40 US Historical Homes That Are Worth the Visit

18.Oheka Castle

This property is also known as the Otto Kahn Estate. They built it for capitalist Otto Hermann Kahn, a massive estate on the North Shore of Long Island, New York. The name, Oheka, is taken from the initials of Kahn’s name and was also used to name at least one of yachts and a second home, Villa Oheka, in Palm Beach, Florida. The mansion was built between 1914 and 1919 and is the second-largest private home in the entire United States; it features a whopping 127 rooms and over 109,000 square feet of floor space. Oheka Castle is now operated as a historic hotel available for private rentals, events, film shoots, and more.

The word castle is no exaggeration in this case. It is the second-largest private home in the nation! In 2004, they listed it on the National Register of Historic Places, and it is a member of Historic Hotels of America. The castle served as partial inspiration in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and has been shown in several movies and tv shows like Citizen Kane, What Happens in Vegas, As The World Turns, and Succession, just to name a few. From one of the largest to one of the smallest, let’s move on to the Maltese Cross Cabin.