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James Benjamin Homestead is a historic home located at Flanders in Suffolk County, New York. It consists of a main section, built about 1785, which is a two-story, center-entrance residence, and one- and two-story rear additions, built about 1900. Also on the property is a small, late 19th-century barn. [2]
Flanders is a hamlet and a census-designated place (CDP) in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 4,472 at the 2010 census. [2] It is the location of the Big Duck. It is located in the town of Southampton on the south side of the Peconic River at its mouth in Peconic Bay. Riverhead is across the river to the north.
The Villard Houses are a set of former residences at 451–457 Madison Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, United States.Designed by the architect Joseph Morrill Wells of McKim, Mead & White in the Renaissance Revival style, the residences were erected in 1884 for Henry Villard, the president of the Northern Pacific Railway.
Floor plan of a basic Virginia-style hall-and-parlor house. An example from the colonial period of the United States, Resurrection Manor, near Hollywood, Maryland, was built c. 1660 and demolished 2002. A hall-and-parlor house is a type of vernacular house found in early-modern to 19th century England, as well as in colonial North America. [1]
The West Village Houses are a collection of 42 walk-up buildings in New York City's West Village that contain 420 apartments. They were built with the support of New York City and New York State through its Mitchell-Lama Housing Program. They were championed by Jane Jacobs and intended to be built on a human scale in keeping with her ideals.
Woolworth Estate, also referred to Winfield Hall, is a historic estate located at Glen Cove in Nassau County, New York.It was designed in 1916 by architect C. P. H. Gilbert (1861–1952) for Frank Winfield Woolworth (1852–1919).
Central-passage house evolved primarily in colonial Maryland and Virginia from the hall and parlor house, beginning to appear in greater numbers by about 1700. [1] [2] It partially developed as greater economic security and developing social conventions transformed the reality of the American landscape, but it was also heavily influenced by its formal architectural relatives, the Palladian and ...
Fifth Avenue and 77th Street in New York City (winter 1905–1906) The house took up 250 feet on 77th Street and 77 feet on Fifth Avenue, more than any other Gilded Age mansion on Fifth opposite the park, with the exception of the Andrew Carnegie Mansion. [3] The Fifth Avenue frontage was large for a New York house, with three bays of granite.