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Category: Gallery

08/12/13

John Jay Homestead

When he retired, John Jay didn’t want a “seat,” his son wrote; he wanted a plain farmhouse, just like his neighbors’ in Katonah, NY.

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Posted in Founders' Homes, GalleryTagged architect of US foreign policy, chief justice, diplomat, Founding Fathers' Homes, governor of NY, John Jay, John Jay Homestead, Katonah, New York, Sarah Livingston Jay, Westchester County
08/12/13

Hamilton Grange

The Harlem Heights home of the creator of America’s financial system

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Posted in Founders' Homes, GalleryTagged "sweet project", Alexander Hamilton, Founding Fathers' Homes, Hamilton Grange, Harlem Heights, Inventor of US financial system, John McComb Jr., New York City, self-made immigrant, Treasury secretary
08/12/13

Stratford Hall

The home of the Lees, extraordinary for its importance as architecture and as a shrine of American history

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Posted in Founders' Homes, GalleryTagged Arthur Lee, Chantilly Plantation, Colonel Philip Lee, Founding Fathers' Homes, Francis Lee, Light-Horse Harry Lee, Northern Neck, president of Continental Congress, Richard Henry Lee, Robert E. Lee birthplace, Stratford Hall, Stratford Landing, Virginia, William Lee
08/12/13

Monticello

Thomas Jefferson, architect and statesman, designed America’s greatest house.
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Posted in Founders' Homes, GalleryTagged Founding Fathers' Homes, Monticello, Piedmont, presidential homes, Thomas Jefferson, Virginia
08/12/13

Mount Vernon

The house that our greatest president designed himself

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Posted in Founders' Homes, GalleryTagged Founding Fathers' Homes, George Washington, Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, Potomac, presidential homes, Virginia
08/12/13

Liberty Hall

On banks array’d with ever blooming flowers,/ Near beauteous landscapes, or by roseate bowers;/ My neat, but simple mansion I would raise/, Unlike the sumptuous domes of modern days. . . . –William Livingston, “Philosophic Solitude”

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Posted in Founders' Homes, GalleryTagged Founding Fathers' Homes, governor of NJ, Independent Reflector, Liberty Hall, New Jersey, Revolutionary firebrand, William Livingston
07/29/13

Montpelier

The newly restored house of the Father of the Constitution

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Posted in Founders' Homes, GalleryTagged Dolley Payne Todd Madison, Founding Fathers' Homes, James Madison, Montpelier, Piedmont, presidential homes, Virginia
07/21/13

Gallery: The Founders’ Homes

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07/21/13

Gallery: The Founders

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