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  2. List of largest houses in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Perry Belmont House: Washington, D.C. Perry Belmont: Order of the Eastern Star: 1909: Beaux-Arts: Ernest Sanson Horace Trumbauer: 44: 50,316 sq ft (4,674.5 m 2) [72] Otto H. Kahn House: New York, New York: Otto Hermann Kahn: Convent of the Sacred Heart: 1914: Renaissance Revival: J. Armstrong Stenhouse Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert: 45: ...

  3. Orrin Thompson (real estate developer) - Wikipedia

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    Orrin Thompson ranch style house. His typical house design was known as the rambler, or the ranch-style house; a modest one family house. Its style borrowed modern ideas that had been developed by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School. The design emphasized horizontality, large windows, a relatively flattened roof, and eaves that extend ...

  4. 10 That Changed America - Wikipedia

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    10 That Changed America is a series of television documentary films about the history of architecture and urban planning produced by US public service broadcaster PBS member station WTTW from 2013 to 2018. The series is presented by Geoffrey Baer and produced by Dan Protess. [1]

  5. American System-Built Homes - Wikipedia

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    One of these houses was the Thomas E. Sullivan House at 336 Gregory Avenue in Wilmette, Illinois, next door to the Burleigh House at 330 Gregory Ave. In 1989, Storrer had previously identified the 1916 house as the work of John S. Van Bergen even though the residence does not appear in Martin Hackl's complete catalog, The Works of John S. Van ...

  6. Frank Lloyd Wright - Wikipedia

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    This philosophy was exemplified in Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture". [3] Wright was a pioneer of what came to be called the Prairie School movement of architecture and also developed the concept of the Usonian home in Broadacre City, his vision for urban planning in the United States ...

  7. List of Gilded Age mansions - Wikipedia

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    Since 1978 the building has served as a fraternity house for Delta Sigma Chi from the Palmer College of Chiropractic. J.C Hubinger Mansion 1887 Queen Anne: C.H Stilson Keokuk: Was demolished in 1918 John Peirce Mansion: 1893 Romanesque revival: Hansen Bros. Sioux City: It is open to the public for quarterly open house events and is available ...

  8. America's Favorite Architecture - Wikipedia

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    America's Favorite Architecture" is a list of buildings and other structures identified as the most popular works of architecture in the United States. In 2006 and 2007, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) sponsored research to identify the most popular works of architecture in the United States.

  9. Stahl House - Wikipedia

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    The Stahl House (also known as Case Study House #22) is a modernist-styled house designed by architect Pierre Koenig in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles, California, which is known as a frequent set location in American films.