List of Gilded Age mansions facts for kids
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 of both governmental regulation and the absence of a personal income tax. The manor homes and city seats were designed by prominent architects of the day and decorated with antiquities, furniture, and works of art from the world over.
Many of the wealthy had undertaken grand tours of Europe, during which they admired the estates of the nobility. Seeing themselves as their American equivalent, they wished to emulate the old world dwellings on American soil, and spent extravagantly to do so, often seeking to one-up each other. Concentrations of such homes developed in the financial centers and resorts of the Northeast, the industrial heartland of the Upper Midwest, and in the rapidly expanding regions of the West Coast, with vacation homes also appearing prominently in Florida.
Contents
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kentucky
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- Nebraska
- Ohio
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- See also
Alabama
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Tacon Barfield House | 1901 | Queen Anne | George Franklin Barber | Mobile | Today a private residence |
Arizona
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Rosson House | 1895 | Queen Anne | George Franklin Barber | Phoenix | Today a historic house museum in Heritage Square |
Arkansas
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Hornibrook House | 1888 | Queen Anne | Little Rock | Part of Governor's Mansion Historic District |
California
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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David and Sarah Morey House | 1890 | Queen Anne | Redlands | ||||
Thomas Douglas Stimson House | 1891 | Richardsonian Romanesque, Gothic Revival | Carroll H. Brown, E.D. Elliot | Los Angeles | Today, part of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet convent complex | ||
Lewis Leonard Bradbury House | 1887 | Queen Anne | Samuel Newsom and Joseph Cather Newsom | Los Angeles | Demolished in 1929 | ||
Margaret E. Crocker Mansion | 1886 | Queen Anne | John Hall | Los Angeles | Demolished in 1908 | ||
Rose Mansion | 1888 | Queen Anne | Curlett & Eissen | Los Angeles | Demolished in 1937 | ||
Governor's Mansion-Gallatin house | 1877 | Second Empire | Nathaniel D. Goodell | Sacramento | Is the official residence of the governor of California since 1903 | ||
Leland Stanford Mansion | 1857 | Second Empire | Seth Babson | Sacramento | Owned by the government of California | ||
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Ralston Hall | 1864 | Victorian-Italianate Villa | Henry Cleaveland | Belmont | Located on the campus of Notre Dame de Namur University | |
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McDonald Mansion (also known as Mableton) |
1877 | Stick/Eastlake | Santa Rosa | The exterior was used in the filming of Walt Disney's Pollyanna | ||
Linden Towers | 1878 | Gothic, Italianate and Second Empire | Laver & Curlett | San Francisco | Was built for James C Flood, was demolished in 1936. | ||
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Mark Hopkins Mansion | 1878 | Gothic | Wright & Sanders | San Francisco | Destroyed by fire following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake | |
David B Colton Mansion | 1872 | Neo-classical | S. C. Bugbee & Son | San Francisco | Later bought by Collis Potter Huntington. Was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake | ||
Leland Stanford Mansion | 1876 | Italianate | S. C. Bugbee & Son | San Francisco | Was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake | ||
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Charles Crocker Mansion | 1877 | Second Empire and Neo-classical | S. C. Bugbee & Son and Curlett & Cuthbertson | San Francisco | Destroyed during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake | |
William Henry Crocker Mansion | 1888 | Queen Anne | S. C. Bugbee & Son | San Francisco | Destroyed during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake | ||
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James C. Flood Mansion | 1886 | Neo-classical | Augustus Laver; Willis Polk | San Francisco | Today, home of the Pacific-Union Club | |
Haas-Lilienthal House | 1886 | Queen Anne | Peter Schmidt | San Francisco | Built for William Hass, today is a house museum | ||
Ashe/Crocker Mansion | 1883 | Queen Anne | Curlett & Cuthbertson | San Francisco | Built for Aimee Crocker (Charles Crocker's niece) and Richard Potter Ashe, it was badly damaged in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and destroyed by fire in 1913 | ||
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Sarah Winchester House | 1884 | Queen Anne | Sarah Winchester | San Jose | Winchester did not use an architect and added on to the building in a haphazard fashion. Much of the house was lost in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. | |
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Carson Mansion | 1886 | Queen Anne | Samuel Newsom and Joseph Cather Newsom | Eureka | Built for William Carson, today is "Considered the most grand Victorian home in America." | |
Gamble House | 1908 | Bungalow in American Craftsman style of Arts and Crafts Movement | Greene & Greene | Pasadena | It was Doc's house in Back to the Future | ||
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Huntington Residence | 1909 | Mediterranean Revival | Myron Hunt | San Marino | Former residence of Henry E. Huntington, now an art gallery. | |
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Hearst Castle | Between 1919 and 1947 | Spanish Colonial Revival, Mediterranean Revival | Julia Morgan | San Simeon | Built by William Randolph Hearst | |
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Filoli | 1915 | Georgian Revival | Willis Polk | Woodside | Owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and open to the public | |
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Carolands | 1916 | Beaux-Arts Classicism | Ernest Sanson | Hillsborough | Owned by the Carolands Foundation and open to the public |
Colorado
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Richthofen Castle | 1887 | Gothic Revival, Tudor Revival | Alexander Cazin Maurice Biscoe and Henry Hewitt (1910 renovation) Jacques Benedict (1924 renovation) |
Montclair, Denver | Built for Baron Walter von Richthofen | ||
The Molkery | 1888 | Germanic Castle | Alexander Cazin | Montclair, Denver | Built for Baron Walter von Richthofen, now the Montclair Civic Center | ||
Molly Brown House | 1889 | Richardsonian Romanesque, Queen Anne Revival | William A. Lang | Denver | Originally built for Isaac Large, purchased by J.J. Brown, later owned by Molly Brown | ||
Ferguson-Gano House | 1897 | Theodore Davies Boal | Denver | Built for inventor, and socialite John Albert Ferguson, purchased by businessman George Gano | |||
Grant–Humphreys Mansion | 1902 | Neoclassical | Theodore Davies Boal | Denver | Built for James Benton Grant, later owned by A.E. Humphreys | ||
Redstone Castle | 1903 | Stick style | Theodore Davies Boal | Redstone | Built for John Cleveland Oswood, today is a hotel and museum. | ||
Crawford Hill Mansion | 1906 | French Renaissance Revival | Theodore Davies Boal | Denver | Built for Crawford Hill |
Connecticut
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Iranistan | 1848 | Moorish | Leopold Eldlitz | Bridgeport | Was the first mansion of P.T Barnum, was destroyed by fire in 1857. | ||
Lindencroft | 1860 | Italianante | Albert G Tallmadge | Bridgeport | Was the second mansion of P.T Barnum after the fire in Iranistan, was demolished in 1924. | ||
Lockwood–Mathews Mansion | 1864 | Renaissance | Detlef Lienau | Norwalk | Today, a museum | ||
Waldemere | 1869 | Stick Victorian | Bridgeport | Was the third mansion of P.T Barnum, was demolished in 1889 for his new mansion, Marina. | |||
Samuel Clemens House (Mark Twain) | 1874 | Victorian Gothic | Edward Tuckerman Potter | Hartford | Today, a museum | ||
Marina | 1889 | Romanesque and Queen Anne | Longstaff and Hurd | Bridgeport | Was the fourth and last mansion of P.T Barnum in Bridgeport, was demolished in 1961. | ||
Hilltop | 1889 | Greenwich | Built for Henry Osborne Havemeyer, was demolished in 1930. | ||||
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Copper Beech Farm aka Lauder Greenway Estate | 1896 or 1898 | French Renaissance | Greenwich | Originally built by NYC native John Hamilton Gourlie, it was purchased by Andrew Carnegie's niece Harriet Lauder Greenway in 1905.
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Indian Harbour | 1895 | Neoclassical | Carrere & Hastings | Greenwich | Built for Elias Cornelius Benedict, was demolished in 1938. | ||
Mailands | 1906 | French Renaissance and Colonial Revivial | Flagg & Chambers | Fairfield | Built for Oliver Gould Jennings, there is known as McAuliffe Hall and still standing | ||
Conyers Farms | 1905 | English Revival | Donn Barber | Greenwich | Built for Edmund C Converse, was destroyed by fire in 1985. | ||
Owenoke Farm | 1908 | Neoclassical | Greenwich | Built for Percy Avery Rockefeller, was demolished in 1935. | |||
Greyledge | 1913 | Greenwich | Built for Raynal Cawthorne Bolling, was demolished in 2006. | ||||
Marion Castle | 1914-1916 | French Chateau | Hunt & Hunt | Stamford | Built for Frank J. Marion. Today, a private residence. |
Delaware
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Nemours | 1909 | French Neoclassical | Carrère and Hastings | Wilmington | Owned by the Nemours Foundation |
District of Columbia
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Christian Heurich Mansion | 1892 | Richardson Romanesque | John Granville Meyers | Washington, DC | Formerly housed the Historical Society of Washington | |
Mary Scott Townsend House | 1898–1901 | Beaux Arts | Carrère and Hastings | Washington, DC | Built for Mary Scott Townsend, wife of Richard T. Townsend, now, Cosmos Club | ||
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Townsend House | 1901 | Beaux-Arts | Carrère and Hastings | Washington, DC | Home to the Cosmos Club since 1952 | |
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Walsh-McLean House | 1903 | Washington, DC | Today the Embassy of Indonesia | |||
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Anderson House | 1905 | Beaux-Arts | Little & Browne | Washington, DC | Built for Lartz Anderson. Today, it houses the Society of the Cincinnati's headquarters | |
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Perry Belmont House | 1909 | Beaux-Arts | Ernest-Paul Sanson | Washington, DC | Headquarters of the General Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star | |
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Edward Hamlin Everett House | 1915 | Beaux-Arts | George Oakley Totten Jr. | Washington, DC | Formerly the Turkish embassy, today the ambassador's residence | |
Patterson Mansion | 1903 | Neoclassical | Stanford White | Washington, DC | Built for Robert Wilson Patterson. | ||
Leiter Mansion | 1893 | Colonial Revival and Neoclassical | Theophilus Parsons Chandler Jr | Washington, DC | Built for Levi Leiter. Was demolished in 1947. | ||
Blaine Mansion | 1882 | Second Empire | John Fraser | Washington, DC | Built for James G Blaine. | ||
Stewart's Castle | 1873 | Second Empire | Adolph Clauss | Washington, DC | Built for William Morris Stewart, was demolished in 1901. | ||
Galt Mansion | 1876 | Chateusque | Washington, DC | Originally built for William Mathew Galt, later sold to Alexander Graham Bell and Edson Bradley. Bardley enlarged the house in 1907. Was demolished in 1930s. | |||
Field-Hearst Mansion | 1883 | Romanesque | Robert I Fleming | Washington, DC | Built for John W Field, later was sold to Charles S Fairchild and George Hearst, dad of William Randolph Hearst. Was demolished in 1964. |
Florida
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Villa Zorayda | 1883 | Moorish Revival | Franklin W Smith | St Agustine | Designed by Franklin W Smith for himself, today is a museum. | ||
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Whitehall | 1902 | Beaux Arts | Pottier & Stymus, Carrère and Hastings | Palm Beach | Built for the co-founder of Standard Oil, Henry Morrison Flagler. Today is open to the public for tours | |
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The Casements | 1910 | Shingle Style | Ormond Beach | Built for the Reverend Dr. Harwood Huntington, later bought by John D Rockefeller in 1918, who died in the house in 1937. Was owned by the city of Ormond Beach and used as a cultural center and park | ||
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Villa Vizcaya | 1914 | Mediterranean Revival and Baroque | F. Burrall Hoffman Paul Chalfin (designer) Diego Suarez (landscape) |
Miami | Houses the Miami Dade Art Museum | |
El Mirasol | 1920 | Mediterranean Revival | Addison Cairns Mizner | Palm Beach | Built for Edward Townsend Stotesbury. Was demolished in 1958 |
Georgia
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Rockefeller Cottage | 1892 | Shingle | Jekyll Island | Was the summer house of William Rockefeller Jr. Today, a museum operated by Jekyll Island Museum | |||
The Greyfield | 1905 | Colonial Revival | Cumberland Island | Was built for Margaret Carnegie Ricketson. Today, an inn and wedding venue | |||
Dungeness | 1886 | Queen Anne | Cumberland Island | Built for Thomas M Carnagie. Destroyed by fire in 1959 | |||
Plum Orchard | 1898 | Classical Revival | Peabody and Stearns | Cumberland Island | Built for George Lauder Carnagie. The estate is now part of Cumberland Island National Seashore. | ||
Rhodes Hall | 1904 | Richardson Romanesque | Willis F Denny | Atlanta | Built for Amos Giles Rhodes, today is open to the public and has been the home of The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation since 1983. | ||
John H James Residence | 1869 | Second Empire | William H Parkins | Atlanta | Originally built for John H James, was the Georgia Governor's Mansion between 1870 and 1923, in that year was demolished. |
Illinois
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Marshall Field Jr House | 1884 | Romanesque | Solon Spencer Beman | Chicago | Today, converted into condominiums | ||
John J. Glessner House | 1887 | Romanesque, Richardsonian | Henry Hobson Richardson | Chicago | Today, Glessner House Museum | ||
Marshall Field House | 1873 | Second Empire | Richard Morris Hunt | Chicago | Demolished in 1955 | ||
Thomas Dent House | 1881 | Romanesque | Burnham & Root | Chicago | Demolished in 1950s | ||
Joseph Sears House | 1882 | Romanesque | Burnham & Root | Chicago | Demolished in 1967 | ||
John W Doane Mansion | 1882 | Romanesque | Theodore V. Wadskier | Chicago | Demolished in 1929. | ||
John Cudahy Mansion | 1888 | Romanesque | Chicago | Demolished in 1961. | |||
Cyrus McCormick Mansion | 1879 | Second Empire | Chicago | Demolished in 1954. | |||
Edith Rockefeller McCormick Mansion | 1883 | Romanesque | Solon Spencer Beman | Chicago | Originally built for Nathaniel Jones, Demolished in 1955 for an apartment building. | ||
Ferdinand Peck Mansion | 1889 | Romanesque | William LeBaron Jenney | Chicago | Demolished in 1969. | ||
George Pullman House | 1876 | Second Empire | Henry S. Jaffray | Chicago | Demolished in 1922 | ||
Wlliam Wallace Kimball House | 1892 | Châteauesque | Solon Spencer Beman | Chicago | Today, United States Soccer Federation | ||
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Nickerson House | 1883 | Late Victorian | Burling & Whitehouse | Chicago | Home to the Richard H. Driehaus Museum | |
Borden Mansion | 1886 | Châteauesque | Richard Morris Hunt | Chicago | Built for William Borden, was demolished in 1962 | ||
MacVeigh Mansion | 1893 | Richardson Romanesque | Henry Hobson Richardson | Chicago | Built for Franklin MacVeigh, it was one of only two structures designed by HH Rochardson in Chicago. Was demolished in 1922. | ||
McGill Mansion | 1891 | Châteauesque | Henry Ives Cobbs | Chicago | Built for Dr John Alexander McGill, today are 34 condominiuns. | ||
Farwell Mansion | 1882 | Châteauesque | Treat & Foltz | Chicago | Built for Charles B Farwell, was demolished in 1946 | ||
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Palmer Mansion | 1885 | Early Romanesque, Norman Gothic | Henry Ives Cobb and Charles Sumner Frost | Chicago | Demolished in 1950 | |
IL. Hegeler Carus Mansion | 1876 | Second Empire | William W. Boyington, | LaSalle | The mansion hosts numerous public programs, and is open for public tours. It is particularly notable for its high Victorian stencils and wall and ceiling paintings, its woodwork, and its history. |
Indiana
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Tippecanoe Place | 1889 | Richardsonian Romanesque | Henry Ives Cobb | South Bend | Built for Clement Studebaker, currently a restaurant | ||
Bates-McGowan Mansion | 1876 | Romanesque Revival | William Lebaron Jenney | Indianapolis | Built for Harvey Bates Jr, was demolished in 1936 |
Iowa
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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C.R Joy House | 1896 | Queen Anne | George Franklin Barber | Keokuk | Destroyed by fire in 2018 | ||
Fred B. Sharon House | 1891 | Second Empire | Davenport | Today a private residence | |||
J. Monroe Parker–Ficke House | 1881 | Second Empire | T. W. McClelland | Davenport | 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 for rental. |
Kentucky
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Conrad-Caldwell House | 1895 | Richardson Romanesque | Arthur Loomis | Louisville | Built for Theophilus Conrad, today is a house museum |
Maine
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Morse-Libby House | 1860 | Italianate | Henry Austin | Portland | Today, a museum | ||
Reverie Cove | 1895 | Colonial Revival | Frederick Lincoln Savage | Bar Harbor | Built for Dr. John Davies Jones, later owned by Abram Hewitt, today, a private residence | ||
Oak Hall | 1914 | Colonial Revival | Benjamin Marshall | Northport | Today, a private residence | ||
East of Eden | 1910 | Mediterranean Revival | Guy Lowell | Bar Harbor | Today, a private residence | ||
Highseas | 1912 | Colonial Revival | Frederick Lincoln Savage | Bar Harbor | Today, owned by Jackson Laboratories |
Maryland
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Evergreen Museum & Library | 1858 | Classical Revival | Multiple | Baltimore | Now a historic house museum |
Massachusetts
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Stephen Van Rensselaer Thayer House | 1872 | Second Empire | Peabody & Stearns | Boston | Today, offices | ||
Bull Mansion | 1876 | Romanesque Revival | Calvert Vaux | Worcester | Built for George Bull, later was the Grand Army of Republic Hall, today a restaurant. | ||
Kragsyde Mansion, George Nixon Black Jr. House | 1885 | Shingle | Peabody & Stearns | Manchester by the sea | Demolished in 1927 | ||
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Elm Court | 1885 | Shingle style | Peabody & Stearns | Lenox | Currently for sale | |
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Naumkeag | 1887 | Shingle style | Stanford White | Stockbridge | Maintained by the Trustees of Reservations | |
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Oronoque | 1887 | Shingle style | William Henry Miller | Stockbridge | Later called Indian Hill; current condominiums | |
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Searles Castle | 1888 | Renaissance Revival Châteauesque | McKim, Mead & White | Great Barrington | Home to the John Dewey Academy | |
Borden House | 1892 | Fall River | Built for Andrew Borden, a wealthy casket magnate, and later real estate developer, him, and his wife were murdered by Lizzie Borden in the house in 1892 | ||||
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Wheatleigh | 1893 | Renaissance Revival | Peabody & Stearns | Lenox | Operated as a hotel | |
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Ventfort Hall | 1893 | Jacobean Revival | Rotch & Tilden | Lenox | Operated as a house and Gilded Age museum | |
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Shadow Brook Farm | 1893 | Tudor Revival | H. Neill Wilson | Stockbridge | Burned down in 1956 | |
Albert Cameron Burrage House | 1899 | Châteauesque | Charles Brigham | Boston | Today, Apartments | ||
Bellefontaine | 1899 | Carrère and Hastings | Lenox | Built for Giraud Foster, now a hotel | |||
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The Mount | 1902 | Georgian Revival | Ogden Codman Jr. and Francis L.V. Hoppin Beatrix Farrand (landscape) |
Lenox | Home of Edith Wharton; open to the public | |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner House | 1902 | Renaissance Revival | Willard T. Sears | Boston | Houses the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | |
Northfield Chateau | 1903 | Châteauesque | Bruce Price | Northfield | Built for Francis Robert Schell. Was demolished in 1963. | ||
Eagle Rock | 1904 | Colonial Revival | Little & Browne | Prides Crossing | Built for Henry Clay Frick. Was demolished in 1969. | ||
Cheney–Baltzell Mansion | 1907 | Italianate, with Medieval Spanish details and landscape | Carrère and Hastings | Dover | Built for Alice Cheney–Baltzell, now, open for tours | ||
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Bellefontaine Mansion | 1912 | Beaux-Arts | Carrère and Hastings | Lenox | Built for Giraud Foster. Today, the Lenox location of Canyon Ranch |
Michigan
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Wilhelm Böing House | 1875 | Châteauesque | Henry T Brush | Detroit | Wilhelmm Böing was the father of William E Boeing, founder of the famous aviation company. The house was demolished in 1935. | ||
Joseph Black House | 1876 | English Revival | Mortimer L Smith | Detroit | Demolished in 1920. | ||
Philo Parsons House | 1876 | Second Empire | Elijah Myers | Detroit | Demolished in 1935 | ||
Clark J Whitney House | 1865 | Italianate | Detroit | Demolished in 1914 | |||
Charles DuCharme House | 1869 | Second Empire | Mortimer L Smith | Detroit | Demolished in 1949 | ||
Henry P. Baldwin House | 1877 | Italianate | Gordon W Lloyd | Detroit | Demolished in 1930s | ||
Thomas W. Palmer Mansion | 1864 | Italianate | Henry T Brush | Detroit | Originally built in 1864 and greatly enlarged in 1874, was destroyed by fire in 1908. | ||
William H. Wells House | 1889 | Richardsonian Romanesque | William H. Miller | Detroit | Today it is still a private home | ||
A.L Stephens Mansion | 1890 | Romanesque | Mason & Rice | Detroit | Was built for Albert L Stephens and demolished in 1925. | ||
George S Frost House | 1881 | Queen Anne | Detroit | Was built for George Smith Frost in the Brush Park neighborhood, was demolished in 1998 after 30 years of abandonment. | |||
Leggett Mansion | 1883 | Romanesque | John Scott & Co | Detroit | Was built for Wells Wilner Leggett, was demolished in 1930s. | ||
Meadow Brook Hall, Matilda Dodge House | 1929 | Tudor Revival | William E. Kapp
Smith, Hinchman & Grylls |
Rochester Hills | Today it is the Meadow Brook Hall Museum | ||
Ransom Gillis House | 1876 | Venetian Gothic | Henry T. Brush & George D. Mason | Detroit | Abandoned since 1970 until its restoration in 2015 | ||
Franklin H. Walker House | 1896 | Neo-Jacobean | Mason & Rice | Detroit | Transformed into Michigan Mutual Liability Hospital and demolished in 1990 | ||
Charles Lang Freer House | 1892 | Shingle | Wilson Eyre | Detroit | Today, a Wayne State University campus building | ||
George Jerome House | 1877 | Second Empire | Henry T Brush | Detroit | Demolished in 1935 | ||
Col. Frank J. Hecker House | 1892 | French Renaissance | Louis Kamper
Scott, Kamper and Scott |
Detroit | Today, a Wayne State University campus building | ||
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David Whitney House | 1894 | Romanesque Revival | Gordon W. Lloyd | Detroit | Today, a restaurant | |
Burt/Stephens Mansion | 1881/1891 | Châteauesque | Mason & Rice | Detroit | Was built in 1881 for John Burt, was sold to Clorinda L Stephens in 1891 and extensively altered. Finally was demolished in 1920s | ||
Bagley House | 1869 | Italianate | Detroit | Was built for John Judson Bagley and later was converted into the Detroit Conservatory of Music in 1890s and demolished in 1914 for the Statler Hotel. | |||
John Stoughton Newberry House | 1875 | Italianate | Gordon W. Lloyd | Detroit | Demolished in 1961. | ||
Mostly Hall | 1910 | French Renassaice | John Scott & Company | Detroit | Built for Willis E. Buhl. Was demolished in 1940 | ||
John B Ford Mansion | 1904 | Colonial Revival | Alpheus W. Chittenden | Detroit | The house was disassembled and reassembled on Windmill Pointe Drive in 1928. (Originally 8192 Jefferson) | ||
Dr. R. Adlington Newman Mansion | 1902 | English Tudor Revival | Henry P. Kirby | Detroit | Was demolished in 1980s | ||
Theodore D. Buhl Mansion | 1906 | Neo-Classical | John Scott & Company | Detroit | Was demolished in 1977 | ||
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Russell A. Alger Jr. House | 1910 | Italian Renaissance Revival | Charles Adam Platt | Grosse Pointe Farms, | Today, a community center for the Grosse Pointe Communities | |
Clairview | 1915 | Neo-Classical | John Scott & Company | Grosse Pointe Shores | Built for Harry N Torrey, was demolished in 1959. | ||
Emory L Ford Mansion | 1916 | English Tudor Revival | Albert H. Spahr | Grosse Pointe Shores | Was demolished in 1944 | ||
Stonehurst | 1915 | English Tudor Revival | Albert H. Spahr | Grosse Pointe Shores | Was built for Joseph B. Schlotman, was demolished in 1974 | ||
Rose Terrace I | 1912 | English Tudor Revival | Albert Kahn | Grosse Pointe | Was built for Horace E Dodge and his wife Anna. When Anna became a widow, she demolished the house and built a much more luxurious house in its place. | ||
Rose Terrace II | 1934 | Neo-Classical | Horace Traumbauer | Grosse Pointe | Was built for Anna Thompson Dodge, widow of Horace E Dodge, co-fouder of Dodge Brothers Company, was the most opulent residence of Michigan and was demolished in 1976. | ||
Herbert V Book Mansion | 1922 | French Renaissance | Louis Kamper | Grosse Pointe Park | Was destroyed by fire in 1978 | ||
Edgemere | 1882 | Victorian | Mason & Rice | Grosse Pointe Farms | Built for Joseph H Berry, was demolished in 1941 | ||
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Fair Lane | 1915 | Baronial and Prairie | Joseph N. French William Van Tine Marion Mahony Griffin Frank Lloyd Wright Jens Jensen. | Dearborn | Built for Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company. Today, a historical landscape and house museum | |
R.E Olds Residence | 1903 | Queen Anne | Darius B. Moon | Lansing | Was built for Ransom Eli Olds, founder of Oldsmobile Motor Works. Was extensively remodelled in 1952 and demolished in 1971. |
Minnesota
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James J. Hill House | 1891 | Richardsonian Romanesque | Peabody and Stearns | Saint Paul | Operated by the Minnesota Historical Society | |
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Glensheen Mansion | 1908 | Jacobean Revival | Clarence H. Johnston Sr. Charles W. Leavitt Jr. | Duluth | Operated by the University of Minnesota Duluth as a historic house museum | |
Kittson Mansion | 1884 | Second Empire | Abraham Ratcliffe | Saint Paul | Was built for Norman Wolfred Kittson, was demolished in 1908 for the Saint Paul Cathedral. | ||
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Fair Oaks | 1884 | Châteauesque | E Townsend Mix | Minneapolis | Built for William Washburn. Was demolished in 1924 | ||
Van Dusen Mansion | 1893 | Châteauesque, Richardson Romanesque | Edgard E Joralemon | Minneapolis | Built for George Washington Van Dusen | ||
Turnblad Mansion | 1908 | Châteauesque | Boehme and Cordella | Minneapolis | Built for Swan Turnblad, today is the American Swedish Institute. | ||
Gates Mansion | 1914 | Mediterranean Revival, Beaux-Arts | Marshall & Fox | Minneapolis | Built for Charles Gilbert Gates, the mansion was the first private residence with air conditioning installed in USA. |
Mississippi
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Longwood | 1864 | Octagonal, Oriental | Samuel Sloan | Natchez | Built for Haller Nutt. Construction began in 1859 and was never completed due to the civil war and Nutt's death in 1864. | ||
Residence of R.L. Covington | 1907 | Colonial | George Franklin Barber | Hazlehurst | Today, a private residence |
Missouri
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Wyeth-Tottle Mansion | 1879 | Italianante | Edmond Eckle | St Joseph | Built for John Wyeth, since 1948 is the Museum of St Joseph. | ||
Harvey M. Vaile Mansion | 1881 | Second Empire | Asa B. Cross | Independence | Today, a museum | ||
Robert A. Long House | 1910 | Beaux-Arts style | Henry Ford Hoit | Kansas City | Today, the Kansas City Museum | ||
Mack B. Nelson House | 1914 | Romanesque Revival | Henry Ford Hoit | Kansas City | Built for lumber magnate Mack Nelson, now a private residence | ||
Samuel Cupples House | 1890 | Romanesque Revival | Thomas B. Annan | St. Louis | Today, a museum |
Montana
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W. A. Clark Mansion | 1884 | Romanesque Revival Victorian | C. H. Brown | Butte | Today, a bed and breakfast | |
Moss Mansion | 1903 | English Renaissance | Henry Janeway Hardenbergh | Billings | Built for Preston Moss, and his family, now, a museum |
New Jersey
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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J. Harper Smith Mansion | 1880 | High Victorian, Queen Anne, Stick/Eastlake | Frank L. Bodine Horace Trumbauer |
Somerville | Originally built for J. Harper Smith | ||
Glenmont | 1881 | Queen Anne | Henry Hudson Holly | West Orange | Originally built for Henry Pedder, Thomas Edison moved in 1885 | ||
The Towers or Aladdin Castle | 1881 | Queen Anne | Elberon | Originally built for Cornelius K. Garrison, was sold to Salomon R Guggenheim in 1900. The House was demolished in 1940. | |||
Lambert Castle | 1892 | Romanesque and medieval | Paterson | Was built for Catholina Lambert and today is a museum. | |||
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Florham | 1893 | English Baroque Revival | McKim, Mead & White Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape) |
Madison and Florham Park | Part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University | |
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Georgian Court | 1899 | Georgian Revival | Bruce Price | Lakewood | Today, part of Georgian Court University | |
Kenilwood | 1901 | Beaux Arts | George B. Post | Bernardsville | Built for broker George B. Post Jr. by his father, now, owned by Mike Tyson | ||
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Rutherfurd Hall | 1902 | Tudor Revival | Whitney Warren Olmsted Brothers (landscape) |
Allamuchy Township | Owned and managed by the Allamuchy School District | |
First Shadow Lawn | 1903 | Colonial Revival | West Long Branch | Built for John A McCall. Destroyed by fire in 1927 | |||
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Blairsden | 1903 | French Renaissance | Carrère and Hastings | Peapack-Gladstone | Formerly a retreat house for the Sisters of St. John the Baptist | |
Darlington Manor | 1907 | Jacobean Revival | James Brite | Mahwah | Built for George Crocker. Today it is still a private home. | ||
Krueger Mansion | 1888 | Late Victorian | Henry Schultz | Newark | In late 2020, the city and the company Makerhoods broke ground on refurbishing the mansion into live/work spaces for local experienced "makers" in the food, beauty, craft and other small-scale artisan industries for $1800 a month by application only. | ||
Dr George Gil Green House | 1876 | Second Empire | Paschal Madera | Woodbury | The house was extensively renovated in the 1940s finally destroyed by fire in 1968. |
New York
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Beechwood | 1780 (renovated 1890s) | Neo-classical Federal, Colonial Revival (renovation) | R. H. Robertson (1890s renovation) William Welles Bosworth (c. 1907 renovation) |
Briarcliff Manor | Converted to condominium apartments in the 1980s | |
Armour-Stiner House | 1860 | Eclectic: Octagon Mode | Irvington | Today, a museum | |||
Sherman D Phelps House | 1870 | Second Empire | Isaak G Perry | Binghamton | Today, a museum | ||
Gen. Edward F. Jones House | 1883 | Queen Anne | Binghamton | Built for Edward F. Jones, now, a private residence | |||
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Mills Mansion | 1832 (renovated c. 1895) | Colonial (1792 original) Greek Revival (1832 replacement) Beaux-Arts (1895 renovation) |
McKim, Mead, and White (1890s renovation) | Staatsburg | Today, located within Ogden Mills & Ruth Livingston Mills State Park | |
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Lyndhurst | 1838 | Gothic Revival | Alexander Jackson Davis | Tarrytown | Owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and open to the public | |
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Wilderstein | 1852 | Italianate (original) Queen Anne (1888 renovation) |
John Warren Ritch, Arnout Cannon, Joseph Burr Tiffany, Calvert Vaux (landscape) | Rhinebeck | Today, operated as a house museum | |
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Olana | 1872 | Eclectic | Calvert Vaux | Greenport | Today, operated as a house and property museum. Home to Frederic Edwin Church | |
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Glenview | 1877 | Late Victorian | Charles W. Clinton | Yonkers | Today, houses the Hudson River Museum | |
Sagamore Hill | 1884 | Queen Anne | Lamb and Rich | Cove Neck | Built for President Theodore Roosevelt | ||
Bay Villa | 1862 | Second Empire | Staten Island | Built for John M Pendleton, it was the summer house of Anson Phelps Stokes between 1868 and 1886, was abandoned in 1910s and later demolished in 1930. | |||
Wyckloff Mansion | 1895 | Tudor Revival | William Henry Miller | Carleton Island | Was built for William O. Wyckoff, the mansion is abandoned today. | ||
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Castle Rock | 1881 | Romanesque Revival | J. Morgan Slade | Garrison | Private residence | |
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Idle Hour | 1882 | Tudor Revival | Richard Morris Hunt | Oakdale | Burned down in 1899 | |
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Rockwood Hall | 1886 | Elizabethan | Gervase Wheeler (1849 house) Ebenezer L. Roberts and Carrère and Hastings (c. 1890 renovation) |
Mount Pleasant | It was the second-largest house in the U.S.; Demolished c. 1941 | |
Reid Hall | 1892 | Romanesque and medieval | Stanford White | Purchase | Was built for Whitelaw Reid, Is part of the Manhattanville College since 1951. | ||
Yaddo Mansion | 1893 | Romanesque and Tudor Revival | William Halsey Wood | Saratoga Springs | Was built for Spencer Trask. Since 1900 is an artists' community. | ||
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Estherwood | 1894 | Renaissance Revival | Buchman & Deisler | Dobbs Ferry | Today, located on the campus of The Masters School | |
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Woodlea | 1895 | Renaissance Revival and Beaux-Arts | McKim, Mead & White | Briarcliff Manor | Today, the Sleepy Hollow Country Club | |
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Alexander Brown House | 1895 | Richardsonian Romanesque | Gordon Wright | Syracuse | ||
Gratwick Mansion | 1888 | Richardsonian Romanesque | H.H Richardson | Buffalo | Built for William Henry Gratwick, demolished in 1919. | ||
Hamlin Mansion | 1889 | Richardsonian Romanesque | James H. Marling and Herbert C. Burdett | Buffalo | Built for William C. Hamlin, was demolished in 1937. | ||
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Brookholt | 1897 | Colonial Revival | John Russell Pope | East Meadow | Destroyed by fire in 1934 | |
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Indian Neck Hall | 1897 | Georgian | Ernest Flagg | Oakdale | Part of the Long Island campus of St. John's University | |
Burrwood | 1898–1899 | Carrère and Hastings | Long Island | One of the Gold Coast Mansions, has been torn down | |||
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Henry W. Poor House (also known as Poor's Palace and Woodland) | 1899 | Jacobean | T. Henry Randall | Tuxedo Park | Later owned by Henry Morgan Tilford | |
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Hyde Park | 1899 | Beaux-Arts | McKim, Mead & White | Hyde Park | Owned and operated by the National Park Service | |
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Idle Hour | 1901 | English Country | Richard Howland Hunt | Oakdale | Formerly part of Dowling College | |
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Waldheim | 1901 | Tudor Revival | Olmstead Brothers (grounds) | Scarborough-on-Hudson | Sold in 1946, subdivided into residential lots, and torn down in 1955 | |
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Harbor Hill | 1902 | French Renaissance Revival | McKim, Mead & White | Roslyn | Demolished in 1947 | |
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Harry E. Donnell House | 1902 | Tudor Revival | Harry E. Donnell; Randall & Miller | Eatons Neck | ||
Knole | 1903 | Carrère and Hastings | Westbury | Built for Herman B. Duryea | |||
Boldt Castle | 1904 | Châteauesque and Romanesque | GW & WD Hewitt | Alexandria Bay | Built for George Boldt, today is a tourist attraction. | ||
Rochroane Castle | 1905 | Medieval | A.J.Manning | Irvington | Was built for Melchior Stewart Beltzhoover, was destroyed by fire in 1970s. | ||
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Laurelton Hall | 1905 | Art Nouveau | Louis Comfort Tiffany | Laurel Hollow | Burned down in 1957 | |
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Westbury House | 1906 | Carolean Revival | George A. Crawley | Old Westbury | A house museum open for tours | |
Webb Horton Mansion | 1906 | Romanesque | Frank Lindsay | Middletown | Today part of the SUNY Orange Campus | ||
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Welwyn | 1906 | Georgian Revival | Babb, Cook & Willard Delano & Aldrich (1920 renovation) |
Glen Cove | Site of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County since 1992 | |
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Arden | 1909 | Carrère and Hastings | Harriman | Built for Edward Henry Harriman, now owned by the Research Center on Natural Conservation | ||
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Hempstead House (also known as Castle Gould) | 1912 | Gothic Revival | August Allen | Sands Point | Started by Howard Gould and completed by Daniel Guggenheim | |
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Kykuit | 1913 | Colonial Revival | Delano & Aldrich William Welles Bosworth (renovation) |
Pocantico Hills | Built for John Davison Rockefeller, the richest man in modern history.
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DuPont-Guest Estate (also known as White Eagle) | 1916 | Georgian Revival | Carrère and Hastings | Brookville | Since 1972, it has been part of the Old Westbury campus of the New York Institute of Technology | |
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Woolworth Estate | 1916 | Italian Renaissance | Gilbert, Charles P.H. | Glen Cove | Privately Owned | |
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Beacon Towers | 1918 | Gothic Châteauesque | Hunt & Hunt | Sands Point | Demolished in 1945 | |
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Oheka Castle | 1919 | Châteauesque | Delano & Aldrich Olmsted Brothers (landscape) |
West Hills | A member of Historic Hotels of America | |
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Inisfada | 1920 | Tudor Revival | John T. Windrim | North Hills | Demolished in December 2013 | |
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Lillian Sefton Dodge Estate (also known as Sefton Manor and Mill Neck Manor) | 1922 | Tudor Revival | Clinton and Russell | Mill Neck | Today, the Mill Neck Manor Lutheran School for the Deaf | |
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Poplar Hill | 1925 | French Renaissance | Charles A. Platt | Glen Cove | Today, a rehabilitation center |
New York City
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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William H. Vanderbilt House | 1883 | Renaissance Revival | John B. Snook, Charles B. Atwood | New York City | Built for William Henry Vanderbilt. It was later property of Cornelius Vanderbilt III and Grace Vanderbilt. Was demolished in 1947 | |
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William K. Vanderbilt House | 1882 | Châteauesque | Richard Morris Hunt | New York City | Built for William Kissam Vanderbilt and Alva Vanderbilt. Demolished in 1927 | |
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Villard Houses | 1882 | Renaissance Revival | McKim, Mead & White | New York City | Today is part of the New York Palace Hotel | |
Hutchinson-Alexander Mansion | 1882 | Châteauesque | George B Post | New York City | Originally built for William J Hutchinson, later sold to Charles Beatty Alexander and Hattie Crocker, the house was greatly enlarged in 1907 and demolished in 1943. | ||
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Cornelius Vanderbilt II House | 1883 | Châteauesque | Richard Morris Hunt George B. Post | New York City | Built for Cornelius Vanderbilt II and Alice Vanderbilt. Demolished in 1926 | |
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Florence and Eliza Vanderbilt House | 1883 | Châteauesque | John B. Snook | New York City | Built for Florence Vanderbilt and Eliza Vanderbilt. Were demolished in 1917 and 1925 respectively | |
Isaac Vail Brokaw House | 1883 | Châteauesque | Rose and Stone | New York City | Built for Isaac Vail Brokaw .Was demolished in 1965 | ||
Howard C. and Irving Brokaw Houses | 1905 | French Gothic | Rose and Stone | New York City | Built for Howard C Brokaw and Irving Brokaw. Was demolished circa 1965 | ||
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James Bailey House | 1888 | Romanesque Revival | Samuel B. Reed | New York City | Built for James Anthony Bailey of the Barnum & Bailey Circus | |
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James Hampden Robb and Cornelia Van Rensselaer Robb House | 1892 | Italian Renaissance Revival | McKim, Mead & White | New York City | Today, a cooperative apartment | |
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Henry T. Sloane House | 1894 | French Renaissance Revival | Carrère and Hastings | New York City | Built for Henry T Sloane. Later owned by Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the former Emir of Qatar | |
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Mrs. William B. Astor House | 1896 | French Renaissance Revival | Richard Morris Hunt | New York City | Built for Caroline Astor and John Jacob Astor IV. Was demolished around 1926 | |
Louis Comfort Tiffany House | 1885 | Romanesque, Queen Anne | Louis Comfort Tiffany and Standford White | New York City | Built for Louis Comfort Tiffany and his family. Was demolished in 1936 | ||
John D Rockefeller Jr House | 1912 | Renaissance Revival | William Wells Bosworth | New York City | Built for John D Rockefeller Jr. Was demolished in 1938 | ||
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Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo House | 1898 | French Renaissance Revival | Kimball & Thompson | New York City | Today is the Ralph Lauren flagship store | |
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William H. Moore House | 1898 | Renaissance Revival | McKim, Mead & White | New York City | Formerly the America-Israel Cultural Foundation | |
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Oliver Gould Jennings House | 1898 | Beaux-Arts | Carrère and Hastings | New York City | Owned by Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the former Emir of Qatar | |
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Harry F. Sinclair House | 1898 | French Gothic | C. P. H. Gilbert | New York City | Since 1955, it has been owned by the Ukrainian Institute of America | |
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Stuyvesant Fish House | 1898 | Italianate | McKim, Mead and White | New York City | Today, headquarters of Bloomberg Philanthropies | |
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Benjamin N. Duke House | 1901 | Beaux-Arts | Welch, Smith & Provot | New York City | Owned by Carlos Slim | |
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Andrew Carnegie Mansion | 1901 | Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival | Babb, Cook & Willard | New York City | Today, houses the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum | |
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Joseph Raphael De Lamar House | 1902 | Beaux-Arts | C. P. H. Gilbert | New York City | Purchased by the Republic of Poland in 1973 to house its Consulate General | |
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James A. Burden House | 1905 | Italian Renaissance | Warren & Wetmore | New York City | Today, it houses the lower school of the Convent of the Sacred Heart | |
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Morton F. Plant House | 1905 | Neo-Renaissance | Robert W. Gibson Thierry W. Despont (renovations) |
New York City | Today, a Cartier store | |
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Felix M. Warburg House | 1906 | Châteauesque | C. P. H. Gilbert | New York City | Today, home to the Jewish Museum | |
Frederic W. Stevens House | 1876 | Châteauesque | George Harney | New York City | The house was demolished in 1919 | ||
Jacob Ruppert Sr House | 1883 | Second Empire | William Schickel | New York City | Demolished in 1925 | ||
Charles Tyson Yerkes House | 1896 | Romanesque | RH Robertson | New York City | Demolished in 1925 | ||
George Kemp House | 1876 | Châteauesque | RC Jones | New York City | Demolished in 1910 | ||
William Van Duzer Lawrance House | 1889 | Châteauesque | Richard Morris Hunt | New York City | Demolished in 1937 | ||
Elbridge Thomas Garry House | 1897 | Châteauesque | Richard Morris Hunt | New York City | Demolished in 1929 | ||
Josephine Del Drago House | 1898 | Châteauesque | New York City | Demolished in 1911 for the Knickerbocker Club | |||
Henry Osborne Havemeyer House | 1890 | Romanesque | Charles Coolidge Haight | New York City | Demolished in 1930 | ||
Collins P Huntington House | 1894 | Romanesque | George B Post | New York City | Demolished in 1926 | ||
George Crocker House | 1899 | Beaux-Arts | Brigth & Bacon | New York City | Demolished in 1930 | ||
Libbey Castle/Woodcliff Castle | 1857 | Medieval | Alexander Jackson Davies | New York City | Built for Augustus C Richards, was demolished in 1931 for the construction of Fort Tryon Park. | ||
Alexander Turney Stewart House | 1869 | Second Empire | John Kellum | New York City | Demolished in 1901 | ||
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Charles M. Schwab House | 1906 | Beaux-Arts | Maurice Hébert | New York City | Demolished in 1947 | |
Tryon Hall | 1903 | Beaux-Arts | Buchman & Fox | New York City | Built for C.K.G. Billings on the highest point on Manhattan, was destroyed by fire in 1926. | ||
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George J. Gould House | 1906 | French | Horace Trumbauer | New York City | Replaced by an office building in 1963 | |
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Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont House | 1909 | Neoclassical | Hunt & Hunt | New York City | Demolished in 1951. | |
Paterno Castle | 1909 | Medieval | John C Watson | New York City | Was Built for Charles V Paterno and demolished in 1938. | ||
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William A. Clark House | 1911 | Beaux-Arts Châteauesque | Austin W. Lord, J. Monroe Hewlett, Washington Hull | New York City | Demolished in 1927. | |
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Henry Clay Frick House | 1914 | Beaux-Arts | Carrère and Hastings | New York City | Today, home to the Frick Collection | |
A.C James Mansion | 1914 | Beaux-Arts | Allen & Collens | New York City | Was built for Arthur Curtiss James and demolished in 1941. | ||
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Willard D. Straight House | 1915 | Georgian Revival | Delano & Aldrich | New York City | Today, private residence of Bruce Kovner | |
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Otto H. Kahn House | 1918 | Italian Renaissance | J. Armstrong Stenhouse, C. P. H. Gilbert | New York City | Modeled after the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome |
North Carolina
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Biltmore | 1895 | Châteauesque | Richard Morris Hunt Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape) |
Asheville | Built for George Washington Vanderbilt II, it is the largest house in the U.S. | |
Alexander Martin Smith House, | 1897 | Queen Anne | George Franklin Barber | Elkin | Today, a private residence | ||
Richard Joshua Reynolds House | 1900 | Queen Anne | George Franklin Barber | Winston-Salem | Demolished in 1940s | ||
Whalehead Club, | 1925 | Art Nouveau | Edward Collings Jr. and Marie Louise Label Knight | Corolla | Today, a historic home for the public |
Nebraska
Image | Name | Year Built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref |
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Joslyn Castle | 1903 | Romanesque | John McDonald | Omaha | Was built for George Joslyn and today is a museum |
Ohio
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Probasco House | 1859 | Romansque Revival and Gothic | William Tinsley | Cincinnati | Built for Henry Probasco, today is a private residence | ||
Forest Hill | 1878 | Second Empire and Stick Victorian | Cleveland | Built for John D Rockefeller, was destroyed by fire in 1917. | |||
Charles H Bigelow House | 1888 | Queen Anne | Henry Oswald Wurmser | Findlay | |||
Sylvester T. Everett House | 1885 | Richardsonian Romanesque | Charles Frederick Schweinfurth | Cleveland | Demolished in 1938 | ||
Samuel Andrews House | 1885 | Romanesque | George H. Smith | Cleveland | Demolished in 1923 | ||
Charles F Brush House | 1884 | Romanesque | George H Smith | Cleveland | Demolished in 1930 | ||
Samuel Mather House | 1910 | English Revival | Charles Frederick Schweinfurth | Cleveland | Today de University Hall of Cleveland | ||
Taft House | 1820 | Greek Revival, Federal | James Hoban (disputed) Alfred Oscar Elzner (additions) |
Cincinnati | Today houses the Taft Museum of Art | ||
Scarlet Oaks | 1867 | Romanesque Revival, Gothic Revival | James Keys Wilson | Cincinnati | Currently, a retirement home affiliated with the Deaconess Hospital | ||
George B. Cox House | 1894 | Italianate | Samuel Hannaford | Cincinnati | Currently, a branch of the Public Library of Cincinnati | ||
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Old Governor's Mansion | 1904 | Colonial Revival, Neo-Georgian eclectic | Frank Packard | Columbus | Today, home to the Columbus Foundation | |
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Laurel Court | 1907 | Beaux Arts, Renaissance | James Gamble Rogers | Cincinnati | Historic house museum and private residence | |
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Stan Hywet Hall | 1915 | Tudor Revival | Schneider, Charles S.; Manning, Warren H. | Akron | Built by Frank Seiberling | |
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Pinecroft | 1928 | Tudor Revival | Dwight James Baum | Cincinnati | Built for Powel Crosley Jr. |
Oregon
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Captain George Flavel House | 1885 | Queen Anne | Carl W. Leick | Astoria | Today a museum | ||
Richard B. Knapp House | 1882 | Queen Anne | Warren Heywood Williams | Portland | Demolished in 1951 | ||
Charles Mortimer Forbes Residence | 1892 | Queen Anne | William R Stokes | Portland | Demolished in 1929 |
Pennsylvania
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Harrison Mansion | 1857 | Neoclassical, Italianate | Samuel Sloan | Philadelphia | Built for Joseph Harrison Jr, was demolished in 1925 | ||
Ogontz | 1867 | Second Empire | Elkin Park | Built for Jay Cooke, was demolished in 1924 for the construction of another mansion. | |||
Scott Mansion | 1875 | Victorian | Frank Furness | Philadelphia | Built for Thomas A Scott, was demolished in 1913 | ||
Disston Mansion | 1882 | Italianate | Edwin Forrest Durang | Philadelphia | Built for Albert H Disston, son of Henry Disston. Today the house is the Unity Mission Church Home Training School Bible Institute. | ||
Lindenhurst | 1883 | Romanesque | Edward Alfred Sargent | Jenkintown | Built for John Wanamaker, was destroyed by fire in 1907. | ||
Townsend Castle | 1887 | Romanesque | GW & WD Hewitt | Philadelphia | Built for John Lister Townsend, today is a private residence. | ||
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Clayton | 1860s (renovated 1892) | Italianate | Andrew Peebles (renovations) Frederick J. Osterling (renovations) |
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Sinnott Mansion | 1891 | Châteauesque | Samuel Huckel Jr. | Lower Merion | Built for Joseph F Sinnott | ||
Frank H. Buhl Mansion | 1891 | Châteauesque and Romanesque | Charles Henry Owsley | Sharon | Built for Frank H. Buhl, today is a house museum. | ||
Woodmont | 1894 | Châteauesque | William Lightfoot Price | Gladwyne | Built for Alan Wood Jr., later the residence of evangelist Father Divine, and the center of his International Peace Mission movement. Today is open for tours. | ||
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Negley–Gwinner–Harter House | 1871 | Second Empire | Frederick J. Osterling (renovations) | Pittsburgh | ||
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Baywood Mansion | 1880 | Second Empire | Pittsburgh | |||
Schwab-Dixon Mansion | 1888 | Richardsonian Romanesque | Frederick J. Osterling | North Braddock | Built for Charles M. Schwab | ||
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Cairnwood | 1895 | Beaux-Arts | Carrère and Hastings | Bryn Athyn | Owned by the Academy of the New Church | |
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Grey Towers | 1896 | Gothic Revival | Horace Trumbauer | Glenside | Today, part of Arcadia University | |
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Elstowe Manor | 1898 | Italian Renaissance | Horace Trumbauer | Elkins Park | ||
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Lynnewood Hall | 1900 | Neoclassical Revival | Horace Trumbauer | Elkins Park | Predominantly vacant since 1952 | |
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McCook Mansion | 1906 | Jacobean Revival | Carpenter & Crocker | Pittsburgh | A boutique hotel and member of Historic Hotels of America | |
Melmar | 1910 | Classical Revival | Huntingdon Valley | Built for Nicholas Biddle and Sarah Lippincott | |||
Walmarthon | 1913 | Mediterranean Revival | David Knickerbacker Lloyd | St Devids | Built for Charles S Walton, today is part of the Eastern University | ||
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Moreland-Hoffstot House | 1914 | French Renaissance Revival | Irwin, Paul | Pittsburgh | ||
Weigley Mansion | 1876-1882 | Second Empire | Isaac H. Hobbs | Schaefferstown | Built for William Weigley | ||
Whitemarsh Hall | 1921 | Georgian | Horace Trumbauer | Wyndmoor | (demolished 1980) | ||
Widener Mansion | 1887 | Châteauesque | Willis G Hale | Philadelphia | Destroyed by fire in 1980 |
Rhode Island
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Kingscote | 1839 (remodeled 1870s, remodeled 1880s) | Gothic Revival | Richard Upjohn George C. Mason (1870s renovation) McKim, Mead and White (1880s renovation) |
Newport | One of the first summer "cottages" constructed in Newport; owned by the Preservation Society of Newport County and open for tours | |
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Malbone Castle | 1849 (remodeled 1875) | Gothic Revival | Alexander Jackson Davis Dudley Newton (renovations) |
Newport | A private residence not open to the public | |
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Beechwood | 1851 | Italianate | Downing and Vaux (construction) Richard Morris Hunt (renovations) McKim, Mead & White (renovations) |
Newport | Originally built for Daniel Parish, was bought and renovated by William B Astor and Caroline Astor in 1880. Owned by Larry Ellison since 2010 who is creating the "Beechwood Art Museum" | |
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Chateau-sur-Mer | 1852 | Second Empire | Seth C. Bradford (construction) Richard Morris Hunt (renovations) Ogden Codman Jr. (design) |
Newport | Built for William Shepard Wetmore, was extensively remodeled in 1870s, Today is a museum. | |
The Reefs | 1853 | Italianate | Newport | Built for Christopher Wolfe and later buy and remodeled by Harry Payne Whitney and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Was destroyed by fire in 1942. | |||
Baulieu | 1859 | Second Empire | Downing and Vaux | Newport | Originally built for Federico Luciano Barreda, it was later inhabited by John Jacob Astor III and Cornelius Vanderbilt III, it was remodeled in the 1950s and is currently a private home. | ||
Chepstow | 1860 | Italianate | George Champlin Mason Sr. | Newport | Built for Edmund Schermerhorn. Now a museum | ||
By The Sea | 1860 | Italianate | George Chaplain Mason Sr | Newport | Built for Caroline Perry Belmont and August Belmont. Was demolished in 1946. | ||
The Rocks | 1864 | Stick and Romanesque | John Hubbard Sturgis | Newport | Originally built for Edward Darley Boit, it was later bought and remodeled by Henry Claws. Was demolished in 1945. | ||
William King Covell III House | 1870 | Newport | Built for Milton H. Sanford, later owned by William King Covell III, summer residence of Lizzie Borden, now a bed and breakfast | ||||
Eisenhower House | 1873 | Victorian | George C. Mason & Son | Newport | Built for General Henry Jackson Hunt, later served as Dwight D. Eisenhower's summer residence. | ||
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Fairholme | 1874–1875 | Tudor | Frank Furness | Newport | Built for Fairman Rogers, remodeled in 1905 for John R. Drexel. Today a private residence. | |
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William Watts Sherman House | 1875 | Queen Anne | H. H. Richardson Stanford White (c. 1880 renovations) |
Newport | Owned by Salve Regina University | |
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Charles H. Baldwin House | 1877 | Queen Anne Shingle | Potter & Robinson | Newport | Built for U.S. Navy Admiral Charles H. Baldwin | |
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The Breakers | 1878 | Queen Anne | Peabody and Stearns | Newport | Destroyed by fire in 1892 and replaced by The Breakers | |
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Vinland Estate | 1882 | Romanesque Revival | Peabody & Stearns | Newport | Today, McAuley Hall, Salve Regina University | |
Graystone | 1883 | Romanesque | George Chaplain Mason & Company | Newport | Demolished in 1938 | ||
Aspen Hall/Rockhurst | 1884 | Queen Anne | Peabody & Stearns | Newport | Built for H.L Mortimer Brooks. Was demolished in 1955. | ||
The Cloisters | 1885 | Shingle | JD Johnston | Newport | Built for Catherine Lorillard Kernochan. Later bought by James T Woodward. Demolished in 1950 | ||
Stoneacre | 1885 | Shingle | William A Potter | Newport | Built for John W. Ellis; demolished in 1962 | ||
Isaac Bell House | 1881–1883 | Shingle Style | McKim, Mead, and White | Newport | Built for Isaac Bell Jr. | ||
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Seaview Terrace | 1885 (remodeled c. 1923) | Châteauesque | Howard Greenley | Newport | Privately owned and is not open for tours | |
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William G. Low House | 1887 | Shingle | McKim, Mead & White | Bristol | Demolished in 1962. | |
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Hammersmith Farm | 1887 | Victorian Shingle | R. H. Robertson Olmsted Brothers (landscape) |
Newport | Built for John W. Auchincloss, uncle of Hugh D. Auchincloss (Jacqueline Kennedy's stepfather) | |
Althorpe | 1889–1890 | Colonial Revival | Peabody & Stearns | Newport | Built for John Thompson Spencer | ||
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Rockhurst (also known as Aspen Hall) | 1891 | Châteauesque | Peabody & Stearns | Newport | Demolished in 1955 for a residential subdivision | |
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Ochre Court | 1892 | Châteauesque | Richard Morris Hunt | Newport | Owned by Salve Regina University | |
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Marble House | 1892 | Beaux-Arts | Richard Morris Hunt | Newport | Open to the public and run by the Preservation Society of Newport County | |
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Rough Point | 1892 | English Manorial | Peabody & Stearns | Newport | Built for Frederick William Vanderbilt; Owned and operated by the Newport Restoration Foundation | |
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Belcourt | 1894 | Châteauesque | Richard Morris Hunt (1894) John Russell Pope (1910) |
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The Breakers | 1895 | Neo Italian Renaissance | Richard Morris Hunt | Newport | Built for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, replaced the 1878 Breakers mansion (owned by Pierre Lorillard IV) | |
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Crossways | 1895 | Colonial Revival | Dudley Newton | Newport | ||
President's House | 1896 | Colonial Revival | Creighton Withers | Newport | Built by the Naval War College for Rear Admiral French Ensor Chadwick, | ||
Lippitt Castle | 1899 | Medieval Castle | Robert H Robertson | Newport | Built for Charles Warren Lippitt. Was demolished in 1924. | ||
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Vernon Court | 1901 | French classical | Carrère and Hastings | Newport | Today, home of the National Museum of American Illustration. | |
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The Elms | 1901 | Classical Revival | Horace Trumbauer | Newport | Open to the public and run by the Preservation Society of Newport County | |
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Rosecliff | 1902 | French Baroque Revival | McKim, Mead & White | Newport | Open to the public and run by the Preservation Society of Newport County | |
Castlewood | 1905 | Edward Payson Whitman | Newport | Built for Josephine S Bruguière, was demolished in 1942. | |||
Beacon Hill | 1911 | English Revival | Howells & Stokes | Newport | Built for Arthur Curtiss James, was demolished in 1967. | ||
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Miramar | 1915 | French neoclassical | Horace Trumbauer | Newport | Built for Eleanor Widener. The gardens was designed by landscape architect Jacques Gréber | |
Belton Court | 1905 | Medieval Style | Martin & Hall | Barrington | Built for Frederick Stanhope Peck. Since 2011, Belton Court and the surrounding structures have been predominately vacant. | ||
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Bois Doré | 1927 | French Château | Charles A. Platt | Newport | Later owned by heiress Carolyn Mary Skelly |
South Carolina
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Calhoun Mansion | 1876 | Italianate | George W. Williams | Charleston | Open for public tours |
Tennessee
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Hill Mansion | 1881 | French Renaissance | Memphis | Built by businessman and newspaper owner Napoleon Hill. Demolished in 1928 to make way for the Sterick Building. |
Texas
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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John H. Hounghton House | 1887 | Queen Anne | James Wahrenberger | Austin | Demolished in 1973 | ||
George Littlefield House | 1893 | Queen Anne | James Wahrenberger | Austin | Today, part of the campus of the University of Texas at Austin | ||
John Bremond House | 1886 | Second Empire | James Wahrenberger | Austin | Part of Texas Classroom Teachers Association | ||
Bishop's Palace | 1893 | Richardson Romanesque | Nicholas J Clayton | Galveston | Built for Walter Gresham, today is open for tours. | ||
Edward Steves Jr. House | 1884 | Italianante | James Wahrenberger | Austin | Built for ammunition magnate and lumber heir Edward Steves Jr. as a new home for him and his new wife. | ||
Carl F. A. Hummel House | 1884 | Italianante | James Wahrenberger | Austin |
Utah
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Gardo House | 1883 | Second Empire | William H Folsom and Joseph Ridges | Salt Lake City | Gardo House was the official residence of the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) during the terms of John Taylor and Wilford Woodruff. Was demolished on November 26, 1921. |
Vermont
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Wilson Castle | 1885 | Scottish baronial, Queen Anne, and Romanesque Revival | Proctor | Built for John Johnson, today is a museum. | |||
Hildene Mansion | 1905 | Georgian Revival | Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge | Manchester | |||
Shelburne Farms | 1899 | Queen Anne | R. H. Robertson and Frederick Law Olmsted | Shelburne | Today is a nonprofit education center for sustainability |
Virginia
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Ellerslie | 1856 (extensively remodeled in 1910) | Italian Villa | Robert Young (1857) Carneal and Johnston (1910) |
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Roseland Manor (also known as the Strawberry Banks Manor House) |
1887 | Châteauesque Queen Anne | Arthur Crooks | Hampton | Destroyed by fire in 1985 | |
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Maymont | 1893 | Victorian | Edgerton S. Rogers | Richmond | Today, a historic house museum and arboretum | |
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Poplar Hill (also known as the Dunnington Mansion) |
1897 | Victorian | Farmville | 8,500 sq. ft. Manor home of tobacco baron Walter Grey Dunnington that has fallen into disrepair | ||
more images | Berryman Mansion | 1900 | Colonial Revival | Smithfield | Built by P.D. Gwaltney as a wedding gift for his daughter who married F.R. Berryman. | ||
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P. D. Gwaltney Jr. House | 1901 | Queen Anne | George Franklin Barber | Smithfield | Remained in the Gwaltney family until 2016. | |
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Queen Anne | Vance & Allen | Hampton | Demolished in 1976. | |
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Swannanoa | 1912 | Italian Renaissance Revival | Noland & Baskerville | Nelson County | ||
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Branch House | 1916 | Tudor Revival, Jacobean Revival | John Russell Pope with Otto R. Eggers |
Richmond | Offices of the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects (VSAIA) and the Branch Museum of Architecture and Design. | |
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Westbourne | 1919 | Georgian Revival | W. Duncan Lee | Richmond | Gardens designed by landscape architect Charles F. Gillette | |
more images | Merrywood | 1919 | Georgian Revival | McLean | Childhood home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; Gardens designed by landscape architect Beatrix Farrand | ||
more images | Selma (Leesburg, Virginia) | 1902 | Colonial Revival | Noland and Baskerville | Leesburg | Built by Elijah B. White a wealthy Virginia banker who at the time was the largest exporter of grain in the United States. | |
Lewis Ginter House | 1892 | Romanesque | Harvey L Page and William W Kent | Richmond | Today part of Virginia Commonwealth University |
Washington
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Ezra Meeker Mansion | 1887 | Italianate | Farrell & Darmer | Puyallup | Today a museum | ||
L. M. Wood House | 1901 | Italianate | Seattle | Built for merchant Lovett Mortimer Wood, demolished by Wood's widow in the 1920s |
Wisconsin
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Pabst Mansion | 1892 | Flemish Renaissance Revival | George Ferry | Milwaukee | Today a historic house museum | ||
Elizabeth Plankinton House | 1888 | Richardson Romanesque | Edward Townsend Mix | Milwaukee | Demolished in 1980 | ||
William Plankinton House | 1876 | Second Empire and Victorian | Edward Townsend Mix | Milwaukee | Demolished in 1969 | ||
John Plankinton House | 1856 | Italianate | Milwaukee | Originally built for James H Rogers and later buy and remodeled by John Plankinton in 1864. Demolished in 1975. | |||
Holway Mansion | 1892 | Romanesque and Queen Anne | Hugo Schick and Gustav Stolze | La Crosse | Today, a bed and breakfast | ||
Valentin Blatz House | 1884–1886 | Italianate | Milwaukee | Demolished for make way for a planned strip mall in 1964. |
Wyoming
Image | Name | Year built | Style | Architect | City | Notes | Ref. |
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Wyoming Historic Governors' Mansion | 1904 | Georgian Colonial Revival | Cheyenne | Built for Governor of Wyoming Fenimore Chatterton |
See also
In Spanish: Anexo:Mansiones de la Gilded Age para niños
- American architecture
- List of largest houses in the United States