page_title: Oldway Mansion
section_title: 20th century
hierarchical_section_title: Oldway Mansion / History / 20th century
caption_attribution_description: English: The Parterre Garden at Oldway Mansion in Paignton, Devon, England.. The Oldway gardens are set in 17 acres (69,000 m2) of gardens, which are laid out in the Italian garden theme by the French landscape gardener Achille Duchesne.
context_page_description: Oldway Mansion is a large house and gardens in Paignton, Devon, England. It was built as a private residence for Isaac Singer, and rebuilt by his son Paris Singer in the style of the Palace of Versailles.
context_section_description: A rock garden was laid out between 1900 and 1902 by Devon landscape gardener FW Meyer using 1,000 tonnes of stone.
  Following the end of an affair with the dancer Isadora Duncan in 1917, Paris Singer became an American citizen and went to live in the United States. This was done partly for tax reasons, and after 1918, Oldway Mansion was no longer the permanent home of the Singer family.
  During the period of the First World War from 1914 to 1918, Oldway Mansion was transformed into the American Women's War Relief Hospital. The Rotunda was converted to house rows of beds for the wounded soldiers being brought back to England from the trenches of France and Belgium. King George V visited the mansion in 1915.
  Oldway Mansion became the Torbay Country Club in 1929. During this period, tennis courts and a bowling green were added to the grounds.
  Torbay Golf & Country Club opened in 1933. Oldway Mansion was used as the club house, with the course in the hills above the Mansion. The course closed in the mid-1950s.
  During the Second World War from 1939 to 1945, Oldway was used in the war effort by housing RAF cadets training to be aircrew. In 1943, Oldway was damaged in an air raid, along with many other buildings in Paignton.
caption: Oldway Mansion has large formal gardens laid out on an Italian theme
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