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Nottoway Plantation, also known as Nottoway Plantation House is located near White Castle, Louisiana, United States.The plantation house is a Greek Revival- and Italianate-styled mansion built by enslaved African people and artisans for John Hampden Randolph in 1859, and is the largest extant antebellum plantation house in the South with 53,000 square feet (4,900 m 2) of floor space.
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.
Was the second mansion of P.T Barnum after the fire in Iranistan, was demolished in 1924. Lockwood–Mathews Mansion: 1864 Renaissance: Detlef Lienau: Norwalk: Today, a museum Waldemere 1869 Stick Victorian: Bridgeport: Was the third mansion of P.T Barnum, was demolished in 1889 for his new mansion, Marina. Samuel Clemens House (Mark Twain ...
The Belvedere Estate was originally part of Philipsburg Manor, a 90,000-acre property built for Florence and Casper Whitney. It's situated on more than 25 acres of land and was once the center of ...
The three-story Victorian mansion was designed in the Châteauesque style by Oliver Perry Dennis and Lyman Farwell, a Los Angeles-based partnership. [5] The building contains over 7,000 square feet (650 m 2) of floor space. A near replica, now known as The Magic Castle, was designed by the same architects and erected in Hollywood [6] in 1909.
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 ...
The Bellevue Avenue Historic District is located along and around Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, United States.Its property is almost exclusively residential, including many of the Gilded Age mansions built as summer retreats around the turn of the 20th century by the extremely wealthy, including the Vanderbilt and Astor families.
The Fontanel Mansion is a large log home in Nashville, Tennessee, on 186 acres of property that also contains public walking trails, a bed and breakfast inn called The Inn, the Carl Black Chevy Woods Amphitheater, Adventureworks Ziplines, the Natchez Hills Winery, one of the two Prichard's Distillery locations, Stone House Gift Shoppe, and a café called Café Fontanella.