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2. Marble House - Wikipedia

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   December 8, 1972. Marble House, a Gilded Age mansion located at 596 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, was built from 1888 to 1892 as a summer cottage for Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt and was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the Beaux Arts style. It was unparalleled in opulence for an American house when it was completed in 1892.

3. Plantation complexes in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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   The Seward Plantation is a historic Southern plantation-turned-ranch in Independence, Texas. Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in the Southern United States from the 17th into the 20th century. The complex included everything from the main residence down to the pens for livestock. Until the abolition of slavery, such ...

4. Kit house - Wikipedia

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   Kit house. Kit houses, also known as mill-cut houses, pre-cut houses, ready-cut houses, mail order homes, or catalog homes, were a type of housing that was popular in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere in the first half of the 20th century. [1] Kit house manufacturers sold houses in many different plans and styles, from simple bungalows ...

5. Cure cottages of Saranac Lake - Wikipedia

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   Cure cottages of Saranac Lake. The Noyes Cottage at 16 Helen Street is a classic example of a house that evolved from a single-family house to a private sanatorium. 147 Park Avenue, called " The Porcupine " because it had so many good points. The "Cure Porches" are on the other side of the house. Presently a Bed and Breakfast.

6. Cottages in Dover open for tenants. Dream of small ... - AOL

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   Cottages at Back River Road, 44 small, affordable homes in Dover, NH, welcomed its first tenants Thursday. Cottages in Dover open for tenants. Dream of small, affordable homes becomes a reality.

7. List of Gilded Age mansions - Wikipedia

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   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 ...