This historic house in Watertown, Massachusetts was built in 1865 towards the end of the American Civil War
In 1895, Hunt delivered a 250-room château to serve as the lavish Vanderbilt family home. This image shows it halfway through construction.
This incredible photo captures the aftermath of the notorious Johnstown flood in Pennsylvania in 1889
Judging from the dress of the two women and the display of pewter plates above the mantel, you might imagine this picture to be much older than it is
Captured in 1914, the Grey Gardens estate in East Hampton, New York is best known for being the one-time residence of the Beale family,
This shocking photo depicts the aftermath of the Great Molasses Flood of January 1919, when an enormous molasses storage tank in the North End
It may have been the dawn of Modernism but at the beginning of the 1920s, wealthy homeowners were still fairly Victorian in their tastes.
The 1920s was an economic boomtime and private spaces such as the bedroom would have been decorated in luxurious furnishings