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As the country's second-largest private residence, Oheka Castle was the lavish home of financier and philanthropist Otto Hermann Kahn and his family. With its 127 rooms and exquisite formal ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
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 ...
North Bend Plantation, 1819, Charles City County - family home of the Harrison family; Oak Hill, 1822, Loudoun County — home of James Monroe after Ash Lawn-Highland; Oatlands, 1804, Loudoun County - Plantation belonging to the Carters of Virginia, a National Trust Historic Site; Old Mansion, c. 1669, Caroline County - home of the Hoome family
Maverick Design and Wedgewood Homes turned it into a beautiful and ec0-friendly house for a family. The neglected yard got redeveloped with water-smart plants. The neglected yard got redeveloped ...
House Beautiful: What was the home like before? Hannah Ozburn: It was a little darker with much more neutral and traditional furnishings and textiles, while I have incorporated a lot more light ...
The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts is a historic house built around 1641, [1] [2] making it the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America that has been verified by dendrochronology testing. Puritan settler Jonathan Fairbanks constructed the farm house for his wife Grace (née Smith) and their family. It was occupied and ...
The John Ballantine House is a historic house museum at 49 Washington Street in the Washington Park section of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States.Built in 1884 to a design by George Edward Harney and little altered since 1900, it was the home of Jeannette Boyd (1838–1919) and John Holme Ballantine (1834–1895), the son of Peter Ballantine, founder of the Ballantine beer brewery.