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Showcase Series: Villa Finale

In 1876, merchant Russel C. Norton built a one-story, four room single family residence on what had been Alamo farmlands during San Antonio’s Spanish period. At that time, the surrounding King William neighborhood was a desirable location for the city’s largely wealthy German families. However, a devastating flood in 1921 ...

Showcase Series: Shadows on the Teche

The Shadows, built as the home of a sugar planter, is situated on the banks of the Bayou Teche in the heart of Cajun Louisiana. Four generations of the Weeks family lived at The Shadows from 1834 until 1958, when the property was given to the National Trust for Historic Preservation by ...

Showcase Series: The Glass House

The Glass House, built in 1949 by famed architect Philip Johnson, is one of the nation’s greatest modern architectural landmarks. Inspired by Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House, the Glass House’s exterior walls are made of glass with no interior walls, a radical departure from houses of the time. ...

Showcase Series: Drayton Hall

Established in 1738, Drayton Hall is an icon of colonial America architecture and identity. After seven generations of family ownership, the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and devastating hurricanes and earthquakes, the main house remains in nearly original condition. Never modernized with electric lighting, plumbing, or central heating or air conditioning, the ...

Showcase Series: Cheekwood Estate & Gardens

Cheekwood is a 55-acre botanical garden and art museum located on the historic Cheek estate. Originally built as the home of Leslie and Mabel Cheek in 1929, Cheekwood is one of the finest examples of an American Country Place Era estate. Since being converted into a museum of art and botanical ...

Showcase Series: Skytop Lodge

Although its natural stonework seems to share its origins with the ancient mountains that surround it, Skytop Lodge actually began as the idea of a few farsighted individuals in 1925. In the Roaring '20s, the nation's post-World-War-I prosperity was still at its height and no one could have predicted the ...

Showcase Series: Sharp Hospitality - Fairview Inn

Constructed in 1908, at the turn of the century, Fairview is one of the few architecturally designed houses of the period remaining in the city. It was built for Cyrus C. Warren, vice president of the Warren-Goodwin Lumber Company, and was designed by the Chicago architectural firm of Spencer and Powers. ...

Showcase Series: Franklin Light and Power

Franklin, New Hampshire is situated at the junction of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee Rivers where they meet to form the Merrimack River. This territory was originally known as the Pemigewasset Village.  The area was created from portions of Salisbury, Andover, Sanbornton, and Northfield, and named in honor of Benjamin ...

Showcase Series: Bonnet House

By the time early settler Hugh Taylor Birch purchased the Bonnet House site in 1895, the grounds had already witnessed 4,000 years of Florida history. A shell left by the Tequesta people indicates that human activity on the site dates back to 2,000 B.C. while further archaeological evidence suggests that the grounds ...

New Website Launch and Blog Series

We have updated our website! We hope our new features will do a better job of showcasing our work and give a better understanding of what Historic Appraisal Services has to offer!  Check back soon as we update our blog with more infomation.  We will showcase some recent ...