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In September 2000, the State Department building (previously known as "Main State", and often called by the metonym "Foggy Bottom") was named in honor of President Harry S. Truman. [ 7 ] As of 2007 [update] , more than 8000 employees worked in the Truman Building. [ 8 ]
In 1938, Gladys Mills Phipps donated the house and 192 acres (78 ha) of land to the state of New York as a memorial to her parents. [3] As a State Historic Site, the estate is operated by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. In 1988, the Friends of Mills Mansion were organized to support the preservation and ...
Was the third mansion of P.T Barnum, was demolished in 1889 for his new mansion, Marina. Samuel Clemens House (Mark Twain) 1874 Victorian Gothic: Edward Tuckerman Potter: Hartford: Today, a museum Marina 1889 Romanesque and Queen Anne: Longstaff and Hurd: Bridgeport: Was the fourth and last mansion of P.T Barnum in Bridgeport, was demolished in ...
Gunston Hall is an 18th-century Georgian mansion near the Potomac River in Mason Neck, Virginia, United States. [4] [5] Built between 1755 [6] and 1759 [7] by George Mason, a Founding Father, to be the main residence and headquarters of a 5,500-acre (22 km 2) slave plantation.
Killenworth is a historic mansion in Glen Cove, New York constructed for George Dupont Pratt in 1912. It was purchased by the Soviet Union in 1946 to become the country retreat of the Soviet, and later Russian, delegation to the United Nations.
Meadow Brook Hall is a Tudor revival style mansion located at 350 Estate Drive in Rochester Hills, Michigan.It was built between 1926 and 1929 by the heiress to the Dodge automaker fortune, Matilda Dodge Wilson and her second husband, lumber baron, Alfred Wilson.
Arlington House is the historic Custis family mansion built by George Washington Parke Custis from 1803–1818 as a memorial to George Washington.Currently maintained by the National Park Service, it is located in the U.S. Army's Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia (formerly Alexandria, D.C.).
Castle Rock, also called Osborn Castle, [2] is the estate of former Illinois Central Railroad president William H. Osborn in Garrison, New York, United States.It sits on the hill of the same name, looking down on the Hudson River 620 feet (190 m) below.