Photo
In 1850, Paxton was commissioned by Baron Mayer de Rothschild to design Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire. This was to be one of the greatest country houses built during the Victorian Era. Following the completion of Mentmore, Baron James de Rothschild, one of Baron de Rothschild’s French cousins, commissioned Château de Ferri�res at Ferri�res-en-Brie near Paris to be “Another Mentmore, but twice the size”. Both buildings still stand today.