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Pages in category "Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)" The following 78 pages are in this category, out of 78 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Swifts Park is a former country estate and manor house 1 mile (1.6 km) north-east of the town of Cranbrook in the English county of Kent. Through its history, the estate has been variously known by the names Swifts, Great Swift, Great Swifts, and Swifts Place and since 1995 as Oak Hill Manor. At its greatest extent it covered an area of around ...
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state) (78 P) Pages in category "Houses in Washington (state)" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Cranbrook is a town in the civil parish of Cranbrook and Sissinghurst, in the Weald of Kent in South East England. It lies roughly half-way between Maidstone and Hastings, about 38 miles (61 km) southeast of central London. The smaller settlements of Sissinghurst, Swattenden, Colliers Green and Hartley lie within the civil parish. The ...
Model displayed at Sissinghurst depicting Sir Richard Baker's house circa 1560. In 1490 the de Berhams sold the manor of Sissinghurst to Thomas Baker of Cranbrook. [12] The Bakers were cloth producers and in the following century, through marriage and careers at court and in the law, Thomas's successors greatly expanded their wealth and their estates in Kent and Sussex. [13]
Bill Gates designed and owns a mansion that is on Lake Washington in Medina, Washington.The 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m 2) mansion [1] incorporates technology in its design. [specify] [2] In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US$1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million.
Sissinghurst's garden was created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West, [4] poet and gardening writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat.Sackville-West was a writer on the fringes of the Bloomsbury group who found her greatest popularity in the weekly columns she contributed as gardening correspondent of The Observer, which incidentally – for she never touted it – made ...
The Rothschild House is a historic house in Port Townsend, Washington, U.S.. It was built by David Charles Henry Rothschild in 1868. It was built by David Charles Henry Rothschild in 1868. The house is managed by the Jefferson County Historical Society as a historic house museum .