Osborne House

Coordinates: 50°45′02″N 1°16′11″W / 50.750546°N 1.26973°W / 50.750546; -1.26973

Osborne House is a former royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK. The house was built between 1845 and 1851 for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a summer home and rural retreat. Prince Albert designed the house himself in the style of an Italian Renaissance palazzo. The builder was Thomas Cubitt, the London architect and builder whose company built the main façade of Buckingham Palace for the royal couple in 1847. An earlier smaller house on the site was demolished to make way for a new and far larger house, though the original entrance portico survives as the main gateway to the walled garden.

Queen Victoria died at Osborne House in January 1901. Following her death, the house became surplus to royal requirements and was given to the state with a few rooms retained as a private royal museum dedicated to Queen Victoria. From 1903 until 1921 it was used as a junior officer training college for the Royal Navy known as the Royal Naval College, Osborne. Today it is fully open to the public.

Osborne House (Victor, New York)

Osborne House is a historic home located at Victor in Ontario County, New York, USA. It is a two story with full attic Italian Villa style dwelling built about 1855. Surmounting the hip roof is a notable cupola. Contributing structures on the property are a carriage barn, smokehouse, corn crib, and chicken house.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

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Osborne House (Geelong)

Coordinates: 38°07′10″S 144°21′29″E / 38.11945°S 144.35795°E / -38.11945; 144.35795

Osborne House is a historic building built in 1858, located in North Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

History

Osborne House was built in 1858 for local squatter, Robert Muirhead, who named the mansion after Osborne House in the Isle of Wight, England. Muirhead lived at the house until his death in 1862, with the house being sold the following year after the death of his wife.

The house was leased for a number of years, finally sold by Muirhead's executors in 1878 to James Francis Maguire. Located on Swinburne Street, the original 1888 subdivision plan of St Helen's estate had it named Maguire Street.

In 1900 the State Government of Victoria purchased the house as a country residence for the Governor of Victoria, although it was never used as such.

The Geelong Harbour Trust purchased the house in 1905 for 6000 pounds. A dining room and seven bedrooms were added in 1910, the Trust using Osborne House as a guest house for a number of years. The Trust offered the house to the Royal Australian Navy in 1911, with nothing coming from it.