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Built in 1800, it is a well-preserved example of a late Georgian/early Federal country house, and was the farmhouse for one of Acton's largest 19th-century farms. The interior includes well-preserved period details, including stencilwork by the itinerant artist Moses Eaton, Jr. [ 2 ] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic ...
Octagon House in Watertown, Wisconsin, built 1853 David Van Gelder Octagon House in Catskill, New York, built 1860, photographed on January 13, 2008. This is a list of octagon houses. The style became popular in the United States and Canada following the publication of Orson Squire Fowler's 1848 book The Octagon House, A Home for All.
The home at 79 Green dates to around 1801 and is known as The Richard Douglass House; [10] Douglass was a veteran of the American Revolution, and the house is still a private residence. Also in the immediate area is the Starr Street District, a group of row houses built in the first two decades of the 1800s.
The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [1] Five of the properties and districts are further designated U.S. National Historic Landmarks .
Jeremiah Lee, oil on canvas, John Singleton Copley, 1769. Wadsworth Atheneum Mrs. Jeremiah Lee, oil on canvas, John Singleton Copley, c. 1769. Wadsworth Atheneum. The mansion is a large wooden house in the Georgian style, with imitation stone ashlar facade, built in 1768 by Colonel Jeremiah Lee, at that time the wealthiest merchant and ship owner in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
The house was razed in 1954 to build a factory on the site. [8] The former oldest structure with an Atlanta postal address was the Goodwin House, built in 1831. It was located at 3931 Peachtree Road in Brookhaven, Georgia, 0.5 miles (0.80 km) east of the Atlanta city limits. The house was dismantled and moved to an undisclosed location in 2016. [9]
The Easton Historic District is a historic district that covers most of the core of the town of Easton, Maryland.The town is the county seat of Talbot County.The state of Maryland is nearly split by the Chesapeake Bay, and Easton is located on the east side of the bay that is known as Maryland's Eastern Shore.
1st Harrison Gray Otis House on Cambridge Street. The first Otis house, built in 1796, is located at 141 Cambridge Street, next to the Old West Church in Boston's West End. It is now a National Historic Landmark, and a historic house museum owned and operated by Historic New England, which also uses part of it as its administrative headquarters.