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Articles relating to Gilded Age mansions, mansions and lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States. These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes in era of expansion of the tobacco, railroad, steel, and oil industries coinciding with a lack of both governmental ...
The estate is now part of Cumberland Island National Seashore. Rhodes Hall: 1904 Richardson Romanesque: Willis F Denny: Atlanta: Built for Amos Giles Rhodes, today is open to the public and has been the home of The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation since 1983. John H James Residence 1869 Second Empire: William H Parkins: Atlanta
Anderson House, also known as Larz Anderson House, is a Gilded Age mansion located at 2118 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, on Embassy Row in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It now houses the Society of the Cincinnati 's international headquarters and a research library on 17th- and 18th-century military and naval history and the ...
Nov. 11—ANDERSON — With a list of 600 families waiting for housing, the Anderson Housing Authority is making plans for a new 120-unit apartment complex. Kim Townsend, executive director of the ...
The second floor is designed in the Queen Anne style and includes a square tower with stick style framework, a multi-component roof with gabled dormers, and a stained glass window with a decorative wooden frame. Local banker C.H.C. Anderson built the house for his son John C. Anderson as a wedding gift; John and his wife Lucy lived in the house ...
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Orrin Thompson (August 26, 1913 – March 7, 1995) was one of the largest real-estate developers in the United States. In the 1950s, a time when the post World War II population was exploding and in need of housing, he built and sold thousands of one-family homes, primarily in Minnesota.