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The Cape May Historic District is an area of 380 acres (1.5 km 2) with over 600 buildings in the resort town of Cape May, Cape May County, New Jersey.The city claims to be America's first seaside resort and has numerous buildings in the Late Victorian style, including the Eclectic, Stick, and Shingle styles, as well as the later Bungalow style, many with gingerbread trim.
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.
Historic house built about 1800. 6: Abraham Best House: Abraham Best House: July 14, 2011 : 113 Vischer Ferry Rd. Vischer Ferry: Federal style house, built ca. 1815. 7: Broadway Historic District: Broadway Historic District
The glass that was used was imported from England and was incredibly expensive. [13] In the 18th century, many of these houses were restored and sash windows replaced the originals. These were invented by Robert Hooke (1635–1703) and were made so that one panel of glass easily slid up, vertically, behind another. [14]
The works was called "the Glass House Company of New York". [123] The Glass House Company of New York was located on the Hudson River on land that included the Glass House Farm and became known as New Found Land. [124] Newspaper advertising indicates that the works was producing by October 1754, and bottles were the main products.
Back in the day, however, streams and creeks downtown were commonplace according to "Stories Old and New of the Cape Fear Region," a delightful (albeit somewhat dated) 1956 tome of Wilmington ...
Old House: Cutchogue: 1699 [10] Dated by dendrochronology [10] De Wint House: Tappan: 1700 Washington Revolutionary headquarters; one of the oldest surviving buildings in Rockland County Ezra Carll Homestead: South Huntington, Long Island: 1700 Jarvis-Fleet House: Huntington, Long Island: 1700 Lispenard–Rodman–Davenport House: New Rochelle ...
Tabby, made of lime, oyster shells, water, ash, and sand, was often poured out to make a hard flooring in these structures. [7] During the 18th century, the "common houses" were whitewashed in lime mortar with an oyster shell aggregate. Typically two-story, the houses included cooling porches to accommodate the Florida climate. [8]