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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 ...
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Louisa County, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisa County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and ...
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.
These huge, abandoned historic homes date back to at least 1850 and are priced as low as $1,000. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . Fixer-uppers are all the rage right now.
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
Longwood, also known as Nutt's Folly, is a historic antebellum octagonal mansion located at 140 Lower Woodville Road in Natchez, Mississippi, United States.Built in part by enslaved people, [4] [5] the mansion is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, and is a National Historic Landmark.
The Hill House – built in 1906 and located at 144 S. Park St. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on December 14, 1978, reference #78003235. Amy Hill, who owned the house was the widow of Sam Hill who at the time of his death in 1901, was the owner of the oldest and largest Mercantile Company in Prescott.
String of stylish old houses including the 1885 Stick style Mihills house, [251] the 1885 Queen Anne-style Gillies house with its mansard-roofed tower, [252] the 1885 Queen Anne Hoxie House (pictured), [253] the 1900 Dutch Colonial Revival Hoxie Spec house, [254] and the 1910 Queen Anne Holmes house. [255] [256] 123: South Main Street Historic ...