A ballroom without the duke’s dancesSourced
The owner built an underground hall but never hosted a dance there
The fifth Duke of Portland had rooms and tunnels built beneath his English estate in the nineteenth century. A great hall served as a picture gallery and occasionally a ballroom. The duke himself never organised a dance in it.
An impressive room’s possible uses need not match its owner’s preferences.
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