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The 30-year-old architectural historian purchased the 3,025-square-foot, 3-bedroom property back in 2020, calling it “unlivable” due to bad water filtration, brick degradation and structural ...
Bacon's Castle. Bacon's Castle, also variously known as "Allen's Brick House" or the "Arthur Allen House" is located in Surry County, Virginia, United States, and is the oldest documented brick dwelling in what is now the United States. [4] Built in 1665, it is noted as an extremely rare example of Jacobean architecture in the New World.
Cayetano Juarez (1809-1883) was a Californio soldier in the Mexican Army, and later a Mexican government official. He received a land grant, Rancho Tulucay in the Napa Valley in 1840, where he kept herds of cattle and horses. He built his original adobe home at his rancho in 1840, which is no longer standing. In 1845, he built this larger adobe ...
List of Gilded Age mansions. Gilded Age mansions were lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States. These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes in era of expansion of the tobacco, railroad, steel, and oil ...
Brittany Kasko. August 29, 2024 at 1:28 PM. Family transforms 100-year-old school into dream home in ‘chaotic’ 3-year renovation. A family has been renovating an old school in Indiana to make ...
In U.S. Army terms, rows of once spectacular homes that have graced historic Fort Leavenworth for more than 100 years stand in defeat. Like downtrodden troops, grand houses of red brick or yellow ...
Historic Southern plantation house. Now state historic park. Newbold–White House: Hertford: NC 1730 Residential Oldest brick house in North Carolina. [90] Williams House, Historic Deerfield: Deerfield: MA c. 1730 Residential One of the oldest houses in Old Deerfield, although extensively remodeled in the 19th century.
In 1809 the property was sold at public auction to William Lock Chew for the sum of $7,000. Chew constructed the first permanent dwelling consisting of a three-room brick house about twenty by sixty feet, built sometime between 1809 and 1820. This structure still exists as the "basement" of the present house known as Brandon Hall.