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1848. House. It is likely the oldest standing European American structure in the state of Utah, dating to the year of the Mexican Cession of the Alta California region to the United States following the Mexican–American War. Fort Laramie 'Old Bedlam' Building. Torrington. WY.
Designated RTHL. 2006. The Grove (also known as the Stilley–Young House), located in Jefferson, Texas, is an 1861 historic home that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. The house has also been called the most haunted place in Texas. The Grove's history dates back to the 19th ...
The Real Purpose of Little Doors. In some old houses, the little doors are designated storage space for a card table! These small spaces were meant to keep card tables—which almost everyone had ...
October 9, 1960. The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts is a historic house built around 1637, [ 1 ][ 2 ] making it the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America that has been verified by dendrochronology testing. Puritan settler Jonathan Fairbanks constructed the farm house for his wife Grace (née Smith) and their family.
The home has not-so-shockingly been on the market several times in recent years. In 2012, the asking price was $2.2 million. Ten years later, it finally sold for $660,000, according to Zillow ...
San Jose Daily News, March 29, 1895. In the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), when it added the Winchester home to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981, they incorrectly stated that the construction lasted 38 years, and reiterated that Winchester believed she must continue building or she would die. HABS also incorrectly listed the purchase date as 1884 when county records ...
This style of architecture developed in New Orleans and is the city's predominant house type. The earliest extant New Orleans shotgun house, at 937 St. Andrews St., was built in 1848. [citation needed] Typically, shotgun houses are one-story, narrow rectangular homes raised on brick piers. Most have a narrow porch covered by a roof apron that ...
Zillow. $15.5 million. This property may have a grand price tag, but you’re getting an entire estate for the money. Meet Pleasant Prospect Farm, a historic waterside estate that dates all the ...