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Carolands Chateau is a 46,050-square-foot (4,278 m 2), [20] 4.5 floor, 98 room mansion on 5.83 acres (2.36 ha) in Hillsborough, California, United States.An example of American Renaissance and Beaux-Arts design, the building is a California Historical Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Belcourt is located on Bellevue Avenue at Lakeview Avenue, in Newport. A 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m 2), 60-room summer villa, it was designed by Richard Morris Hunt for 33-year-old Oliver Belmont, who during the construction was divorced from Sara Swan Whiting and the father of a daughter, Natica, for whom he denied paternity.
Kit house. Kit houses, also known as mill-cut houses, pre-cut houses, ready-cut houses, mail order homes, or catalog homes, were a type of housing that was popular in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere in the first half of the 20th century. [1] Kit house manufacturers sold houses in many different plans and styles, from simple bungalows ...
The Carson Mansion is a large Victorian house located in Old Town, Eureka, California. Regarded as one of the premier examples of Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, [ 2 ]: 33 the house is "considered the most grand Victorian home in America." [ 3 ] It is one of the most written about and photographed Victorian houses in ...
Kreischer House. Kreischer House, also known as Kreischer Mansion, is a historic home located in Charleston, Staten Island, . Built by German immigrant Balthasar Kreischer about 1885, it is a large, asymmetrically massed 21⁄2 -story, wood-frame house in the American Queen Anne style. The rectangular house features spacious verandas, gables ...
Lyndhurst (mansion) Lyndhurst, also known as the Jay Gould estate, is a Gothic Revival country house that sits in its own 67-acre (27 ha) park beside the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York, about a half mile south of the Tappan Zee Bridge on US 9.
The Morris–Jumel Mansion (also known as the Morris House, Mount Morris, Jumel Mansion, and Morris–Jumel Mansion Museum) is an 18th-century historic house museum in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City. It is the oldest extant house in Manhattan, having been built in 1765 by British military officer Roger ...
Horace Trumbauer. Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room Neoclassical Revival mansion in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer for industrialist Peter A. B. Widener and built between 1897 and 1899. Considered the largest surviving Gilded Age mansion in the Philadelphia area, it housed one of the most important Gilded ...