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Octagon House in Watertown, Wisconsin, built 1853 David Van Gelder Octagon House in Catskill, New York, built 1860, photographed on January 13, 2008. This is a list of octagon houses. The style became popular in the United States and Canada following the publication of Orson Squire Fowler's 1848 book The Octagon House, A Home for All.
Built in 1640, C. A. Nothnagle Log House, located in Swedesboro, New Jersey, is likely the oldest log cabin in the United States. A conjectural replica of the log cabin in which U.S. president Abraham Lincoln was born, now at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Mortonson–Van Leer Log Cabin in New Sweden Park in Swedesboro, New Jersey A replica log cabin at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania A log cabin ...
Frank Lloyd Wright designed over 1,000 houses, commercial buildings and other works. [1] "The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright" is a UNESCO World Heritage Site consisting of a selection of eight buildings across the United States designed by Wright.
This was the site of the official residence of the Governors of Acadia / Nova Scotia since at least 1686. Williams House (Annapolis Royal) 1715 [85] 1715 [85] Annapolis Royal. Possibly the oldest, unaltered and fully original, privately owned, wooden building in Canada.
Sears Modern Homes were houses sold primarily through mail order catalog by Sears, Roebuck and Co., an American retailer. From 1908 to 1942, Sears sold more than 70,000 of these houses in North America, by the company's count. [1] Sears Modern Homes were purchased primarily by customers in East Coast and Midwest states, but have been located as ...
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 ...
Strawberry box houses. A Victory House on Finch Avenue West in Willowdale, Toronto, which was part of a 140-home development in c.1950, only 32 of which remain in 2022. Strawberry box houses refers to a style of homes built during World War II [1] and into the 1950s to 1960s and found throughout Canada. The style uses a square or rectangular ...
Architecture of Toronto. Downtown Toronto from Front Street, with the CN Tower (left background), Union Station (left foreground), Simcoe Place (centre), and Fairmont Royal York (right) in view in 2007. Architecture in Toronto can be described as an eclectic combination of various architectural styles. The architecture of Toronto is an eclectic ...