List of American houses

List of American houses

*Arlington House (the Custis-Lee Mansion): the home of Robert E. Lee, the grounds of which became Arlington National Cemetery.
*Belcourt Castle: the summer mansion of Oliver Belmont, American Rothschild banking heir.
*Belmont Mansion: home of William Peters in Philadelphia
*Biltmore Estate: the largest private home in the United States, built by George Vanderbilt. It is located outside Asheville, North Carolina.
*The Breakers: Newport, one of the most ambitious residences of the Gilded Age and an architectural landmark.
*Boldt Castle: legendary island estate, one of America's largest private residences.
*Cà d'Zan: Ringling mansion, Sarasota, Florida
*Camp Pine Knot: the earliest of the Great Camps of the Adirondacks, a National Historic Landmark
*Dark Island: fantasy castle by Ernest Flagg "(Singer Castle").
*Eames House: the residence of Charles and Ray Eames
*Elephant House: the house of Edward Gorey, artist, writer, illustrator, playwright, and puppeteer
*Fallingwater: a Frank Lloyd Wright designed house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania
*The Frick Collection: former residence of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick, adjacent Central Park in Manhattan, New York City
*Gamble House: the residence of David Gamble (of Procter & Gamble) in Pasadena, California built by Greene & Greene
*Glessner House: Chicago, H. H. Richardson, architect.
*Gracie Mansion: official residence of New York City's mayor
*Grange Estate: Haverford, Pennsylvania, built in 1700, home of patriot John Ross
*Hearst Castle: the grand mansion of publisher William Randolph Hearst at San Simeon, California
*House of Seven Gables: home of author Nathaniel Hawthorne in Salem, Massachusetts
*Hull House: Jane Addams' settlement house for immigrants and the poor in Chicago, Illinois
*Hunziker House: Several houses named "Hunziker House" in Indiana, Iowa, and New York
*Lovell House by Richard Neutra
*Lower East Side Tenement Museum, a six-story brick tenement building that was home to an estimated 7,000 people, from over 20 nations, between 1863 and 1935, in New York City
*Margaret Mitchell House and Museum: the house where Margaret Mitchell wrote "Gone with the Wind"
*Molly Brown House: home of Unsinkable Molly Brown, the famous RMS "Titanic" survivor in Denver, Colorado
*Monticello: the personal house of Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States
*Moore House
*Mount Vernon: the residence of President George Washington in Alexandria, Virginia
*Neverland Ranch, the home of musician Michael Jackson, in Santa Barbara County, California
*The Playboy Mansion: magazine publisher Hugh Hefner's mansion
*Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
*Rose Hill: a restored Greek Revival mansion, a National Historic Landmark on Seneca Lake near Geneva, New York.
*Sagamore Camp: one of the Great Camps of the Adirondacks, a National Historic Landmark.
*Santanoni Preserve: one of the Great Camps of the Adirondacks, a National Historic Landmark.
*Ira C. & Charles S. Van Noy Houses: Kansas City, MO, residences of Ira Clinton and Charles S. Van Noy, members of the Van Noy Brothers of Kansas City and co-founders of HMSHost (formerly, the Van Noy Railway News and Hotel Company).
*Villa Vizcaya: John Deering mansion, Miami, Florida
*Von Sternberg House
*The White House: Residence of the President of the USA
*Winchester Mystery House: The haunted mansion of Winchester Rifle heiress, Sarah Winchester
*Wrigley Mansion: former home of William Wrigley, Jr., of the famous chewing gum company, now headquarters of the Tournament of Roses Association in Pasadena, California


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