Famous Houses

Discover curious facts and scintillating statistics about famous houses, historic periods, locations, and designers.

Yellow brick building on a busy street beneath blue sky

The Dakota - NYC's First Luxury Apartment House

Build a Frank Lloyd Wright-Inspired Dream Home

Maison à Bordeaux, Koolhaas in High-Tech Gear

The Magney House, 1984, New South Wales, Australia, by Glenn Murcutt

The Magney House

Frey House II, 686 West Palisades Drive, Palm Springs, California

The Frey House II Photo Tour

man with moustache and goatee, hands folded on knees, sitting on wide stairway

How Can I Live in a Frank Lloyd Wright House?

mansion in rural setting

Mansions, Manors, and Grand Estates in the United States

White House North Facade with pediment and columns Seen Through Iron Fence and snow-covered lawn

How Ireland Inspired the White House

Two children atop a container room, Inside the Shigeru Ban-Designed Naked House, 2000, Saitama, Japan

Japanese House Designs of Shigeru Ban

The Marie Short House by Glenn Murcutt

The Marie Short House - Glenn Murcutt's Grand Example

Detail of exterior of Hollyhock House, 10 sculpted abstract hollyhocks along a concret wall

A Brief Tour of the Hollyhock House

red-colored, open-aired gabled-roofed structure sitting above the ground on a series of low posts

The Marika-Alderton House in Australia

partial view of side-gabled farmouse, two stories, dark brown siding

Christina's World - The House Andrew Wyeth Painted

An outdoor fireplace in a concrete wall across from a wall of windows

Exploring the 1922 Schindler House and the Architect Who Designed It

The Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe, a glass-walled home in Plano, Illinois

Mies van der Rohe Gets Sued - The Battle with Farnsworth

Mid-century Modern Curved Hemicycle Home, White with Brown Trim and Accents, in a Wooded Lot

What is a Hemicycle? The Curtis Meyer House by Frank Lloyd Wright

high-walled, brown stone Spanish castle with tiled roof

Painterly Places: A Look at the Homes of Artists

The Mark Twain House is elaborately decorated with patterned brick and ornamental stickwork

A Photo Tour of the Mark Twain House in Connecticut

Clerestory front windows of Zimmerman House, Usonian style Frank Lloyd Wright in New Hampshire

The Zimmermans' New Hampshire Home, A Usonian Classic

Small room, modern 1960s furniture, geometric ceiling of sunken panels, many, many pictures.

Sunnylands, 1966, Home of the Rich and Famous

Elvis Honeymoon Hideaway in Palm Springs, California

The Elvis Honeymoon Hideaway

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