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This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Oldest house in New York City. [22] Brooke Place Manor: Calvert County: MD 1652 Residential Oldest building in Maryland. [23] Loomis Homestead: Windsor: CT 1653 Residential One of the oldest timber-frame houses in America. The oldest part of the house was built between 1640 and 1653 by Joseph Loomis, who came to Connecticut Colony from England ...
Corwin House, Salem, Massachusetts, built ca. 1670, First Period English. American colonial architecture includes several building design styles associated with the colonial period of the United States, including First Period English (late-medieval), Spanish Colonial, French Colonial, Dutch Colonial, and Georgian. [1]
Isabelline Gothic house: Oldest European stone house in the Americas and probably the first European two-story house. [10] [11] [12] Remaining sections of the Santo Domingo City Walls: Santo Domingo Dominican Republic: 1502–1508 Fortification: Oldest military construction of European origin in the Americas. [13] [14] Hospital San Nicolás de ...
Pages in category "Houses completed in the 17th century" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 215 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Abraham Rittenhouse House (c. 1720) with a c. 1860 addition on the left. [7] Elfreth's Alley: Philadelphia, Old City: 1720–1830 Houses Claimed to be the nation's oldest residential street; two rows of Federal and Georgian brick houses built between 1720 and 1830, with a total of 32 extant houses [8] Wyck House: Philadelphia, Germantown
Hammock House: Beaufort: ca. 1700–1750 House Purportedly oldest house in Beaufort, NC, also known as "Blackbeard's House," some sources claim it was built between 1700–1709, based upon a carved timber in the house. [9] [10] Dr. Robertson House: Alamance County: ca. 1750 House Alamance County Architectural Inventory, 2014. [11] Hampton ...
Coquina is a limestone conglomerate, containing small shells of mollusks. It was used in the construction of residential homes, the City Gate, the Cathedral Basilica, the Castillo de San Marcos, and Fort Matanzas. The city of St. Augustine is one of the rare vestiges of 17th-century Spanish colonial architecture in the present day United States.