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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 in 1638. Later additions to the Loomis house were made around the turn of the 18th century. It is now a part of the Loomis Chaffee School. Newman–Fiske–Dodge House: Wenham
Southfork Ranch: a house built by Joe Duncan located near Plano, Texas; setting for the American soap opera Dallas Texas Chainsaw House : (now the "Grand Central Cafe and Club Car Bar" restaurant) is a Victorian house now located on the grounds of the Antlers Hotel and was used in the filming of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre during 1973, when it ...
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 continuously occupied community in the US, [5] known today as Sky City 1325 Tenochtitlan: Distrito Federal: Mexico Present-day Mexico City: 1450 Taos Pueblo: New Mexico United States One of the oldest continuously inhabited Native American settlements in the United States [citation needed] 1493 La Isabela: Puerto Plata: Dominican Republic
Boca Raton. Dixie Manor; Hialeah [6]. La Esperanza; Milander Manor; Raul A. Martinez; Ruth A. Tinsman Pavilion; Vernon Ashley Plaza; Dale G. Bennett Villas; Donald F ...
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]
In the 1930s, parts of the house were divided into apartments and remain so today. Descendants of the original family live on the large second floor. Lookout Mountain Castle, Chattanooga, Tennessee, built in 1929 over Ruby Falls on Lookout Mountain. It is listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. [2]
The movement spread to the United States in the late 1880s, with the opening of the Neighborhood Guild in New York City's Lower East Side in 1886, and the most famous settlement house in the United States, Hull-House (1889), was founded soon after by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in Chicago. By 1887, there were 74 settlement and neighborhood ...