Historical Homes

Fairytale House in Skhodnya. Even nowadays near Moscow, you can still find lovely wooden houses which are like from a fairytale. One of them is located in Skhodnya, a town near Moscow. The original house was built in the second half of the 19th century by the Moscow industrialist Ivan ...

The Stone House is an excellent example of Queen Anne architecture and one of a dozen or so buildings which form the core of Arcata’s most important architectural district. Recognized in David Gebhard’s Guide to Architecture in San Francisco and Northern California (1973), the Stone House and its counterpart on the opposite corner of ...

The Mansion on Delaware Avenue, also known as the Charles F. Sternberg House is a French-inspired Second Empire Style Mansion built in the late 19th century. It is located at 414 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, New York. Industrialist Charles F. Sternberg, who owned a grain elevator on Ohio Street, commissioned ...

The Guess-White-Ogle House is a 3-story frame house located at 215 South Academy Street in Cary, NC. It is the finest, most intact and best-preserved example of Queen Anne-style architecture in the Downtown Cary National Register Historic District. The house has been in Downtown Cary for nearly 200 years. It ...

The historic Pinney House is located in Sierra Madre, California. This unique 3-story, 10,000 sq ft Victorian Queen Anne-style structure was commissioned as a 30-room hotel by former Civil War surgeon Dr. Elbert Pinney to accommodate East Coasters arriving in droves to buy up property during the Los Angeles land ...

Puyallup’s most significant historical building, the Meeker Mansion, still stands in the heart of downtown. Though it has endured many changes and several owners since it was originally built in 1890, the mansion has been beautifully restored to its late 19th-century glory. The Puyallup Historical Society at Meeker Mansion (formerly ...

Kirkwood is a historic plantation house in Eutaw, Alabama. The house was recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1934 and by Carol M. Highsmith in 2010. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 17, 1976, due to its architectural significance. Architecture Kirkwood is built in the Greek Revival style with Italianate influences. Foster M. Kirksey began building the ...

John Palmer House is a historic house in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. John Palmer was a builder who settled in Portland, Oregon in the 19th century. Construction on the John Palmer House was started in 1890. John Palmer’s wife died just four years after moving ...

1870 – Johan Poulsen An immigrant from Denmark, Johan Poulsen arrived in the United States in 1870.  He met and married Dora Schnan in 1873 in Iowa.  The couple then made their way to Oregon in 1876 where he found work in the lumber industry.  While working for a lumber ...

A 1909 mansion in Northeast Portland’s King neighborhood is a marriage of two disparate building concepts that continue to work well together: Decorative Queen Anne styling constructed of durable cast concrete blocks. The Jennie Bramhall House, named after the original owner, was also selected to be listed on the National ...