The Most Famous Houses in Every State
Antiquity buffs will spot all three Greek architectural orders on this former plantation home and present-dayhistoric house museumthat features a combination of fluted Doric columns, spiral-scroll-topped Ionic columns, and Corinthian pilasters that project from the walls. The now-famous home was built over the 20 years leading up to the start of the Civil War, largely by enslaved workers about whom little is known.
In 1912, Walter Eli Clark became the first in a long line of governors to take up residence in the Alaska Governor's Mansion. The original construction cost $40,000, encompassed 12,900 square feet, and housed four bedrooms and three baths.
Now home to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the School of Architecture at Taliesin, this awe-inspiring architectural achievement once served as the winter residence of Wright himself. Visitors familiar with the work of the acclaimed architect will recognize his affinity for nature in the rock-walled cabaret theater andsunlight-filled drafting room, where Wright famously designed New York City's Guggenheim Museum.
Believe it or not, the genre-defying country music legend behind iconic hits like "I Walk the Line" and "Ring of Fire" grew up in this humble home on a fertile 20-acre lot in Dyess, Arkansas. Now a visitor center owned by Arkansas State University, the former residence of young Johnny Cash features five rooms still filled with original Cashfamily furnishings.
This 90,000-square-foot home of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst was a society hot spot in the 1920s and '30s, thanks as much to the distinguished owner as to the lush gardens,luxe pools, sumptuous views, and private zoo. If you were lucky enough to score an invitation during the Castle's glory days, you would have stayed in one of three Mediterranean-inspired guest houses that flank the main house, dubbed "Casa Grande."
Like its former owner, who survived the sinking of the Titanic, this historicVictorian homehas seen much in its 135-year history. Activist "Unsinkable" Molly Brown owned the house for 38 years, even converting it into a boardinghouse when the neighborhood declined during the Great Depression.
Move over, Martha's Vineyard—the ultimate inluxury summer destinationsis actually in Connecticut at the Rye House. The Tudor Revival estate built for Isabella Curtis, the widow of New York City banker Charles Curtis, plays host to an Olympic-size pool, a tennis court, and a two-story gardener's cottage.
Whether you havea green thumbor a brown one, you'll be stunned by the lush 200-acre landscape of this mega-mansion, which hosts the largest French garden in North America. Beyond the lawn, a French-inspired interior contains 77 luxe rooms, including a bowling alley, billiards room, and the chauffeur's garage.
Some of Ernest Hemingway's most notable works, including such novels as "To Have and Have Not" and short stories like "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," were penned in this very house. Adream retreatfor a private yet adventurous writer, the dramatic French Colonial-inspired dwelling, built in 1851, is rife with towering windows and pale green shutters for privacy as well as a wraparound balcony that affords prime views of Key West.
The striking opulence of this Classical-meets-Renaissance-Revival estate, now a historic house museum in Atlanta, earned it a role in Hollywood hits from "The Hunger Games" to "Little Darlings." As if the sumptuous terraced garden and cascading fountain weren't enough to inspire a visit to the famed 89-year-old residence, formerly home to cotton tycoons Edward and Emily Inman, swan sculptures and swan-themed decor scattered in and outside the property augment its beauty and inspired the home'smemorable name.
Doris Duke's travels throughout the Islamic world led her to design a mansion complete with Moroccanpainted ceilings, an Indian Mughal-inspired garden, and a playhouse resembling a miniature version of an Iranian palace. Now owned by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, the 4.9-acre estate offers public tours of the grounds and rooms, which are filled with more than 2,500 artifacts collected by Duke over a period of 60 years.
Judge Standrod took a risk by delegating the construction of his new home to lesser-known architect Marcus Grundfor. But the gamble clearly paid off, as today the Standrod Mansion has become an enduring part of Idaho's landscape and history.
German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, designed this barely there building as acountry estatefor Dr. Edith Farnsworth. The sleek one-room abode with tip-to-toe glass walls was born of the International Style architectural movement, which emphasized planar surfaces, open spaces, and cantilevered structures of glass and steel.
A classic example of Second Empire architecture, the red brick exterior of the Morris-Butler House is topped with a mansard roof and enclosed by a stately fence. The two-story-plus-attic dwelling has a var