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Covering 88,000 square feet (8,200 m 2) and with 110 rooms, [3] [4] the mansion is the fourth largest historic house museum in the United States. [5] It was designed by William Kapp of the firm Smith, Hinchman & Grylls in a Tudor-revival style. [9] [10] The building features stonework and a plaster dining room ceiling created by Corrado ...
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The State House Historic District encompasses many historic buildings along West State and Willow Streets in Trenton, New Jersey, including the New Jersey State House, Old Barracks Museum, and the Old Masonic Temple. [2]
It was initially inhabited by the colonial government of Pennsylvania as its State House, from 1732 to 1799. [10] In 1752, when Isaac Norris was selecting a man to build the first clock for the State House he chose Thomas Stretch, the son of Peter Stretch his old friend and fellow council member, to do the job. [11]
Olana State Historic Site is a historic house museum and landscape in Greenport, New York, near the city of Hudson. The estate was home to Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), one of the major figures in the Hudson River School of landscape painting .
The condition of the State House's Georgian marble has been a concern for several years and crews discovered problems with the statue platform while preparing to begin the latest phase of a $2.2 ...
The William H. Seward House Museum is a historic house museum at 33 South Street in Auburn, New York.Built about 1816, the home of William H. Seward (1801–72), who served as a New York state senator, the governor of New York, a U.S. senator, a presidential candidate, and then Secretary of State under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.
In 1947 the General Assembly approved acts designating the State House as a museum. The front entrance was the site of President Bill Clinton 's presidential campaign announcement on October 3, 1991, and the site of his election night celebrations in both of his campaigns for the presidency on November 3, 1992, and November 5, 1996 ...