Then he goes to work in town, which is still largely white, in palatial homes.

"This used to be one of the fine areas for palatial homes and country estates," he said the other day.

The palatial homes they were passing seemed inappropriate for a director of a research center.

The palatial homes shown had been built by men who arrived on the scene with no money.

To neighbors who often made the journey up the hill to see him, he was something more than a rich man with a palatial home.

The wealthy built palatial homes and filled them with fine furniture from Europe.

They never have to even leave their palatial homes.

However, he presented a regal face to the public and lived in a palatial home.

She examined the palatial homes and asked, "Old money up here?"

Crank built a much larger, more palatial home in 1882.