48 photos of amazing homes from the past we've just discovered
Abi Harman
20 October 2023
Jaw-dropping photos of historic homes
Wallace Nutting / Library of Congress [Public Domain]
Grand abandoned house
Ralph Clynne / Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]
Commandant's house
piemags/ DCM / Alamy Stock Photo
Biltmore under construction
The Biltmore Company
America's greatest stately home
The Biltmore Company
A relocated house
Unknown author / Wikimedia [Public Domain]
Early homes in The Hamptons
The Library of Congress / Flickr [Public Domain]
Colonial house interior
Wallace Nutting / Library of Congress [Public Domain]
Grey Gardens
The Library of Congress / Flickr [Public Domain]
A French château during the First World War
Art Media / Print Collector / Getty Images
A stately hospital in the First World War
English Heritage / Heritage Images / Getty Images
The Great Molasses Flood
Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo
The Roaring Twenties?
Fox Photos / Hulton Archive / Getty Images
A 1920s bedroom
Hawkins / Getty Images
A decade of change
ClassicStock / Alamy Stock Photo
Swerves and curves
H. Armstrong Roberts / Retrofile / Getty Images
An ordinary 1930s living room
Bettmann / Getty Images
1930s bathroom
Sasha / Hulton Archive / Getty Images
Living in the Dust Bowl
The Library of Congress / Flickr [Public Domain]
Drought-stricken communities
Arthur Rothstein, for the Farm Security Administration [Public Domain]
Houses buried in dust
Farm Security Administration / Library of Congress [Public Domain]
Dust Bowl trailers
Dorothea Lange [Public Domain]
The Great Depression
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration via Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]
Workers' housing
War Department, Office of the Chief of Engineers, Boston District
Adolf Hitler's residence
Everett Historical / Shutterstock ; Bundesarchiv Bild
A dictator's remodel
Library of Congress [Public Domain]
Hitler's private office
Library of Congress [Public Domain]
Hitler's private library
Library of Congress [Public domain]
A miner’s home in postwar America
By Russell Lee / National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Solid Fuels Administration for War
Inside a company housing project
The U.S National Archives / Flickr [Public Domain]
Texan house and fruit stand
Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
Abandoned cabin in the American South
The Library of Congress / Flickr [Public Domain]
Boston's tenement buildings
The Library of Congress / Flickr [Public Domain]
Tenement home in New York City
The Library of Congress / Flickr [Public Domain]
Child labourers in a tenement apartment
The Library of Congress / Flickr [Public Domain]
A tenant house in Mississippi
The Library of Congress / Flickr [Public Domain]
Cabin surrounded by cotton
The Library of Congress / Flickr [Public Domain]
Life on the plantation
The Library of Congress / Flickr [Public Domain]
A dugout homestead
The Library of Congress / Flickr [Public Domain]
Living underground in a dugout
The Library of Congress / Flickr [Public Domain]
Inside a 1960s fallout shelter
National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency [Public Domain]
The White House renovation
The U.S. National Archives / Flickr [Public Domain]
Grand stairway rebuilt
The U.S. National Archives / Flickr [Public Domain]
Iconic interior reduced to rubble
The U.S. National Archives / Flickr [Public Domain]
Christmas in Camelot
AB Historic / Alamy Stock Photo
Nuclear test site house
National Archives Catalog [Public Domain]
The aftermath of the nuclear test
National Archives Catalog [Public Domain]
Monsanto House of the Future
Orange County Archives [CC BY 2.0]
Xanadu Foam House of Tomorrow
The Library of Congress / Flickr [Public Domain]
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