Adaland
- 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
Alexander Faribault House
The Alexander Faribault House was built in the Greek Revival style in 1853 for a cost of $4000.00. The Faribault family lived in the house for a few years, moving a few years later to a large brick mansion on the bluffs overlooking the Straight River. The house was used as a civic center and as a private home.… Read More
Ames-Florida-Stork House
- 763-477-5383
- 8131 Bridge Street, Rockford, MN, USA
Located along the banks of the Crow River inRockford, MN, the Rockford Area Historical Society was formed in 1986 to collect, preserve and interpret Rockford's dynamic history. The historical society also manages the Ames-Florida-Stork House, a historic house museum listed on the National Register of Historic Places Read More
Arlington Historic House and Gardens
- 205-780-5656
- 331 Cotton Avenue Southwest, Birmingham, AL, USA
Arlington, located on six acres in the heart of Old Elyton, is a fine example of Greek Revival architecture dating from the 1840s. The house was built by Judge William S. Mudd, one of the ten founders of Birmingham. The house is furnished with a fine collection of 19th century decorative arts and is a center for historical, cultural,and… Read More
- 703-235-1530
- Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, Sherman Drive, Fort Myer, VA, USA
Arlington House is the nation's memorial to Robert E. Lee. It honors him for specific reasons, including his role in promoting peace and reunion after the Civil War. In a larger sense it exists as a place of study and contemplation of the meaning of some of the most difficult aspects of American history: military service; sacrifice; citizenship; duty;… Read More
- 573-581-3910
- 501 South Muldrow Street, Mexico, MO, USA
Graceland was built in 1857 and the second owner, Colby T. Quisenberry, brought the first blooded horses into Audrain County from Kentucky. Rooms are furnished in period and a collection of wedding dresses and dolls. Read More
Baker Mansion
- 814-942-3916
- 3419 Oak Lane, Altoona, PA, USA
Baker Mansion was originally home to ironmaster Elias Baker and his family. Baker purchased the nearby Alleghany Furnace in 1836 in partnership with his cousin Roland Diller. Elias brought his wife, Hetty, and their two sons, David Woods and Sylvester, from Lancaster County to what was described as a “tolerable good mansion house” near the furnace. Read More
Banning Museum
- 301-548-7777
- 401 East M Street, Wilmington, CA, USA
The 23-room residence remains the finest example of domestic Greek Revival architecture in Southern California. The house interiors have been carefully restored to their Victorian beauty, and 18 rooms are open to the public. Read More
Barrington Hall
- 770-640-3855
- 535 Barrington Dr, Roswell, GA, USA
The home of Barrington King who with his father, Roswell King, co-founded the town of Roswell, GA. The Greek Revival Temple Form home has been lovingly restored and contains many original family possessions. The seven acres of grounds feature the only public antebellum garden in metro Atlanta Read More
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
- 718-885-1461
- 895 Shore Road, The Bronx, Westchester County, NY, USA
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, with its splendid Greek Revival interiors, is tucked away in a lovely, quiet corner of Pelham Bay Park – an area that was once home to more than 20 elegant country estates. As the only grand country house still in existence on Pelham Bay, it provides an important link to the social and architectural history of… Read More
- 660-259-4654
- 1101 Delaware Street, Lexington, MO, USA
People called Oliver Anderson’s house “the best arranged dwelling house west of St. Louis.” But it became more famous as the center of a bloody three-day Civil War battle in 1861. Walk through the Anderson House at Battle of Lexington Historic Site and marvel at the bullet holes still in the walls and evidence of the cannon shots. Read More
Beehive House
- 801-240-2681
- South Temple & State Street, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
The Beehive House was built between 1853 and 1855 and served as home to Brigham Young when he was President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and governor of the Utah Territory. Read More
Belle Meade Plantation
- 615-356-501
- 110 Leake Avenue, Nashville, TN, USA
The Greek Revival Mansion built in 1854 features a grand curved stairway, 14 foot ceilings and classic proportions. There is also a carriage house that displays 20 carriages. Read More
Bement-Billings Farmstead Museum
- 607-642-9516
- 9241 State Route 38, Newark Valley, NY, USA
The Bement-Billings Farmstead features the Federal style house built in 1794 by Revolutionary War veteran Asa Bement, on land that was part of the Boston Purchase. This living history museum is staffed on summer weekends by costumed volunteers who cook on the open hearth and give tours. Asa’s son added a formal Greek Revival parlor, additional bedrooms, and a… Read More
- 828-693-4178
- 81 Carl Sandburg Lane, Flat Rock, NC, USA
Carl Sandburg, nationally renowned poet, biographer, lecturer, newspaper columnist, folksinger, author of American fairytales, and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, provided broad and enduring 20th century insight into the circumstances, worth and spirit of the American people. This farm offered the peace and solitude required for his writing. Read More
- 828-693-4178
- 331 East 3rd Street, Galesburg, IL, USA
The Carl Sandburg State Historic Site is the birthplace of Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Lincoln biographer, a children’s author and folk song collector. The small frame home, architecturally significant as a “workingman’s cottage,” contains three rooms—parlor, bedroom, and kitchen. Also on the site is a two-story Greek Revival frame house built in 1858. The house… Read More
Centenary State Historic Site
- 225-654-3775
- 3522 College St, Jackson, LA, USA
A restored professor's residence is on the grounds of Centenary College. Read More
Centerville Historical Museum
- 508-775-331
- 513 Main Street, Centerville, MA, USA
The Centerville Historical Museum, founded in 1952, is dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of Centerville and Cape Cod. The fourteen-room museum includes an 1840 house and contains an outstanding collection of historic costumes, maritime and military artifacts, quilts, Crowell birds, 18th and 19th century decorative arts, paintings, tools, and children's toys and dolls. Read More
Charles A. Grignon Mansion
- 920-766-6106
- 1313 Augustine St, Kaukauna, WI, USA
In 1837, Charles A. Grignon built this Greek revival style Mansion as a wedding gift for his Pennsylvanian bride, Mary Elizabeth Meade. This stately home was known as "The Mansion in the Woods" to countless travelers. Read More
Chatillon-DeMenil Mansion
- 314-771-5828
- 3352 Demenil Place, St. Louis, MO, USA
The Chatillon DeMenil House is a magnificent example of the late Greek Revival style in St. Louis, but its significance is more than architectural. The house embodies the stories of the families who lived here, including members of the founding families of St. Louis and Carondelet, a nationally known Western trailblazer, the family of an Oglala leader, the first… Read More
Citadelle Art Foundation
- 806-323-8899
- 520 East Nelson Avenue, Canadian, TX, USA
An old Abandoned Baptist Church was re-configured and rescued by Malouf and Therese Abraham . The church was built in 1910 and turned into a huge home in 1977. It has been in magazines and on HGTV. The Dallas Morning News said, "rooms filled with art and antiques that rival the White House" Read More
Clarke House Museum
- 312-326-1480
- 1827 South Indiana Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA
Built in 1836 for Henry B. Clarke, the Clarke House Museum is Chicago’s oldest house. The house shows what life was like for a middle-class family in Chicago during the city’s formative years before the Civil War. Its fascinating history began at a time when family members could see the campfires of Native Americans in the distance. Read More
Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum
- 781-641-747
- 611 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, MA, USA
The restored 1832 home of Jefferson Cutter features displays the art of sculptor Cyrus E. Dallin. Read More
Daweswood House Museum
- 740-323-2355
- Daweswood House Museum
On the grounds of the Dawes Arboretum, the house was the home of the founders Beman and Bertie Dawes. It contains original furnishings. Read More
Decorative Arts Center of Ohio
- 740-681-1423
- 145 East Main Street, Lancaster, OH, USA
The Reese-Peters House was built in 1835 for William James Reese and his wife, Mary Elisabeth Sherman. Reese, a native of Philadelphia, was a well-educated man, graduating from the University of Pennsylvania’s law school in 1822. Mary Elisabeth was the eldest sister of General William T. Sherman and Senator John Sherman, who would both find fame later in the… Read More
Dinsmore Homestead
- 859-586-6117
- 5656 Burlington Pike, Burlington, KY, USA
1842 house and farm with important associations with American figures. Read More
Doric House Museum
- 908-782-1091
- 114 Main Street, Flemington, NJ, USA
The Doric House Museum houses the Research Library and offices of the Hunterdon County Historical Society. It was built in the Greek Revival style in 1845 by Mahlon Fisher, a country carpenter of ability and taste, as his private residence. He also erected several other Flemington residences in the same style. Read More
Drumthwacket
- 609-683-57
- 354 Stockton St, Princeton, NJ, USA
Drumthwacket is the stately home that is today the official residence of the Governor of New Jersey. Read More
Dumbarton House
- 202-337-2288
- 2715 Q Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Built during the tumultuous presidencies of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the house has been restored to show it as it might have appeared during the time of its first resident, Joseph Nourse, who served as Register of the U.S. Treasury for the first six Presidents of the United States. The museum presents an unusual opportunity to catch a… Read More
Dunsmuir Hellman Historic Estate
- 925-275-9490
- 2960 Peralta Oaks Court, Oakland, CA, USA
The Dunsmuir mansion, designed by San Francisco architect, J. Eugene Freeman, is an example of Neoclassical-Revival architecture popular in the late 1800s. The 37-room mansion features a Tiffany-style dome, woodpaneled public rooms, 10 fireplaces and inlaid parquet floors within its 16,224 square feet. Servants quarters in the house are designed to accommodate 12 live-in staff. Read More
E. D. White Historic Site
- 985-447-915
- E.D. White Historic Site, Louisiana 1, Thibodaux, LA, USA
Historians date the construction of the plantation home anywhere from the late eighteenth century to the 1830's due to the evidence of contrasting architectural features found within the house. The house more prominently represents the Creole-style cottage design that was popular in south Louisiana prior to the Civil war, but was transformed into a Greek Revival house in the… Read More
- 517-787-2320
- 3225 4th Street, Jackson, MI, USA
Visitors are invited to tour Ella Sharp's 19th-century Hillside Farmhouse, the Dibble One-Room Schoolhouse, Eli Stilson's Log House and the Merriman-Sharp Tower Barn. Other exhibits down Farm Lane include a woodworking shop, doctor's office, general store and print shop. And the farm's original granary is now Ella's Granary Restaurant. Read More
Farmington Historic Plantation
- 502-452-9920
- 3033 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY, USA
Farmington was built between 1815 and 1816 for John (1772-1840) and Lucy Fry (1788-1874) Speed. Both of them came from wealthy Virginia families that moved to Kentucky in the last decades of the 1700s. John Speed's father, Captain James Speed, fought in the Revolutionary War and was badly injured. Like many others, he sought to make his fortune in… Read More
Farnsworth Art Museum
- 207-596-6457
- 19 Elm St, Rockland, ME, USA
Museum admission includes the Farnsworth Homestead which is next door and is an example of Greek Revival architecture. Built in 1850, it contains many of the original family furnishings. The museum also owns the Olson House. Painter Andrew Wyeth created many of his best-loved works at the Olson House, the home of Christina Olson and her brother Alvaro. Christina's… Read More
Follett House Museum
- 419-625-3834
- 114 W Adams St, Sandusky, OH, USA
The Follett House Museum is home to an outstanding local history collection, documenting the history of the city of Sandusky and Erie County. The mission of this branch of the Library is to collect, preserve, and share with citizens, scholars, and researchers the special collection of artifacts for the interpretation of the history of the city of Sandusky and… Read More
Folsom House
- 651-465-3125
- 272 West Government Street, Taylors Falls, MN, USA
Completed in 1855 by lumber baron W.H.C. Folsom, this 2-story frame home sits in the Angel Hill district of Taylors Falls, a New England-style village. The home is furnished with original belongings. Read More
Forbes House Museum
- 617-696-1815
- 215 Adams Street, Milton, MA, USA
Long considered the Jewel of Milton, the Forbes House Museum chronicles the history of an entrepreneurial American family. The majestic Greek Revival mansion, built in 1833 for Margaret Perkins Forbes, was commissioned by her sons, China Trade merchants Captain Robert Bennet Forbes (1804–89) and John Murray Forbes (1813–98). Today, the Museum contains the treasures of four generations of the… Read More
Francis Costigan House
Architectural historians consider the Francis Costigan House a masterpiece of nineteenth century design. The house is situated on a narrow city lot measuring only 22 feet in width at 408 West Third Street in the Madison, Indiana Historic District. Costigan built this house in 1850 as his private residence. Read More
Gaineswood
- 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
George M. Murrell Home
- 918-456-2751
- Hunter's Home, East Murrell Road, Park Hill, OK, USA
Built in 1845, the restored home belonged to George M. Murrell. Although the house was looted during the Civil War, it was the only building in the community to escape destruction. It is furnished with original pieces. Read More
Gibson House
- 530-908-9421
- 512 Gibson Road, Woodland, CA, USA
The Gibson House is unique because it is the only historic home in Yolo County open to the public. The main themes of the museum are the establishment and development of farming and ranching in Yolo County, as shown through the life and work of William Byas Gibson and his family. The Gibson House is listed in the National… Read More
Glendower Mansion
- 513-932-1817
- 105 South Broadway Street, Lebanon, OH, USA
Located on a hill overlooking downtown Lebanon, Glendower is one of the finest examples of residential Greek Revival architecture found in Ohio. This historic mansion was erected in 1845 and was given the name “Glendower” by its original owner, John Milton Williams, to honor the Welsh prince and hero Owen Glendower. The house has had other illustrious owners, most… Read More
Governor John Wood Mansion
- 217-222-1835
- 425 South 12th Street, Quincy, IL, USA
The home is headquarters for the Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County. Read More
Governor’s Mansion
- 512-463-5518
- 1010 Colorado St., Austin, TX 78701
Built in 1856, the Governor’s Mansion is the oldest continuously occupied executive residence west of the Mississippi. Read More
Grevemberg House
- 337-828-2092
- 407 Sterling Road, Franklin, LA, USA
The 1851 home was saved and meticulously restored by the St. Mary Landmarks Society. It is a magnificent example of Greek Revival-style architecture with its fluted Corinthian columns, upper and lower galleries opening into spacious entrance halls and adjoining double parlors. Read More
- 803-252-7742
- 1615 Blanding Street, Columbia, SC, USA
This house was built in 1818 by Ainsley Hall, a wealthy Columbia merchant, and his wife Sarah. They sold the house in 1823 to Wade Hampton I, who updated the Federal-style home to Greek Revival. The house passed through the Hampton and Preston families, who were forced to sell the estate after the Civil War. It was home to… Read More
Hazelwood Historial House Museum
- 920-437-1840
- 1008 S Monroe Ave, Green Bay, WI, USA
Hazelwood was originally the home of the Morgan and Elizabeth Martin family who were a political and cultural force in the Green Bay and Wisconsin for almost one hundred years. It is filled with many original furnishings, family photographs, paintings and artifacts. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1964. Read More
- 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
Historic Carnton Plantation
- 615-794-903
- 1345 Eastern Flank Circle, Franklin, TN, USA
Completed in 1826 by Randal McGavock, Carnton was one of the most elegant estates in Williamson county. Read More
Historic Governors’ Mansion
- 307-777-7878
- 300 East 21st Street, Cheyenne, WY, USA
During the early days of Wyoming’s statehood, Cheyenne’s affluent cattle barons built a series of mansions as a testament to their wealth and success; houses that might be referred to as “trophy homes,” today. In 1904, 14 years after achieving statehood in 1890, Wyoming built its first governor’s mansion, a modest house compared to the pretentious dwellings built in… Read More
Historic Hope Plantation
- 252-794-3140
- 132 Hope House Road, Windsor, NC, USA
The centerpiece of the plantation is the c. 1803 Hope Mansion, Governor Stone’s stunning example of an academic architectural combination of Federal and Georgian architecture. Restored and opened to the public since 1972, the mansion is meticulously furnished with an extensive collection of original period pieces. Read More
Historic Lyme Village
- 419-483-4949
- 5001 State Route 4, Bellevue, OH, USA
Historic Lyme Village depicts life in the Firelands from the arrival of the first settlers, in the early 1800’s, to the early 1900’s. Among the buildings in the village is the John Wright Mansion. This Second Empire Victorian Home was build between 1880 and 1882 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The John Seymour House,… Read More
Hormel Historic Home
- 507-433-4243
- 208 4th Ave NW, Austin, MN, USA
Built in 1871 and then purchased and remodeled by George A. Hormel, the founder of Hormel Foods, the home has been preserved beautifully. The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The Hormel family history is told throughout the house with photographs and a few family artifacts. Filled with rich hardwoods, leaded glass windows,… Read More
- 573-748-5340
- 312 Dawson Road, New Madrid, MO, USA
Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site preserves a now-vanished part of Missouri: The stately Bootheel mansion. Filled with original pieces and furnished in the style it was in during its heydays of the 1860s-1880s, the ornate mansion provides a history lesson in every corner. In fact, most of the original furnishing purchased by Amanda Hunter, the house's first owner (with her… Read More
John Rowland Mansion
- (909)241-7961
- 16021 Gale Avenue, City of Industry, CA, USA
The John Rowland Mansion was built in 1855 by Alta California settler John Rowland I. In 1973, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service - United States Department of the Interior for its architectural and cultural significance. The mansion was built with original Mullally bricks in the Greek Revival Style on what was a 48,790 acre rancho formerly inhabited by… Read More
John Wornall House Museum
- 816-444-1858
- 6115 Wornall Road, Kansas City, MO, USA
A restored Greek Revival plantation house is furnished in period and includes a formal herb garden on the grounds. Read More
Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum
- 207-729-6606
- 226 Maine Street, Brunswick, ME, USA
The museum is the adult home of Joshua L. Chamberlain and his family. Chamberlain was the hero of Little Round Top at Gettysburg during the Civil War, Governor of Maine, and President of Bowdoin College. Guided tours explore Chamberlain’s life, family and career. Read More
Knott House
- 850-922-2459
- 301 E Park Ave, Tallahassee, FL, USA
Built in 1843, probably by free black builder George Proctor, the Knott House was first occupied by attorney Thomas Hagner and his wife Catherine Gamble. The house served as temporary Union Headquarters in 1865, where Brigadier General Edward McCook announced the Emancipation Proclamation. Read More
Lairdland Farm House
- 931-363-2205
- 3238 Blackburn Hollow Road, Cornersville, TN, USA
Built in 1831 this home has ties to 2 Confederate Cavalrymen. Contains an authentic museum of Civil War Artifacts. Filled with American Empire and Victorian Furniture. Beautiful gardens. Historic herb garden, period outbuildings, including smoke house and Travellers' Cottage Read More
Lane Place
- 736-362-3416
- 212 South Water Street, Crawfordsville, IN, USA
Lane Place was built for Henry Lane in 1845 in what is now called the Elston Grove Historic District. Lane represented Montgomery County as state representative, U.S. congressman, governor and U.S. senator. His stature as chairman of the National Republican Convention in 1856 helped secure the party’s nomination of Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860. Read More
- 812-265-3526
- Lanier Mansion State Historic Site, West 1st Street, Madison, IN, USA
James Franklin Doughty Lanier was one of Madison’s pioneers. Lanier’s good fortune in business allowed him to hire Madison architect Francis Costigan to design and build for him the grandest residence ever imagined in Madison. The home was built on the same riverfront property where he had lived with his family since the 1820s. The Lanier Mansion was completed… Read More
Liberty Hall Historic Site
- 502-227-2560
- 202 Wilkinson Street, Frankfort, KY, USA
Located in historic downtown Frankfort on the banks of the Kentucky River, Liberty Hall Historic Site was the home of one of Kentucky's most important families. The site contains two houses: Liberty Hall (1796) built by John Brown, one of Kentucky's first United States Senator and the Orlando Brown House (1835), designed by Gideon Shryock, and owned by Senator… Read More
The society runs three houses. The 1835 Buckingham House is open for private functions. The 1815 Sherwood-Davidson House is of Federal style and displays period furnishings. The 1907 Webb House, stresses the early years of the 20th century through furniture and heirlooms. Read More
Long Branch Farm
- 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
Longfellow House
- 617-867-4491
- 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA, USA
Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site preserves the home of Henry W. Longfellow, one of the world’s foremost 19th century poets. The house also served as headquarters for General George Washington during the Siege of Boston, July 1775 - April 1776. In addition to its rich history, the site offers unique opportunities to explore 19th century literature… Read More
Lotz House
- 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
- 915-533-5147
- 1120 Magoffin Avenue, El Paso, TX, USA
The Magoffin Home, built in 1875, is a combination of the local adobe style combined with Greek revival details and is an example of the Territorial style. The thick adobe walls keep the house cool in the summer heat and warm in the winter. The house consists of three wings, each built at a different time, the last being… Read More
Montpelier
- 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
Moore -Youse Home Museum
- 765-233-6057
- 122 East Washington Street, Muncie, IN, USA
The Moore-Youse Home Museum contains numerous artifacts of Historic Muncie, including furnishings, paintings, documents, and photos. Read More
Morris-Jumel Mansion
- 212-923-8008
- 65 Jumel Terrace, New York, NY, USA
Manhattan's oldest surviving house, the Morris-Jumel Mansion atop Harlem Heights, is a monument to colonial grandeur. Built about 1765 as a summer retreat for British colonel Roger Morris and his wife, Mary Philipse, its distinctive style was very advanced for its time. Morris, the son of a successful English architect, may have influenced the Palladian design, which includes a… Read More
Morven Park
- 703-777-2414
- 17263 Southern Planter Lane, Leesburg, VA, USA
A National Register Historic Property, Morven Park was for 40 years the home of Virginia Gov. Westmoreland Davis. More than 100,000 people visit Morven Park each year, enjoying entertaining and educational programming at its three museums and multifaceted equestrian center, and experiencing its beautiful scenery, historic gardens, sports fields, and hiking trails, all within its 1,200-plus acres. Read More
Nantucket Historical Association
- 508-228-1894
- 15 Broad Street, Nantucket, MA, USA
The association maintains 11 properties. Separate admissions are charged, but a combination pass is available. Read More
Natchez National Historical Park
The Park is made up of three units, Fort Rosalie is the location of an 18th Century fortification built by the French and later occupied by the British, Spanish and Americans. The William Johnson House was a house owned by William Johnson, a free African American businessman, whose diary tells the story of everyday life in antebellum Natchez. Melrose… Read More
Neill-Cochran House Museum
- 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
Oak Alley Plantation
- 225-265-2151
- 3645 Louisiana 18, Vacherie, LA, USA
The quarter-mile canopy of giant live oak trees, believed to be nearly 300 years old, forms an impressive avenue leading to the classic Greek-revival style antebellum home. Read More
Oakleigh Historic Complex
- 251-432-1281
- 350 Oakleigh Place, Mobile, AL, USA
Oakleigh is a T-shaped Greek revival mansion featuring unique architectural features including a distinct cantilevered front staircase, grand double parlors and classic six-over-six windows and galleries accessed through jib windows. Roper was his own architect and builder. Using slave and free labor, the house is composed of bricks made from clay dug on the grounds and timber harvested from… Read More
Oatlands
- 703-777-3174
- 20850 Oatlands Plantation Lane, Leesburg, VA, USA
It was 1804 when George Carter, great grandson of colonial Virginia’s renowned Robert "King" Carter, began building his Oatlands estate: the mansion, greenhouse, dairy, smoke house, bank barn and gardens. In the 1820s, he remodeled his federal mansion to its current Greek Revival style. Carter died in 1846, and his widow, Elizabeth Grayson Carter, remained at Oatlands with their… Read More
Old Fort Harrod State Park
- 859-734-3314
- 100 S College St, Harrodsburg, KY, USA
The reconstructed fort gives visitors a glimpse of life on the Kentucky frontier. The 22-acre park contains the fort, the Mansion Museum, a Greek Revival house built in 1813, the Lincoln Marriage Temple, a brick structure that houses the cabin where Abraham Lincoln's parents, Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, were married, the Pioneer Cemetery, the oldest burial site for… Read More
Old Governor’s Mansion
- 478-445-4545
- 120 S Clarke St, Milledgeville, GA, USA
Completed in 1839, the Old Governor's Mansion is one of the finest examples of High Greek Revival architecture in the nation. Designed by noted architect Charles Clusky, an Irish immigrant, and built by Timothy Porter of Farmington, Connecticut, the Mansion looms over Milledgeville with its stately columns and imposing facade. Read More
Perkins Stone Mansion
- 330-535-250
- 550 Copley Road, Akron, OH, USA
Completed in 1837, the Perkins Stone Mansion was built by Colonel Simon Perkins, son of Akron's founder General Simon Perkins. As one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture in Ohio, the Mansion is now a historical house museum whose objects and rooms not only bring to life the Perkins family's lifestyles over three generations, but interpret the… Read More
Pioneer Farms
- 512-837-1215
- 10621 Pioneer Farms Drive, Austin, TX, USA
A 90-acre living history park featuring four restored, operating historic sites and farmsteads from the 1800s, plus an entrance village dated to 1899. Costumed interpreters and period craftsmen and artisans. Read More
Riddick’s Folly
- 757-934-1390
- 510 North Main Street, Suffolk, VA, USA
This most impressive structure on Main Street in Suffolk features striking architectural details. The five frieze band windows across the front of the house are rarely seen in eastern Virginia. The front of the mansion is bricked in Flemish bond, and double chimneys rise from both ends of the stately historic landmark. Slender columns of the Greek Revival period… Read More
Robbins Hunter Museum
- 740-587-30
- 221 East Broadway, Granville, OH, USA
The Avery-Downer House and Robbins Hunter Museum is a historic house museum furnished with 18th and 19th century decorative arts acquired by the original owners, as well as collectors tied to the house over its long history. It was completed in 1842, with additions in 1875, 1930, and finally during Robbins Hunter's occupancy from 1956 to 1979. The house… Read More
Robert Mills House and Gardens
- 803-252-7742.
- 1616 Blanding Street, Columbia, SC, USA
One of only five National Historic Landmarks within Columbia, the Robert Mills House exemplifies the skill of the first architect born and trained within the United States who designed some of the nation's most prominent buildings, including the Washington Monument. Today, the structure stands as a testament of its designer's architectural ability and the preservation efforts of generations of… Read More
Rose Hill Manor
- 315-789-3848
- 3373 New York 96A, Geneva, NY, USA
Considered one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture in the United States, Rose Hill Mansion was restored in the 1960s through the generosity of Waldo Hutchins Jr. in honor of his mother, Agnes Swan Hutchins, who grew up in the house. The house is furnished with many pieces that belonged to the Swan family, including a Severin… Read More
- 508-997-1401
- 396 County Street, New Bedford, MA, USA
Built by shipwrights in 1834 for whaling merchant William Rotch Jr., the Rotch-Jones-Duff (RJD) House and Garden Museum epitomizes the “brave houses and flowery gardens” described by Herman Melville in Moby-Dick. Greek Revival in style, it was designed by architect Richard Upjohn, a founder and first president of the American Institute or Architects. Read More
Rowan Oak
- 662-234-3284
- 916 Old Taylor Road, Oxford, MS, USA
Rowan Oak, built by a pioneer settler in the 1840's and situated deep in a grove of oak and cedar trees, was bought by William Faulkner in 1930, and became his refuge from the world until his death in 1962. Read More
Salisbury Mansion
- 508-753-8278
- 40 Highland Street, Worcester, MA, USA
Salisbury Mansion was once home to one of Worcester County's wealthiest families. It was built in 1772 as a combination store and dwelling for a bachelor merchant from Boston, Stephen Salisbury (1746-1829). He brought his bride, Elizabeth Tuckerman (1768-1851) of Boston, to live there in 1798. Read More
Shadows on the Teche
- 337-369-6446
- 317 East Main Street, New Iberia, LA, USA
A white-columned brick building constructed between 1831 and 1834 by sugar planter David Weeks and his wife, the Shadows is both a survivor and a reminder of another time. It is a tangible link to the past, representing over 150 years of history, stories about people and events, about life. Read More
Shrewsbury House
- 812-265-2967
- Shrewsbury-Windle House, West 1st Street, Madison, IN, USA
The Shrewsbury house has twelve rooms, thirteen fireplaces and a fifty-three step spiral staircase. The floor to ceiling windows are thirteen feet tall. A man on horseback could easily step through the enormous front door. Read More
Smithville Mansion
- 609-265-5858
- 803 Smithville Road, Eastampton Township, NJ, USA
Docents tell of the rise and fall of H.B. Smith, inventor and entrepreneur, his extraordinary accomplishments clouded by personal controversy. In H.B. Smith's old schoolhouse Smithville History Exhibit, 20 photo/narrative panels depict major aspects of the mill village and its colorful founder. Tourists visit Smith's "casino" annex, including card room, billiard room and bowling alley, then passes the site… Read More
Southampton Historical Museum
- 631-283-2492
- 17 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, NY, USA
The Rogers Mansion was built by Captain Albert Rogers in 1843, at the peak of the whaling industry. The property had been in his family since 1648. In 1898 Samuel L. Parrish, a wealthy NYC attorney and land developer purchased the home and added many colonial-revival additions. The Museum acquired the one-acre property in 1952 and began adding historic… Read More
Southdown Plantation and Museum
- 985-851-154
- 1208 Museum Drive, Houma, LA, USA
Southdown Plantation House is a 19th-century sugar manor house and home to the Terrebonne Museum of history and culture. It was built in 1859 as a one-story Greek Revival house by sugar planter William J. Minor. His son, Henry C. Minor, added the second floor and Victorian-style architectural features in 1893. Read More
Staatsburgh State Historic Site
- 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
Stillman House Museum
- 956-541-5560
- 1305 E Washington St, Brownsville, TX, USA
Surrounded by a black metal fence, the Stillman House Museum is among the oldest surviving structures in Brownsville. The house seen today is the result of additions made by the Trevino family during their time in the house. The original windows, shutters and doors are still in place and the breezy courtyards enjoyed by the Stillman and Trevino families… Read More
Stone-Otis House
- 203-795-3106
- 615 Orange Center Road, Orange, CT, USA
The Stone-Otis House, ca. 1830, was built by Sarah and Dennis Stone. This house represents one of the finest old homes in what was the newly formed town of Orange. Built on the east side of the Town Green, this modified Greek Revival stands as a tribute to the fine workmanship of the time. Read More
Taille de Noyer
- 314-839-3626
- 1896 S New Florissant Rd, Florissant, MO, USA
The Florissant Valley Historical Society is housed in the elegant Taille de Noyer House. Taille de Noyer is an historic antebellum home with stately pillars across the front veranda and is believed to be one of the oldest remaining homes in St. Louis County. The oldest section, a two-room log cabin used as a fur trading post, dates back… Read More
The Allen House
- 870-224-2271
- 705 North Main Street, Monticello, AR, USA
Once a hotel and passed through several owners, the Allen House is a lovely, huge home with an intriguing history of a broken heart, suicide and documented hauntings. Read More
The Barnes Museum
- 860-628-5426
- 85 N Main St, Southington, CT, USA
Displays of historic diaries, photographs, periodicals, clothing and other items are featured in this house. Framed in solid oak, the house features finely crafted woodwork, stairways, and fireplaces. Read More
The Battle-Friedman House and Gardens
- 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































































































