Question: the Gideon Ives House is a historic house located in a US state that is often noted as what ?

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Charles Ives House: The Charles Ives House, also known as Charles Ives Birthplace, is located on Mountainville Avenue in Danbury, Connecticut, United States.  It is a wooden frame structure built in 1780 and expanded on since.  Over the course of the 19th century it was the residence of several generations of Iveses, a family important in the city's history.  In 1874 it was the birthplace of Charles Ives, who became an internationally recognized composer in the early 20th century.

Thomas P. Ives House: The Thomas P. Ives House is a National Historic Landmark at 66 Power Street in the College Hill in Providence, Rhode Island.  Built in 1803–06, this brick house is an extremely well-preserved and little-altered example of Adamesque-Federal style.  The house was built by Caleb Ormsbee, a Providence master builder, for Thomas Poynton Ives, a wealthy merchant.  Although two of its principal chambers were redecorated in the 1870s, these alterations were reversed in the 1950s.  The house was in Ives family hands for more than 150 years, and is now owned by Brown University.  It was designated a National Historic Landmark on December 30, 1970.

Alexander Clark House: The Alexander Clark House is an historic house located in Muscatine, Iowa, United States.  The house is associated with Alexander Clark (1826–1891), an African American civil rights pioneer and US Minister to Liberia.  Clark was a 19th-century abolitionist who made his home in Muscatine for most of his adult life.  He fought and won for the integration of public schools in Iowa when his daughter was forbidden to attend her neighborhood school.  The case went to the Iowa Supreme Court, which resulted in the integration of all schools in the state.  He was an associate of Frederick Douglass, helped to establish Iowa’s only Colored regiment during the American Civil War, and the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Muscatine.  Clark was named the Minister to Liberia in 1890 by President Benjamin Harrison, where he died a year later.  The house was built in 1879 after a fire destroyed Clark’s previous house.  It was moved 200 ft from its original location in 1975, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.  The house was included as a contributing property in the West Hill Historic District in 2008.

Gen. Gideon Foster House: The Gen. Gideon Foster House is a historic house at 35 Washington Street in Peabody, Massachusetts.  The two story Federal style wood frame house was built in the early 1800s at a location on Main Street.  The house was bought in 1815 by Gideon Foster, a local veteran of the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.  The house was later owned by Eben Sutton, a local textile manufacturer, who sold the house so that it could be moved to make way for a larger house on the same lot.

Illinois: Illinois ( ) is a state in the midwestern region of the United States.  It is the 5th most populous state and 25th largest state in terms of land area, and is often noted as a microcosm of the entire country.  With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal, timber, and petroleum in the south, Illinois has a diverse economic base and is a major transportation hub.  The Port of Chicago connects the state to other global ports from the Great Lakes, via the Saint Lawrence Seaway, to the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River, via the Illinois Waterway.  For decades, O'Hare International Airport has been ranked as one of the world's busiest airports.  Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics.

Edwards–Franklin House: The Edwards–Franklin House, also known as the Bernard Franklin House, is a historic house located in Franklin Township in Surry County, North Carolina.  It was built in 1799 by Gideon Edwards and was later occupied by congressional representative Meshack Franklin, brother of North Carolina governor Jesse Franklin (1820-1821).  The house was restored by the Surry County Historical Society in 1973 and is open to visitors.

Gideon Ives House: The Gideon Ives House is a historic house at 408 East Jefferson Street in New Boston, Illinois.  Gideon Ives, the co-owner of Mercer County's largest general merchandise and grain wholesale business, had the house built for his family in 1857.  The house is an early example of the Italianate style; its design mirrors the house across the street, which was built for Ives' business partner, Elmore J. Dennison.  The house's roof features bracketed eaves and is topped by a square cupola, and its windows are tall and narrow with cast iron hoods.  The entrance is flanked by pilasters, a Greek Revival element; the style was still popular at the time, and its presence reflects the transition between Greek Revival and Italianate as popular American architectural styles.

H. B. Ailman House: The H. B. Ailman House is a historic house located at 314 W. Broadway in Silver City, New Mexico.  Prospector Henry B. Ailman had the house built using his profits from the Naiad Queen Silver Mine in Georgetown; his business partner H. M. Meredith built an identical house next door, which has since been demolished.  The brick Victorian house features a 2 ⁄ -story square turret, which Ailman used to watch for Apache attacks on Silver City.  Ailman and Meredith attempted to found a bank in Silver City, but it failed in 1887; Ailman's house changed owners several times in the following decades.  The city took ownership of the house in 1926 and made it the new City Hall.  The house became a firehouse after a new city hall was constructed.  In 1967, the Silver City Museum opened in the house.  The property today remains in operation as a historic house museum.

Bowman House (Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin): The Bowman House is a historic house located at 714 Broadway Street in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.  The Prairie School house was built in 1904 for Abram and Alberta Bowman.  The house has a Prairie School design, popular at the time due to Frank Lloyd Wright's influence; its distinctive Prairie School elements include a horizontal emphasis and a low roof with wide eaves.  Abram Bowman died in 1907, and his daughters Emma and Jennie Bowman inherited the house.  Jennie Bowman had the house converted to a vacation home for working women upon her death in 1934.  The house remained a vacation home until 1977, when the Dells Country Historical Society converted it to a historic house museum.

Henry Whitfield House: The Henry Whitfield House is a historic house located at 248 Old Whitfield Street in Guilford, Connecticut, down the street from the town green.  This house dates from 1639, having been built just before the town of Guilford was settled.  It is the oldest house in Connecticut and the oldest stone house in New England.  The house, with its massive stone walls, also served as a fort to protect the community.  Henry Whitfield, for whom the house was built, was a Puritan minister who had come from England to flee religious persecution.  The house was remodeled in 1868 and opened to the public in 1899 as the first museum of the State of Connecticut, the Henry Whitfield State Museum.  The house was restored in 1902–04 and in the 1930s and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997.  It was named a State Archeological Preserve in 2006.

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Answer: a microcosm of the entire country