50 amazing historic photos of homes from the past
Abi Harman
09 October 2024
Jaw-dropping photos of historic homes
Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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 Commons [Public Domain]
An earthquake survivor
Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images
Child labourers in a tenement apartment
Signal Photos/Alamy Stock Photo
Early homes in The Hamptons
The Library of Congress/Flickr [Public Domain]
Tenement home in New York City
The Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]
Colonial house interior
Wallace Nutting/Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]
Grey Gardens, New York
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
Curves and concrete
H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images
An ordinary 1930s living room
Bettmann/Getty Images
1930s bathroom
Sasha/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Life captured in colour
The Royal Photographic Society Collection/Victoria and Albert Museum, London/Getty Images
Living in the Dust Bowl
The Library of Congress/Flickr [Public Domain]
Drought-stricken communities
Arthur Rothstein/Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]
Houses buried in dust
Farm Security Administration/Library of Congress [Public Domain]
Dust Bowl trailers
Dorothea Lange/Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]
The Great Depression
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration/Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]
Workers housing
ClassicStock/Alamy Stock Photo
Boston's tenement buildings
Hum Historical/Alamy Stock Photo
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
Photo 12/Alamy Stock Photo
A dugout homestead
The Library of Congress/Flickr [Public Domain]
Living underground in a dugout
The Library of Congress/Flickr [Public Domain]
Abandoned cabin in the American South
The Library of Congress/Flickr [Public Domain]
A Nissen Hut
Keystone/Getty Images
Ivan Dmitri/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Texan house and fruit stand
Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo
A family at the Manzanar Relocation Center
Corbis via Getty Images
Inside a company housing project
The U.S National Archives/Flickr [Public Domain]
A miner’s home in postwar-America
nsf/Alamy Stock Photo
The White House renovation
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration/Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]
Grand stairway rebuilt
Everett Collection Inc/Alamy Stock Photo
Iconic interior reduced to rubble
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration/Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]
Christmas in Camelot
AB Historic/Alamy Stock Photo
Nuclear test site house
piemags/DCM/Alamy Stock Photo
The aftermath of the nuclear test
Skimage/Alamy Stock Photo
The beginnings of an LA commmunity
Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images
Inside a 1960s fallout shelter
Universal Images Group North America LLC/Alamy Stock Photo
Monsanto House of the Future
Orange County Archives/Wikimedia Commons [CC BY 2.0]
Xanadu Foam House of Tomorrow
PBH Images/Alamy Stock Photo
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