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Harlow House

Harlow House

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  • 508-746-12
  • 119 Sandwich Street, Plymouth, MA, USA

Built in 1677, the gambrel-roofed Harlow Old Fort House is one of the few remaining 17th century buildings in the oldest established town in the Commonwealth. It was originally the family residence of settler William Harlow, a farmer, cooper and town official, who also served as sergeant of the local militia and participated in King Philip's War. In 1676,… Read More

Harn Homestead

Harn Homestead Museum

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  • 405-235-4058
  • 1721 N Lincoln Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

At first, Mr. and Mrs. Harn lived in a one-room house on the property. Mrs. Harn wanted to return to Ohio to her family but Mr. Harn said that if she would stay in Oklahoma, he would build her any house she wanted in the National Builders Supplement catalogue, a Sears & Roebuck company. She chose a Victorian, Queen… Read More

Harper House

Harper House/Hickory History Center

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  • 828-324-7294

The Harper House, built in 1887, is a Queen Anne Victorian Mansion that has been meticulously restored and furnished. The North Carolina Department of Archives states that the Harper House has the "finest Queen Anne interior styling in the entire state." The home now serves as a historic house museum and is open for tours. Also on the property… Read More

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

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  • 860-522-9258
  • 77 Forest St, Hartford, CT, USA

A visit to the Stowe Center begins with the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, a charming Victorian Gothic Revival home (1871), and includes Victorian-style gardens, the Katharine Seymour Day House (1884), a grand mansion adjacent to the Stowe House and the Stowe Visitor Center (1873), with changing exhibitions and the museum store. Read More

Harriet Beecher Stowe House

Harriet Beecher Stowe House

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  • 513-751-651
  • 2950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, USA

The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is operated as an historical and cultural site, focusing on Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The site also includes a look into the family, friends, and colleagues of the Beecher-Stowe family, Lane Seminary, and the abolitionist, rights and Underground Railroad movements in which these historical figures participated in the 1830's to… Read More

Harris Lass House

Harris – Lass House Museum

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  • 408-249-7905
  • 1889 Market Street, Santa Clara, CA, USA

It is the last farm site in the city of Santa Clara and is named for the two families who owned and lived on the property for 125 years. The museum consists of the house, a classic California barn, summer kitchen, tank house and landscaped gardens. The house was built in 1865 in the Italianate style — balanced and… 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

Harrington House

Harriton House

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  • 610-525-201
  • 500 Harriton Road, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA

Charles Thomson, the first and only Secretary to the Continental and Confederation Congresses, was Harriton's most famous occupant. Yet the story of this house and estate encompasses more than 300 years, beginning with the settlement of "Merion" by Welsh Quakers. Today, the restored 1704 house and large park are open to the public as an historical and cultural resource… Read More

Leu Gardens

Harry P. Leu Gardens

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  • 407-246-2620
  • 1920 North Forest Avenue, Orlando, FL, USA

The Leu House Museum is a restored 19th century home listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Four families owned the property before it opened to the public. Leu Gardens demonstrates plant materials suitable for cultivation in USDA Zone 9b. The climate of Central Florida permits Leu Gardens to grow and enjoy a wide array of temperate and… Read More

Harry S. Truman Birthplace

Harry S. Truman Birthplace

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  • 417-682-2279

Visitors can view the small frame house where the future president was born, and see furnishings that reflect what a house in western Missouri would have looked like during the time Truman lived in the house. Read More

Harry S. Truman Historic Site

Harry S. Truman NHS

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  • 816-254-9929
  • 219 N Delaware St, Independence, MO, USA

The Victorian house was the home of President and Mrs. Truman from their marriage in 1919 to their deaths. The house still contains their furnishings and other possessions. Read More

Hart House

Hart House and Gardens

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  • 860-395-1635
  • 350 Main Street, Old Saybrook, CT, USA

Built more than two centuries ago in 1767 for his bride, Esther Buckingham, the General William Hart house is one of the earliest houses in Saybrook, the first settlement on the southern shore of Connecticut. Read More

Hart-Cluett House

Hart-Cluett House

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  • 518-272-7232
  • 59 2nd Street, Troy, NY, USA

Amid the 19th century rowhouses in the Second Street Historic District in downtown Troy sits a white marble house, completed in 1827, just as Troy was beginning its shift from a commercial to an industrial economy base. The Hart-Cluett House, as it is known today, was constructed for a businessman-banker’s family, the Harts, and sold six decades later to… Read More

Phelps-Hatheway

Hatheway House

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  • 203-247-8996
  • 55 South Main Street, Suffield, CT, USA

Shaded by a 300-year-old sycamore tree, the Hatheway House provides a glimpse of 18th century life. The main block of the house was built in the 1760s by Shem Burbank for his bride. Here they raised a large family until financial reverses forced the sale of the property to Oliver Phelps, a prosperous land speculator. To reflect his increasing… Read More

Hawken House

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  • 314-968-1857

This beautiful two story Federal style home sits in Southwest Park in Webster Groves Missouri. The home was built in 1857 by Christopher Hawken for his wife, Mary Ann Eads and features period furnishings. Christopher's father, Jacob, developed the Hawken rifle. The Hearth Room is also on premise and can be rented for weddings, receptions and business functions. Read More

Hayes

Hayes Presidential Center

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  • 419-332-2081
  • Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, Spiegel Grove, Fremont, OH, USA

The Rutherford B. Hayes Home is a 31-room mansion and centerpiece of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont, Ohio. Rutherford B. Hayes' uncle and guardian, Sardis Birchard, constructed the original portion of the home between 1859 and 1863 as a summer home he could share with his nephew and young family. Construction took five years because materials… Read More

Hazelwood Historic House

Hazelwood Historial House Museum

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  • 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

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

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

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

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

Hearthstone

Hearthstone Historic House Museum

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  • 920-730-8204
  • 625 W Prospect Ave, Appleton, WI, USA

Hearthstone Historic House was the first private residence anywhere in the world to be illuminated using hydroelectricity from a central Edison system. The switch was thrown on September 30, 1882 only two weeks after the first-ever Edison central station, which was powered by steam, was operational in New York City. Read More

Hedge House

Hedge House

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  • 508-746-12
  • 126 Water Street, Plymouth, MA, USA

The 1809 Hedge House is one of Plymouth's finest examples of Federal period architecture, featuring octagonal rooms in the mainblock, and a rare, intact carriage house. Built by sea captain William Hammatt, the house was originally located on Court St., where Memorial Hall is today. In 1830, merchant Thomas Hedge purchased the house and added a three-story ell to… Read More

Carus Mansion

Hegeler Carus Mansion

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  • 815-224-6543
  • 1307 7th Street, La Salle, IL, USA

Completed in 1876, this stately Second Empire masterpiece is a National Landmark. Designed by W. W. Boyington, architect of the famous Chicago Water Tower, the structure remains virtually unaltered. 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

Joshua Hempsted House

Hempsted Houses

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  • 860-443-7949
  • 11 Hempstead Street, New London, CT, USA

The Hempsted Houses comprises two buildings: the 1678 Joshua Hempsted House and the 1759 Nathaniel Hempsted House. The Joshua Hempsted House is a frame building and is one of New England’s oldest and best-documented dwellings. Joshua Hempsted lived here his whole life, filling many roles, including farmer, judge, gravestone carver, shipwright, and father of nine children left motherless by… Read More

Henderson Hall

Henderson Hall

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  • 304-375-2129
  • 517 River Rd, Williamstown, WV, USA

Henderson Hall offers an unprecedented untouched view of the early American Victorian Era. This elegant 8,000 square foot pre-Civil War Italianate mansion boasts 29 rooms as a centerpiece of a 2,600 acre plantation, horse breeding farm and river port. Spanning six generations and 200 years, the Henderson family homestead features original furnishings from the frontier life of the 1700s… Read More

Greenfield Village

Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village

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  • 313-982-6001
  • 20900 Oakwood Blvd, Dearborn, MI, USA

Spread over 81 acres are some 80 historic homes, workplaces, and community buildings moved to the site from all over the U.S. Read More

Olverhoser Mansion

Henry Overholser Mansion

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  • 405-525-5325
  • 405 Northwest 15th Street, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

Completed in 1903 for one of Oklahoma City's truly remarkable figures, the Overholser Mansion is a glimpse back in time to the life of the man most responsible for the thriving city we know today. The three-story chateauesque home showcases original furnishings, stained glass and ornate canvas painted walls. Preserved to honor the "Spirit of the 1889'ers Read More

Sheldon Museum

Henry Sheldon Museum

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  • 802-388-2117
  • Park Street, Middlebury, VT, USA

Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, also known as the Sheldon Museum, is a history museum in Middlebury, Vermont created by Henry Sheldon in 1882 focusing on his private collections and the history of the state of Vermont, US. It is located in the 1829 Judd-Harris House, a three-story brick Federal house, which showcases much of the museum's collections,… 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

Heritage Farmstead

Heritage Farmstead Museum

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  • 972-881-140
  • 1900 West 15th Street, Plano, TX, USA

The Heritage Farmstead Museum, located in the heart of Plano, is the premier North Texas museum interpreting farm life and agricultural history. Step back in time to the 1890s to see what life was like for the North Texas farmer. The beautifully groomed 4 acres hosts our Nationally Accredited Landmark Museum, which includes the historic Farrell-Wilson Home, the Young… Read More

Harvey Bennett Ranch House

Heritage Hill Historical Park

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  • 949-923-2230
  • 25151 Serrano Road, Lake Forest, CA, USA

Heritage Hill Historical Park is composed of 4.1 acres, four historic buildings and associated structures for maintenance and public restrooms. The fully restored and furnished historic buildings span the early history of the Saddleback Valley and El Toro area from the Mexican Rancho era (Serrano Adobe, circa 1863), to the founding of the town of El Toro (El Toro… Read More

Cotton House

Heritage Hill State Historical Park

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  • 920-448-5150
  • 2640 S Webster Ave, Green Bay, WI, USA

A complex of furnished historical buildings is grouped in four theme areas. Historic homes included are the 1762 fur trader's cabin, 1776 Tank Cottage, 1842 Beupre Place, and a Belgian farmhouse. Read More

Heritage House

Heritage House

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  • 951-826-5273
  • 3580 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, USA

Owned by the Museum of Riverside, this elegant 1891 Victorian home imagines life in turn-of-the-20th-century Riverside. It's a reminder of the affluent homes that once graced Magnolia Avenue. Heritage House began as a project of the Riverside Museum Associates, a volunteer support group of the Museum of Riverside. Restored and maintained in a manner reflective of its nineteenth-century construction,… 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

Heritage House Victorian Museum

Heritage House Victorian Museum

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  • 507-286-9208
  • Heritage House Victorian Museum

Heritage House Victorian Museum located in Central Park records the life of a middle class Midwestern family of the late 1800s. Read More

Kellog House

Heritage Museum of Orange County

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  • 714-540-404
  • 3010 West Harvard Street, Santa Ana, CA, USA

The Heritage Museum of Orange County is a cultural and natural history center dedicated to providing hands-on educational programs that emphasizw history, heritage, and diversity of Orange County and California. The Museum is also committed to preserving and restoring the historic buildings and artifacts that have been entrusted to our care. Read More

Heritage Square Museum

Heritage Square Museum

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  • 323-225-2700
  • 3800 Homer Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA

The eight historic structures located at the museum, constructed during the Victorian Era, were saved from demolition and serve as a perfect background to educate the public about Southern California's early development. From the simplicity of the Octagon House to the opulence of the Perry Mansion, the Museum provides a unique look at the lifestyles of the people who… Read More

Hermann-Grima House

Hermann-Grima House

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  • 504-525-5661
  • 820 Saint Louis Street, New Orleans, LA, USA

Built in 1831, by a German Jewish immigrant, Samuel Hermann, who amassed his fortune in the cotton market, Hermann-Grima House is one of the most significant residences in New Orleans. This handsome Federal mansion with its courtyard garden boasts the only horse stable and functional 1830s outdoor kitchen in the French Quarter. The outdoor hearth kitchen, with its view… Read More

Heurich House

Heurich House Museum

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  • 202-429-1894
  • 1307 New Hampshire Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

The Heurich mansion was built in 1892-4 for German-American immigrant Christian Heurich (1842-1945), whose brewery was the largest in DC and a household name. It is the city's best-preserved example of Richardsonian Romanesque residential architecture and one of the most landmarked interiors in DC. The mansion incorporated many technological advancements, including metal speaking tubes, electric lighting, burglar alarms, and… 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

Heyward-Washington House

Heyward-Washington House

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  • 843-722-2996
  • 87 Church Street, Charleston, SC, USA

Built in 1772, this Georgian-style double house was the town home of Thomas Heyward, Jr., one of four South Carolina signers of the Declaration of Independence. The property features the only 1740s kitchen building open to the public in Charleston as well as formal gardens featuring plants commonly used in the South Carolina Lowcountry in the late 18th century. Read More

Highfield Hall

Highfield Hall

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  • 508-495-1878
  • 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA, USA

Highfield Hall is an 1878 Cape Cod summer mansion that has undergone a multi-million restoration and is now being used as a community cultural center. Read More

Hildene

Hildene

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  • 800·578·1788
  • 1005 Hildene Road, Manchester, VT, USA

Robert Lincoln and his wife, Mary, built this Georgian Revival mansion in 1905 in the scenic village of Manchester. It became home to only Lincoln descendants until 1975, longer than any other Lincoln residence. Read More

Hill-Stead

Hill-Stead Museum

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  • 860-677-4787
  • 36 Mountain Road, Windsor, CT, USA

The 152-acre property features an Arts and Crafts carriage barn and theater, stone garages, woodland trails, a pond and dairy complex, and a Sunken Garden designed by Beatrix Farrand c. 1920. Read More

Hillforest

Hillforest

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  • 812-926-87
  • 213 5th Street, Aurora, IN, USA

Hillforest, overlooking the Ohio River, was the home of industrialist and financier Thomas Gaff and his family between 1855 and 1891. Shipping and riverboats were significant elements of the Gaff business and are reflected in the architecture of the home. Note the third floor belvedere resembling a pilot house. The style is Italian Renaissance, completely symmetrical and characterized by… Read More

Hills and Dales

Hills & Dales Estate

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  • 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

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

Adams House

Historic Adams House

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  • 605-578-3724
  • 22 Van Buren Street, Deadwood, SD, USA

The meticulously restored 1892 Queen Anne-style home with original contents chronicles Deadwood's transition from a raucous mining camp into a prosperous and technologically rich city. Discover the triumphs and tragedies of two of Deadwood's founding families. Read More

Historic Arkansas Museum

Historic Arkansas Museum

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  • 501-324-9351
  • 200 East 3rd Street, Little Rock, AR, USA

The historical museum is comprised of 13 buildings, including the Conway House, the 1820 Hinderliter House, the Noland House, and the 1824 Woodruff House. Read More

Groundie House

Historic Bethlehem

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  • 610-882-450
  • 505 Main St, Bethlehem, PA, USA

Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites proudly preserves 20 historic sites, working tirelessly to restore, educate, and learn all we can about these beautiful buildings and their storied pasts 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

Carnton

Historic Carnton Plantation

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  • 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

Sixberry House

Historic Charlton Park

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  • 269-945-3775
  • 2545 S Charlton Park Rd, Hastings, MI, USA

The complex has 16 buildings in its recreated village, some original and others reconstructions. They are furnished in period. Read More

Spicer-Leaming House

Historic Cold Spring Village

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  • 609-898-2300
  • Historic Cold Spring Village, Seashore Road, Cape May, NJ, USA

Located in one of the great Victorian destination cities in the U.S., this museum features 20 restored buildings that represent a mid 1800s southern New Jersey village. Read More

Daniel Boone Home

Historic Daniel Boone Home & Heritage Center

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  • 636-798-2005
  • 1868 Highway F, Defiance, MO, USA

The Daniel Boone Home is nestled upon the rolling hills of wine country and overlooks the Femme Osage Valley. This beautiful setting represents life in the early 1800’s from its adventures to its lifelong struggles. The Boone Home brings the legacy of Daniel Boone to life. Within the thick limestone walls, stories of a daring man offer a glimpse… Read More

Deepwood Estate

Historic Deepwood Estate

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  • 503-363-1825
  • 1116 Mission Street Southeast, Salem, OR, USA

Historic Deepwood Estate is an 1894 Queen Anne Victorian Home situated on approximately 4 acres of manicured gardens and nature trails set in the heart of Salem near its downtown core. The home was placed on the National Register of Historic Homes in 1973. The museum is operated by the Friends of Deepwood, a non-profit organization created to disseminate… Read More

Frary House

Historic Deerfield

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  • 413-774-5581
  • 80 Old Main Street, Deerfield, MA, USA

Historic Deerfield Inc., founded in 1952, is an outdoor history museum that focuses on the history and culture of the Connecticut River Valley and early New England. It has a dual mission of educating the public about the lifestyles of the diverse people who lived here long ago and of preserving antique buildings and collections of regional furniture, silver,… Read More

Fayette

Historic Fayette Townsite

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  • 906-644-2603
  • Fayette Historic State Park, II Road, Garden, MI, USA

This preserved ghost town was founded in 1866 by Jackson Iron Co manager Fayette Brown. The town thrived while there was iron to smelt, but it was abandoned in 1891. 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

Fort Logan

Historic Fort Logan

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  • 303-789-3568
  • 3742 West Princeton Circle, Denver, CO, USA

The Field Officer's quarters is being restored to its original 1889 appearance. Read More

Governor's Mansion

Historic Governors’ Mansion

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  • 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

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

Hixon House

Historic Hixon House Museum

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  • 602-782-1980
  • 429 7th St N, La Crosse, WI, USA

Historic Hixon House was built in 1858 by pioneer Gideon Hixon, who went on to become a wealthy lumber baron in La Crosse. He and his wife Ellen raised their five sons in this home and expanded it to the size it is today. The family had for many years retained the home in close to the same state… Read More

Hope Plantation

Historic Hope Plantation

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  • 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

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

Kenmore

Historic Kenmore

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  • 540-373-3381
  • 1201 Washington Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA, USA

Historic Kenmore is a beautiful, Georgian-style brick mansion built by George Washington's sister, Betty Washington Lewis, and her husband, Fredericksburg merchant Fielding Lewis, reflecting their pre-Revolutionary War wealth and gentry status. Read More

Lyme Village

Historic Lyme Village

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  • 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

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

Steuben House

Historic New Bridge Landing

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  • 201-487-1739
  • 1209 Main St, River Edge, NJ, USA

New Bridge served as a battleground, fort, encampment ground, military headquarters, and intelligence-gathering post in every year of the American Revolution. The Steuben House is the only extant building from the 1776 Retreat through Bergen County. For 2 weeks in 1780, the Steuben House was Washington's HQ and it has been the Bergen County Historical Society's HQ since 1939.… Read More

Historic Odessa

Historic Odessa Foundation

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  • 302-378-4119
  • 201 Main Street, Odessa, DE, USA

Welcome to the tranquil village of Odessa, in colonial times, a busy grain shipping port known as Cantwell's Bridge. The Corbit-Sharp House, furnished for the late 18th century period, is a historic house museum that is owned and operated by the Foundation. Other properties managed by the organization include the 1769 Wilson-Warner House, 1700 Collins-Sharp House, 1822 Cantwell's Tavern,… Read More

Ramsey House

Historic Ramsey House

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  • 865-546-745
  • 2614 Thorngrove Pike, Knoxville, TN, USA

Ramsey House was built in 1797 by Knoxville's first builder, Thomas Hope, for Francis Alexander Ramsey. The home is constructed of Tennessee pink marble and blue limestone. It was known at that time as the finest home in Tennessee. The structure is significant for its original interior and exterior architectural features and its period decorative art collection. Read More

Barton House

Historic Richmond Town

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  • 718-351-1611
  • 441 Clarke Avenue, Staten Island, NY, USA

The village area occupies 25 acres of a 100-acre site with about 15 restored buildings, including homes and commercial and civic buildings, as well as a museum. Read More

Rock Castle

Historic Rock Castle

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  • 615-824-502
  • 139 Rock Castle Court, Hendersonville, TN, USA

Home of Gen. Daniel Smith, a U.S. Senator and the surveyor who drew the first map of Tennessee. Read More

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Historic Rock Ford

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  • 717-392-7223
  • 811 Rockford Rd, Lancaster, PA, USA

Home of General Edward Hand, Adjutant General to George Washington during the American Revolution. Read More

Historic Rosedale Plantation

Historic Rosedale Plantation

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  • 704-335-0325

Rosedale was built in 1815 by Archibald Frew, a merchant, postmaster and tax collector. The home was locally known as “Frew’s Folly" because he spared no expense constructing the plantation that became a jewel of the Carolinas. The extravagant 4600 square foot home once sat on 919 acres. Historic Rosedale Plantation is now the glistening focal point of the… Read More

Historic Rugby

Historic Rugby

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  • 423-628-2441
  • 1331 Rugby Pkwy, Rugby, TN, USA

An English Settlement dating back to the 1880s. Visitors can learn from interpretive exhibits that trace the town's history and tour Victorian buildings. The first weekend in August is the Prilgrimage of Homes when some of the private homes are also open. Read More

Smithfield

Historic Smithfield

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  • 540-231-3947
  • 1000 Smithfield Plantation Rd, Blacksburg, VA, USA

Built on the edge of the frontier wilderness, Smithfield offered a last vestige of civilization as frontiersman traveled west. The sophistication and generous scale of the architecture recalls many of the plantation homes in Tidewater. Read More

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Historic Washington State Park

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  • 870-983-2684

An important stop on the Southwest Trail, James Bowie, Sam Houston, and Davy Crockett famously traveled through here. James Black, a local blacksmith, actually forged the legendary Bowie knife. From 1863-1865, it served as the Confederate capital of Arkansas. The 1874 Courthouse serves as the park visitor center. Start there, and continue to the Blacksmith Shop, Weapons Museum, Print… Read More

Hill House at San Jose History Park

History Park at Kelley Park

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  • 408-287-2290
  • 1650 Senter Road, San Jose, CA, USA

With 27 original and reproduction homes, businesses and landmarks History Park highlights Santa Clara Valley's past. Complete with paved streets, running trolleys and a cafe, this 14-acre site has the charm and ambiance of times gone by. The VPA's project, the Hill House, can be toured. Read More

Hiwan Heritage Park

Hiwan Homestead Museum

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  • 720-497-7650
  • 4208 Timbervale Drive, Evergreen, CO, USA

Hiwan Homestead Museum is a 25-room log mansion built in the Rustic architectural style between 1893 and 1942. Known as Camp Neosho by the Douglas family from 1893 to 1939, the site was renamed the Hiwan Ranch by the second owners, the Buchanan family. Purchased by Jefferson County Open Space Department in 1974, the Museum opened in 1975 and… Read More

Hollyhock House

Hollyhock House

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  • 323-644-6269
  • Hollyhock House, Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Hollyhock House is Wright's first Los Angeles project. Built between 1919 and 1921, it represents his earliest efforts to develop a regionally appropriate style of architecture for Southern California. Wright himself referred to it as California Romanza, using a musical term meaning "freedom to make one's own form""." Read More

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Holmes-Hendrickson House

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  • 732-462-1466
  • 62 Longstreet Road, Holmdel, NJ, USA

This original home is a combination of Georgian and Dutch vernacular architecture that borrowed cultural and architectural elements from both Dutch and English settlers. William Holmes, the youngest son of Jonathan Holmes and Teuntje Hendrickson, purchased land from his parents in 1752. During the brief time he owned the land, William built the house in 1754 in addition to… Read More

Home of FDR

Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt NHS

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  • 845-229-9115
  • 4097 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY, USA

The Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site contains "Springwood", the lifelong home of America's only 4-term President. Also on the site is the Presidential Library and Museum, operated by the National Archives. Visitors may enjoy a guided tour of FDR's home, take a self-guided tour of the Museum and stroll the grounds, gardens, and trails of this… Read More

Homestead Prairie

Homestead Prairie Farm

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  • 217-423-7708
  • 3939 Nearing Lane, Decatur, IL, USA

Joseph Trobaugh from Tennessee, his wife Elizabeth born in Illinois and their family were the first known occupants of the house and owned it from 1853 to 1866. Trobaugh was a farmer and sawmill operator. He changed the house by adding rooms and making other renovations. Emanuel Good, a Civil War veteran, along with his wife and children were… 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

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

Hoover Historical Center

Hoover Historical Center

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  • 330-490-7435
  • 1875 East Maple Street, North Canton, OH, USA

The Hoover Historical Center is the Victorian boyhood home of Hoover Company founder, William H. Hoover. The Center is located inside Walsh University's Hoover Park in North Canton (originally called New Berlin) on original Hoover family farmland. Guided tours begin in a modest 1840s building that served as home for the Hoover family in 1852 until they constructed their… Read More

Hopsewee Plantation

Hopsewee Plantation

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  • 843-546-7891
  • 494 Hopsewee Rd, Georgetown, SC, USA

Built circa 1740, some 40 years before the American Revolutionary War, Hopsewee Plantation was one of the South's major rice plantations and the birthplace of Thomas Lynch, Jr., one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Read More

Horatio Colony

Horatio Colony House Museum

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  • 603-352-460
  • 199 Main Street, Keene, NH, USA

A totally intact old New England family home representing three generations over a span of 130 years, with original furnishing and decorative arts from around the world. Read More

Hormell Historic Home

Hormel Historic Home

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  • 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

Hotchkiss

Hotchkiss-Fyler House Museum

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  • 860-482-8260
  • 192 Main St, Torrington, CT, USA

Perhaps most impressive to visitors is the quantity and quality of the millwork that can be seen throughout this residence. Built by the Hotchkiss Brothers Company (the family business), the house was obviously a showpiece for the firm. Mahogany, birds-eye maple, quarter-sawn oak and red birch are just a few of the types of wood used in the house.… Read More

Howard Steamboat Museum

Howard Steamboat Museum

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  • 812-283-3728
  • 1101 East Market Street, Jeffersonville, IN, USA

This beautiful 1894 home, built by premier steamboat builders, the Howards of Jeffersonville, features original furnishings, brass chandeliers, stained glass windows, and intricate carvings throughout and even a grand staircase! Master craftsmen from the shipyard created much of the decor in the mansion. Howard built steamboats included the luxurious J.M. White, the speedy City of Louisville and the popular… Read More

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Howe-Waffle House and Carriage House

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  • 714-547-9645
  • 702 North Bush Street, Santa Ana, CA, USA

The museum is owned and managed by the Santa Ana Historical Preservation Society and represents the life and work of Dr. Willela Howe-Waffle, one of Southern California's first woman physicians. Read More

Hower House

Hower House

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

Hower House is a Second Empire Italianate structure, built in 1871 by Akron Industrialist, John Henry Hower and his wife, Susan Youngker Hower. 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

Hoyt Sherman

Hoyt Sherman Place

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  • 512-244-507
  • 1501 Woodland Ave, Des Moines, IA, USA

Nestled on the eastern edge of the historic Sherman Hill district in Des Moines, Iowa, Hoyt Sherman Place boasts one of Des Moines' most magnificent entertainment, banquet and meeting facilities. Built in 1877 by prominent pioneer businessman Hoyt Sherman, the elegant family home is graced with marble fireplaces, parquet floors and a carved mahogany entryway. Expanded over the years,… 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

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