Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, is the first neo-Palladian villa mid-Georgian plantation house built in the United States. It was constructed in 1764 for Colonel John Tayloe II, perhaps the richest Virginia planter of his generation, upon the burning of his family's older house.
Oatlands, 1804, Loudoun County - Plantation belonging to the Carters of Virginia, a National Trust Historic Site; Old Mansion, c. 1669, Caroline County - home of the Hoome family; The Peyton Randolph House, 1715, Williamsburg—home of Peyton Randolph; Piney Grove at Southall's Plantation, c. 1790, Charles City County - home of the Southall family
Upper Wolfsnare, historically called Brick House Farm until 1939, [3] is a colonial-era brick home built, probably about 1759, [4] in Georgian style by Thomas Walke III in Virginia Beach, Virginia. History
Thoroughgood House by Frances Benjamin Johnston. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960, as a prime example of early colonial architecture in Virginia. [7] It was listed in the US National Register of Historic Places in 1966. [2] Another nearby surviving early 18th-century house in Virginia Beach is the Adam Keeling House.
Sharswood Plantation, also known as Sharswood Manor Estate, is a historic plantation house in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, about a mile south of the unincorporated community of Mount Airy. Prior to the American Civil War , Sharswood operated as a 2,000-acre tobacco plantation under the ownership of Charles Edwin Miller and Nathaniel Crenshaw ...
He was a revolutionary and elected in 1778 as the first Governor of Virginia. The house is located in Beaverdam, Virginia, 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Ashland, Virginia on VA 685. [1] The house, at 93 feet (28 m) by 35 feet (11 m), is one of the largest 18th-century homes to survive in the Americas.
The Cape Cod style homes were a common home in the early 17th of New England colonists, these homes featured a simple, rectangular shape commonly used by colonists. [3] Dutch Colonial structures, built primarily in the Hudson River Valley , Long Island , and northern New Jersey , reflected construction styles from Holland and Flanders and used ...
Terraced homes are abundant in Old Toronto. Many of them are constructed in the local bay-and-gable style, popular in the 1870s. Examples of Victorian bay-and-gable style can be found in Cabbagetown, Toronto, [14] Parkdale, [15] The Annex, [16] Kensington Market, [17] areas east of Chinatown, Toronto [18] and Spadina Avenue including Baldwin ...