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Famous
Houses in America
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Belcourt
Castle
Belcourt Castle is the former summer cottage of
Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, located in Newport,
Rhode Island. Located on Bellevue Avenue,
Belcourt was designed by Richard Morris Hunt
for the heir of August Belmont, a Prussian
Jew who came to the United States in 1837
as an agent for the Rothschilds and accumulated
enormous personal wealth as a banker.
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Burnt
Point
Burnt Point
located one-half mile from U.S is totally
different from other home in the Florida Keys.
Burnt point encompass of 18,000-square-foot
and an estimated of $2milllion has gone into
landscaping alone. This is the most expensive
home in america having an asking price of
$50 million. From the airport at Marathon
Miami is only minutes away by air.
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Colonial house
A colonial house
is a style of house. There are many of these
throughout the United States. They typicially
have a symmetrical design
(i.e., windows,
roof,
garage).
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Elephant house
Elephant
House is the home on Cape Cod that Edward Gorey,
author, illustrator, puppeteer and playwright, lived
and worked in when he left New York City. Located
at 8 Strawberry Lane, Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts,
USA, the home currently serves as a museum of sorts,
celebrating the life and work of Edward Gorey among
other things.
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Haiwaii
Honeymoon house
Hawaii is the 50th state of the United States
of America. Situated nearly at the center
of the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii marks the northeast
corner of Polynesia. While it was once a major
hub for the whaling and sugar industries,
it is now economically dependent on tourism
and the U.S. military.
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Margaret Mitchell house
The
Margaret Mitchell House and Museum is the former
home of the author Margaret Mitchell situated in
midtown Atlanta, Georgia. It was whilst living here
that she wrote the bulk of her Pulitzer prize-winning
novel, Gone With The Wind. In addition to the house,
there is a Visitor Center and a museum building
wholly devoted to the filming of the 1939 movie
based on this book.
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Monticello
house
Monticello
is the estate of Thomas Jefferson located near Charlottesville,
Virginia. The house, of Jefferson's own design,
is situated on the slope of a small hill (his "monticello")
in the Southwest Mountains south of the Rivanna
Gap.
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Mount
vernon
Mount
Vernon was the home of George Washington. Built
of wood in neoclassical Georgian style, the estate
is located near Mount Vernon, Virginia in Fairfax
County, on the banks of the Potomac River.
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Harmony House Inn
The Harmony House Inn an 8,000 square foot, located
in New Bern, is listed on the National Register
of Historic Places.
The Harmony House was owed by Francis Lamotte in
1809 and was later purchased by Benjamin Ellis in
1850.
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White house
The White
House is the official residence and principal
workplace of the President of the United States.It
is a white painted, neoclassical sandstone mansion
located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW in Washington,
D.C. (38° 53' 51? N 77° 02' 12? W).
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