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First House

First Houses, a public housing project in Manhattan in New York City



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Agustín Landa Verdugo

In addition to the master plan, Landa Verdugo designed Cancún's first hotel, Hyatt Cancún Caribe, the control tower and hall of the temporary airport that was used during the construction of the city, from 1969 to 1974, and the first houses and camping grounds that were used by the engineers and construction workers that first arrived to work in Cancún.

Building Revival Campaign

These became two of the first houses built in the new suburb of Floreat Park (now Floreat).

Charles Dillon, 14th Viscount Dillon

Under Strickland Newtown Dillon was built, the first houses being completed in 1846.

Eastwood Manor

In 1892 Kemble sold it to William Bateman Hope who extended it and installed electrical wiring, making it one of the first houses in Somerset to have electric lights.

Hartfield

Built in 1792, it was the first work of the architect Benjamin Latrobe, who was also responsible for the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. It was one of the first houses in England built in the Greek Revival style.

RAF Perton

In 1972, the Mander family sold the site of the airfield to a private developer for £5.5 million, with the first houses being occupied within a couple of years and Perton being firmly established as a major residential area by the mid-1980s, by which time some 11,500 people were living there.

William Van Duzer Lawrence

He hired an architect by the name of William Augustus Bates to design the first houses of the development, to be called 'Lawrence Park'.