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The Breakers Newport
The Breakers, a "palace" in terms of opulence and size, epitomizes the Gilded Age mansions era.

The so-called Gilded Age mansions were built in the United States by some of the richest people in the country during the period between 1870 and the early 1900s.

Raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes coinciding with an era of expansion of the tobacco, railroads, steel and fossil fuels industries, economic, technical and scientific progress, and a complete lack of personal income tax. This made possible the very rich to build true "palaces" in some cases, designed by prominent architects of its day and decorated with antiquities, furniture, collectibles and works of art, many imported from Europe.

Biltmore Estate
Biltmore, the largest home in the US.

This small group of nouveau riche, entrepreneur citizens of a relatively young country found context and meaning for their lives and good fortune by thinking of themselves as heirs of a great Western Tradition. They traced their cultural lineage from the Greeks, through the Roman Empire, to the European Renaissance. America's upper classes and merchant classes traveled the world visiting the great European cities and the ancient sites of the Mediterranean, as part of a Grand Tour, collecting and honoring their western cultural heritage. In their travels abroad they also admired the estates of the European nobility and seeing themselves as the American "nobility", they wished to emulate the old world dwellings in American soil.

All these houses are "temples" of social ritual of 19th-century high society, they are the result of the particularization of space, in that a sequence of rooms are separated and intended for a specific sort of activity, such as dining room for gala dinners, ballroom, library, etc.

These elaborate bastions of wealth and power played a social role, made for impressing, entertaining and receiving guests. Relatively few in number and geographically dispersed, the majority were constructed in a variety of European architectural and decorative styles from different times and countries, such as France, England or Italy.

In cinema, the Gilded Age society and mansions are accurately portrayed in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993), which was itself based on Edith Wharton's 1920 novel of the same name.

California

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Leland Stanford Mansion 1857 Second Empire Seth Babson Sacramento Owned by the government of California
NORTHWEST SIDE - Ralston Hall, Ralston Avenue, Belmont, San Mateo County, CA HABS CAL,41-BELM,1-10.tif
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Ralston Hall 1864 Victorian-Italianate Villa Henry Cleaveland Belmont Located on the campus of Notre Dame de Namur University
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McDonald Mansion
(also known as Mableton)
1877 Stick/Eastlake Santa Rosa The exterior was used in the filming of Walt Disney's Pollyanna
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Mark Hopkins Mansion 1878 Gothic Wright & Sanders San Francisco Destroyed by fire following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912) Charles Crocker's Residence, San Franciscoca. 1880 SFMOMA.jpg
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Charles Crocker Mansion 1880s Second Empire and Neo-classical S. C. Bugbee & Son and Curlett & Cuthbertson San Francisco Destroyed during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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Winchester House 1884 Queen Anne Style Victorian Sarah Winchester San Jose Winchester did not use an architect and added on to the building in a haphazard fashion
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Carson Mansion 1886 Queen Anne Samuel Newsom and Joseph Cather Newsom Eureka "Considered the most grand Victorian home in America."
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James C. Flood Mansion 1886 Neo-classical Augustus Laver; Willis Polk San Francisco Today, home of the Pacific-Union Club
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Huntington Residence 1909 Mediterranean Revival Myron Hunt San Marino Former residence of Henry E. Huntington, now an art gallery.
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Hearst Castle 1919 Spanish Colonial Revival, Mediterranean Revival Julia Morgan San Simeon Built by William Randolph Hearst
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Filoli 1915 Georgian Revival Willis Polk Woodside Owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and open to the public
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Carolands 1916 Beaux-Arts Classicism Ernest Sanson Hillsborough Owned by the Carolands Foundation and open to the public

Colorado

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Style Architect City Notes Refs
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Richthofen Castle 1887 Gothic Revival, Tudor Revival Alexander Cazin
Maurice Biscoe and Henry Hewitt (1910 renovation)
Jacques Benedict (1924 renovation)
Montclair, Denver Built for Baron Walter von Richthofen

Connecticut

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Style Architect City Notes Refs
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Lauder Greenway Estate 1894 French Renaissance Greenwich For a time, it was the most expensive home in United States history

Delaware

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Nemours 1909 French Neoclassical Carrère and Hastings Wilmington Owned by the Nemours Foundation

Florida

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Style Architect City Notes Refs
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Whitehall 1902 Beaux Arts Pottier & Stymus, Carrère and Hastings Palm Beach Open to the public for tours
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The Casements 1910 Shingle Style Ormond Beach Owned by the city of Ormond Beach and used as a cultural center and park
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Villa Vizcaya 1914 Mediterranean Revival and Baroque F. Burrall Hoffman
Paul Chalfin (designer)
Diego Suarez (landscape)
Miami Houses the Miami Dade Art Museum

Georgia

Illinois

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(*circa)
Style Architect City Notes Refs
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Nickerson House 1883 Late Victorian Burling & Whitehouse Chicago Home to the Richard H. Driehaus Museum
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Palmer Mansion 1885 Early Romanesque, Norman Gothic Henry Ives Cobb and Charles Sumner Frost Chicago Demolished in 1950

Massachusetts

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Style Architect City Notes Refs
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Searles Castle 1888 Renaissance Revival Châteauesque McKim, Mead & White Great Barrington Home to the John Dewey Academy
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Ventfort Hall 1893 Jacobean Revival Rotch & Tilden Lenox Operated as a house and Gilded Age museum
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Shadow Brook Farm 1893 Tudor Revival H. Neill Wilson Stockbridge Burned down in 1956
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The Mount 1902 Georgian Revival Ogden Codman, Jr. and Francis L.V. Hoppin
Beatrix Farrand (landscape)
Lenox Home of Edith Wharton; open to the public
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Isabella Stewart Gardner House 1902 Renaissance Revival Willard T. Sears Boston Houses the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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Bellefontaine Mansion 1912 Beaux-Arts Carrère and Hastings Lenox Today, the Lenox location of Canyon Ranch

Minnesota

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Style Architect City Notes Refs
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James J. Hill House 1891 Richardsonian Romanesque Peabody and Stearns Saint Paul Operated by the Minnesota Historical Society
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Glensheen Mansion 1908 Jacobean Revival Clarence H. Johnston Sr. Charles W. Leavitt, Jr. Duluth Operated by the University of Minnesota Duluth as a historic house museum
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Southways Estate 1918 Georgian and Tudor Revival Harrie T. Lindeberg Orono, Lake Minnetonka Built for John S. Pillsbury; demolished in 2018

Missouri

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Style Architect City Notes Refs
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Campbell House Museum 1851 Early Victorian, Greek Revival St. Louis A historic house museum

Montana

Image Name Year built
(*circa)
Style Architect City Notes Refs
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W. A. Clark Mansion 1884 Romanesque Revival Victorian C. H. Brown Butte Today, a bed and breakfast

New Jersey

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Style Architect City Notes Refs
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Florham 1893 English Baroque Revival McKim, Mead & White
Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape)
Madison and Florham Park Part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University
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Georgian Court 1899 Georgian Revival Bruce Price Lakewood Today, part of Georgian Court University
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Rutherfurd Hall 1902 Tudor Revival Whitney Warren
Olmsted Brothers (landscape)
Allamuchy Township Owned and managed by the Allamuchy School District
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Blairsden 1903 French Renaissance Carrère and Hastings Peapack-Gladstone Formerly a retreat house for the Sisters of St. John the Baptist

New York

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Style Architect City Notes Refs
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Beechwood 1780 (renovated 1890s) Neo-classical Federal, Colonial Revival (renovation) R. H. Robertson (1890s renovation)
William Welles Bosworth (c. 1907 renovation)
Briarcliff Manor Converted to condominium apartments in the 1980s
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Clermont 1782 (renovated 1890s) Georgian, Colonial Revival Tivoli Renovated by John Henry Livingston in the 1890s and 1910s. Mott B. Schmidt was consulted in the 1930s but the work was not completed.
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Mills Mansion 1832 (renovated c. 1895) Colonial (1792 original)
Greek Revival (1832 replacement)
Beaux-Arts (1895 renovation)
McKim, Mead, and White (1890s renovation) Staatsburg Today, located within Ogden Mills & Ruth Livingston Mills State Park
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Lyndhurst 1838 Gothic Revival Alexander Jackson Davis Tarrytown Owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and open to the public
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Wilderstein 1852 Italianate (original)
Queen Anne (1888 renovation)
John Warren Ritch, Arnout Cannon, Joseph Burr Tiffany, Calvert Vaux (landscape) Rhinebeck Today, operated as a house museum
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Olana 1872 Eclectic Calvert Vaux Greenport Home to Frederic Edwin Church
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Glenview 1877 Late Victorian Charles W. Clinton Yonkers Today, houses the Hudson River Museum
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Castle Rock 1881 Romanesque Revival J. Morgan Slade Garrison Private residence
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Idle Hour 1882 Tudor Revival Richard Morris Hunt Oakdale Burned down in 1899
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Rockwood Hall 1886 Elizabethan Gervase Wheeler (1849 house)
Ebenezer L. Roberts and Carrère and Hastings (c. 1890 renovation)
Mount Pleasant It was the second-largest house in the U.S.; Demolished c. 1941
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Estherwood 1894 Renaissance Revival Buchman & Deisler Dobbs Ferry Today, located on the campus of The Masters School
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Woodlea 1895 Renaissance Revival and Beaux-Arts McKim, Mead & White Briarcliff Manor Today, the Sleepy Hollow Country Club
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Alexander Brown House 1895 Richardsonian Romanesque Gordon Wright Syracuse
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Brookholt 1897 Colonial Revival John Russell Pope East Meadow Destroyed by fire in 1934
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Indian Neck Hall 1897 Georgian Ernest Flagg Oakdale Part of the Long Island campus of St. John's University
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Henry W. Poor House (also known as Poor's Palace and Woodland) 1899 Jacobean T. Henry Randall Tuxedo Park Later owned by Henry Morgan Tilford
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Hyde Park 1899 Beaux-Arts McKim, Mead & White Hyde Park Owned and operated by the National Park Service
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Idle Hour 1901 English Country Richard Howland Hunt Oakdale Formerly part of Dowling College
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Waldheim 1901 Tudor Revival Olmstead Brothers (grounds) Scarborough-on-Hudson Sold in 1946, subdivided into residential lots, and torn down in 1955
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Harbor Hill 1902 French Renaissance Revival McKim, Mead & White Roslyn Demolished in 1947
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Harry E. Donnell House 1902 Tudor Revival Harry E. Donnell; Randall & Miller Eatons Neck
Historic American Buildings Survey, David Aronow, Photographer circa 1924, FRONT ELEVATION SHOWING BELLTOWER AND PROJECTING VERANDA. - Laurelton Hall, Laurel Hollow and Ridge HABS NY,30-OYSTB,1-2.tif
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Laurelton Hall 1905 Art Nouveau Louis Comfort Tiffany Laurel Hollow Burned down in 1957
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Westbury House 1906 Carolean Revival George A. Crawley Old Westbury A house museum open for tours
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Arden 1909 Carrère and Hastings Harriman Owned by the Research Center on Natural Conservation
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Hempstead House (also known as Castle Gould) 1912 Gothic Revival August Allen Sands Point Started by Howard Gould and completed by Daniel Guggenheim
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Kykuit 1913 Colonial Revival Delano & Aldrich
William Welles Bosworth (renovation)
Pocantico Hills Owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation
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DuPont-Guest Estate (also known as White Eagle) 1916 Georgian Revival Carrère and Hastings Brookville Since 1972, it has been part of the Old Westbury campus of the New York Institute of Technology
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Beacon Towers 1918 Gothic Châteauesque Hunt & Hunt Sands Point Demolished in 1945
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Oheka Castle 1919 Châteauesque Delano & Aldrich
Olmsted Brothers (landscape)
West Hills A member of Historic Hotels of America
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Inisfada 1920 Tudor Revival John T. Windrim North Hills Demolished in December 2013
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Lillian Sefton Dodge Estate (also known as Sefton Manor and Mill Neck Manor) 1922 Tudor Revival Clinton and Russell Mill Neck Today, the Mill Neck Manor Lutheran School for the Deaf
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Poplar Hill 1925 French Renaissance Charles A. Platt Glen Cove Today, a rehabilitation center

New York City

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(*circa)
Style Architect City Notes Refs
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William H. Vanderbilt House 1878 Renaissance Revival Richard Morris Hunt New York City Demolished in 1945
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Villard Houses 1882 Renaissance Revival McKim, Mead & White New York City Today is part of the New York Palace Hotel
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Petit Chateau 1882 Châteauesque Richard Morris Hunt New York City Demolished in 1927
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Cornelius Vanderbilt II House 1883 Châteauesque Richard Morris Hunt George B. Post New York City Demolished in 1926
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Florence and Eliza Vanderbilt House 1883 Châteauesque John B. Snook New York City 680 and 684 Fifth Avenue demolished in 1917 and 1925 respectively
Brokaw House, 5th Ave. LCCN2014695036.tif
Isaac Vail Brokaw House 1883 Châteauesque Rose and Stone New York City Demolished in 1965
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James Bailey House 1888 Romanesque Revival Samuel B. Reed New York City Built for James Anthony Bailey of the Barnum & Bailey Circus
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James Hampden Robb and Cornelia Van Rensselaer Robb House 1892 Italian Renaissance Revival McKim, Mead & White New York City Today, a cooperative apartment
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Henry T. Sloane House 1894 French Renaissance Revival Carrère and Hastings New York City Owned by Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the former Emir of Qatar
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Mrs. William B. Astor House 1896 French Renaissance Revival Richard Morris Hunt New York City Demolished around 1926
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Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo House 1898 French Renaissance Revival Kimball & Thompson New York City Today is the Ralph Lauren flagship store
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William H. Moore House 1898 Renaissance Revival McKim, Mead & White New York City Formerly the America-Israel Cultural Foundation
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Oliver Gould Jennings House 1898 Beaux-Arts Carrère and Hastings New York City Owned by Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the former Emir of Qatar
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Harry F. Sinclair House 1898 French Gothic C. P. H. Gilbert New York City Since 1955, it has been owned by the Ukrainian Institute of America
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Stuyvesant Fish House 1898 Italianate McKim, Mead and White New York City Today, headquarters of Bloomberg Philanthropies
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Benjamin N. Duke House 1901 Beaux-Arts Welch, Smith & Provot New York City Owned by Carlos Slim
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Andrew Carnegie Mansion 1901 Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival Babb, Cook & Willard New York City Today, houses the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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Joseph Raphael De Lamar House 1902 C. P. H. Gilbert Beaux-Arts New York City Purchased by the Republic of Poland in 1973 to house its Consulate General
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James A. Burden House 1905 Italian Renaissance Warren & Wetmore New York City Today, it houses the lower school of the Convent of the Sacred Heart
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Morton F. Plant House 1905 Neo-Renaissance Robert W. Gibson
Thierry W. Despont (renovations)
New York City Today, a Cartier store
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Felix M. Warburg House 1906 Châteauesque C. P. H. Gilbert New York City Today, home to the Jewish Museum
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Charles M. Schwab House 1906 Beaux-Arts Maurice Hébert New York City Demolished in 1947
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George J. Gould House 1906 French Horace Trumbauer New York City Replaced by an office building in 1963
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Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont House 1909 Neoclassical Hunt & Hunt New York City Demolished in 1951
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William A. Clark House 1911 Beaux-Arts Châteauesque Austin W. Lord, J. Monroe Hewlett, Washington Hull New York City Demolished in 1927
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Henry Clay Frick House 1914 Beaux-Arts Carrère and Hastings New York City Today, home to the Frick Collection
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Willard D. Straight House 1915 Georgian Revival Delano & Aldrich New York City Today, private residence of Bruce Kovner
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Otto H. Kahn House 1918 Italian Renaissance J. Armstrong Stenhouse, C. P. H. Gilbert New York City Modeled after the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome

North Carolina

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(*circa)
Style Architect City Notes Refs
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Biltmore 1895 Châteauesque Richard Morris Hunt
Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape)
Asheville Built for George Washington Vanderbilt II, it is the largest house in the U.S.

South Carolina

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(*circa)
Style Architect City Notes Refs
WEST (left) AND SOUTH SIDES - Patrick Calhoun Mansion, 16 Meeting Street, Charleston, Charleston County, SC HABS SC,10-CHAR,263-2.tif
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Calhoun Mansion 1876 Italianate George W. Williams Charleston Open for public tours

Ohio

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(*circa)
Style Architect City Notes Refs
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Taft House 1820 Greek Revival Federal James Hoban (disputed)
Alfred Oscar Elzner (additions)
Cincinnati Today houses the Taft Museum of Art
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Scarlet Oaks 1867 Romanesque Revival, Gothic Revival James Keys Wilson Cincinnati Currently, a retirement home affiliated with the Deaconess Hospital
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George B. Cox House 1894 Italianate Samuel Hannaford Cincinnati Currently, a branch of the Public Library of Cincinnati
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Old Governor's Mansion 1904 Colonial Revival, Neo-Georgian eclectic Frank Packard Columbus Today, home to the Columbus Foundation
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Laurel Court 1907 Beaux Arts, Renaissance James Gamble Rogers Cincinnati A private residence available for tours by reservation
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Stan Hywet Hall 1915 Tudor Revival Schneider, Charles S.; Manning, Warren H. Akron Built by Frank Seiberling
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Pinecroft 1928 Tudor Revival Dwight James Baum Cincinnati Built for Powel Crosley, Jr.

Pennsylvania

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(*circa)
Style Architect City Notes Refs
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Clayton 1860s (renovated 1892) Italianate Andrew Peebles (renovations)
Frederick J. Osterling (renovations)
Pittsburgh Part of the The Frick Pittsburgh
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Negley–Gwinner–Harter House 1871 Second Empire Frederick J. Osterling (renovations) Pittsburgh
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Baywood Mansion 1880 Second Empire Pittsburgh
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Schwab-Dixon Mansion 1888 Richardsonian Romanesque Frederick J. Osterling North Braddock Built for Charles M. Schwab
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Cairnwood 1895 Beaux-Arts Carrère and Hastings Bryn Athyn Owned by the Academy of the New Church
"Grey Towers," the 1892 turreted home of sugar refinery owner William Welsh Garrison in Glenside, outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania LCCN2011633556.tif
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Grey Towers 1896 Gothic Revival Horace Trumbauer Glenside Today, part of Arcadia University
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Elstowe Manor 1898 Italian Renaissance Horace Trumbauer Elkins Park
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Lynnewood Hall 1900 Neoclassical Revival Horace Trumbauer Elkins Park Predominantly vacant since 1952
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McCook Mansion 1906 Jacobean Revival Carpenter & Crocker Pittsburgh A boutique hotel and member of Historic Hotels of America
Mrs. Biddle
Melmar 1910 Classical Revival Huntingdon Valley Built for Nicholas Biddle and Sarah Lippincott
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Moreland-Hoffstot House 1914 French Renaissance Revival Irwin, Paul Pittsburgh
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Whitemarsh Hall 1921 (demolished 1980) Georgian Horace Trumbauer Wyndmoor

Rhode Island

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Kingscote 1839 (remodeled 1870s, remodeled 1880s) Gothic Revival Richard Upjohn
George C. Mason (1870s renovation)
McKim, Mead and White (1880s renovation)
Newport One of the first summer "cottages" constructed in Newport; owned by the Preservation Society of Newport County and open for tours
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Malbone Castle 1849 (remodeled 1875) Gothic Revival Alexander Jackson Davis
Dudley Newton (renovations}
Newport A private residence not open to the public
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Beechwood 1851 (remodeled 1880s, remodeled c. 2014) Italianate Downing and Vaux (construction)
Richard Morris Hunt (renovations)
McKim, Mead & White (renovations)
Newport Owned by Larry Ellison who is creating the "Beechwood Art Museum"
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Chateau-sur-Mer 1852 (remodeled 1870s) STYLE Seth C. Bradford (construction)
Richard Morris Hunt (renovations)
Ogden Codman, Jr. (design)
Newport
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Fairholme 1875 (remodeled 1905) Tudor Frank Furness Newport Privately owned
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William Watts Sherman House 1875 Queen Anne H. H. Richardson
Stanford White (c. 1880 renovations)
Newport Owned by Salve Regina University
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Charles H. Baldwin House 1877 Queen Anne Shingle Potter & Robinson Newport Built for U.S. Navy Admiral Charles H. Baldwin
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The Breakers 1878 Queen Anne Peabody and Stearns Newport Destroyed by fire in 1892 and replaced by The Breakers
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Vinland Estate 1882 Romanesque Revival Peabody & Stearns Newport Today, McAuley Hall, Salve Regina University
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Seaview Terrace 1885 (remodeled c. 1923) Châteauesque Howard Greenley Newport Privately owned and is not open for tours
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William G. Low House 1887 Shingle McKim, Mead & White Bristol Demolished in 1962
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Hammersmith Farm 1887 Victorian Shingle R. H. Robertson
Olmsted Brothers (landscape)
Newport Built for John W. Auchincloss, uncle of Hugh D. Auchincloss (Jacqueline Kennedy's stepfather)
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Rockhurst (also known as Aspen Hall) 1891 Châteauesque Peabody & Stearns Newport Demolished in 1955 for a residential subdivision
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Ochre Court 1892 Châteauesque Richard Morris Hunt Newport Owned by Salve Regina University
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Marble House 1892 Beaux-Arts Richard Morris Hunt Newport Open to the public and run by the Preservation Society of Newport County
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Rough Point 1892 English Manorial Peabody & Stearns Newport Built for Frederick William Vanderbilt; Owned and operated by the Newport Restoration Foundation
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Belcourt 1894 Châteauesque Richard Morris Hunt (1894)
John Russell Pope (1910)
Newport
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The Breakers 1895 Neo Italian Renaissance Richard Morris Hunt Newport Built for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, replaced the 1878 Breakers mansion (owned by Pierre Lorillard IV)
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Crossways 1895 Colonial Revival Dudley Newton Newport
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Vernon Court 1901 French classical Carrère and Hastings Newport Today, home of the National Museum of American Illustration.
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The Elms 1901 Classical Revival Horace Trumbauer Newport Open to the public and run by the Preservation Society of Newport County
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Rosecliff 1902 French Baroque Revival McKim, Mead & White Newport Open to the public and run by the Preservation Society of Newport County
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Miramar 1915 French neoclassical Horace Trumbauer Newport Gardens designed by landscape architect Jacques Gréber
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Bois Doré 1927 French Château Charles A. Platt Newport Later owned by heiress Carolyn Mary Skelly

Virginia

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(*circa)
Style Architect City Notes Refs
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Ellerslie 1856 (extensively remodeled in 1910) Italian Villa Robert Young (1857)
Carneal and Johnston (1910)
Colonial Heights
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Roseland Manor
(also known as the Strawberry Banks Manor House)
1887
(burned 1985)
Châteauesque Queen Anne Arthur Crooks Hampton Destroyed by fire in 1985
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Maymont 1893 Victorian Edgerton S. Rogers Richmond Today, a historic house museum and arboretum
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Poplar Hill
(also known as the Dunnington Mansion)
1897 Victorian Farmville 8,500 sq. ft. Manor home of tobacco baron Walter Grey Dunnington that has fallen into disrepair
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Berryman Mansion 1900 Colonial Revival Smithfield Built by P.D. Gwaltney as a wedding gift for his daughter who married F.R. Berryman.
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P. D. Gwaltney Jr. House 1901 Queen Anne Smithfield Remained in the Gwaltney family until 2016.
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Cedar Hall 1906
(demolished 1976)
Queen Anne Vance & Allen Hampton Demolished in 1976.
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Swannaoa 1912 Italian Renaissance Revival Baskerville & Noland Nelson County
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Branch House 1916 Tudor Revival, Jacobean Revival John Russell Pope with
Otto R. Eggers
Richmond Offices of the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects (VSAIA) and the Branch Museum of Architecture and Design.
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Westbourne 1919 Georgian Revival W. Duncan Lee Richmond Gardens designed by landscape architect Charles F. Gillette
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Merrywood 1919 Georgian Revival McLean Childhood home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; Gardens designed by landscape architect Beatrix Farrand

Washington, DC

Image Name Year built
(*circa)
Style Architect City Notes Refs
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Christian Heurich Mansion 1892 Late Victorian Meyers, John Granville Washington, DC Formerly housed the Historical Society of Washington
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Townsend House 1901 Beaux-Arts Carrère and Hastings Washington, DC Home to the Cosmos Club since 1952
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Walsh-McLean House 1903 Washington, DC Today the Embassy of Indonesia
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Anderson House 1905 Beaux-Arts Little & Browne Washington, DC Today, it houses the Society of the Cincinnati's headquarters
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Perry Belmont House 1909 Beaux-Arts Ernest-Paul Sanson Washington, DC Headquarters of the General Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star
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Edward Hamlin Everett House 1915 Beaux-Arts George Oakley Totten Jr. Washington, DC Formerly the Turkish embassy, today the ambassador's residence

Wisconsin

Image Name Year built
(*circa)
Style Architect City Notes Refs
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Pabst Mansion 1892 Flemish Renaissance Revival George Ferry Milwaukee Today, a historic house museum
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Holway Mansion 1892 Romanesque and Queen Anne Hugo Schick and Gustav Stolze La Crosse Today, a bed and breakfast

See also

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