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Articles relating to Gilded Age mansions, mansions and lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States. These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes in era of expansion of the tobacco, railroad, steel, and oil industries coinciding with a lack of both governmental ...
DuPont-Guest Estate (also known as White Eagle) 1916: Georgian Revival: Carrère and Hastings: Brookville: Since 1972, it has been part of the Old Westbury campus of the New York Institute of Technology [69] more images: Woolworth Estate: 1916: Italian Renaissance: Gilbert, Charles P.H. Glen Cove: Privately Owned [70] more images: Beacon Towers ...
The plan is a 50-foot (15 m) octagon, with a 4-foot-8-inch (1.42 m) veranda all round at first- and second-floor levels. The house is built on 17-inch-thick (430 mm) stone foundations, with external walls of brickwork 13 inches (330 mm) thick.
Anderson Springs were discovered in 1873, when the Anderson family took possession. [4] They became a popular resort. [6] As of 1914 they were owned by Miss Barbara Anderson, who had a hotel that could accommodate more than 100 people. Eight of the springs were in active use. Cold Sulphur was below the hotel and had a temperature of 63 °F (17 ...
Carolands Chateau is a 46,050-square-foot (4,278 m 2), [20] 4.5 floor, 98 room mansion on 5.83 acres (2.36 ha) in Hillsborough, California, United States.An example of American Renaissance and Beaux-Arts design, the building is a California Historical Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
It came as a shock when a landslide destroyed homes in Rolling Hills Estates last July. But research from UCLA and NASA shows that land movement preceded the catastrophe.
Nov. 11—ANDERSON — With a list of 600 families waiting for housing, the Anderson Housing Authority is making plans for a new 120-unit apartment complex. Kim Townsend, executive director of the ...
The Sturges House is the only structure in Southern California built in the modern style Wright called Usonian design. [4] Other Wright homes in the area were built in the 1920s with interlocking, pre-cast concrete blocks, which he named "textile block" style, and seen in such homes as the Ennis House .