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  2. American Foursquare - Wikipedia

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    The American Foursquare or "Prairie Box" was a post-Victorian style, which shared many features with the Prairie architecture pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright.. During the early 1900s and 1910s, Wright even designed his own variations on the Foursquare, including the Robert M. Lamp House, "A Fireproof House for $5000", and several two-story models for American System-Built Homes.

  3. Architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Key influential American architects of the period include Richard Morris Hunt, Frank Furness, and Henry Hobson Richardson. After the war, the uniquely American Stick Style developed as a form of construction that uses wooden rod trusswork, the origin of its name. The style was commonly used in houses, hotels, railway depots, and other ...

  4. List of largest houses in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Perry Belmont House: Washington, D.C. Perry Belmont: Order of the Eastern Star: 1909: Beaux-Arts: Ernest Sanson Horace Trumbauer: 53: 50,316 sq ft (4,674.5 m 2) [72] Otto H. Kahn House: New York, New York: Otto Hermann Kahn: Convent of the Sacred Heart: 1914: Renaissance Revival: J. Armstrong Stenhouse Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert: 54: ...

  5. American System-Built Homes - Wikipedia

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    One of these houses was the Thomas E. Sullivan House at 336 Gregory Avenue in Wilmette, Illinois, next door to the Burleigh House at 330 Gregory Ave. In 1989, Storrer had previously identified the 1916 house as the work of John S. Van Bergen even though the residence does not appear in Martin Hackl's complete catalog, The Works of John S. Van ...

  6. American colonial architecture - Wikipedia

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    This house was modeled on the Villa Pisani in Montagnana, Italy, as exhibited in the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio's Four Books of Architecture (1570). Colonial architect William Buckland designed this house in 1774 and the resulting house is a very skillful adaptation of the Villa Pisani for the warmer climate of the Chesapeake Bay region.

  7. Octagon house - Wikipedia

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    The plan is a 50-foot (15 m) octagon, with a 4-foot-8-inch (1.42 m) veranda all round at first- and second-floor levels. The house is built on 17-inch-thick (430 mm) stone foundations, with external walls of brickwork 13 inches (330 mm) thick.

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