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Hollywood Hills · Los Angeles · 1960
The glass corner over Los Angeles
A family bought a lot everyone said was unbuildable.
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Los Angeles, CA · by Wikipedia
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Paul Revere House
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Mystery Castle
Phoenix, AZ · by Wikipedia
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Texas Governor's Mansion
Austin, TX · by Wikipedia
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Gamble House
Pasadena, CA · by Wikipedia
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Frank Sinatra's Twin Palms
Palm Springs, CA · by Wikipedia
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Photo: Wikimedia Commons“They watched the city burn from the roof”
Haas-Lilienthal House
San Francisco, CA · by Wikipedia
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Louis Armstrong House
Corona, NY · by Wikipedia
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Longfellow House
Cambridge, MA · by Wikipedia
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Where famous lives happened
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The Gamble family
A winter house built like a piece of furniture
Pasadena · California
1921
Aline Barnsdall
An oil heiress's hilltop in Hollywood
East Hollywood · Los Angeles
1877–1895
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass on Cedar Hill
Anacostia · Washington, D.C.
1929
Martin Luther King Jr.
The upstairs room where Martin was born
Sweet Auburn · Atlanta
1935
Elvis Presley
The two-room house where Elvis began
East Tupelo · Mississippi
1858–1877
Louisa May Alcott
Where Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women
Concord · Massachusetts
1902
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton designed her own house
Lenox · Massachusetts
1930–1962
William Faulkner
William Faulkner's plotting wall
Oxford · Mississippi
1925–2001
Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty's bedroom desk
Belhaven · Jackson, Mississippi
1919–1947
William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst's hilltop on the Central Coast
San Simeon · California
1895
George Vanderbilt
The largest house in America
Asheville · North Carolina
1885–1919
Theodore Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt's summer White House
Oyster Bay · New York
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Palm Springs, CA · by Modernism Week
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Cornelia White House
Palm Springs, CA · by Homestalgia Archive
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Palm Springs, CA · by Homestalgia Archive
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Coachella Valley Savings No. 2
Palm Springs, CA · by Homestalgia Archive
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“Famously, the Fab Four went fishing out of their window in their suite, an iconic moment captured by photographers and recounted in countless anecdotes.”
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The Edgewater Hotel
Seattle, WA · Verified archive story
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"Three kids, twenty-two years of pencil marks."
17 Birch Lane · Portland, ME 84
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