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The Liljestrand House at 3300 Tantalus Drive in Honolulu, Hawaii, was designed by Vladimir Ossipoff for Betty and Howard Liljestrand, a doctor and nurse who had bought the hillside site overlooking downtown Oahu in 1948. Completed in 1952, the house "was perhaps Ossipoff's most intricate as well as his most widely publicized domestic commission."
The Andrew Carnegie Mansion is at 2 East 91st Street [5] [6] in the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. [7] It stands on 1.2 acres (0.49 ha) of land [8] between Fifth Avenue and Central Park to the west, 90th Street to the south, and 91st Street to the north. [9]
Kahn designed an addition to the house in 1962-1964 for a prospective owner, Mrs. C. Parker, but she did not purchase the house and the addition was never built. [ 6 ] : 428 Designed to blend seamlessly with the existing house, the proposed addition would have increased the house's size significantly by extending the house to the left as one ...
The Chinsegut Hill Manor House (also known as Mount Airy, Snow Hill, or simply The Hill) is an historic site about five miles northeast of Brooksville, Florida, on Chinsegut Hill. Chinsegut Hill, at an elevation of 269 feet (82 m), is one of the highest points in peninsular Florida. It is in Hernando County north of the city of Brooksville. [3]
The Don M. Stromquist House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is located on a ten-acre site in Bountiful, Utah. At an altitude of 6,000 feet (1,800 m), it consists of the main house, an office/laboratory/garage annex, a gardener's shed and a barn.
Vista House is a museum at Crown Point in Multnomah County, Oregon, that also serves as a memorial to Oregon pioneers and as a comfort station for travelers on the Historic Columbia River Highway. The site, situated on a rocky promontory, is 733 feet (223 m) above the Columbia River on the south side of the Columbia River Gorge .
At an elevation of 348 feet Harbor Hill is the highest point in Nassau County, New York. [2] Whether Harbor Hill or 401-foot Jayne's Hill to the east was the highest point on Long Island was a point of some debate in the 19th century, with Harbor Hill often thought to be the higher.
The house was also specifically designed for her antiques and reproduction furniture, which she had collected over 50 years. [8] Robert lived in the house until a few months after his 1967 marriage to Denise Scott Brown. Vanna Venturi lived in the house from 1964 though 1973, often lecturing visiting architects on architecture and the architect.