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High Watch (formerly named Holiday House but locally known as the Harkness House) is an 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m 2) home in Watch Hill, a historic district in Westerly, Rhode Island, United States.
The Cape Romano Dome House was a structure consisting of six dome-shaped modules on stilts, originally built on an islet located approximately 300 feet (91 m) offshore from Cape Romano Island, south of Marco Island, in the Ten Thousand Islands of Collier County, Florida. Cape Romano Dome house was built in 1982 by retired independent oil ...
Dungeness on Cumberland Island, Georgia, is a ruined mansion that is part of a historic district that was the home of several families significant in American history.The mansion was named after a nearby sandy spit at the southern end of the island, first recorded in a land grant petition in 1765 and almost certainly named after the Dungeness headland, on the south coast of England.
The second floor houses the Gift Shop and Theatre, where visitors can view a 16-minute documentary about George Boldt and Boldt Castle. Most of the rooms on the third and fourth floors are unfurnished, but there are exhibits of pictures and original artifacts of the Thousand Islands region during the Gilded Age in which the Boldts lived.
Today the house is the Unity Mission Church Home Training School Bible Institute. Lindenhurst 1883 Romanesque: Edward Alfred Sargent: Jenkintown: Built for John Wanamaker, was destroyed by fire in 1907. Townsend Castle 1887 Romanesque: GW & WD Hewitt: Philadelphia: Built for John Lister Townsend, today is a private residence. more images: Clayton
Just Room Enough Island, also known as Hub Island, [1] is an island located in the Thousand Islands chain, in New York, United States. The island is known for being the smallest inhabited island, which appears to be around 3,300 square feet (310 m 2 ), or about one-thirteenth of an acre.
Beechwood is a Gilded Age mansion and estate located at 580 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island best known for having been owned by the Astor family.Part of the Bellevue Avenue Historic District, the first version of the residence was built between 1852 and 1853 and designed in the Italianate style by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux.
Island House, Belle Isle, Lake Windemere. Island House was built in 1774 to designs by John Plaw. It is unusual in that it is circular in plan, built of brick, three floors high with a four column portico; it draws closely on the Pantheon, Rome. [3] The house was sold along with the island to the wealthy Curwen family who renamed the island ...