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The mansion was built of wood in a loose Palladian style; the original house was built in about 1734 by George Washington's father Augustine Washington. [4] George Washington expanded the house twice, once in the late 1750s and again in the 1770s. [4] It remained Washington's home for the rest of his life.
Mount Vernon, George Washington's Fairfax County, Virginia plantation home Peacefield, the home of John Adams and John Quincy Adams in Quincy, Massachusetts Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Albemarle County, Virginia plantation home; appears on the back of the U.S. nickel Montpelier, James Madison's Orange County, Virginia plantation home Lincoln Home, Abraham Lincoln's Springfield, Illinois ...
Edith Macefield (August 21, 1921 – June 15, 2008) was a real estate holdout who received worldwide attention in 2006 when she turned down an offer of $1 million to sell her house to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington (originally reported as a package worth $750,000). [1]
Washington, DC: Built for James G Blaine. Stewart's Castle: 1873 Second Empire: Adolph Clauss: Washington, DC: Built for William Morris Stewart, was demolished in 1901. Galt Mansion 1876 Chateusque: Washington, DC: Originally built for William Mathew Galt, later sold to Alexander Graham Bell and Edson Bradley. Bardley enlarged the house in 1907.
Andrus caught the bug, and in 1858 offered his brother-in-law, local architect and carpenter David Stewart, a steep sum to quickly design and build a distinctive house. [3] Using Orson Squire Fowler's A Home For All as a guide, they began constructing this house, finishing in 1860. [2]
The custom-built home contains six bedrooms over 6,316 square feet. ... The living room of the Obamas' home in Washington, DC. ... The mansion was listed for sale on Redfin at $5.3 million in 2014 ...
Arlington House is the historic Custis family mansion built by George Washington Parke ... of George Washington. After acquiring the property, ... a sale price of ...
It was built of sandstone from the Wilkeson sandstone quarry in Wilkeson, Washington. The building has a green, glazed terra cotta tile roof, 18 rooms, 4 baths, and 8 fireplaces. It was modeled after the John A. McCall Mansion in Monmouth County, New Jersey (built in 1903, destroyed by fire in 1927).