The Park focuses on Lincoln's life in Kentucky. The Birthplace Unit demonstrates Lincoln's humble beginnings with a symbolic birth cabin enshrined within a neo-classic Memorial Building. The Boyhood Home Unit at Knob Creek Farm was home to Lincoln during his formative years. Events in Kentucky helped mold a young boy into the man who became the nation's sixteenth President. Read More
- 912-537-1911
- 611 Jackson Street, Vidalia, GA, USA
The Altama Museum of Art & History is housed in the 1911 Brazell House, designed and built for the Crawford W. Brazell family by noted architect-builder Ivey Crutchfield. Large columns, multi-hipped rooflines and grand porches define the exterior of the neoclassical home. Read More
- 847-362-2330
- Ansel B. Cook Home, 413 North Milwaukee Avenue, Libertyville, IL, USA
The Ansel B. Cook House was built by its namesake on the site of the first permanent dwelling in Libertyville. In his will, Cook deeded his home to be used as a library. After a facade reconstruction, Cook Memorial Library opened in 1921. In 1968, following construction of the present Cook Memorial Library, the Cook mansion became the headquarters… Read More
- 630-668-5161
- 1S151 Winfield Road, Wheaton, IL, USA
The Museum is an historic house museum that depicts the country home of a family that made the Chicago Tribune the “World’s Greatest Newspaper.” Built in 1896 for Joseph Medill, the house and grounds, known as Red Oak Farm, first passed to Joseph’s daughter Katherine and then to her youngest son, Robert Rutherford. Robert and his first wife Amy… Read More
- 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
- 618-234-600
- 602 Fulton Street, Belleville, IL, USA
Built in 1851 for plasterer Jacob Krill and his wife Nancy, the Emma Kunz House stands as a prime example of a “German Street House.” Brick cottages such as these were favored by the German immigrant laborers who lived and worked in Belleville over 150 years ago. Read More
- 864-656-2475
- 520 Fort Hill Street, Clemson, SC, USA
Fort Hill, also known as the John C. Calhoun House and Library, is a National Historic Landmark on the Clemson University campus in Pickens County, South Carolina, United States, near the City of Clemson. Read More
- 765-742-6449
- 920 State Street, Lafayette, IN, USA
The Haan Mansion Museum of Indiana Art is more than a house museum - it is a museum of Indiana art located in an historic mansion that served as the Connecticut Building at the 1904 St Louis Worlds Fair. Parts of the Connecticut building were taken from a 1760 mansion in Norwich CT, so many of the components were… Read More
- 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
- 706-882-3242
- 1916 Hills and Dales Drive, LaGrange, GA, USA
Designed by Hentz and Reid for textile magnate Fuller E. Callaway, this Italian villa home is the centerpiece of a 35 acre estate which blends with formal boxwood gardens. Read More
- 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
- 423-267-968
- 10 Bluff View Avenue, Chattanooga, TN, USA
This Neoclassical-style brick building was designed by the Cincinnati architectural firm of Mead and Garfield. Due to the varying architectural features, the mansion encompasses classical revival styles that contain both Georgian and Federal style elements. Read More
- 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
- 715-842-5750
- 410 Mcindoe St, Wausau, WI, USA
The first floor of the early 20th century neoclassical home is furnished in period. The second floor has changing exhibits, and the basement has a model train layout. Read More
- 770-267-5602
- 319 McDaniel Street, Monroe, GA, USA
Originally designed by Athens architect William Winstead Thomasin the then-popular Victorian Italianate Villa style, the house was extensively remodeled in the 1930s by Nashville architect, and son-in-law of Edgar and Gipsy Tichenor, Francis Boddie Warfield. Read More
- 434-984-9800
- 1050 Monticello Loop, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Monticello is the autobiographical masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson, designed and redesigned and built and rebuilt for more than forty years. Read More
- 410-651-2238
- 11736 Mansion St, Princess Anne, MD, USA
The 10,000 square foot American villa style house exhibits a grandiose plan that included decorative plaster finishes, an indoor bath, steam operated kitchen equipment and a wide range of furnishings. Read More
- 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
- 303-866-3681
- 400 East 8th Avenue, Denver, CO, USA
The Colorado Governor's Residence began as a landmark private home, was transformed into a display of old-world elegance and remains one of the west's true treasure houses as it approaches its second century. Part executive residence, part repository of museum-quality furnishings and objects d'art, the house is a meeting place for the past and the future. Read More
- (517) 483-4220
- 100 East North Street, Lansing, MI, USA
The house was built by Lansing pioneer James Turner and his brother Charles in 1858. James was instrumental in helping lay the groundwork for the city. James Turner helped establish transportation, schools, foundries and eventually the city government as he would serve as the first Treasurer and go on to serve as the State Deputy Treasurer Read More
- 845-229-7770
- 119 Vanderbilt Park Road, Hyde Park, NY, USA
Historically known as Hyde Park, Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site is one of the region's oldest Hudson River estates. For nearly two centuries, this place has been home to socially prominent New Yorkers. A superb example of its type, Hyde Park represents the domestic ideal of the elite class in the late nineteenth-century America. It provides a glimpse of… Read More