List of historic mansions in the United States

Lavish mansions were built by some of the richest people in the United States before, during, and following the Gilded Age up until the outbreak of World War II.

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 of both governmental regulation and the absence of a personal income tax. The manor homes and city seats were designed by prominent architects of the day and decorated with antiquities, furniture, and works of art from the world over.

Many of the wealthy had undertaken grand tours of Europe, during which they admired the estates of the nobility. Seeing themselves as their American equivalent, they wished to emulate the old world dwellings on American soil, and spent extravagantly to do so, often seeking to one-up each other. Concentrations of such homes developed in the financial centers and resorts of the Northeast, the industrial heartland of the Upper Midwest, and in the rapidly expanding regions of the West Coast, with vacation homes also appearing prominently in Florida.

Alabama Image Name Year built Style Architect City Notes Ref.Tacon Barfield House1901Queen AnneGeorge Franklin BarberMobileToday a private residence

Arizona Image Name Year built Style Architect City Notes Ref.Rosson House1895Queen AnneGeorge Franklin BarberPhoenixToday a historic house museum in Heritage Square

Arkansas Image Name Year built Style Architect City Notes Ref.Hornibrook House1888Queen Anne Little RockPart of Governor's Mansion Historic District

California Image Name Year built Style Architect City Notes Ref.David and Sarah Morey House1890Queen AnneRedlandsThomas Douglas Stimson House1891Richardsonian Romanesque, Gothic RevivalCarroll H. Brown, E.D. ElliotLos AngelesToday, part of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet convent complexLewis Leonard Bradbury House1887Queen AnneSamuel Newsom and Joseph Cather NewsomLos AngelesDemolished in 1929Margaret E. Crocker Mansion1886Queen AnneJohn HallLos AngelesDemolished in 1908Rose Mansion1888Queen AnneCurlett & EissenLos AngelesDemolished in 1937Governor's Mansion-Gallatin house1877Second EmpireNathaniel D. GoodellSacramentoIs the official residence of the governor of California since 1903 Leland Stanford Mansion 1857 Second Empire Seth Babson Sacramento Owned by the government of California NHL Summary more images Ralston Hall 1864 Victorian-Italianate Villa Henry Cleaveland Belmont Located on the campus of Notre Dame de Namur University more images McDonald Mansion(also known as Mableton) 1877 Stick/Eastlake Santa Rosa The exterior was used in the filming of Walt Disney's Pollyanna Linden Towers1878Gothic, Italianate and Second EmpireLaver & CurlettSan FranciscoWas built for James C Flood, was demolished in 1936. more images Mark Hopkins Mansion 1878 Gothic Wright & Sanders San Francisco Destroyed by fire following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake David B Colton Mansion1872Neo-classicalS. C. Bugbee & SonSan FranciscoLater bought by Collis Potter Huntington. Was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquakeLeland Stanford Mansion1876Italianate S. C. Bugbee & SonSan FranciscoWas destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake more images Charles Crocker Mansion 1877 Second Empire and Neo-classical S. C. Bugbee & Son and Curlett & Cuthbertson San Francisco Destroyed during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake William Henry Crocker Mansion1888Queen AnneS. C. Bugbee & SonSan FranciscoDestroyed during the 1906 San Francisco earthquakemore imagesJames C. Flood Mansion1886Neo-classicalAugustus Laver; Willis PolkSan FranciscoToday, home of the Pacific-Union ClubHaas-Lilienthal House1886Queen AnnePeter SchmidtSan FranciscoBuilt for William Haas, today is a house museumAshe/Crocker Mansion1883Queen AnneCurlett & CuthbertsonSan FranciscoBuilt for Aimee Crocker (Charles Crocker's niece) and Richard Potter Ashe, it was badly damaged in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and destroyed by fire in 1913 more images Sarah Winchester House 1884 Queen Anne Sarah Winchester San Jose Winchester did not use an architect and added on to the building in a haphazard fashion. Much of the house was lost in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. more images Carson Mansion 1886 Queen Anne Samuel Newsom and Joseph Cather Newsom Eureka Built for William Carson, today is "Considered the most grand Victorian home in America." Gamble House1908Bungalow in American Craftsman style of Arts and Crafts MovementGreene & GreenePasadenaIt was Doc's house in Back to the Future more images Huntington Residence 1909 Mediterranean Revival Myron Hunt San Marino Former residence of Henry E. Huntington, now an art gallery. more images Hearst Castle Between 1919 and 1947 Spanish Colonial Revival, Mediterranean Revival Julia Morgan San Simeon Built by William Randolph Hearst more images Filoli 1915 Georgian Revival Willis Polk Woodside Owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and open to the public more images Carolands 1916 Beaux-Arts Classicism Ernest Sanson Hillsborough Owned by the Carolands Foundation and open to the public

Colorado Image Name Year built Style Architect City Notes Ref. Richthofen Castle 1887 Gothic Revival, Tudor Revival Alexander CazinBiscoe & Hewitt (1910 renovation)Jacques Benedict (1924 renovation) Montclair, Denver Built for Baron Walter von Richthofen The Molkery1888Germanic CastleAlexander CazinMontclair, DenverBuilt for Baron Walter von Richthofen, now the Montclair Civic CenterMolly Brown House1889Richardsonian Romanesque, Queen Anne RevivalWilliam A. LangDenverOriginally built for Isaac Large, purchased by J.J. Brown, later owned by Molly BrownFerguson-Gano House1897Theodore Davies BoalDenverBuilt for inventor, and socialite John Albert Ferguson, purchased by businessman George GanoGrant–Humphreys Mansion1902NeoclassicalTheodore Davies BoalDenverBuilt for James Benton Grant, later owned by A.E. HumphreysRedstone Castle1903Stick styleTheodore Davies BoalRedstoneBuilt for John Cleveland Oswood, today is a hotel and museum.Crawford Hill Mansion1906French Renaissance Revival Theodore Davies BoalDenverBuilt for Crawford Hill

Connecticut Image Name Year built Style Architect City Notes Ref.Iranistan1848MoorishLeopold EldlitzBridgeportWas the first mansion of P.T Barnum, was destroyed by fire in 1857.Lindencroft1860ItaliananteAlbert G TallmadgeBridgeportWas the second mansion of P.T Barnum after the fire in Iranistan, was demolished in 1924.Lockwood–Mathews Mansion1864RenaissanceDetlef LienauNorwalkToday, a museumWaldemere1869Stick VictorianBridgeportWas the third mansion of P.T Barnum, was demolished in 1889 for his new mansion, Marina.Samuel Clemens House (Mark Twain)1874Victorian GothicEdward Tuckerman PotterHartfordToday, a museumMarina1889Romanesque and Queen AnneLongstaff and HurdBridgeportWas the fourth and last mansion of P.T Barnum in Bridgeport, was demolished in 1961.Hilltop1889GreenwichBuilt for Henry Osborne Havemeyer, was demolished in 1930. more images Copper Beech Farm aka Lauder Greenway Estate 1896 or 1898 French Renaissance Greenwich Originally built by NYC native John Hamilton Gourlie, it was purchased by Andrew Carnegie's niece Harriet Lauder Greenway in 1905. Fully restored and renovated in 2023. For a time, it was the most expensive home in United States history. || Indian Harbor1895NeoclassicalCarrere & HastingsGreenwichBuilt for Elias Cornelius Benedict. One floor removed, circa 1938.Mailands1906French Renaissance and Colonial RevivialFlagg & ChambersFairfieldBuilt for Oliver Gould Jennings, there is known as McAuliffe Hall and still standingConyers Farms1905English RevivalDonn BarberGreenwichBuilt for Edmund C Converse, was destroyed by fire in 1985.Owenoke Farm1908NeoclassicalGreenwichBuilt for Percy Avery Rockefeller, was demolished in 1935.Greyledge1913GreenwichBuilt for Raynal Cawthorne Bolling, was demolished in 2006.Marion Castle1914-1916French ChateauHunt & HuntStamfordBuilt for Frank J. Marion. Today, a private residence.

Delaware Image Name Year built Style Architect City Notes Ref. more images Nemours 1909 French Neoclassical Carrère and Hastings Wilmington Owned by the Nemours Foundation

District of Columbia Image Name Year built Style Architect City Notes Ref. more images Christian Heurich Mansion 1892 Richardson Romanesque John Granville Meyers Washington, DC Formerly housed the Historical Society of Washington more imagesTownsend House 1898–1901Beaux ArtsCarrère and HastingsWashington, DCBuilt for Mary Scott Townsend and her husband Richard Townsend; home of the Cosmos Club since 1952 more images Walsh-McLean House 1903 Washington, DC Today the Embassy of Indonesia Field, Cynthia R.; Gournay, Isabelle; and Somma, Thomas P. Paris on the Potomac: The French Influence on the Architecture and Art of Washington. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2007. more images Anderson House 1905 Beaux-Arts Little & Browne Washington, DC Built for Lartz Anderson. Today, it houses the Society of the Cincinnati's headquarters more images Perry Belmont House 1909 Beaux-Arts Ernest-Paul Sanson Washington, DC Headquarters of the General Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star more images Edward Hamlin Everett House 1915 Beaux-Arts George Oakley Totten Jr. Washington, DC Formerly the Turkish embassy, today the ambassador's residence Patterson Mansion1903NeoclassicalStanford WhiteWashington, DCBuilt for Robert Wilson Patterson.Leiter Mansion1893Colonial Revival and NeoclassicalTheophilus Parsons Chandler JrWashington, DCBuilt for Levi Leiter. Was demolished in 1947.Blaine Mansion1882Second EmpireJohn FraserWashington, DCBuilt for James G Blaine. Stewart's Castle1873Second EmpireAdolph ClaussWashington, DCBuilt for William Morris Stewart, was demolished in 1901.Galt Mansion1876ChateusqueWashington, DCOriginally built for William Mathew Galt, later sold to Alexander Graham Bell and Edson Bradley. Bardley enlarged the house in 1907. Was demolished in 1930s.Field-Hearst Mansion1883RomanesqueRobert I FlemingWashington, DCBuilt for John W Field, later was sold to Charles S Fairchild and George Hearst, father of William Randolph Hearst. Was demolished in 1964.

Florida Image Name Year built Style Architect City Notes Ref.Villa Zorayda1883Moorish RevivalFranklin W SmithSt. AugustineDesigned by Franklin W Smith for himself, today is a museum. more images Whitehall 1902 Beaux Arts Pottier & Stymus, Carrère and Hastings Palm Beach Built for the co-founder of Standard Oil, Henry Morrison Flagler. Today is open to the public for tours more images The Casements 1910 Shingle Style Ormond Beach Built for the Reverend Dr. Harwood Huntington, later bought by John D Rockefeller in 1918, who died in the house in 1937. Was owned by the city of Ormond Beach and used as a cultural center and park more images Villa Vizcaya 1914 Mediterranean Revival and Baroque F. Burrall HoffmanPaul Chalfin (designer)Diego Suarez (landscape) Miami Houses the Miami Dade Art Museum El Mirasol1920Mediterranean RevivalAddison Cairns MiznerPalm BeachBuilt for Edward Townsend Stotesbury. Was demolished in 1958

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