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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 industries coinciding with a lack ...
List of historic houses is a link page for any stately home or historic house This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Felix Vallé House State Historic Site, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri—c1818 Colonial, Federal style; Beauvais-Amoureux House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri—c1792 French Colonial; Bequette-Ribault House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri—c1790s French Colonial; Louis Bolduc House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri—circa 1785 French Colonial
The I-house is a vernacular house type, popular in the United States from the colonial period onward. The I-house was so named in the 1930s by Fred Kniffen, a cultural geographer at Louisiana State University who was a specialist in folk architecture. He identified and analyzed the type in his 1936 study of Louisiana house types. [1] [2] [3]
There are 200 year old black walnut, apple & mulberry trees also on the property. Hull Family Home and Farmstead Lancaster: c. 1820 Lived in until 1990’S, but is now a preserved home and is able to be visited. The Hulls moved into the property c1800 but built the house in 1820. The house is the oldest stone house in Erie county. LaTourette House
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lynchburg, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the ...
The "Birthplace of Old Glory", a 1909 photograph of Betsy Ross House The gravestone of Betsy Ross and her third husband John Claypoole in the Betsy Ross House complex. Over the years, various structural changes and general wear and tear left the house in dire need of restoration.
Located on Belleville Lane. It seems little research has been conducted on this historic plantation. Some traditional sources, [2] as well as the Virginia Department of Historic Resources ascribe a date of 1658. Broad Bay Manor: Virginia Beach: 1640 c. or 1660 c. Purportedly the oldest extant European-built house in the southeastern United States.