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10 Perfect Historic Houses in USA

Arnett-Fullen House also known as the Gingerbread House, is located on 646 Pearl Street, Boulder, Colorado and is on the list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Boulder County, Colorado since 2009. This house features a mixture of architectural styles and is a two-story, private residency, which is sometimes open to the public.

The house building starting in 1877 and was completed by 1882. Built by Willamette Arnett (1848–1901), heir to Anthony Arnett, one of the founders of the Boulder Land and Trust Company. Arnett-Fullen House featured one of Boulder’s earliest indoor bathrooms, central heating, and cold running water systems. Photo by @capitol303

Maybrook is a mansion and property located in Wynnewood, Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania in the Main Line suburban region just outside of Philadelphia. The mansion was built in 1881 as a summer home by liquor baron and real estate developer Henry C. Gibson and his wife, Mary B. Klett and six-year-old daughter Mary Klett “May” Gibson. Gibson named the property for his little daughter and the brook that runs through it. Photo from their website.

The Cable House is a Richardsonian Romanesque-style house near Michigan Avenue at 25 E. Erie St. in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The house was built in 1886 by Cobb and Frost for socialite Ransom R. Cable. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on October 2, 1991.

The Cable House is currently occupied by the offices of Driehaus Capital Management, which is operated by Chicago financier, preservationist and philanthropist Richard H. Driehaus. His Richard H. Driehaus Museum is located across the intersection in the historic Edward J. Burling-designed Samuel M. Nickerson House at 40 E. Erie St

Dudley Williams House built in 1886 in Gainesville, FL, today it is a bed and breakfast. Photo by @godzilla1950

Grove Mansion, also known as the Green, earlier Townsend, Residence is a historic home located at Maytown in East Donegal Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1882 and 1887, and is a three-story, three bay by four bay brick dwelling in the Second Empire style. It features a “bell cast” mansard roof with patterned red and gray slate. Also on the property are a contributing pony house and carriage house, both topped with elaborate cupolas.Photo by @medmo

One of America’s great Victorian houses, the Batcheller Mansion Inn simply cannot compare to other Saratoga Inns. Built in 1873 in Saratoga Springs, NY, this American architectural masterpiece is an elegant mixture of small hotel and living history museum with the intimate feel of a bed and breakfast. Intricately carved European woodwork, hand carved marble fireplaces, family relics on loan from museums, original 1800’s Batcheller family furnishings, and spellbinding grandeur make this one of a kind Saratoga inn and living history museum a stately retreat. Throughout the past 137 years, some of Saratoga’s grandest parties were staged here, hosting U.S. Presidents, European Royalty, Dignitaries and Hollywood Celebrities. Designed by Nicols and Halcott of Albany, NY in 1873, this High Victorian Gothic mansion exhibits influences from the French Renaissance, Italian, and Egyptian styles. Photo by @housestories_

John S. Long House built in 1889 in San Diego, CA, great shot by @godzilla1950

Beautiful Victorian era brick home on Summit Avenue this fall, St Paul, MN, photo via @summit_avenue by @aframeforward

Bair House built in 1888 in Arcata, CA, one of the finest Queen Anne style houses in the state.

 

 

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