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In the 1950s, the family abandoned the mansion. Though no one is certain of the reason, there are rumors of ghosts and an affair with one of the servants that ended in a tragic death.
The Surgeon's Mansion was built in 1917 and served as the residence of the chief surgeon of the United Verde Copper Company's hospital. It is located at 100 Hill Street. [37] The New State Motor Building was built in 1918. It was a car dealership and show room upstairs and a garage downstairs.
The Carter House was owned by John W. Carter, a sales clerk and city councilman, and his wife Margaret Redd.The couple first moved into the house before 1890, but the home is estimated to have ...
The two-story mansion, which had seven bedrooms and five bathrooms, was built of bricks, steel and cement. The mansion was eventually abandoned and boarded up, but it remained a local landmark. In 2010, a fire, which the authorities considered suspicious, completely destroyed the historic mansion. [9]
Squatters have taken over an abandoned Los Angeles mansion belonging to the son of the Philadelphia Phillies owner as neighbors view the high-end property as an eyesore and are scared for their ...
Dungeness on Cumberland Island, Georgia, is a ruined mansion that is part of a historic district that was the home of several families significant in American history.The mansion was named after a nearby sandy spit at the southern end of the island, first recorded in a land grant petition in 1765 and almost certainly named after the Dungeness headland, on the south coast of England.
Some famous mansions still sit empty today or are being used for vastly different purposes.
Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room Neoclassical Revival mansion in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.It was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer for industrialist Peter A. B. Widener and built between 1897 and 1899.