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This established a rural pattern of isolated farmsteads in the Midwest and West instead of the European and eastern U.S. states' villages and towns. Settlers built homes from local materials, such as rustic sod, semi-cut stone, mortared cobble, adobe bricks, and rough logs.
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The architecture was often a mixture of styles in timber cut from local forests and stone hewn from local rocks. Most of the timber has gone, although the earthworks remain. Impressively, massive stone structures have survived for years. Neolithic 10,000–3000 BC
The octagonal stone building was designed by Edgar M. Lazarus in the style of Art Nouveau, and completed in 1918 after nearly two years of construction. In 2000, restoration on the building began, and lasted five years. The Vista House is located within the Corbett locality, [4] and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
It is a vernacular Greek Revival style, cobblestone L-shaped farmhouse.It consists of a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, gable-roofed main block with a 1-story former kitchen wing. It was built in about 1840, and is constructed of irregularly sized and variously colored field cobbles.
Staircase House (30/30a Market Place), also known as Stockport Museum, is a Grade II* listed medieval building dating from around 1460 situated in Stockport, historically in Cheshire, now within Greater Manchester, England. [1] The house is famous for its rare Jacobean cage newel staircase. An audio guide recounts the full history of the house.
Studley Royal Park is an estate in North Yorkshire, England.The site has an area of 800 acres (323 ha) [2] and includes an 18th-century landscaped garden; the ruins of Fountains Abbey; Fountains Hall, a Jacobean mansion; and the Victorian St Mary's church, designed by William Burges.
The Octagon House is purported to be one of the most haunted homes in Washington, D.C. [14] Apparitions and the presence of otherworldly forces have reportedly been seen and felt in many places at The Octagon, including on the spiral staircase, the second floor landing, the third floor landing, the third floor bedroom, and the garden area in ...