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Belmont is a Georgian house and gardens in Throwley, near Faversham in east Kent. Built between 1769 and 1793, it has been described as "a marvellous example of Georgian architecture that has remained completely unspoilt". [1] The house is famous for the most extensive private collection of clocks in England. [1]
The Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument (formerly the Sewall House (1800–1929), Alva Belmont House (1929–1972), and the Sewall–Belmont House and Museum (1972–2016)) is a historic house and museum of the U.S. women's suffrage and equal rights movements located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
The New Town of Belmont, Massachusetts, Winslow Homer, 1859. Homer House is a 15-room mansarded Italianate mansion built in 1853, on a hill overlooking Belmont town hall and town center. [1] [2] At the time, the house was part of West Cambridge, Massachusetts, and became part of Belmont when that town was founded in 1859. [1]
The Belmont Estate, now Belmont Manor and Historic Park, [4] is a former plantation located at Elkridge, Howard County, Maryland, United States. Founded in the 1730s and known in the Colonial period as "Moore's Morning Choice", [ 5 ] it was one of the earliest forced-labor farms in Howard County, Maryland .
The house was completed in 1909 for socialite Alva Belmont, the widow of Oliver Belmont. It was designed by Hunt & Hunt, formed by the partnership of the late Richard Morris Hunt's sons Richard and Joseph. The neoclassical three-story townhouse had a limestone facade and interior rooms in an eclectic mix of styles.
Belmont was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, June 26, 1956. The site continued to be used for public entertaining until it became a historic house museum under the management of the American Women's Heritage Society in 1986. The complex is also available for special events and rentals.
[1] The house was restored from a derelict state between 1996 and 2010 by the community and local interest groups and Trust. [citation needed] Belmont House is protected as a category A listed building, [2] and the grounds are included on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens. [1]
During Belmont's lifetime, the house was used for only the winter months, when Belmont hosted lavish parties for Washington's elite. In 1919, Edward, Prince of Wales , was a guest of the Belmonts (at President Woodrow Wilson 's request); there he handed out medals to various American soldiers whom Great Britain wished to honor for their roles ...