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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 ...
A crumbling 19th-century mansion that sits on more than 10 acres of land in Devon, England, is on sale.. Despite its dirt-covered floors and exposed ceilings, photos hint at how grand the eight ...
A one-and-a-half-storey wood-shingled house originally built for Thomas Beamish Akins, surviving virtually in its original condition; one of the few remaining early 19th-century houses in Halifax and one of the oldest houses in the city 1815 Acacia Cottage 6080 South Street
The property’s namesake, Benjamin Newton Duke, was born on a farm outside Durham. He built one of the largest fortunes of the nineteenth century.
Ruins of large 15th–16th century manor house. Château de Trécesson in Morbihan, Brittany. manoir du Clap, 16th-19th century Manor in la Cerlangue, Upper Normandy. Manoir de Dur-Écu, 16th century manor in Urville-Nacqueville, Normandy. Manoir de Mathan, 16th century manor in Crépon, Normandy.
The expansive California mansion -- which couldn't be more different from this traditional 19th century home -- boasts a lighted tennis court, putting green, swimming pool and grotto-style spa.
At some point in time in the late 19th century, the house was moved from Tupper Road to Main Street and was raised to its present two-story size. [62] The house remained in the Dillingham family until 1926 and has had multiple owners since. [62] Parkman Tavern: Concord c.1659 The Parkman Tavern was built by George Wheeler sometime around 1659.
Mentmore Towers, historically known simply as "Mentmore", is a 19th-century English country house built between 1852 and 1854 for the Rothschild family in the village of Mentmore in Buckinghamshire. Sir Joseph Paxton and his son-in-law, George Henry Stokes, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] designed the building in the 19th-century revival of late 16th and early ...