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This is a list of the 100+ largest extant and historic houses in the United States, ordered by area of the main house. The list includes houses that have been demolished, houses that are currently under construction, and buildings that are not currently, but were previously used as private homes. [1]
Hampton Mansion: the former largest home in America was the home to 7 generations of the Ridgely family in Towson, Maryland; Homewood: the historical 1800 Federal-style house of Charles Carroll Jr. in Baltimore, Maryland; Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
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.
Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina, United States.The main residence, Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), is a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 [2] and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 sq ft (16,622.8 m 2) of floor space and 135,280 sq ft ...
Childhood home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; Gardens designed by landscape architect Beatrix Farrand [154] [155] more images: Selma (Leesburg, Virginia) 1902: Colonial Revival: Noland and Baskerville: Leesburg: Built by Elijah B. White a wealthy Virginia banker who at the time was the largest exporter of grain in the United States. [156] Lewis ...
Name Country and territory Built Place Floor area Volume Description Source Boeing Everett Factory United States 1967 Everett, Washington: 398,000 m 2 (4,280,000 sq ft) : 13.3 million m 3 (472 million cu ft)
Nottoway Plantation, also known as Nottoway Plantation House is located near White Castle, Louisiana, United States.The plantation house is a Greek Revival- and Italianate-styled mansion built by enslaved African people and artisans for John Hampden Randolph in 1859, and is the largest extant antebellum plantation house in the South with 53,000 square feet (4,900 m 2) of floor space.
Said to be the oldest continuously inhabited houses still occupied. Buildings have been within the United States since the Mexican Cession of 1848. [2] Acoma Pueblo: On top of a 367-foot (112 m) sandstone mesa in Cibola County: NM 1000 – Built between 1000 and 1200 Residential Said to be the oldest continuously inhabited site in the United ...