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  2. Settlement and community houses in the United States

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    University Settlement House, Manhattan. The movement spread to the United States in the late 1880s, with the opening of the Neighborhood Guild in New York City's Lower East Side in 1886, and the most famous settlement house in the United States, Hull-House (1889), was founded soon after by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in Chicago. By 1887, there ...

  3. American colonial architecture - Wikipedia

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    This house was modeled on the Villa Pisani in Montagnana, Italy, as exhibited in the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio's Four Books of Architecture (1570). Colonial architect William Buckland designed this house in 1774 and the resulting house is a very skillful adaptation of the Villa Pisani for the warmer climate of the Chesapeake Bay region.

  4. List of the oldest buildings in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The house today is a museum and headquarters of the Uxbridge Historical Society. It is an excellent example of early New England colonial architecture. Buttolph-Williams House: Wethersfield: CT 1711 Residential One of the oldest surviving homes in Wethersfield, declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968. [78] Randall–Hale Homestead: Stow ...

  5. Architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The few windows that did exist on early colonial homes had small panes held together by a lead framework, much like a typical church's stained glass window. 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.

  6. Historic Homes for Sale That Are Older Than America

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    $7.5 million. Built in 1770, this stunning home has unique ties to the country’s history. Edward Rutledge, who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, lived in the home from ...

  7. List of Gilded Age mansions - Wikipedia

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    Today, houses the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum [84] more images: Joseph Raphael De Lamar House: 1902: Beaux-Arts: C. P. H. Gilbert: New York City: Purchased by the Republic of Poland in 1973 to house its Consulate General [85] more images: James A. Burden House: 1905: Italian Renaissance: Warren & Wetmore: New York City

  8. How Jimmy Carter spent his final years building houses for ...

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    Former US president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn attach siding to the front of a Habitat for Humanity home built on June 10, 2003, in LaGrange, Georgia (Photo by Erik S. Lesser/Getty Images)

  9. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    The C. A. Nothnagle Log House, located in Gibbstown, New Jersey, was constructed in 1638 and is believed to be the oldest surviving log house in what is today the United States. The house was built by colonial settlers in what was then the Swedish colony of New Sweden. [4]