This house is a diamond in the rough! And it’s a big one at almost 5,000 square feet! This home was built in 1871. It is located on .46 acres in Rochester, New York. The home has original hardwood floors and a grand winding staircase. There is also a second ...
Read More »Before and after of the Selma Mansion
Selma Mansion was built by Andrew Porter in 1794, the land on which it stands being acquired in 1786, the house being built around a small structure that stood there previously. Porter was one of the founders of the U.S. Marine Corps and Pennsylvania’s Surveyor General,. Other prominent resident’s of ...
Read More »See the inside of Littlefield House
The Littlefield House is a historic home in Austin, Texas, on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. The home was built in 1893 for Civil War veteran George Littlefield, who was a successful businessman in the bank and cattle trades and a major benefactor to UT. It was designed using the popular Victorian style at a ...
Read More »See the inside of the1892 Bishop’s Palace
The Gresham mansion was made all of stone, and was sturdy enough to withstand the great hurricane of 1900. The Greshams welcomed hundreds of survivors of the hurricane into their home. The house was built between 1887 and 1893 by Galveston architect Nicholas J. Clayton for lawyer and politician Walter Gresham, his wife Josephine, ...
Read More »See the inside of the 1890 Queen Anne Victorian
A three-storey Queen Anne Victorian on Millionaire’s Row in Plainfield, New Jersey’s landmark Van Wyck Brooks Historic District is pending sale after hitting the market in August for $895,000. The 6,370 square foot Craig Adams Marsh Mansion was given a new lease on life thanks to a pair of dedicated ...
Read More »See the inside of the 1890 Dickinson-Exley House
1890 Dickinson-Exley House Sells for $905K in Savannah, GA Built in 1890 by the Home Building Company, The Dickinson-Exley house last sold in March of 2019 for $905,000. The nearly 4,000 square foot historic home was exquisitely restored by David Bloomquist and features an extremely well-executed addition complete with a ...
Read More »The Taylor House built in 1882 in Marine City
Along the banks of the St. Clair River, the small but historically rich town of Marine City flourished in the late nineteenth century as a center of Great Lakes shipbuilding and maritime trade. Rising from that prosperous era is The Taylor House, built in 1882 — one of the community’s ...
Read More »The Historic Julian Price House Is Restored
Hillside, also known as the Julian Price House, is a historic mansion located in the Fisher Park neighborhood of Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Charles C. Hartmann and built in 1929 for the businessman Julian Price. The house, a four-story, 31-room, 180-foot-long (55 m) dwelling ...
Read More »An 1870s Victorian Mansion With Beautiful Light
When first built in 1876, the Victorian Gothic house was one of three show pieces that graced the highest ridge of Fair Haven Heights . The house was built by Dr. Mary Blair Moody, the first female to practice medicine in the New Haven area. In 1915, the house’s second ...
Read More »Victorian Mansion built in 1888 and designed by Frank Furness
Located in the Centre Park Historic District, “this circa 1888 Queen Anne” is an outstanding example of late 19th Century architecture and was orgiginally built for one of the founders of The Reading Hardware Company. The main entrance door and side lights of beveled cut glass are just a hint ...
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