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The house boasts three large, built-in closets, which was highly unusual in the 1800s. The downstairs closet features storage shelves and space for wooden racks to hang cloaks and hats.
A gallery wall features a framed loan the property was bought with; newspaper clippings; and pictures, including an early photo of the farmhouse and a circa-1905 black-and-white snapshot of a ...
A wood-frame structure, likely the original plantation house, was built before 1800. [5] After 1820, the original house was divided into a duplex and used as living quarters for slaves. [5] In the 1850s, a grand mansion, designed by New York architect Alexander Jackson Davis, [6] was built in the Carpenter Gothic style for the Miller family. [5]
more images: James A. Burden House: 1905: Italian Renaissance: Warren & Wetmore: New York City: Today, it houses the lower school of the Convent of the Sacred Heart [86] more images: Morton F. Plant House: 1905: Neo-Renaissance: Robert W. Gibson Thierry W. Despont (renovations) New York City: Today, a Cartier store [87] [88] more images: Felix ...
Those white “reel” discs held dozens of images that also could appear in 3D, scenes of Yosemite or Batman or Mickey Mouse. But those full-color moments felt more like watching a freeze-frame ...
The breezeway through the center of the house is a unique feature, with rooms of the house opening into the breezeway. The breezeway provided a cooler covered area for sitting. The combination of the breezeway and open windows in the rooms of the house allowed outside air to enter the living quarters in the pre–air-conditioning era. [5]
Over the years, the compound expanded to include the “Big House,” a 21-room mansion meticulously decorated by Rose Kennedy, and two additional properties acquired by John F. Kennedy and Robert ...
The Leeds Improvement Act 1866 (29 & 30 Vict. c. clvii) imposed regulations on new houses, to include gated yards, wider streets and improved interior design. The Medical Officer for Health unsuccessfully sought to abolish back-to-back construction in about 1880, [ 5 ] by which time population density had improved to 200 people living in 50 ...