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Jeremiah Lee Mansion

Jeremiah Lee Mansion

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  • 781-631-1768
  • 170 Washington St, Marblehead, MA, USA

The Jeremiah Lee Mansion is a magnificent colonial Georgian home built by American craftsmen in 1768 when Lee was the wealthiest merchant and ship owner in Massachusetts. Preserved in its nearly original state, the house stands as a tribute to both colonial America's strong ties to England and its independent commercial success. Read More

Arbor Lodge

Arbor Lodge State Historical Park

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  • 402-873-7222
  • 2nd Ave, Nebraska City, NE, USA

This beautiful estate in Nebraska City was home to J. Sterling Morton, founder of Arbor Day. From its beginning in 1855 as a four-room frame house, the magnificent mansion grew to 52 rooms through several remodelings. Authentic furnishings grace the rooms, and displays capture the life and times of this exceptional man. Read More

Ward Hall

Ward Hall

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  • 859-396-4257
  • 1782 Frankfort Road, Georgetown, KY, USA

This 1853 Greek Revival mansion features marble mantles, Corinthian columns and frescoed ceilings. Read More

Honolulu House

Honolulu House

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  • 269-781-8544
  • 107 N Kalamazoo Ave, Marshall, MI, USA

Built in 1860 by a chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court who later became U.S. Consul to Hawaii. The house is thought to be a duplicate of his Hawaiian home. Read More

Wade House

Wade House

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  • 920-526-3271
  • W7965 State Hwy 23, Greenbush, WI, USA

This museum includes a stagecoach inn, a residence and a collection of over 100 carriages. Read More

Dibble House

Dibble House Complex

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  • 503-765-6432
  • 620 South Molalla Avenue, Molalla, OR, USA

The Molalla Area Historical Society maintains several structures on one site. The Dibble House is the oldest pioneer house in the area and one of the region's few remaining saltbox houses, which were uncommon in Oregon. It was constructed of fir and cedar in 1856, four years after Horace and Julia Ann Sturges Dibble had crossed on the Oregon… Read More

Philipsburg Manor

Philipsburg Manor

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  • 914-631-8200
  • 381 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY, USA

Philipsburg Manor is a historic site of great historical importance. Once the headquarters of an enormous Hudson Valley manor, the site vividly interprets aspects of the history of colonial New York and the system of racially-based slavery which helped keep the estate running in the 18th century. The visitor center at Philipsburg, located on Rt. 9 in the village… Read More

Warner House

Warner Houes

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  • 603-436-5909
  • 150 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH, USA

Explore one of 18th-​century Portsmouth’s influ­en­tial fam­i­lies room by room. Built c.1716 for ambi­tious immi­grant Capt. Archibald Macp­head­ris, the Warner House is one of the old­est urban brick res­i­dences in New Eng­land, boast­ing rich archi­tec­tural fea­tures of early-​Georgian style, includ­ing old growth-​wood pan­el­ing and fine mold­ings. Ascend­ing the cen­ter stair­case, encounter four unique wall murals, con­sid­ered the old­est extant… Read More

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Winchester Mystery House

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  • 408-247-2000
  • 525 South Winchester Boulevard, San Jose, CA, USA

If you can look past all the hype about how crazy Sarah Winchester was, and instead concentrate on what she did with the incredible wealth she inherited, what you'll see is an amazing Victorian filled with some of the finest woodwork, lincrusta, and art glass of the period. Then again some of it you won't see because Sarah built… Read More

Sheboygan Museum

Sheboygan County Historical Society & Museum

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  • 920-458-1103
  • 3110 Erie Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, USA

The museum is housed in the 1853 Taylor Homestead. Read More

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Hower House Museum

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  • 330-972-6909
  • 60 Fir Hill, Akron, OH, USA

The Hower House was completed in 1871 and was built by John Henry Hower, a leading Akron industrialist who was active in the milling, reaping, and cereal industries. Read More

Filoli

Filoli

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  • 650-364-8300
  • 86 Cañada Road, Redwood City, CA, USA

Recognized as one of the finest remaining country estates of the early 20th century, Filoli welcomes the public to this remarkable 654-acre property, including the 36,000 sq. ft Georgian country house and spectacular 16-acre English Renaissance garden. Filoli is a historic site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Read More

1850 House

The 1850 House

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  • 504-568-6968
  • 523 St Ann St., New Orleans, LA, USA

The Upper and Lower Pontalba Buildings, which line the St. Ann and St. Peter Street sides of Jackson Square, were built in 1850 by the Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba, the daughter of Don Andres Almonester y Roxas, the Spanish colonial landowner associated with the neighboring Cabildo, Cathedral and Presbytere. Inspired by the imposing Parisian architecture the Baroness favored,… Read More

Long Branch Farm

Long Branch Farm

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  • 540-837-1856
  • Long Branch Ln, Boyce, VA 22620, USA

The circa 1811 historic house, horse retirement farm and scenic open spaces allow us to promote education and environmental preservation and to host community and private events. And our scenic Sheila McQueen Gardens are the perfect location for weddings and private events. Read More

Bryant Homestead

William Cullen Bryant Homestead

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  • 413-532-1631
  • 207 Bryant Road, Cummington, MA, USA

From 1865 until his death in 1878, Bryant summered here at his boyhood home, today a National Historic Landmark. He converted the two-story farmhouse into a rambling three-story Victorian cottage and expanded the sprawling red barn to store apples and pears from his orchards. Inside the house you’ll discover colonial and Victorian pieces from the poet’s family, as well… Read More

William Paca House & Garden

William Paca House and Garden

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  • 410-990-4538
  • 186 Prince George Street, Annapolis, MD, USA

The William Paca House & Garden is a National Historic Landmark, restored by Historic Annapolis to its colonial-era splendor. The House is open for docent-led tours for individuals and groups. Tours take place hourly on the half-hour, last approximately 40 minutes, and encompass two floors of 18th-century history. You can take a self-paced tour of the garden at any… Read More

Homewood Museum

Homewood House Museum

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  • 410-516-5589
  • 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, USA

A National Historic Landmark, Homewood is one of the best-surviving examples of Federal-period Palladian architecture in the nation. Built circa 1801 for members of Maryland’s prominent Carroll family, the house also was home to at least 25 enslaved individuals, including William and Rebecca Ross and their two children and Izadod and Cis Conner and six of their 13 children.… Read More

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Historic Bishop Home Museum

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  • 307-235-5277
  • 818 East 2nd St., Casper, WY 82601

The M. L. Bishop House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its association with the development of Casper and the surrounding area from a small village to a livestock center, and eventually, to an oil town. Read More

Warden’s House Museum

Warden’s House Museum

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  • 651-439-5956
  • 602 Main Street North, Stillwater, MN, USA

Warden's House Museum was built in 1853 as the residence of the Minnesota Territorial Prison warden. Over time there were thirteen wardens that lived in the house until 1914 when the prison moved to its present site in Bayport. Read More

Blanchard's

Blanchards Colonial Tavern

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  • 508-587-2884

Blanchard' s Tavern in Avon dates back to the Revolutionary War. It served as a tavern and general store through much of the nineteenth century . In 1937 it became the Avon Town Hall and in 1975 was restored as a colonial tavern offering drinks, snacks, and entertainment of the period . There is also he Captain Samuel Robbins… Read More

John Strong Mansion

DAR John Strong Mansion Museum

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  • 802-759-2309
  • 6656 Vermont 17, Addison, VT, USA

This two hundred year old home of a Revolutionary Patriot and his family occupies a unique position in the Lake Champlain valley - a region rich in heritage and history. It is the oldest home on the Vermont side of Lake Champlain open to the public and maintained as a museum. The home retains its original structure and contains… Read More

Travellers Rest Plantation

Travellers Rest Plantation & Museum

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  • 615-832-8197
  • 636 Farrell Parkway, Nashville, TN, USA

Saved from demolition in 1954 by the Tennessee Society of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, the historic house, built originally in 1799, was restored to interpret the early 19th century life of Judge John Overton, one of the state's first Supreme Court Justices, the founder of Memphis, and a close personal friend of Andrew Jackson. Read More

Montpelier

Montpelier

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  • 540-672-2728
  • 11350 Constitution Highway, Montpelier Station, VA 22957, USA

Montpelier is a 2,750-acre estate that includes farmland, racecourses, a terraced two-acre formal garden, a panoramic landscape, a National Landmark Forest, active archaeological sites, and more than 130 buildings, including the main house. Read More

Fisher House

Jonathan Fisher House

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  • 207-374-2459
  • 44 Mines Road, Blue Hill, ME, USA

Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847) was the first settled Congregational minister of the small village of Blue Hill, Maine. Fisher was also an artist, farmer, scientist, mathematician, surveyor, and writer of prose and poetry. Today, at the charming homestead he designed in 1814 for his growing family, you will see the life’s work of this ‘Versatile Yankee’. Read More

Timm House

Timm House Historic Site

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  • 920-948-7748

Timm House Historic Site represents a time period of from 1898 - 1905. Read More

Octagon House

Octagon House

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  • 415-441-7512
  • 2645 Gough Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

Octagon House, with a view of the Golden Gate from its cupola, was built only a few years after the Gold Rush. The house was a family residence until the late 1920s, when it was acquired by a utility company. Its purchase by the California Society in 1952, for one dollar, and subsequent restoration in 1953, saved this charming… Read More

Monteith Home

Monteith House Museum

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  • 541-928-911
  • 518 Southwest 2nd Avenue, Albany, OR, USA

The 1849 Monteith House was the first building built in Albany Oregon. It was built by Thomas and Walter Monteith. It was restored in 1978 and became a museum in 1983. It contains many of the items that Thomas and Cristine purchased on their honeymoon trip in 1855. Read More

Ralston Hall

Ralston Hall

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  • 650-508-3501
  • 1500 Ralston Avenue, Belmont, CA, USA

Ralston Hall Mansion was the country estate of William Chapman Ralston, a prominent and powerful San Francisco financier who founded the Bank of California. Purchasing the property from an Italian nobleman in 1864, Ralston began construction of an increasingly grand mansion, ultimately comprising over 80 rooms. He called his estate "Belmont Read More

The Harrison House Museum

Harrison House Museum & Barn

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  • 203-488-4828
  • 124 Main St, Branford, CT, USA

Built by Nathaniel Harrison in 1724 as a "two over two"" house and occupied by his family and descendants until 1800 Read More

Hawaii Mission Houses

Mission Houses Museum

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  • 808-447-3910
  • 553 South King Street, Honolulu, HI, USA

Consists of three mission houses that served as homes and workplaces for the first Christian missionaries who came here including the Frame House (Hale Lā‘au) (1821) which is the oldest wood frame structure still standing in the Hawaiian Islands. It was shipped around Cape Horn from Boston in 1820. It was used as a communal home by many missionary… Read More

Lummis

Lummis Home and Gardens

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  • 323-226-1620
  • 200 East Avenue 43, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Exterior is fully of Arroyo Seco river rock, two story with a medieval touch, but primarily rustic craftsman. Read More

Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion

Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion

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  • 215-438-1861
  • 200 West Tulpehocken Street, Philadelphia, PA, USA

This house is Phialdelphia's only authentically restored Victorian house museum and garden. The interior is interpreted to reflect the house's history during the 1860's and 1870's. Members have access to a library about Victorian topics. Victorian theater productions take place at the mansion annually. Read More

Crossroads Village

Crossroads Village and Huckleberry Railroad

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  • 810-736-7100
  • 6140 North Bray Road, Flint, MI, USA

The restored Genesee County community of 1860 to 1880 includes several residences and a number of craft shops. Read More

Eisenhower Boyhood Home

Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum

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  • 785-263-6700
  • 200 South East 4th Street, Abilene, KS, USA

The boyhood home of President Eisenhower has been kept as it was in 1946. Read More

Heard-Craig Art Museum

Heard-Craig House

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  • 972-569-6909
  • 205 West Hunt Street, McKinney, TX, USA

The Heard-Craig House was built in 1900 by Stephen & Lillie Heard. Their gracious hospitality made this home a center of social, business, art and literary activities. The residence still contains the family's furnishings, heirlooms, art collection and personal memorabilia. Read More

J. Joseph Henry House

John Joseph Henry House Museum

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  • 610-759-9029
  • Schoeneck Avenue & Henry Road, Bushkill Township, PA, USA

Built by John Joseph Henry, a third generation member of the Henry family of gunsmiths, this elegant Federal style home is furnished entirely with family furnishing and remained in the family until it was bequeathed to the Jacobsburg Historical Society in 1989. The House, with accompanying summer kitchen and garden is open for tours during the summer season and… Read More

Gaineswood

Gaineswood

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  • 334-289-4846
  • 805 S Cedar Ave, Demopolis, AL, USA

Gaineswood, a National Historic Landmark, was constructed over an 18 year period (1843-1861). Owner and architect Nathan Bryan Whitfield produced a series of elaborate interior suites with domed ceilings. He adopted many details from popular architectural pattern books by Minard Lafever and others. Read More

Cherry Hill

Cherry Hill

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  • 518-434-4791
  • Historic Cherry Hill, 2 S Pearl St, Albany, NY 12202, USA

Historic Cherry Hill tells a story of America through the lives and experiences of five generations of an Albany, New York family. One of Albany's most recognizable landmarks, Cherry Hill, built in 1787 for Philip and Maria Van Rensselaer, is rare among this country's house museums. Its extensive and intact collection is unique. It includes more than 70,000 items-decorative… Read More

Battle-Friedman House

The Battle-Friedman House and Gardens

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  • 205-758-2238
  • 1010 Greensboro Avenue, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

This house was built in 1835 by Alfred Battle. Originally a federal style home, the second owners of the home, the Friedmans, added columns and other features of Greek revival architecture to the home. The home consists of two parlors, a dining room, and four bedrooms above. Outside the home are the oldest documented gardens in the state. They… Read More

Zimmerman  House

Zimmerman House

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  • 503-261-8078
  • 17111 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR, USA

Victorian farm house, built in 1874. One of few museums to hold 3 generations of family posessions and furnishings. A heritage garden surrounds the home. Jacob and Lena Zimmerman were German immigrants, traveling over the Oregon Trail in 1851. One of 5 founding pioneer families of Fairview Oregon. Read More

Hearthside

Hearthside

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  • 401-726-597
  • 677 Great Road, Lincoln, RI, USA

Located just to the north of Providence in Lincoln, Rhode Island, Hearthside is a unique stone mansion built in 1810 on pastoral Great Road, the first road through the wilderness between Providence and Mendon, Massachusetts, and one of the oldest thoroughfares in America. Read More

Bayless-Selby House

Bayless-Selby House Museum

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  • 940-349-2865
  • 317 West Mulberry Street, Denton, TX, USA

Restored 1898 Queen Anne-style Victorian home completely furnished, with Victorian gardens. Shows late 19th-century Denton home and lifestyle. Read More

Healy House

Healy House Museum and Dexter Cabin

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  • 719-486-487
  • 912 Harrison Ave, Leadville, CO, USA

August R. Meyer's 1878 Greek Revival clapboard house (now called Healy House) was built for his bride, Emma. The home features lavish Victorian furnishings collected in Leadville, including objects belonging to silver tycoon Horace and Augusta Tabor, along with other Leadville pioneers. Read More

Moore Homestead

C. H. Moore Homestead

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  • 217-935-6066
  • 219 East Woodlawn Street, Clinton, IL, USA

Construction was started on the C. H. Moore Homestead by John and Minerva Moore Bishop. Mr. Bishop was a prosperous grain and lumber dealer in Clinton. Work on the C. H. Moore Homestead was completed in 1867 after the Civil War had ended and life took on a more normal pattern. Soon after this, the Bishops lost their only… Read More

Middleton Place

Middleton Place

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  • 843-556-6020
  • 4300 Ashley River Rd, Charleston, SC, USA

Middleton Place is a National Historic Landmark and home to America’s Oldest Landscaped Gardens. The Garden Club of America has called the 65 acres “the most important and most interesting garden in America”. Centuries-old camellias bloom in the winter months and azaleas blaze on the hillside above the Rice Mill Pond in the spring. In summer, kalmia, magnolias, crepe… Read More

Adaland

Adaland

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  • 304-457-1587
  • 324 Mansion Drive, Philippi, WV, USA

This stately brick mansion was built in 1870 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The land was settled in 1807 by the Modisett family. The historic barn was built in 1850 by Uriah Modisett. Adaland is located near several Civil War sites. Read More

Hillwood

Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens

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  • 202-686-5807
  • 4155 Linnean Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973), heir to the Post cereal fortune, was the founder of Hillwood Museum and Gardens, her former twenty-five acre estate in Washington, DC. Read More

Fonthill

Fonthill Castle

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  • 215-348-9461
  • 525 East Court Street, Doylestown, PA, USA

Built between 1908-1912, Fonthill was the home of Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930). Archaeologist, anthropologist, ceramist, scholar and antiquarian, Mercer built Fonthill both as his home and as a showplace for his collection of tiles and prints. The first of three Mercer buildings in Doylestown, Fonthill served as a showplace for Mercer’s famed Moravian tiles that were produced during the… Read More

Glidden Homestead

Joseph F. Glidden Homestead & Historical Center

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  • 815-756-7904
  • 921 W Lincoln Hwy, DeKalb, IL, USA

The Joseph F. Glidden Homestead & Historical Center includes a home and brick barn built in 1861, by Joseph F. Glidden, inventor of "The Winner" barbed wire (patented Nov. 1874). The features a working Blacksmith Shop in the Old Mill House. Read More

Brick House

The Cobblestone Society Museum

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  • 585-589-9013
  • 14389 Ridge Road, Albion, NY, USA

The Cobblestone Museum is an open-air museum that promotes the study and exploration of cobblestone construction methods from 1825 to 1860, offering visitors the opportunity to explore three period cobblestone structures set in Victorian appearance and four wood structures highlighting 19th century agricultural implements and skilled trades. Read More

Tucker

Castle Tucker

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  • 207-882-7169
  • 2 Lee Street, Wiscasset, ME, USA

Built in 1807 and in need of updating at the time the Tuckers moved in, the house was redecorated and furnished to satisfy modern Victorian taste and sensibilities. With a reversal of fortune that came at the end of the nineteenth century, the family was forced to take in summer boarders in order to survive. Due to limited financial… Read More

McWilliams House

McWilliams House

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  • 408-867-4311
  • 20460 Saratoga-Los Gatos Road, Saratoga, CA, USA

This pioneer cottage was built in the 1850's and is one of the oldest homes in Saratoga. Built by blacksmith Henry Jarboe, the house was sold to another blacksmith, James McWilliams in 1864. The house is made of local redwood using single-wall construction; there are no studs. Read More

Van Cortland Manor

Van Cortlandt Manor

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  • 914-631-8200
  • Van Cortlandt Manor, 525 South Riverside Avenue, Croton-on-Hudson, NY, USA

At Van Cortlandt Manor, explore the stone manor house and brick ferry house, wander through the heritage gardens, and stroll down a quiet country road along the Croton River. Read More

Blithewold

Blithewold

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  • 401-253-2707
  • 101 Ferry Road, Bristol, RI, USA

Ranked by Yankee Magazine as one of the five best public gardens in New England, Blithewold, formerly home to the Van Wickle family, is a 45-room English-style manor mansion filled with family heirlooms, framed by a series of lovely gardens and arboretum on Narragansett Bay. Read More

Oswego Heritage House

Oswego Heritage House

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  • 503-635-6373
  • 398 10th Street, Lake Oswego, OR, USA

The Murphy Company Building is a good example of the Colonial Revival style. Completed in c. 1920, the building displays many of the most defining characteristics of the style in its massing, bilateral symmetrical façade, its temple like, full story pedimented portico with columns and decorative pilasters, multi-light windows with shutters, and its paired multi-light front doors Read More

Mills-Livingston Mansion

Staatsburgh State Historic Site

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  • 845-889-8851
  • Old Post Road, Staatsburg, NY, USA

Staatsburgh State Historic Site is the elegant country home of Ogden Mills and his wife Ruth Livingston Mills. Sitting atop a grassy hill overlooking the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains, their house is a fine example of a great estate built by America's financial and industrial leaders during the Gilded Age (1876 - 1917). Read More

Grinter Place

Grinter Place

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  • 913-299-373
  • 1420 South 78th Street, Kansas City, KS, USA

Overlooking the historic Delaware Crossing on the Kansas River, Grinter Place was the home to Annie and Moses Grinter. Annie, a Lenape (Delaware), helped to farm, raise poultry and livestock, and planted an apple orchard. Moses operated a ferry and a trading post, where he traded with the Lenape Indians. Read More

Lotz House

Lotz House

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  • 615-790-7190
  • 1111 Columbia Avenue, Franklin, TN, USA

The land on which the house was constructed was purchased from the Carter family by German emigrants Johan Albert Lotz and Margaretha Lotz. Johann, a very talented woodworker, constructed such things as pianos and much of the house itself. Inside the home were plentiful examples of intricate details which showcased his skill. Some of these details include three fireplaces… Read More

Kingsland Homestead

Kingsland Homestead

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  • 718-939-647
  • 143-35 37th Avenue, Flushing, NY, USA

Built between 1774 and 1785, the Kingsland Homestead is one of the earliest surviving examples of residential style construction common throughout Long Island, specifically Queens, in the late 18th and 19th centuries. A Long Island half-house, it is characterized by a wide side hall and double parlors off to one side. Other features include a central chimney between the… Read More

Tudor Place

Tudor Place

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  • 202-965-400
  • 1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

Tudor Place Historic House & Garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of Martha Washington, and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this Georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. Read More

Wadsworth-Longfellow House

The Wadsworth–Longfellow House

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  • 207-774-1822
  • 489 Congress Street, Portland, ME, USA

Within its walls lived three generations of one remarkable family that made significant contributions to the political, literary, and cultural life of New England and the United States. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), grew up in the house and went on to become one of the most famous men of his time. Read More

Rose Hill Manor

Rose Hill Manor

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  • 301-600-1650
  • 1611 North Market Street, Frederick, MD, USA

Rose Hill Manor was built in 1790s by John & Ann Grahame. The home was the last home in which Gov. Thomas Johnson, Maryland's First Governor resided. Today it is preserved as part of one of Rose Hill Manor Park and houses a hands-on history museum. Read More

Sherwood

Sherwood Heritage Center

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  • 503-625-1236
  • 22552 Southwest Park Street, Sherwood, OR, USA

The Sherwood Heritage Center is dedicated to preserving and interpreting the history of Sherwood and Oregon. They offer monthly workshops and exhibits that allow visitors to understand Oregon history in an educational format. Read More

Pawnee Bill Ranch

Pawnee Bill Ranch

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  • 918-762-2513
  • 1141 Pawnee Bill Road, Pawnee, OK, USA

The Pawnee Bill Ranch was once the showplace of the world renowned Wild West Show entertainer, Gordon W. "Pawnee Bill"Lillie. Read More

Shaw Mansion

Shaw Mansion

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  • 860-443-1209
  • 11 Blinman Street, New London, CT, USA

The wealthy merchant, Captain Nathaniel Shaw, began building the granite mansion in the 1750s with the help of French refugees being dispersed from Nova Scotia, the Acadians, during the time of the French and Indian War. Read More

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The Hermitage

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  • 201-445-8311
  • 335 Franklin Turnpike, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ 07423

The fourteen-room Gothic Revival house was built in 1847–48 from designs by William H. Ranlett for Elijah Rosencrantz, Jr.. Members of the Rosencrantz family owned The Hermitage estate from 1807 to 1970, but the property has ties to the Revolutionary War as well. General George Washington stayed on the property with his troops, as did many other historical people… Read More

Liberty Hall Museum

Liberty Hall Museum

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  • 908-527-8915
  • 1003 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ, USA

Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University chronicles more than 200 years of American history. Built in 1772 by New Jersey’s first elected governor and signer of the Constitution, William Livingston, the Victorian-style mansion houses extensive collections of antique furniture, ceramics, textiles, toys and tools owned by seven generations of the Livingston/Kean families. The Firehouse is the latest addition to… Read More

Humphrey House

Humphrey Memorial Park & Museum

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  • 303-674-5429
  • 620 South Soda Creek Drive, Evergreen, CO, USA

The Humphrey Museum and ranch was started by J.J. Clarke in the 1870s as a cattle ranch. Mr. Clarke built a small log cabin where he lived during the summers. After Mr. Clarke's death, the family sold more than 350 acres to the Humphreys in the 1920s. For the remainder of the 20th Century, the Humphreys lived and ranched… Read More

Bealle-Stibbs House

Wayne County Historical Society & Museum

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  • 330-264-8856
  • 546 E Bowman St, Wooster, OH, USA

Constructed between 1815 and 1817 by War of 1812 General Reasin Beall, the house is the oldest surviving residential structure in Wooster Read More

Heritage House

Heritage House

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  • 435-644-3966
  • 100 S Main St, Kanab, UT, USA

Built in 1894 by Henry Bowman using stone, lumber, and bricks from local sources. Read More

Heyward House

Heyward House

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  • 843-757-6293
  • 70 Boundary Street, Bluffton, SC, USA

The Cole-Heyward House, built as a summer home for a local plantation owner, was constructed circa 1841 and is one of only eight antebellum homes remaining in the Lowcountry coastal town of Bluffton. Located in the heart of Bluffton’s National Register Historic District, next to the breezy bluffs overlooking the May River, this simple timber framed home is an… Read More

Valentine-Varian House

Valentine – Varian House

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  • 718-881-8900
  • The Museum of Bronx History (MBH) at the Valentine-Varian House, 3266 Bainbridge Avenue, New York, NY, USA

Blacksmith Isaac Valentine built this four-level fieldstone farm house in 1758 near the Boston Post Road. His property included a blacksmith shop, outhouses, farmland, and a number of slaves. His homestead was later the site of six skirmishes between American troops and British forces, who occupied the house for most of the Revolutionary War. After the Revolution, the Valentines… Read More

Emily Dickinson Homestead

The Emily Dickinson Museum

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  • 413-542-8161
  • 280 Main Street, Amherst, MA, USA

The Emily Dickinson Museum includes The Homestead, where poet Emily Dickinson was born and lived most of her life, and The Evergreens, home of the poet’s brother and his family. The two houses share three acres of the original Dickinson property in the center of Amherst, Massachusetts. Read More

Garr House

The Gaar House Museum

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  • 765-966-1262
  • 2593 Pleasant View Rd, Richmond, IN, USA

Jonas Gaar and his sons, Abram and John Milton Gaar, and Jonas' son-in-law, William G. Scott were founders of Gaar-Scott and Company, the leading manufacturer of threshing machines and steam engines from 1842 to 1911. Read More

Sonnenberg

Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion

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  • 585-394-4922
  • 151 Charlotte Street, Canandaigua, NY, USA

A beautiful Victorian mansion and gardens, located at the north end of Canandaigua Lake was ormerly the summer home of Canandaigua benefactors Frederick Ferris and Mary Clark Thompson. Read More

Irvington

Irvinton House Museum

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  • 859-623-8753
  • 345 Lancaster Ave, Richmond, KY, USA

The historic Irvinton House Museum is Richmond's only local museum. Exhibits include items from the Irvine family, the community, and Eastern Kentucky University's J.T. Dorris Collection that illustrate the vibrant history of Richmond, Kentucky. The museum features many unique and interesting items, including one of very few remaining Revolutionary War uniforms. Read More

Captain Avery Museum

Captain Avery Museum

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  • 410-867-4486
  • 1418 E West Shady Side Rd, Shady Side, MD, USA

The Captain Salem Avery House was built c. 1860 on the Banks of the West River in Shady Side, Maryland. Captain Avery, a Long Island fisherman, came to the area to make his living from the abundant waters of the Chesapeake Bay. He married Lucretia Weedon of Mayo, Maryland, and they lived in the house for thirty years raising… Read More

Lawnfield

Lawnfield

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  • 440-255-8722
  • 8095 Mentor Avenue, Mentor, OH, USA

The restored home of James Garfield, 20th president of the United States. The 30 room house contains original furnishings and many of Garfield's belongings. A small building at the corner of the house was used as his campaign headquarters. A carriage house contains five period carriages. Read More

Robidoux Row

Robidoux Row

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  • 816-232-5861
  • North 3rd Street & East Poulin Street, Saint Joseph, MO, USA

This row of buildings was built by city founder Joseph Robidoux as temporary housing for newly arrived settlers. Four restored units remain of the building's original seven connected houses, and they are furnished with original and period pieces. Read More

Cuneo Mansion

Cuneo Mansion and Gardens

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  • 847-362-3042
  • 1350 North Milwaukee Avenue, Vernon Hills, IL, USA

Construction on the Cuneo Mansion and Gardens began in 1908 and stopped during World War I. It was completed in 1918 as the home of Samuel Insull, an original founder of the General Electric Company, and designed by Chicago architect Benjamin Marshall in the Italianate style. Its gardens and landscaping were designed by world-renowned landscape architect Jens Jensen. In… Read More

Fenyes Mansion

Pasadena Museum of History

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  • 626-577-1660
  • 470 West Walnut Street, Pasadena, CA, USA

With its original furnishings and art collection, the Fenyes Mansion offers a unique glimpse into life on Pasadena’s Millionaire’s Row. Family heirlooms and a unique California plein air art collection enhance the Beaux Arts-style home of Dr. Adalbert and Eva Fenyes. Read More

Gunston Hall

Gunston Hall

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  • 703-550-9920
  • George Mason's Gunston Hall, 10709 Gunston Road, Lorton, VA, USA

George and Ann Mason’s stylish home showcased the Masons’ wealth and prominence. Explore the complexities of Col. Mason’s life as a family man, community leader, and founding father. Discover the lives of all the people who lived at Gunston Hall, from the framer of American rights to the hundreds of people kept in slavery there. Read More

Bailey House Museum

The Bailey House Museum

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  • 808-244-3326
  • Maui Historical Society, Main Street, Wailuku, HI, USA

Built in 1833, the Bailey House is now a museum of Maui history showcasing Hawaiian culture and artifacts, as well as paintings and furnishings from nineteenth-century Maui. Located in historic Wailuku and built on the site of the Royal compound of Kahekili, last ruling chief of Maui, the house served as the Wailuku Female Seminary for Hawaiian girls until… Read More

Edwin Carter Museum

Edwin Carter Museum

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  • 970-453-9767
  • 111 N Ridge St, Breckenridge, CO, USA

Edwin Carter came to Breckenridge in 1868 seeking gold and fortune, but his goals changed when he saw the devastation mining had on the environment and local wildlife. Carter became a taxidermist and collected thousands of Rocky Mountain animal specimens in his museum, which doubled as his home. Scientists from all over the world came to Breckenridge to see… Read More

Schoenbrunn Village

Schoenbrunn Village

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  • 330-663-6610
  • 1984 East High Avenue, New Philadelphia, OH, USA

The Moravian church founded Schoenbrunn ("beautiful spring") in 1772 as a mission to the Delaware Indians. The settlement grew to include sixty dwellings and more than 300 inhabitants who drew up Ohio's first civil code and built its first Christian church and schoolhouse. Read More

David Davis Mansion

David Davis Mansion

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  • 308-828-1084
  • 1000 Monroe Dr, Bloomington, IL, USA

On a flat stretch of Illinois prairie—where Yankee pioneers forged their frontier fortunes and Route 66 later carved a path across the rural landscape—stands an elegant Victorian mansion and garden, completed in 1872 for David Davis and his wife, Sarah. The beautifully restored, nineteenth-century estate tells the story of Judge David Davis, whose influence on Abraham Lincoln's legal and… Read More

Webster House

Webster House Museum

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  • 262-723-7848
  • 9 East Rockwell Street, Elkhorn, WI, USA

Nestled on a quiet street in the city of Elkhorn, Wisconsin, the Webster House Museum is a well maintained white clapboard house, containing Civil War and Victorian period items. The composer Joseph Philbrick Webster once owned the home. Both the structure and its famous owner played an important part of the history of Elkhorn. Read More

Laura Ingalls Wilder Home

Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home & Museum

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  • 877-924-7126
  • 3060 State Highway A, Mansfield, MO, USA

As visitors make their trek to the historic Rocky Ridge Farm, the first sight they’ll see is Laura’s and Almanzo’s beloved farmhouse. It remains as it was in 1957 and stands as an official project of the Save America’s Treasures National Trust for Historical Preservation. Read More

Whitley Historical Museum

Whitley County Historical Museum

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  • 260-244-6372
  • 108 West Jefferson Street, Columbia City, IN, USA

This is the home of Vice-President Thomas Riley Marshall. He lived here for over 30 years, while working as a lawyer in Columbia City. He moved in 1908, as being elected Governor of Indiana. He went on to serve one term as Governor, before being elected Vice President (1913-1921). We also interpret the history of Whitley County, including the… Read More

Dinsmore Homestead

Dinsmore Homestead

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  • 859-586-6117
  • 5656 Burlington Pike, Burlington, KY, USA

1842 house and farm with important associations with American figures. Read More

Dixon Gallery and Gardens

Dixon Gallery & Gardens

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  • 901-761-5250
  • 4339 Park Avenue, Memphis, TN, USA

The Dixon residence was designed in the Neo-Georgian manner and completed in 1942. The house opened to the public in 1976, and today is devoted to displaying the Dixon permanent collection. Read More

Marrett House

Marrett House

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  • 207-882-7169
  • 40 Ossipee Trail East, Standish, ME, USA

In 1796, young Daniel Marrett, a recent Harvard graduate, moved to Standish, Maine, to become the town minister. He purchased the most imposing house in town to reflect his status as the community's leading citizen. Three generations of the Marrett family remained in the house for nearly one hundred and fifty years. Read More

Wilder Homestead

Wilder Homestead

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  • 518-483-1207
  • 177 Stacy Road, Malone, NY, USA

Boyhood home of Almanzo Wilder, husband of author Laura Ingalls Wilder. Read More

Neil Cochrane House

Neill-Cochran House Museum

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  • 512-478-2335
  • 2310 San Gabriel Street, Austin, TX, USA

More than 150 years ago, master builder Abner Cook was commissioned to build this notable Greek Revival home in Austin. Over the years, the property has served as home to the state's first school for the blind, a lieutenant governor, and a hospital for Federal soldiers during Reconstruction. Read More

Benninghofen House

Butler County Historical Museum

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  • 513-896-9930
  • 327 North 2nd Street, Hamilton, OH, USA

Located in the Benninghofen House, the museum displays Victorian furnishings. Read More

Wylie House

Wylie House Museum

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  • 812-855-6224
  • 307 East 2nd Street, Bloomington, IN, USA

Built in 1835, Wylie House was the home of Indiana University's first president, Andrew Wylie, and his family. Today Wylie House is owned and operated by Indiana University as an historic house museum recreating the Wylie home prior to 1860. The house is distinctive and unusual for south-central Indiana, a blend of Federal and Georgian styles of architecture more… Read More

Elk City Museum

Old Town Museum Complex

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  • 580-225-6266
  • West State Highway 66 & Pioneer Road, Elk City, OK, U.S.

The Old Town Museum complex includes the Pioneer Museum and Beutler Brothers Rodeo Hall, the Farm and Ranch Museum, Livery Stable, Train Depot, Wagon Yard and other areas depicting Old Town Elk City as well as The National Route 66 and Transportation Museums. Read More

Morgan Row House

Morgan Row

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  • 859-325-9028
  • 220 South Chiles Street, Harrodsburg, KY, USA

Built between 1807 and 1830 by Squire Joseph Morgan, this row house is the oldest one standing in the state and the first row house west of the Allegheny Mountains. The Harrodsburg Historical Society carefully restored the northernmost section to serve as a museum and extensive genealogy research library. Read More

Jason Russel House

The Jason Russell House

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  • 781-648-4300
  • 7 Jason St, Arlington, MA, USA

The Jason Russell House, built in 1740, still bears bullet holes as the site of bloody fighting on the first day of the American Revolution. British soldiers, in retreat from Lexington and Concord, shot and bayoneted Jason Russell on his own doorstep. Eleven other area Minute Men, who had gathered in Arlington, due to its strategic location, also lost… Read More

Hyde Hall

Hyde Hall

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  • 607-547-5098
  • 267 Glimmerglass State Park, Cooperstown, NY, USA

Hyde Hall is one of the finest representations of romantic classicism in America. The three parts of the house-the family rooms, the guest or entertaining areas and the staff quarters-were built in three different styles around a central courtyard. Read More

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