Historic Houses / Historical Houses

Historic House - The Hermitage
Proceeding up a long avenue flanked with pine trees, the historic house is reached. This historic mansion is the type so familiar in the days of the Colonial period up to just before the Civil War as a residence of the well-to-do. Includes 1120 acres, 32 historic buildings, dozens of archaeological sites, and a formal garden.

Houmas House Plantation
A refurbished 21-room mansion situated on 36 acres on the Mississippi River. Currently there are thirty-eight acres, sixteen of which are maintained as the formal grounds to the historic house. Houmas House once boasted 300,000 acres total and during its sugar-producing heyday in the 1860s the plantation had 98,000 acres under cultivation.

Chapline Street Row Historic District
An integral part of Wheeling, West Virginia’s urban streetscape for well over one hundred years. These photographs illustrate the disrepair of these historic houses thirty years ago and allows one to appreciate the effort taken more recently to preserve such treasures.

NY City Apartments
Co-operative apartment living was popular in New York in the late 19th century. The plan shown below was intended for a large tenement, containing a number of flats suitable for the best class of residents and occupying the end of a block fronting on an avenue.

Chatsworth House
The most magnificent of all England’s stately historic homes – Chatsworth, in Derbyshire. “When we moved into Chatsworth several years ago we found the attics filled with the contents of other family homes from generations past."

Devonshire House
Regency Saloon at Devonshire House. A palatial London residence on Piccadilly, for centuries the center of London’s social, political and cultural elite.

Ashdown House
Many great historic houses have stories attached, but few can tell a love story as compelling as that of Ashdown House. A complete refurbishment that has returned Ashdown to its former glory, and made it one of Britain’s greatest Restoration houses. .

Frogmore House
Frogmore is a historic house particularly associated with Queen Victoria. There are drawings and fine porcelain painted by Princess Charlotte; works by Victoria, Duchess of Kent, who lived at Frogmore for many years, and by her daughter, Queen Victoria; and watercolours by Queen Victoria’s daughters, the Princesses Victoria and Louise.

Royal Pavilion
One of the most exotically beautiful historic mansions in the British Isles, the former seaside residence of King George IV. As a unique palace, with a fascinating history and breathtaking decorations to discover, the Royal Pavilion has also played a key role in the development of Brighton and its international reputation for over 200 years.

Chatsworth Home (Mr. Darcy’s House)
A wonderful historic garden for visitors of all ages to explore. It has hosted a variety of filming including Pride and Prejudice in which it represented Pemberley, Mr. Darcy’s estate.

New Orleans Historic Mansion
A famous historic house, a New Orleans historic mansion, previously the home of author Anne Rice. One of the world's most dazzling residential neighborhoods – containing a time capsule of historic southern mansions – is located in the Louisiana city of New Orleans. This stately home represents some of the best work of some of the leading architects and builders of the 1800s.

Ventfort Hall – The Museum of the Gilded Age
Imposing Jacobean Revival-style historical house built in 1893 for Sarah Morgan, the sister of J. P. Morgan. Ventfort Hall was one of the approximately seventy-five so-called “Cottages” built in Lenox in the 19th century when the village became a popular Gilded Age resort.

The Hammond House
For the past ten years this historic house has been meticulously restored by the great-grandson of one of the early owners. His great-grandmother bought the buildings in 1909 it was assumed that the main building had been the old Robertson County Courthouse building, and the smaller building immediately behind it had been the jail.

Victorian House Tour
Tour a Victorian treasure with many interior photographs of this historic house. All woodwork throughout the entire home was restored to its original condition. You truly feel transported to another time in history when you walk into this breathtaking 3,632 square feet home.  

Winsford Walled Garden
Tucked away in the North Devon countryside is a restored Victorian walled garden. There were two types of Victorian walled garden, the most common was the walled vegetable garden; but the walled flower garden, such as the one at Winsford Walled Garden, was the second and the more unusual garden type.

Decorating Servant Rooms
At times it was felt that these rooms were above the zone of ornament and that there was virtue in their very ugliness. If the size of the room would warrant it, a rocking-chair or easy-chair was a part of the furnishings; in addition, the mattress and bed-springs would be of a quality to give ease to tired bones. 

Google Maps Street View - Help with Remodeling? 
Use Google Maps Street View for inspiration for your next home improvement project.

Victorian Architectural Ornament
Gothom Inc., a manufacturer of custom Victorian style architectural ornament, is profiled.