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2. Ashton Villa - Wikipedia

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   Making very little change to the building, the house served as their business offices and meeting hall until 1970, at which point it was put up for sale. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Under the threat of demolition, the Galveston Historical Foundation raised $125,000 (~$756,996 in 2023) to purchase Ashton Villa.

3. United States Customs House and Court House (Galveston, Texas)

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   The U.S. Custom House in Galveston is a simply detailed Classical Revival, two-story, brick building located near the waterfront in Galveston. The most notable features are the projecting double gallery on the west facade and the inset double galleries on the longer, north and south facades. The exterior walls are hard-fired, red-brown bricks ...

4. List of islands of Texas - Wikipedia

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   Clear Lake Shores (Galveston County) Cove Island (Chambers County) Coulter Island (Chambers County) [5] Coyote Island; Dagger Island; Dewberry Island; Galveston Island; Goat Island (Galveston County) Goat Island (Tarrant County) Grass Island; Hannah Island; Horse Island (Chambers County) Ingleside Point; Lawrence Island' (Chambers County) [6 ...

5. Samuel May Williams House - Wikipedia

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   Samuel May Williams moved to Mexican Texas in 1822 and soon began working as the secretary to Stephen F. Austin, the first empresario in Texas. [5] During the Texas Revolution (1835–1836), Williams and his business partner Thomas F. McKinney used $99,000 of their own funds to purchase supplies for the Texian Army; Williams also purchased the first ship in the Texas Navy, the schooner Invincible.

6. Black and white bungalow - Wikipedia

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   Burkill Hall in Singapore Botanic Gardens, the oldest surviving 19th century Anglo-Malay Plantation building, forerunner to the black and white bungalow. In Malaysia and Singapore, bungalows such as these were built from the 19th century until World War II for the wealthy expatriate families, the leading commercial firm as well as the Public Works Department and the British Armed Forces. [2]

7. Bungalow - Wikipedia

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   The overwater bungalow is a form of, mainly high end, tourist accommodation inspired by the traditional stilt houses of South Asia and the Pacific. The first overwater bungalows were constructed on the French Polynesian island of Ra’iātea in 1967 by three American hotel owners, Jay Carlisle, Donald McCallum and Hugh Kelley.