Historical Homes

This home was built in 1886 by the Chandler family and was one of the prominent homes in the area. The Chandlers came from the Detroit area and fought in the Civil war. It has the original abstract which has the complete history of this home. It was designed by ...

Château Zoé-Turgeon is a bourgeois residence erected in 1906 and 1907. The building has a rather compact irregular plan comprising a stone base, two floors also in stone and an additional floor formed by the high roof with multiple slopes covered with sheet metal with the Canadian. The volume of ...

1890 Trube Castle that was restored apprx 1986, sits on a corner lot & is one of the most photographed historic buildings in Texas. A 3 story structure with 2 ground level apts with their own entry. Some of the features are stained glass windows, slate roof, widow’s walk, gorgeous ...

Daniel Smith Donelson built Hazel Path Mansion in 1857. The brick was made on the site and stone was quarried nearby. The original home consisted of nine rooms in the main structure. The foundation and side steps are stone which were hand hewn. The fireplaces were coal burning and the ...

The Delos Chappell-Stewart home from 1880 was just awarded a 2013 Historic Preservation Merit Award for its painstaking restoration. You have not only a 5-bedroom main house but an equally elegant one-bedroom carriage house apartment for investment income. This home is a jewel of the Stuart Historic District. Its owners ...

photo by @thatkentuckygrl The Gladden House was constructed in 1898 and has a storied past. Mattie Gladden, a madam in Nashville, Tennessee, returned to her home town of Salem, Indiana and built an extravagant Victorian mansion and opened her business to the chagrin of the town mothers who forced the ...

Down a narrow street off the square in a little town in the heart of Texas, stands a 22-room, three-story, Victorian-style mansion. Photo: seaquist.org Few know of it, but the 120-year-old Seaquist house boasting 15 fireplaces, a ballroom, and a wine cellar, might seem more at home in the foothills of ...

  Believed to be built around 1902, this unique historic mansion has a very ‘eclectic’ style, and is described by John Shiflet as follows: [it is] certainly not any pure “style” you’ll find in a guide to American houses. Eclectic is the best fit. Others have suggested French Chateauesque, Colonial ...

There was once a time when Pittsburgh was overrun with Gilded Age mansions. Grand, elaborate estates, built by steel tycoons, located along its exclusive “Millionaire’s Row.” Now, only Henry Clay Frick’s 1892 mansion, Clayton, remains as an example of the era’s excesses. Clayton Mansion Originally a somewhat modest eleven room ...

This home was built in 1899 on the high bluff overlooking the Trinity River. It was part of a neighborhood known as Quality Hill which featured large Victorian homes, owned mainly by Fort Worth’s Cattle Baron Families. Only a small number of these homes remain today. The home was originally ...