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Gilded Age mansions were lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States. These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes in era of expansion of the tobacco, railroad, steel, and oil industries coinciding with a lack ...
Even though Jonathan Corwin's descendants claim the house was built in 1642, most historians now believe the house was built c. 1675. [47] The house, located in the Chestnut Street District, is now a museum operated by the City of Salem and is open seasonally. St. Mary's, Whitechapel: Lancaster, Virginia: VA 1675 Religious Deane Winthrop House ...
The brick chimney was a prominent feature in Victorian homes, consisting of a fireplace, chimney breast and chimney stack that protruded above the roof line to exhaust smoke. [4] Victorian houses were generally built in terraces or as detached houses. Building materials were brick or local stone.
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.
[13] [14] The Autrey House Museum, a dogtrot house built in 1849, is located in Dubach; the home is believed to be the oldest extant structure in Lincoln Parish. [15] At Louisiana State University in Shreveport, the Pioneer Heritage Center [16] hosts the Thrasher House, [17] a two-room dogtrot house built in 1850 by Thomas Zilks near Castor ...
Bronck House, Coxsackie, NY, built 1663; Dutch Colonial. Developed from around 1630 with the arrival of Dutch colonists to New Amsterdam and the Hudson River Valley in what is now New York [9] and in Bergen in what is now New Jersey. [10] [11] Initially the settlers built small, one room cottages with stone walls and steep roofs to allow a ...
Aberdeen c. 1800; Adam Thoroughgood House, c. 1719; Agecroft Hall, late 15th century, Lancashire, England—English Tudor manor house transplanted to Richmond and reconstructed by Thomas C. Williams, Jr. in 1925; The Anchorage 1749, Northumberland County; Ampthill 1730, Richmond, Virginia, Built by Henry Cary, Jr. and was later owned by Colonel ...
Pages in category "Houses completed in 1800" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 236 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .