Long ton, also known as the imperial ton or displacement ton is the name for the unit called the ton in the avoirdupois or Imperial system of measurements standardised in the thirteenth century that is used in the United Kingdom and several other British Commonwealth of Nations countries alongside the mass-based metric ton invented in 1799.
The author of The House Of Seven Gables is Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The Prairie Style house is largely credited to Frank Lloyd Wright, one of Americas most innovative and famous architects. Wright's goal in designing this radical new form of architecture, according to the book, The Prairie School Tradition, was to create organic architecture.