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Picture an elegant old home in your mind, and chances are good that you're imagining something resembling a Victorian. Here are 20 of the most beautiful ones up for sale.
When money is no object, hotel suites can become more than just a place to sleep. Often priced per night at more than the average family spends on their entire vacation, these extravagant...
The house in question is listed for $1.299 million and is a custom-built, 14,150-square-foot Victorian that sits on 80 acres of “serene country hills,” the listing on Zillow.com describes.
In the middle of the 19th century, Fowler made his mark on American architecture when he touted the advantages of octagonal homes over rectangular and square structures in his widely publicized book, The Octagon House: A Home For All, or A New, Cheap, Convenient, and Superior Mode of Building, printed in the year 1848. [2]
The Hotel del Coronado, also known as The Del and Hotel Del, is a historic beachfront hotel in Coronado, California, just across San Diego Bay from San Diego.A rare surviving example of an American architectural genre—the wooden Victorian beach resort—it was designated a California Historical Landmark in 1970 [4] and a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
The Mansion on O Street is housed in a historic building, [12] incorporating 30,000 square feet (2,800 m 2) into 100 rooms. It includes 6 main kitchens, 12 conference rooms, and 30 special event galleries. [13] Rooms, suites and residences have varied theme, including a two-story log cabin, a safari room and an art deco penthouse.
If you’re one of those who revels in all things DIY, this Victorian in Montrose, Pennsylvania is pretty much the home project to end all home projects.
Communal dining area of a Common lodging-house in New York, circa 1910 Children within a Common lodging-house, Christmas 1910. Urban reformer Jacob Riis was not only an advocate for improving the condition of people living in cheap lodging houses; he had lived in them as a young man, an experience he described in his slum memoir How the Other Half Lives (1890).