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  2. Lillian Sefton Dodge Estate - Wikipedia

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    View of the front of Mill Neck Manor, former estate of Lillian Sefton Dodge. It was designed in 1922 by the architectural firm Clinton and Russell for cosmetics executive Lillian Sefton Dodge. It was inspired by St. Catherine's Court in Somersetshire, England. [3] The manor house is a Tudor Revival style dwelling.

  3. Belle Grove Plantation (Middletown, Virginia) - Wikipedia

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    Belle Grove's plantation grounds include the large limestone manor house (which accommodates the visitor's center in its basement), an 1815 icehouse and smokehouse, a slave cemetery, a "heritage orchard", and a demonstration garden designed by the Garden Club of Virginia.

  4. Listed buildings in Hathersage - Wikipedia

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    Historic England, "Outbuildings to the east of Brookfield Manor, Hathersage (1159176)", National Heritage List for England Historic England, "Barn to the south-west of Hathersage Hall, Hathersage (1158788)" , National Heritage List for England , retrieved 18 July 2022

  5. List of Gilded Age mansions - Wikipedia

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    The manor homes and city seats were designed by prominent architects of the day and decorated with antiquities, furniture, and works of art from the world over. Many of the wealthy had undertaken grand tours of Europe, during which they admired the estates of the nobility. Seeing themselves as their American equivalent, they wished to emulate ...

  6. Bellwood (Richmond, Virginia) - Wikipedia

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    In 2020 and 2021 the Bellwood Manor house underwent a year-long $3.28 million renovation. The renovation work overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was done in accordance with plans and drawings approved by the Virginia State Historic Preservation Office, and included some structural repairs, as well as interior and exterior restoration ...

  7. List of the oldest buildings in Maryland - Wikipedia

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    Brooke Place Manor [1] St. Leonard, Maryland: 1652 Residence This is primarily an 1840 structure; that year a "completely new interior" was installed; "all that remains of the first (1652) house are the (lower part of the) exterior walls." The original house was a Flemish bond brick structure of 1-1/2 stories with a very steep A-roof.

  8. Belvoir (plantation) - Wikipedia

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    William Green's 1669 patent for 1,150 acres (4.7 km 2) encompassed most of the peninsula between Dogue Creek and Accotink Creek, along the Potomac River.Although this property was sub-divided and sold in the early 18th century, it was reassembled during the 1730s to create the central portion of Col. William Fairfax's 2,200-acre (8.9 km 2) plantation of Belvoir Manor.

  9. Blandair - Wikipedia

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    Blandair, also known as Blandair Farm, Blandair Park, and Blandair Regional Park, is 300 acres of former slave plantation located in Columbia, Maryland. [1] [2] [3] The Blandair Foundation estate of Mrs. Smith was purchased by Howard County, Maryland in the late 1990s and is in the process of being developed as a regional park.