Daniel Harper is the byline on Homes Archives, covering what notable houses cost, who designed them and how they changed hands. Articles are built from public property records, archived listings and published reporting, and flag any figure that is an estimate rather than a matter of record. The name is a pen name: the site is written and edited by one person.
Every Michael Vick house tells a chapter of one of football’s most dramatic stories. The former number-one NFL draft pick went from sleeping in a cramped Newport News apartment to owning multiple luxury properties — then lost nearly all of them to prison, bankruptcy, and public disgrace. His real estate portfolio reads less like a … Read more
Every time Todd Howard steps on stage to reveal another Elder Scrolls or Fallout game, millions of people rush to learn everything about him — including where he lives. The search for Todd Howard house details spikes with every Bethesda announcement, and the answer people find is always the same: essentially nothing. Howard has built some of … Read more
Eric Schmidt doesn’t buy houses the way most wealthy people do — one home, maybe two, a city base and a vacation retreat. The former Google CEO, now leading aerospace company Relativity Space, and his wife Wendy have quietly assembled one of the most extraordinary real estate portfolios in America. We’re talking properties estimated at … Read more
Ever see a mansion on social media that just stops you? That’s what Ben Mallah’s Florida estate does. Forty thousand square feet of waterfront living on the Gulf of Mexico — it’s the kind of property that makes you forget you’re scrolling and start doing mental math on what it’d take to own something like that. For … Read more
Tilman Fertitta spent $450 million on Houston’s River Oaks District and barely flinched. The billionaire behind Landry’s, the Golden Nugget casino chain, and more than 600 restaurants across the country doesn’t just collect businesses — he collects entire city blocks. His Tilman Fertitta house sits on a 5.4-acre River Oaks estate, one of the wealthiest … Read more
There’s a reason people still talk about the Kenya Moore House years after it first appeared on television. What started as a gutted shell on Burdette Road — something Kenya herself compared to “a set from the Blair Witch Project” — has become one of the most recognizable celebrity homes in the Atlanta area. Moore … Read more
The George Strait house sits on 12.2 acres inside San Antonio’s exclusive Dominion Country Club — a custom adobe mansion that the country music icon and his wife Norma called home for more than 25 years. Built in the mid-1990s and designed by sculptor-turned-architect Bill Tull, the 7,925-square-foot estate went on the market in 2018 … Read more
The Helen Keller House — known as Ivy Green — sits on a quiet lot at 300 North Commons West in Tuscumbia, Alabama, behind a white picket fence and a canopy of old hardwood trees. Helen’s grandfather David Keller built the house in 1820 on the family’s estate, and it remained in the family for … Read more
At the corner of King George Street in Annapolis’s National Historic Landmark District sits a three-story Dutch Colonial that has quietly become one of the capital city’s most talked-about restorations. The Paul Prager House — a 1905 residence transformed through a multi-million-dollar renovation — represents a particular kind of ambition: bringing a century-old home fully … Read more
Paul Wall built his name one verse at a time — from freestyling on Houston mixtapes to landing a number-one album on the Billboard 200. Somewhere along the way, the “People’s Champ” also picked up a residence that quietly reflects everything he’s about: Houston pride, family, and comfort over flash. His property sits in Humble, … Read more