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This is a list of the 100+ largest extant and historic houses in the United States, ordered by area of the main house. The list includes houses that have been demolished, houses that are currently under construction, and buildings that are not currently, but were previously used as private homes. [1]
Covering 88,000 square feet (8,200 m 2) with 110 rooms, [3] [4] the structure is the fourth largest historic mansion museum in the United States, and is classified as one of America's Castles. [5] In 1957, the mansion and the surrounding property and buildings were donated to the state of Michigan in order to fund Michigan State University ...
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.
Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina, United States.The main residence, Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), is a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 [2] and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 sq ft (16,622.8 m 2) of floor space and 135,280 sq ft ...
Hampton Mansion: the former largest home in America was the home to 7 generations of the Ridgely family in Towson, Maryland; Homewood: the historical 1800 Federal-style house of Charles Carroll Jr. in Baltimore, Maryland; Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
Known as America’s largest home, the Biltmore in Asheville, North Carolina, was built for George Vanderbilt and his family in the late 1800s. The 250-room castle is set on 8,000 acres and has a ...
Whitehall is a 75-room, 100,000 square foot (9700 square meter) Gilded Age palace type mansion open to the public in Palm Beach, Florida in the United States.Completed in 1902, it is a major example of neoclassical Beaux Arts architecture designed by Carrère and Hastings for Henry Flagler, a leading captain of industry in the late 19th century, and a leading developer of Florida as a tourist ...
Following the American Civil War and ensuing collapse of the plantation economy, Andrews sold the home and plantation in 1868 to Zane Heller, for the meager sum of $50,000 (~$953,744 in 2023). Ware and his descendants owned and operated the plantation for 65 years, and two of his sons, James Andrew Ware and John M. Ware, eventually acquired it.