Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/Historic houses task force

Welcome to the Historic houses task force of WikiProject Architecture.

Scope

 * Historic houses covers historic houses, both urban and rural, country houses, manors, mansions, abbeys which have at one time served as a residence, castles and palaces.
 * Buildings that are primarily residential.

Related projects

 * WikiProject Historic sites
 * WikiProject Scottish Castles (semi-active)

Featured/Good content

 * 29 FAs, 1 FL, and 110 GAs


 * Belton House
 * Bodiam Castle
 * Bramall Hall
 * Bramshill House
 * Bruce Castle
 * Buckingham Palace
 * Castell Coch
 * Chartwell
 * Cragside
 * Denbies
 * Heian Palace
 * Holkham Hall
 * Little Moreton Hall
 * Ludwigsburg Palace
 * Norton Priory
 * Palazzo Pitti
 * Pitfour estate
 * Prince's Palace of Monaco
 * Queluz National Palace
 * Rochester Castle
 * Sandringham House
 * Sloan–Parker House
 * St Donat's Castle
 * The Tower House
 * Valley View (Romney, West Virginia)
 * Warkworth Castle
 * Warwick Castle
 * West Wycombe Park
 * Windsor Castle
 * List of plantations in West Virginia
 * Adlington Hall
 * Alatskivi Castle
 * Althorp
 * Ashbridge Estate
 * Ashton Court
 * Auberge d'Italie
 * Baconsthorpe Castle
 * Barrington Court
 * Beaumont House
 * Bebenhausen Abbey
 * Beechwood (Vanderlip mansion)
 * Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House
 * Bishop's Palace, Wells
 * Blaise Castle Estate
 * Boughton Monchelsea Place
 * Brislington House
 * Burton Pynsent House
 * Camak House
 * Cannons
 * Canterbury Castle (Portland, Oregon)
 * Capesthorne Hall
 * Casa de Estudillo
 * Castellania
 * Château de Chinon
 * Cholmondeley Castle
 * Churche's Mansion
 * Clevedon Court
 * Clifton Hall, Cumbria
 * Coleridge Cottage
 * Colross
 * Craigiehall
 * Crewe Hall
 * Cushing House
 * Dunrobin Castle
 * Dunster Castle
 * Dyrham Park
 * Eaton Hall, Cheshire
 * Edinburgh Castle
 * Ellwood House
 * Estate houses in Scotland
 * Forglen House
 * Fort Belvedere, Surrey
 * Fraser Mansion
 * Fyne Court
 * Gawsworth Old Hall
 * Grand Palace
 * Harmondsworth Great Barn
 * Harry F. Sinclair House
 * Hearst Castle
 * Heller House
 * Hestercombe House
 * Highgrove House, Eastcote
 * Hillingdon House
 * Hilston Park
 * Ince Blundell Hall
 * Inchdrewer Castle
 * Joseph F. Glidden House
 * Kaniakapupu
 * Kenwood, St. George's Hill
 * Khaplu Palace
 * King John's Hunting Lodge, Axbridge
 * Kingston Lacy
 * Lacock Abbey
 * Lahore Fort
 * Leigh Court
 * Linton Park
 * Linwood House
 * Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
 * Luscombe Castle
 * Lyme Park
 * Lytes Cary
 * Manor House, Sleaford
 * Medieval Merchant's House
 * Montacute House
 * Nettlecombe Court
 * Newton House, Llandeilo
 * Ordsall Hall
 * Palais Rohan, Strasbourg
 * Park Crescent, Brighton
 * Peckforton Castle
 * Penhallam
 * Penrhyn Castle
 * Plas Mawr
 * Powis Castle
 * President's Guest House
 * Prior Park
 * Punakha Dzong
 * Regency Square, Brighton
 * Rode Hall
 * Rodmarton Manor
 * Scarborough Historic District
 * Sheldon Manor
 * Somerhill House
 * South Stoneham House
 * Southworth House (Cleveland, Ohio)
 * Sri Temasek
 * St Catherine's Court
 * Stoke sub Hamdon Priory
 * Ston Easton Park
 * Sutton Court
 * Swakeleys House
 * Tabley House
 * The Priest's House, Muchelney
 * Tintinhull Garden
 * Treasurer's House, Martock
 * Tyntesfield
 * Virginia House
 * Vorontsov Palace (Alupka)
 * Waller Hall
 * Wappocomo (Romney, West Virginia)
 * Watson's Hotel
 * Westholme House
 * Winslow Ames House
 * Woodspring Priory

Participants

 * 1)  – mainly Somerset
 * 2)  – special (though not exclusive) interest in Denmark and Luxembourg
 * 3)  – British country houses mainly, but I'm interested in improving coverage in European nations
 * 4)  – any and all houses within the task force's scope, without geographical limitation
 * 5)  – mainly but in no way exclusively interested in Swedish and Estonian historic houses
 * 6)  – an interest in Staffordshire, Cheshire and Shropshire, particularly the relatively small houses of the gentry/yeomanry. An interest in coverage of smaller/lesser known continental historic houses.
 * 7)  – interested in all historic homes and palaces in Britain/Ireland, as well as châteaux in France and palaces in Eastern Europe
 * 8)  – mostly interested in historic houses in Oregon, Washington, and Texas
 * 9)  – Primarily Baroque, but I'm game for anything.
 * 10)  – Primarily Georgian, Greek, and Tudor Revival in the American South
 * 11)  - Southern United States
 * 12)  - mainly Wales and England, but happy to cast my net wider

Todo items for members of Historic houses task force

 * Tag related articles.
 * Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here.
 * Identify articles for creation
 * Identify articles for improvement
 * Improve coverage of List of country houses in the United Kingdom and List of country houses in the Republic of Ireland and start missing articles
 * Review importance and quality of existing articles

Lists

 * List of historic houses

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