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Herr House

1719 Museum

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  • 717-464-4438
  • 1849 Hans Herr Dr., Willow Street, PA 17584

The 1719 Herr House is the oldest building in Lancaster County and the oldest Mennonite meetinghouse in the Americas. It was the home of the Christian Herr family, some of the first Mennonite immigrants to Lancaster County, PA. Read More

Adamson House

Adamson House

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  • 310-456-8432
  • 23200 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA, USA

This classic Malibu home was built in 1930 for Rhoda Rindge Adamson and her husband, Merritt Huntley Adamson. The house shares its location with one of the most beautiful beaches in Southern California. Read More

Botto House

American Labor Museum

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  • 973-595-7953
  • 83 Norwood Street, Haledon, NJ, USA

The 1908 Botto House was the home of an Italian immigrant weaver and features period rooms and changing exhibits that illustrate the labor movement in the United States. Read More

Jay Gould’s Private Rail Car

Atalanta

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  • 903-665-2513
  • 210 West Austin Street, Jefferson, TX, USA

Not really a house, Atalanta is the restored private railroad car of George Jay Gould, built in 1890. With interior mahogany woodwork, four staterooms, a dining room, lounge, kitchen, pantry, and bathroom, it's kind of a mini mansion on wheels. Read More

Beauport

Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House

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  • 978-283-800
  • 75 Eastern Point Boulevard, Gloucester, MA, USA

Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House, was the summer home of one of America’s first professional interior designers, Henry Davis Sleeper. Perched on a rock ledge overlooking Gloucester Harbor, Beauport became Sleeper’s retreat, backdrop for entertaining, professional showcase, and an inspiration to all who visited. After Sleeper’s death, Beauport was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCann, who left most of Sleeper’s… Read More

Bellingrath

Bellingrath Gardens and Home

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  • 251-973-2217
  • 12401 Bellingrath Gardens Road, Theodore, AL, USA

The 15-room Home was built in 1935 and designed by prominent Mobile architect, George B. Rogers. It encompasses 10,500 square feet. The exterior of the Home features hand-made brick salvaged in Mobile from the 1852 birthplace of Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont. Ironwork was obtained from the recently demolished Southern Hotel, also in Mobile. The result was dubbed English Renaissance… Read More

Biddle-House

Biddle House

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  • 906-847-3328
  • 7406 Market St, Mackinac Island, MI, USA

Step into the home of Agatha and Edward Biddle, merchants who moved in around 1830. This was a time of change, and the 1830s were critical to the Biddles for another reason: as an Anishnaabek woman, Agatha and other indigenous people witnessed their culture subjected to immense changes. The decade transformed the Anishnaabek, linking old ways with Michigan’s modern… Read More

Blanco Pioneer Museum

Blanco Pioneer Museum

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  • 830-833-4971
  • 418 Pecan Street, Blanco, TX, USA

The Blanco Pioneer Museum opened in the Pat Ryan Building in 2009. Just a block off the Courthouse Square, the museum is used for genealogical and historical exhibits and events. 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

Bonnet House

Bonnet House Museum & Gardens

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  • 954-563-5393
  • 900 North Birch Road, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

The whimsical ambience of Bonnet House is a product of the creative synergy that existed between Frederic and his wife Evelyn and the happiness and comfort they experienced in one another. Though the strictest preservation standards are practiced, the house still feels as if the owners had just stepped out. All the furnishings and ephemera on exhibit are original… Read More

Butler-McCook House

Butler-McCook House & Garden

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  • 860-522-1806
  • 396 Main St, Hartford, CT, USA

For 189 years the Butler-McCook House & Garden was home to four generations of a family who participated in, witnessed, and recorded the evolution of Main Street between the American Revolution and the mid-twentieth century. The house's exterior looks much as it did when it was built in 1782. Behind it is a restored Victorian ornamental garden, originally laid… Read More

Carry A. Nation Home

Carry A. Nation Home

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  • 620-886-3553

The leader of the temperance movement at the turn of the century, Carry A. Nation is remembered here with a museum housed in her little gray stone house. Read More

Castle Hill

Castle Hill on the Crane Estate

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  • 978-356-4351
  • 290 Argilla Road, Ipswich, MA, USA

In the decades following Richard T. Crane, Jr.’s purchase of the property in 1910, Castle Hill came to exemplify the American Country Place Era with its farm and estate buildings, designed grounds and gardens, and diverse natural areas. The Cranes hired some of the century’s most notable architects and landscape architects. The first house built atop Castle Hill, an… 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

Cravens House

Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park

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  • 706-866-9241
  • 3370 Lafayette Road, Chickamauga, GA, USA

The park includes three historic homes. Brotherton House marks the spot where the Union line was broken, Snodgrass House served as a Union field hospital, and Cravens House served as a Conferderate field hospital. Read More

Allensworth

Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park

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  • 661-849-3433
  • Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park, Grant Drive, Earlimart, CA, USA

In August 1908 Colonel Allen Allensworth and four other settlers established a town founded, financed and governed by African Americans. Their dream of developing an abundant and thriving community stemmed directly from a strong belief in programs that allowed blacks to help themselves create better lives. By 1910 Allensworth’s success was the focus of many national newspaper articles praising… Read More

The McFadden-Ross House

Dearborn Historical Museum

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  • 313-565-3000
  • 915 South Brady Street, Dearborn, MI, USA

The museum consists of three buildings including the McFadden-Ross House that dates from the early 1800s. It is furnished in period. The Exhibit Annex has craft shops, wagons and buggies. Read More

Dowling House

Dowling House

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  • 815-777-1250
  • 220 Diagonal Street, Galena, IL, USA

Galena's oldest house, Dowling House, was built in 1826 by John Dowling. Built of limestone, it was once the only trading post in the city. The Dowling House was equipped with primitive living quarters and hosted many fur traders in years past. Tour guides provide a complete history of the development of the City of Galena and Dowling House… Read More

Eisenhower National Historic Side

Eisenhower National Historic Site

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  • 717-338-9114
  • 1195 Baltimore Pike, Gettysburg, PA, USA

The 231 acre farm includes the carefully preserved house of President Eisenhower. Read More

Ralph Waldo Emerson House

Emerson House

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  • 978-369-2236
  • 28 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, MA, USA

Home of Ralph Waldo Emerson from 1835 until his death in 1882. The house contains some original furnishings. Read More

Empire Mine State Historic Park

Empire Mine State Historic Park

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  • 530-273-8522
  • 10791 East Empire Street, Grass Valley, CA, USA

Empire Mine State Historic Park is the site of one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California. The park is in Grass Valley at 10791 East Empire Street. In existence for more than 100 years, the mine produced 5.6 million ounces of gold before it closed in 1956. Read More

Ethan Allen Homestead

Ethan Allen Homestead

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  • 802-865-4556
  • 1 Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, VT, USA

Situated on a small promontory just above the Winooski River out of reach of flood waters in Burlington's Intervale is a small, unassuming frame house. Its style is what real estate agents today would call "Cape Cod." Modern siding makes it look quite ordinary, but this house has stood there for 192 years. No marker identifies it; tourists do… Read More

Fred Drummon Home

Fred Drummond Home

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  • 918-885-2374
  • 305 North Price Avenue, Hominy, OK, USA

As a reflection of financial success, Fred and Addie built a substantial home in Hominy. The three-story house, completed in 1905, is Victorian in style and features a central square tower, second floor balcony, and false dormers. The first floor is constructed of native sandstone while the upper floors are frame covered by painted shingles of light and dark… Read More

Gamble Place

Gamble Place

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  • 386-255-285
  • 1819 Taylor Road, Port Orange, FL, USA

Guests to Gamble Place can step back in time to experience the same pristine environment that James Gamble found so inviting during his first visit to the area in the late 1800's. James N. Gamble, of the Procter and Gamble Company and a long time winter resident of Daytona Beach, bought this land on Spruce Creek for use as… Read More

Gillette Castle

Gillette Castle State Park

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  • 860-526-2336
  • 67 River Road, East Haddam, CT, USA

Atop the most southerly hill in a chain known as the Seven Sisters, William Hooker Gillette, noted actor, director, and playwright, built this one hundred and eighty-four acre estate, the Seventh Sister. The focal point of his effort was a twenty four room mansion reminiscent of a medieval castle. Read More

Grove Farm

Grove Farm Homestead Museum

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  • 808-245-3202
  • 4050 Nawiliwili Road, Lihue, HI, USA

Built in 1864 the homestead depicts life on an old sugar plantation with tours of the office, washhouse, teahouse, and guest cottage. The house features a wonderful collection of furniture and a beautiful entryway made with native wood. Reservations should be made up to 3 months in advance. Read More

Hearst Castle

Hearst Castle

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  • 805-927-2010
  • 750 Hearst Castle Road, San Simeon, CA, USA

William Randolph Hearst hired Julia Morgan to build him a little something. They ended up with a mansion that has 165 rooms filled with magnificent artwork and furniture. The estate has 127 acres of gardens, terraces, pools and walkways. Several different tours are available. Take them all! Read More

Hellman-Ehrman Mansion

Hellman-Ehrman Mansion

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  • 530-525-7982
  • California 89, South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA

In 1897, San Francisco businessman I. W. Hellman began buying property at Sugar Pine Point and by 1913 had acquired nearly 2000 acres. His grand but informal summer home, called Pine Lodge, was completed in 1903 and was considered to be one of the finest in the high Sierra. His daughter, Florence Hellman Ehrman inherited the estate and she… Read More

Henry Whitfield State Museum

Henry Whitfield State Museum

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  • 203-453-2457
  • 248 Old Whitfield Street, Guilford, CT, USA

The Whitfield family home also served as a fort for the community. Its massive stone walls and chimneys, steeply-pitched roof, and casement windows reflect the style of post-medieval domestic architecture found in England – rare in 17th century America and unique today. Through the years, the "Old Stone House"" has undergone many changes and many families have called it… Read More

Chief's House

Historic Forks of the Wabash

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  • 260-356-1903
  • 3010 West Park Drive, Huntington, IN, USA

The house has been restored to its appearance in 1846, the last year that Chief Lafontaine lived in the house. The Chiefs' House was built by Chief John B. Richardville about 1834, probably in preparation for the treaty negotiations which were held at the Forks in that year. Read More

Hill House

Historic Hill House Museum

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  • 757-393-0241
  • 221 North St. Portsmouth, VA 23704

Built as a full English basement-style home and private residence in 1820, Hill House was home to three generations of the family.  In the 1960's, the home’s last occupant, Miss Evelyn Hill, donated property, including the house and its contents to the Portsmouth Historical Association. Read More

Agency House

Historic Indian Agency House

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  • 608-742-6362
  • 1490 Agency House Road, Portage, WI, USA

In 1832, a house was constructed at a dynamic crossroads of geography, culture, and history. It was a time of pivotal change, uncertainty, and critical decisions as decades of accumulating tensions came to a head, the consequences of which have reverberated through nearly two centuries. The house erected at the ancient travel corridor of the Fox-Wisconsin portage was the… Read More

Beal Mansion

Historic Mattie Beal Home

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  • 580-678-3156
  • 1008 Southwest 5th Street, Lawton, OK, USA

Your tour of the Mattie Beal Home will transport you back in time to the dynamic early years of the 20th century when both Oklahoma and the city of Lawton were born. In 1901 a spunky, gregarious young Kansas woman, Mattie Beal, registered for the Oklahoma land lottery. Mattie Beal was the second name drawn for the Lawton district… Read More

Hubble Trading Post

Hubbell Trading Post

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  • 928-755-3475
  • Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, Hwy. 191, Ganado, AZ, USA

Feel the old wooden floor give slightly and squeak beneath your feet as you enter the oldest, continuously operating trading post on the Navajo Nation. As your eyes adjust to the dim lighting of the "bullpen"" you might catch the trader negotiating a deal with a Native American artist for their art. You will experience history first hand at… Read More

Hulihe'e Palace

Hulihee Palace

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  • 808-329-1877
  • Hulihe‘e Palace, Kailua-Kona, HI, USA

The palace was originally built by High Chief, John Adams Kuakini, Governor of the island of Hawai‘i during the Kingdom of Hawai‘i, out of lava rock. The Palace features beautiful koa wood furniture, ornaments, portraits, tapa, feather work, Hawaiian quilts and artifacts from Hawaii’s royal past. Hulihe‘e Palace consists of six large graciously appointed rooms, two large inviting oceanfront… Read More

Jennie Wade House

Jennie Wade House

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  • 717-334-4100
  • 548 Baltimore Street, Gettysburg, PA, USA

The Jennie Wade house was actually the home of Jennie's sister, Georgia McClellan. The dwelling lived through the Battle of Gettysburg and witnessed the tragic death of Gettysburg civilian Jennie Wade, as she was preparing bread for the Union soldiers. This brick house was not a good spot to be in during the fighting as it was between both… Read More

Jerome State Historic Park

Jerome State Historic Park

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  • 928-634-5381
  • 100 Douglas Road, Jerome, AZ, USA

This historic house museum is devoted to the history of the Jerome area, mining, and the Douglas family. The museum features exhibits with historic photographs, artifacts, and minerals in addition to a video presentation and a 3-D model of the town with its underground mines. The Douglas library and upstairs bathroom are furnished as period rooms. An outside exhibit… Read More

Jesse James Home

Jesse James Home

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  • 816-232-8206
  • 1202 Penn Street, Saint Joseph, MO, USA

See the house where outlaw Jesse James was shot and killed by fellow gang member Bob Ford on April 3, 1882. Exhibits include artifacts from Jesse's grave. Located on the grounds of Patee House Museum. Read More

John Deere Historic Site

John Deere Historic Site

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  • 815-652-4551
  • 8334 S Clinton St, Dixon, Grand Detour, IL, USA

In 1836, John Deere, a blacksmith recently transplanted from Vermont, set up shop in the small Rock River town of Grand Detour, Illinois. The John Deere Historic Site features the home John Deere built, a gift shop, and an archaeological exhibit that shows the site of John Deere's original blacksmith shop. Read More

Leonis Adobe

Leonis Adobe Museum

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  • 818-222-6511
  • 23537 Calabasas Road, Calabasas, CA, USA

L.A. Historic Cultural Monument # 1. Built in the Monterey style in the 1840's, it was occupied by Miguel Leonis as early as the 1870's, one of the most colorful, influential and prominent figures of early Los Angeles. Also on the grounds is an barn built in 1912 as well as the Plummer House known as the "oldest house… 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

Lyman Mission House

Lyman Museum and Mission House

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  • 808-935-5021
  • 276 Haili Street, Hilo, HI, USA

In 1832, missionaries David and Sarah Lyman traveled by ship from New England to Hawai`i. They had been married for all of 24 days before leaving on the six-month voyage. In the late 1830s they built the Lyman House as a family home. The Hilo Boarding School, a school for young Hawaiian men founded by the Lymans, was built… Read More

LBJ National Historic Park

Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park

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  • 830-868-7128
  • Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, Park Road, Stonewall, TX, USA

Both the home where LBJ spent his boyhood, and his grandparents' home are open. 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

Old Swedes Church & Hendrickson House Museum

Old Swedes Church & Hendrickson House Museum

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  • 302-652-5629
  • 606 Church St, Wilmington, NC, USA

Built in 1690 by Andrew Hendrickson, a Swedish farmer who had settled near Chester, Pennsylvania. The house was moved to this site in 1958 and restored. Read More

Pendarvis

Pendarvis

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  • 608-987-2122
  • 114 Shakerag Street, Mineral Point, WI, USA

The picturesque cluster of stone buildings that make up Pendarvis Historic Site today were originally constructed by Cornish immigrants who immigrated to the area in the early 1800s. They were preserved through the efforts of life and business partners Bob Neal and Edgar Hellum. Read More

Poe Cottage

Poe Cottage

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  • 718-881-8900
  • 2640 Grand Concourse, The Bronx, NY, USA

Edgar Allan Poe spent the last years of his life, from 1846 to 1849, in The Bronx at Poe Cottage, now located at Kingsbridge Road and the Grand Concourse. A small wooden farmhouse built about 1812, the cottage once commanded unobstructed vistas over the rolling Bronx hills to the shores of Long Island. It was a bucolic setting in… Read More

Pope House

Pope House Museum

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  • 919-833-4633
  • 511 S Wilmington St, Raleigh, NC, USA

Built in 1901 by Dr. M.T. Pope, an important African American citizen of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Pope House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Read More

Raymond Museum

Raymond Museum,The Charles Miller House

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  • 559-689-1886
  • 31956 Road 608, Raymond, CA, USA

Board and batten house built for the station master and stage agent for Yosemite Stage and Southern Pacific Railroad, Charles Miller. The home is listed as a California Point of Historic Interest and contains all local historical items from photographs to artifacts relating to Yosemite travel, ranching, local granite quarries, the early railroad and the house's history. Also of… Read More

Reynolda

Reynolda House

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  • 336-758-5150
  • 2250 Reynolda Road, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

Discover Reynolda House, a National Historic Property and the centerpiece of the Reynolda Mile cultural corridor in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Explore the restored 1917 mansion of Katharine and R.J. Reynolds showcasing treasures of American art in both the historic house and new exhibition wing. Stroll landscaped grounds, formal and informal gardens, and wooded walking trails. 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

Rutherford Hayes Yates Home

Rutherford B. H. Yates Home

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  • 713-739-0163
  • 1314 Andrews Street, Houston, TX, USA

This graceful, single-story wood-frame house with a wraparound porch was built in 1912, for Rutherford Birchard Hayes Yates, Sr. (1878-1944). Rutherford was the son of Reverend John Henry (“Jack”) Yates, the first official pastor of the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, organized in 1866 for emancipated Blacks. Read More

Saint Gaudens

Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site

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  • 603-675-2175
  • 139 Saint Gaudens Road, Cornish, NH, USA

The 1885-1907 home and studio of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens originally was a country tavern built in the early 1800s. The house has formal gardens, a collection of horse drawn vehicles, and the original furnishings. Read More

Zanetta House

San Juan Bautista State Historic Park

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  • 831-623-4881
  • 2nd Street & Washington Street, San Juan Bautista, CA, USA

The park includes several structures built in the 1800s. The four main historic museums are the Plaza Hotel, the Zanetta House/Plaza Hall, the Plaza Stables, and the newly reopened Castro-Breen Adobe. Many of the interiors are arranged as furnished vignettes or with colorful and informative exhibits that help create a unique learning environment for people of all ages. The… Read More

Sand Point Lighthouse

Sand Point Lighthouse

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  • 906-789-6790
  • Sand Point Lighthouse, Water Plant Road, Escanaba, MI, USA

Sandpoint Lighthouse is open to the public and it includes the keeper's house which is furnished in period. Read More

Santarella

Santarella

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  • 413-243-2819
  • 75 Main Rd, Tyringham, MA, USA

The studio of sculptor Sir Henry Kitson features a roof that is an 80 ton sculpture of a thatched roof. Read More

Scotty's Castle

Scotty’s Castle

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  • 760-786-3200
  • Scotty's Castle, Scotty's Castle Road, California, USA

Hidden in the green oasis of Grapevine Canyon in far northern Death Valley, the Death Valley Ranch, or Scotty's Castle as it is more commonly known, is a window into the life and times of the Roaring 20's and Depression 30's. It was and is an engineer's dream home, a wealthy matron's vacation home and a man-of-mystery's hideout and… 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

Spring Hill

Spring Hill Historic Home

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  • 330-833-6749
  • 1401 Springhill Lane Northeast, Massillon, OH, USA

This home was built about 1821 and was a stop on the underground railroad. The grounds include herb and flower gardens, a smokehouse, springhouse, and other outbuildings. Read More

Stone House

Stone House

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  • 707-987-3138
  • 18174 Hidden Valley Road, Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA

The Stone House is Calif. State Historical Monument #450, as the oldest building in Lake County. It is a rather small (about 30x36' outside dimensions) cut stone (luppili tuff) house of five rooms. In addition to restoration and maintenance, the Stone House Historical Society has collected donated furnishings, all period pieces unfamiliar in contemporary homes but some common as… Read More

T.C. Steele House

T.C. Steele State Historic Site

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  • 812-988-2785
  • 4220 T C Steele Rd, Nashville, IN, USA

The T.C. Steele State Historic Site includes the last home and studio of Indiana artist Theodore Clement Steele (1847-1926) and his second wife Selma Neubacher Steele (1870-1945). Steele purchased the land that now comprises the T.C. Steele State Historic Site in early 1907. That spring, he built a home and brought a wife to what became known as the… Read More

Ten Chimneys

Ten Chimneys

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  • 262-968-4161
  • S43 W31575 Depot Road, Waukesha, WI, USA

Unique among historic sites, Ten Chimneys offers guests a virtually barrier-free tour of an estate replete with original furnishings and overflowing with the romance of the Golden Age of Theatre. Tour guests are placed in small groups and are led through the estate by highly-trained docents who share stories that interpret not only the objects and decor of the… 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

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

Baldwin House Museum

The Baldwin House

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  • 808-661-3262
  • Baldwin Home Museum, Dickenson Street, Lahaina, HI, USA

In 1834 construction began on the Baldwin Home and was completed in 1835. The thick walls were made of coral and stone. The structure was sturdy consisting of hand-hewn timbers. In 1840, a bedroom and study was added, and in 1849, an entire second story was completed. Read More

Poe House

The Baltimore Poe House and Museum

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  • 410-396-7932
  • 203 North Amity Street, Baltimore, MD, USA

The house was built around 1830 in what was then considered the country. The new Baltimore and Ohio train station had opened a few short blocks south of the Poe House in 1830. Read More

Chalet

The Chalet of the Golden Fleece

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  • 608-527-2614
  • 618 2nd Street, New Glarus, WI, USA

Visit the charming, Swiss Alps chalet-style home of Edwin Barlow, who brought the Wilhelm Tell play to America in 1938, and discover thousands of artifacts Barlow collected during his travels abroad in the early- to mid-20th century. Read More

Polson Museum

The Polson Museum

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  • 360-533-5862
  • 1611 Riverside Avenue, Hoquiam, WA, USA

Situated on nearly two acres of parkland, The Polson lies along the banks of the historic Hoquiam River. Extensive gardens, landscaping, and outdoor machinery displays complement the lovely mansion. Read More

Queen Emma's Summer Palace

The Queen Emma Summer Palace

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  • 808-595-3167
  • 2913 Pali Highway, Honolulu, HI, USA

Hānaiakamālama (The Southern Cross), or Queen Emma Summer Palace, served as a summer retreat for Queen Emma of Hawaii from 1857 to 1885, as well as for her husband King Kamehameha IV, and their son, Prince Albert Edward. It is a now a historic landmark, museum, and tourist site preserved by the Daughters of Hawai‘i. Read More

Rankin House

The Rankin House

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  • 937-392-1627
  • 6152 Rankin Road, Ripley, OH, USA

The Rankin House is a National Historic Landmark and Underground Railroad Station. The Rankin House, located on Liberty Hill which overlooks the Ohio River and Ripley, is one of the better known sites which assisted in the Underground Railroad efforts. Read More

Thunderbird-Lodge

Thunderbird Lodge (Whittell Mansion)

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  • 775-832-8750
  • 969 Tahoe Blvd, Incline Village, NV, USA

Using a California Gold Rush inheritance, enigmatic San Francisco bon vivant George Whittell Jr. constructed his Castle-in-the-Sky, Thunderbird Lodge, in the midst of a vast land holding spanning almost the entire length of Lake Tahoe's Nevada shoreline. Visitors tour the main house, the servants' quarters, the kitchen, a stone Card House perched above a crystal-clear lagoon, and a 600'… Read More

Ventfort

Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum

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  • 413-637-3206
  • 104 Walker St, Lenox, MA, USA

Ventfort Hall was the summer cottage of George and Sarah Morgan, sister of J.P. Morgan. It was constructed between 1891 and 1893.It is a Jacobean Revival style mansion. Designed by the architects Rotch & Tilden, it is located in Lenox, Massachusetts. The house has 28,000 square feet of living space in it, about 50 rooms. Read More

Villa Montalvo

Villa Montalvo

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  • 408-961-5800
  • 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga, CA, USA

Set on 175 stunning acres of open space with 2.5 miles of hiking trails in the midst of Silicon Valley, Montalvo Arts Center occupies a historic Mediterranean-style villa and hosts three performing arts venues, a 10-studio artist residency complex and a formal Italianate garden. Built in 1912 by Senator James Phelan, California's first elected senator, Montalvo was bequeathed by… Read More

Villa Philmonte

Villa Philmonte

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  • 575-376-2281
  • Villa Philmonté, Deer Run Road, Cimarron, NM, USA

The Villa Philmonte is Spanish Mediterranean in style with arches, a double courtyard, red tile roofs, etc. It was the summer home of Waite and Genevieve Phillips who gave it, along with 127,500 acres of land, to the Boy Scouts of America in 1941. The Villa (28,000 sq. ft. in size) sits at the foot of the Rocky Mountains… Read More

Wai'oli Mission House

Wai‘oli Mission House

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  • 808-245-3202
  • Waiʻoli Mission House, Kuhio Highway, Hanalei, HI, USA

Located in the heart of Hanalei, this mission house dates back to 1837 and provides people today a chance to see how the early Christian missionaries lived. The missionaries first arrived in Hanalei on the island of Kauai in 1832 to convert the natives to Christianity. Read More

Wilson Place

Wilson Place Mansion

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  • 715-235-2283
  • 101 Wilson Court, Menomonie, WI, USA

Home of the Wilson, Stout and LaPointe families, three generations of Menomonie founding families, the Wilson Place Mansion has a history as rich and colorful as that of Menomonie and Dunn County. Built-in 1859 by Captain William Wilson, it was originally a large colonial-style house with a pillared porch. Captain Wilson, was a principal in the Knapp, Stout &… Read More

Winterthur

Winterthur

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  • 302-888-4600
  • 5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, DE, USA

Founded by Henry Francis du Pont, Winterthur (pronounced “winter-tour”) is the premier museum of American decorative arts, reflecting both early America and the du Pont family’s life here. Its 60-acre naturalistic garden is among the country’s best, and its research library serves scholars from around the world. We invite you to visit and explore this place of beauty, history,… Read More

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