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Fort Hill

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  • 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

Fort Rock

Fort Rock Valley Historical Homestead Museum

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  • 541-576-2251
  • 64696 Fort Rock Road, Fort Rock, OR, USA

A group of eastern Oregon homestead homes, church, and school buildings assembled in a village setting, with furnishing from that era. Read More

Fort St. Joseph Museum

Fort St. Joseph Museum

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  • 269-845-4054
  • 508 East Main Street, Niles, MI, USA

The Fort St. Joseph Museum is located in the former carriage house of the beautiful Victorian period Chapin Mansion. The museum tells the story of Niles from its colonial start in 1691 to the present. Featured exhibits portray the history of Fort St. Joseph, built by the French in 1691, the story of the Underground Railroad in southern Michigan,… Read More

Fort Winnebago

Fort Winnebago Surgeons Quarters

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  • 608-742-2949
  • 1824 State Highway 33, Portage, WI, USA

Fort Winnebago Surgeons Quarters is a nationally-registered historic site and museum located in Portage, Wisconsin, and owned and operated by the Wisconsin Society Daughters of the American Revolution. The site features two historic buildings: the Surgeons Quarters, where the U.S. Army Surgeons of Fort Winnebago resided from 1834 to 1854, and the Garrison School, a one-room schoolhouse that served… Read More

Fosterfields

Fosterfields Living Historical Farm

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  • 973-326-7645
  • 73 Kahdena Rd, Morristown, NJ, USA

General Joseph Warren Revere, grandson of Paul Revere, bought the property in the mid-1800s and built the impressive Gothic Revival home, The Willows. Charles Foster purchased the farm in 1881, changing its name to Fosterfields, and it was here that Caroline Foster lived 98 of her 102 years. As she wished, Fosterfields offers an incomparable opportunity to experience our… Read More

Four Mile House

Four Mile Historic Park

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  • 720-865-800
  • 715 South Forest Street, Denver, CO, USA

Nestled on the banks of Cherry Creek, the Four Mile House was the last stop coming west to Denver along the Cherokee Trail. It was a welcome site for the weary travelers, a place to wash off the trail dust, have a drink of cool fresh water, find a home-cooked meal, or spend the night before heading in to… Read More

Fraces Willard House

Frances Willard House Museum

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  • 847-328-7500
  • 1730 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL, USA

Built in 1865, and patterned after a design by Andrew J. Downing, this Evanston house was home to Frances Willard (1839-1898). Both author and activist, Frances Willard lived and worked in this house during the years of her presidency of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). For many of those years, the house also served as an informal national… Read More

Costigan House

Francis Costigan House

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  • 812-265-2967

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

Francis Wyman House

Francis Wyman House

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  • 56 Francis Wyman Road, Burlington, MA, USA

The Francis Wyman house is a historic house in Burlington, MA. The original part of the house was built in 1666 with a major addition around 1730. Read More

Frank House

Frank House

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  • 308-865-8284
  • 2010 University Drive, Kearney, NE, USA

The Frank's 1889 mansion is built of Colorado red sandstone in Richardsonian Romanesque style and contains one of the largest stained glass windows Tiffany designed for a residence. It features hand carved Golden English Oak, a grand staircase and seven of its original ten fireplaces. The Frank House was the first house in Nebraska to be wired during construction… Read More

FLW Home and Studio

Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio

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  • 708-848-1976
  • 951 Chicago Avenue, Oak Park, IL, USA

The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio (1889/1898) served as Wright's private residence and workplace from 1889 to 1909—the first 20 years of his career. Wright used his home as an architectural laboratory, experimenting with design concepts that contain the seeds of his architectural philosophy. Here he raised six children with his first wife, Catherine Tobin. Read More

Taliesin

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin

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  • 608-588-7900
  • 5607 County Road C, Spring Green, WI, USA

Once FLW's Wisconsin home and studio. Read More

Frank-Phillips House

Frank Phillips Home

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  • 918-336-2491
  • 1107 Southeast Cherokee Avenue, Bartlesville, OK, USA

This beautiful 26-room mansion was built by Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum Company. Guided tours of the home are given daily Wednesday through Saturday. Visitors will take a step back in time as their tour guides tell the story of the oil boom days of Bartlesville, the Phillips family, and point out the elegant original furnishings of the… Read More

Franklin House

Franklin House

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  • 740-772-1936
  • 80 South Paint Street, Chillicothe, OH, USA

The Franklin House, designed by Frank Packard, was built in 1907 and donated to the Ross County Historical Society in 1972. The house is dedicated to preserving the history of women in Ross County and features changing exhibits of nineteenth and twentieth century clothing and accessories, coverlets, quilts and linens and furniture as well as other household items. A… Read More

Pierce Homestead

Franklin Pierce Homestead State Historic Site

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  • 603-478-3165
  • Franklin Pierce Homestead State Historic Site, 2nd New Hampshire Turnpike, Hillsboro, NH, USA

Franklin Pierce Homestead is operated by the Hillsborough Historical Society, is the boyhood home of America's fourteenth president and is a spacious and beautiful, federal style country home. Built by Pierce's father in 1804, it reflects the gracious and affluent living of the nineteenth century. A ballroom, which extends the entire length of the second floor, was used for… Read More

Fraunces Tavern Museum

Fraunces Tavern Museum

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  • 212-425-1778
  • 54 Pearl Street, New York, NY, USA

Built in 1719 as an elegant residence for the merchant Stephan Delancey and his family, in 1762 the home was purchased by tavern-keeper Samuel Fraunces, who turned it into one of the most popular taverns of the day. Though it is best known as the site where Washington gave his farewell address to the officers of the Continental Army,… 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

Cedar Hill

Frederic Douglass National Historic Site

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  • 202-426-5961
  • 1411 West Street Southeast, Washington, DC, USA

Frederick Douglass spent his life fighting for justice and equality. Born into slavery in 1818, he escaped as a young man and became a leading voice in the abolitionist movement. People everywhere still find inspiration today in his tireless struggle, brilliant words, and inclusive vision of humanity. Douglass's legacy is preserved here at Cedar Hill, where he lived his… Read More

Robie House

Frederick C. Robie House

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  • 708-848-1976
  • 5757 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA

The Robie House on the University of Chicago campus is considered one of the most important buildings in the history of American architecture. It was created by Frank Lloyd Wright for his client Frederick C. Robie, a forward-thinking businessman. Designed in Wright's Oak Park studio in 1908 and completed in 1910, the building is both a masterpiece of the… Read More

Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted NHS

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  • 617-566-1689
  • 99 Warren Street, Brookline, MA, USA

The designer of New York City's Central Park, (as well as San Jose's downtown park, although FLO's design has been lost) worked and lived in this house from 1883 until he retired a decade later. The 2 acre estate reflects his design principle that nature and buildings can exist in harmony. Read More

Arboretum

Frelinghuysen Arboretum

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  • 973-326-7601
  • 353 East Hanover Avenue, Morristown, NJ, USA

The 127 acre preserve features with formal gardens and naturalized plantings. The Colonial Revival mansion serves as the headquarters for the Morris County Park Commission and is open to the public. Read More

Fresno Flats

Fresno Flats Historic Village and Park

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  • 559-683-6570
  • Fresno Flats Historical Village & Park, High School Road, Oakhurst, CA, USA

Fresno Flats Historic Village and Park recaptures the flavor of 19th Century life in the Sierra Nevada foothills and mountains of Central California. Eastern Madera County is the southern end of the historic Mother Lode gold fields, but the people who settled here came not so much for gold but more to build their lives and raise their families,… Read More

Fulton Mansion

Fulton Mansion State Historic Site

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  • 361-729-386
  • Fulton Beach Rd, Rockport, TX, USA

Cattle rancher George Fulton built this Second Empire style home in 1874. To combat the hurricane force winds prevalent in the area, the house features many unique construction details. Read More

Gaineswood

Gaineswood

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

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

Galena History Museum

Galena-Jo Daviess County Historical Society

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  • 815-777-9129
  • 211 S Bench St, Galena, IL, USA

The 1858 Daniel A Barrows house was designed for Barrows by William Dennison, the architect who designed the U.S. Grant home on Bouthillier Street. This three-story house was tailored to hold Barrows's large family, consisting of his Wife Anna, one son, five daughters, his mother, and one female servant. Construction on the house was completed in 1859. Read More

Gallier House

Gallier House

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  • 504-526-5661
  • 1132 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA, USA

In 1857, esteemed New Orleans architect, James Gallier, Jr., put his considerable talent to work designing a residence of his own. Gallier House is an outstanding example of accurate and comprehensive historic restoration of one of New Orleans’ loveliest and time-honored landmarks. Read More

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Galloway House and Historic Village

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  • 920-922-1166
  • 336 Old Pioneer Road Fond du Lac, WI 54936-1284

Impressive house mansion from an old pioneer era farmhouse, turned remodeled Italianate residence. It has been a Museum since 1954 and includes a Historic Village to tour. Read More

Gamble House

Gamble House

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  • 626-793-3334
  • 4 Westmoreland Place, Pasadena, CA, USA

The Gamble House in Pasadena, California, is an outstanding example of American Arts and Crafts style architecture. The house and furnishings were designed by Charles and Henry Greene in 1908 for David and Mary Gamble of the Procter and Gamble Company. 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

Belmont

Gari Melchers Home and Studio

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  • 540-654-1015
  • 224 Washington St, Falmouth, VA, USA

He was one of the most successful painters of his time, sought out by the rich and famous. She was a beautiful, young art student, and his biggest fan. They fell in love on an ocean liner and spent their lives sharing art. Read More

Garibaldi-Meucci Museum

Garibaldi-Meucci Museum

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  • 718-442-1608
  • 420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island, NY, USA

This historic house is preserved as a memorial to the lives of Antonio Meucci and Giuseppe Garibaldi. Antonio Meucci, a native of Florence, Italy, lived here until his death in 1889. In 1849, while experimenting with the new phenomenon of electricity, he discovered that sound could be transmitted by electric wires. Alexander Graham Bell was then two years old. Read More

Garst Museum

Garst Museum

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  • 937-548-5250
  • 205 N Broadway St, Greenville, OH, USA

After the death of famous broadcaster Lowell Thomas, Mr. & Mrs. H.C. McClain purchased the birthplace of Lowell Thomas and presented it to the Darke County Historical Society. The two story Victorian Gothic style house was built in the 1880's. It was moved from its original site in Woodington, Ohio, which is just a few miles north of Greenville,… Read More

Nathan Gates House

Gates House

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  • 207-255-8461
  • 344 Port Road, Machiasport, ME, USA

Built in 1810, the Nathan Gates House is home to the Machiasport Historical Society. The museum contains an extensive collection of old photographs, period furniture, housewares and other memorabilia. There is also a genealogical library. Read More

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Gen. John J. Pershing Boyhood Home

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  • 660-963-2525
  • 1100 Pershing Dr, Laclede, MO, USA

The house is a shrine to the leader of America's forces in World War I and is furnished with antiques and personal belongings. Read More

Gene Stratton-Porter’s Cabin

Gene Stratton Porter State Historic Site

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  • 206-854-3790
  • 1205 Pleasant Point, Rome City, IN, USA

The two story log cabin of novelist Gene Stratton Porter is preserved. The house is surrounded by wood, wildflowers, and wildlife. Read More

Stephens

General Adam Stephen House and Triple Brick Museum

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  • 304-267-4434
  • 313 East John Street, Martinsburg, WV, USA

Stone home of the founder of Martinsburg, Revolutionary War General Adam Stephen, furnished in 1750-1820 period, and the town museum including artifacts and local history items such as quilts, military uniforms, railroading, etc. Read More

Crook House

General Crook House Museum

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  • 402-455-9990
  • North 30th Street & Fort Street, Omaha, NE, USA

The house is an Italianate style, which represented the no-nonsense grandeur of the military frontier. The furnishings are from the 1880 Victorian period. From early November through the end of December, the museum celebrates Nineteenth Century Holidays. The Crook House Guild, with help from area designers and design students, transforms every room in the house into a captivating glimpse… Read More

General Daniel Bissell House

General Daniel Bissell House

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  • 314-615-5270
  • 10255 Bellefontaine Road, St. Louis, MO, USA

The General Daniel Bissell House was built between 1812 and 1820 and is an outstanding and early example of the Federal style of architecture in the Missouri Territory. Daniel Bissell was an important figure in the early military history of the region, and the house reflects its occupancy by five generations of his family before they gave it to… Read More

DAVID HUMPHREYS HOUSE

General David Humphreys House

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  • 203-735-1908
  • 37 Elm St, Ansonia, CT, USA

The David Humphreys house is where our nations first ambassador to a forign country lived. David Humphreys served on George Washington's staff during the Revolution. Read More

Lew Wallace Study

General Lew Wallace Study & Museum

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  • 765-362-5769
  • 200 Wallace Avenue, Crawfordsville, IN, USA

The Ben Hur Museum was built by General Lew Wallace for use as his private library and a quiet place where he could write. The Civil War General wrote the world's most famous fictional work: Ben Hur. Wallace designed and built the structure in 1896. The building is a National Historic Landmark and home to Wallace's life collections. In… Read More

Eastman Mansion

George Eastman House

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  • 585-271-3361
  • 900 East Avenue, Rochester, NY, USA

George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film combines the world's leading collections of photography and film with the stately pleasures of the landmark Colonial Revival mansion and gardens that George Eastman called home from 1905 to 1932. Read More

Hunter Home

George M. Murrell Home

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  • 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

Ferry Farm

George Washington’s Ferry Farm

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  • 540-370-732
  • Kings Highway, Fredericksburg, VA, USA

The guided tour of the Washington house replica explores the lives of George, his mother Mary, other Washington family members, and the enslaved community. It recounts the adversity all of these individuals faced after the death of Augustine Washington, George's father. You can walk Ferry Farm's grounds before and after your house tour. Read More

Georgian

Georgian Museum

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  • 740-687-5891
  • 105 East Wheeling Street, Lancaster, OH, USA

The 1832 Federal style home displays period furnishings and a doll and toy collection. Read More

Bradford House

Gershom Bradford House

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  • 781-934-6106
  • 931 Tremont Street, Duxbury, MA, USA

Built in 1808 by shipmaster Gershom Bradford, the house belonged to four generations of seafaring Bradfords before the last generation gave it to the Society in 1968. Captain Bradford commanded more than 10 vessels before retiring in 1826 to lead an active life ashore Read More

Gibbs Farm

Gibbs Farm

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  • 651-646-8629
  • 2097 West Larpenteur Avenue saint

The original log cabin was constructed in 1854. The cabin offered Jane a space for a stove and dry sink. A loft for storage and later used as a sleeping loft for the children. There was room for a full sized bed and some extra room for their new daughter to play. As the family grew the log cabin… Read More

Gibson House

Gibson House

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  • 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

Gibson House Museum

Gibson House Museum

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  • 617-267-6338
  • 137 Beacon Street, Boston, MA, USA

Built in 1859-60, the Gibson House stands as the historic house museum of the Back Bay. In 2001, the National Park Service declared the Gibson House a National Historic Landmark. It is unique as an unspoiled single-family residence that retains its kitchen, scullery, butler’s pantry and water closets, as well as formal rooms and private family quarters, filled with… 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

Glass House

Glass House Museum

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  • 925-973-3284

In 1997, Ruth Quayle Boone bequeathed the 16-acre Boone family farm known as Forest Home Farms to the City of San Ramon for use as a municipal historic park in memory of her husband, Travis Moore Boone. The 16-acre farm is located at the base of the East Bay Hills and Oak Creek divides it in two almost equal… Read More

Glebe House

Glebe House Museum and The Gertrude Jekyll Garden

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  • 203-263-2855
  • 49 Hollow Road, Woodbury, CT, USA

The house was built about 1750 and is an architecturally interesting and unusual combination of gambrel and saltbox roof styles. In 1926, the famed English horticultural designer and writer was commissioned to plan an "old fashioned" garden to enhance the newly created museum. Gertrude Jekyll (pronounced jeek uhl) had a profound influence on modern garden design and is widely… Read More

Glencairn

Glencairn Museum

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  • 267-502-2600
  • 1001 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, PA, USA

Glencairn, built between 1928 and 1939, was the home of the Raymond and Mildred Pitcairn family for forty years. Pitcairn designed Glencairn as a Romanesque-style “castle” for his outstanding collection of medieval objects, purchased as inspirational models for the artists working on Bryn Athyn Cathedral. Read More

Glencoe Mansion

Glencoe Museum & Gallery

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  • 540-731-5031
  • 600 Unruh Drive, Radford, VA, USA

Explore the elegance of 19th century life in the grand home of General G.C. Wharton who was an avid promoter for the development of southwestern Virginia in the post-war years. The museum features historic rooms, history exhibits, an art gallery and a school house. Read More

Glendower

Glendower Mansion

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  • 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

Glenn House

Glenn House

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  • 573-335-1631
  • 325 South Spanish Street, Cape Girardeau, MO, USA

Built in 1883 for Lula and her new husband, David A. Glenn, the Glenn House was originally built in a vernacular farmhouse style. It was renovated in 1900 to the Queen Anne style with Free Classic influences. Under the auspices of the Historical Association of Greater Cape Girardeau, The Glenn House has been faithfully restored and has many original… Read More

Glensheen

Glensheen

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  • 218-726-8910
  • 3300 London Road, Duluth, MN, USA

Glensheen, a historic estate on the shores of Lake Superior, offers a slice of turn-of-the-last-century opulence. Its 1908 collection is intact, completely immersing you in the life of one of Minnesota’s most influential families. Beyond the 39-room mansion, visitors can also explore seven-acres of formal gardens and working vegetable gardens, the tennis court and bowling green, and the carriage… Read More

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Glensheen Mansion

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  • (218) 726-8910
  • 3300 London Road Duluth, MN 55804

Glensheen, the Historic Congdon Estate, is a 20,000 square foot mansion operated by the University of Minnesota Duluth as a historic house museum. Glensheen sits on 12 acres of waterfront property on Lake Superior, has 39 rooms and is built in the Jacobean architectural tradition, inspired by the Beaux-Arts styles of the era. Read More

Glessner House

Glessner House Museum

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  • 312-326-1397
  • 1800 S Prairie Ave, Chicago, IL, USA

The Glessner family lived in this house for fifty years, through the rise and decline of the Prairie Avenue neighborhood. John Glessner cherished the home as a symbol of happy family life, and the interiors of Glessner House demonstrate the nearly perfect collaboration between the architect and his clients. Designed during the so-called Gilded Age, when America’s newly rich… Read More

Goodnow House

Goodnow House State Historic Site

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  • 785-565-6490
  • 2309 Claflin Road, Manhattan, KS, USA

Built in the 1860s and furnished with many family belongings, the Goodnow house reflects domestic life in the late 1800s. Read More

Gordon Roberts House

Gordon-Roberts House

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  • 301-777-8678
  • 218 Washington Street, Cumberland, MD, USA

The Gordon-Roberts House was built on lot #60 of the Town of Cumberland as laid out by Thomas Beall of Samuel, who was offered at public sale, February 1812. The highest bidder was Beal Howard who paid $16.62 for the lot, plus $1.00 per year for ground rent. Beal Howard sold this land to Daniel Carroll Brent of Stafford… Read More

Gore Place

Gore Place

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  • 781-894-2798
  • 52 Gore Street, Waltham, MA, USA

Gore Place, the Federal period, historic house and estate of Massachusetts Governor Christopher Gore, includes a small farm with sheep, goats and poultry. The elegantly furnished mansion has been called “the Monticello of the North” and architectural historians consider it to be the most significant Federal period mansion in New England. Read More

Lippit House

Governor Henry Lippitt House Museum

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  • 401-272-5101
  • 199 Hope Street, Providence, RI, USA

Heir to one of Rhode Island’s leading textile manufacturing families, Henry Lippitt (1818-1891) designed and supervised the construction in 1865 of a house at 199 Hope Street in Providence for his wife Mary Ann Balch (1823-1889) and their six children. Occupied by generations of the Lippitt family for 114 years, the house is a three story, thirty room Renaissance… Read More

Langdon House

Governor John Langdon House

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  • 603-436-3205
  • 143 Pleasant Street, Portsmouth, NH, USA

Governor John Langdon House is an exceptional Georgian mansion which George Washington “esteemed the first” in Portsmouth. Its reception rooms are of a grand scale suited to ceremonial occasions and are ornamented by elaborate wood carving in the Rococo style. John Langdon was a merchant, shipbuilder, Revolutionary War leader, signer of the United States Constitution, and three-term governor of… Read More

Gov. John Wood Mansion

Governor John Wood Mansion

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  • 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

Oglesby Mansion

Governor Oglesby Mansion

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  • 217-429-9422
  • 421 W William St, Decatur, IL, USA

Governor Oglesby had the Mansion built around 1874. The highlight of the Mansion's history is a visit by former Civil War General and United States President Ulysses S. Grant in 1880. From one of the Mansion's verandas Grant spoke to a crowd of people during an encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Civil War veterans' association. Read More

Gov. Ross House

Governor Ross Mansion and Plantation

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  • 302-628-9500
  • 1101 North Pine Street, Seaford, DE, USA

The Seaford Historical Society has fully restored this rare brick home. The Italian-Villa style Victorian features a three-story tall entry, ornate plaster ceilings, Moroccan ventilation, beautiful furnishings and even a hidden safe. Once the home of Governor Ross, the mansion is a testament to Southern living. Read More

Governor's Mansion

Governor’s Mansion

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  • 402-471-3466
  • 1225 H Street, Lincoln, NE, USA

The home of Nebraska's first family features a doll collection of the state's first ladies in their inaugural gowns. A superb silver service from the battleship U.S.S. Nebraska, needlepoint chair cushions, custom woven carpets and elegant reception rooms highlight the home. Read More

Governor's Mansion

Governor’s Mansion

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  • 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

Graceland

Graceland

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  • 901-332-3322
  • 3765 Elvis Presley Blvd, Memphis, TN, USA

If you think Elvis is still alive, you might want to check this one out. Otherwise there are four other homes to see in the area. Read More

Gracie Mansion

Gracie Mansion

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  • 212-570-4751
  • East End Ave & East 88th Street, New York, NY, USA

Gracie Mansion stands in Carl Schurz Park above Hell Gate, a roaring stretch of water where the Harlem and East Rivers meet. The 18th-century house, built by a man who made and lost his fortune at sea, is now the official residence of the Mayor of the City of New York. Read More

Graham House

Graham Historic House and Museum

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  • 815-472-6601
  • 117 North Dixie Highway, Momence, IL, USA

The Graham Historic House and Museum is a special attraction to residents and visitors who appreciate the preservation of our community’s past. The Graham Historic House recreates the delightful period of history from 1870 to turn of the century. Most furnishings and accessories have been donated or loaned by the people of Momence. Read More

Granger Homestead

Granger Homestead and Carriage Museum

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  • 585-394-1472
  • 295 North Main Street, Canandaigua, NY, USA

Travel back in time as one of our knowledgeable docents leads you through the Granger Homestead and Carriage Museum. Listen to stories of the four generations of Grangers, who lived in this magnificent home from 1816-1930. Read More

Green County Museum

Greene County Ohio Historical Society

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  • 937-372-4606
  • 74 West Church Street, Xenia, OH, USA

The museum is in a restored Victorian. Next to the museum is the James Galloway Log House, built in 1799. It has survived a dismantling and re-creation in 1936, and the tornado of 1974. Read More

Greenwood Farm

Greenwood Farm

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  • 978-356-4351
  • 47 Jeffrey's Neck Road, Ipswich, MA, USA

The reservation takes its name from Thomas S. Greenwood who built the 19th-century white farmhouse. To its rear, the Paine House (1694), a yellow clapboard saltbox, is a remarkable example of First Period (1620–1725) architecture. Three generations of the Paine family made their home here, including Robert Paine, foreman of the Salem witch trial jury in 1692. From 1916,… Read More

Grevemberg House

Grevemberg House

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  • 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

Grier Musser Museum

Grier Musser Museum

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  • 213-413-1814
  • 403 South Bonnie Brae Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA

The Grier Musser Museum is a turn-of-the century historic Queen Anne house which displays fascinating antique collections in monthly holiday exhibits throughout the year. Read More

Grinnell Museum

Grinnell Historical Museum

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  • 641-236-7827
  • 1125 Broad Street, Grinnell, IA, USA

This authentically furnished late-Victorian 10-room residence built in 1895, exhibits artifacts and photographs from Grinnell's history, among them the Wooten desk of J.B. Grinnell, the town's founder. Read More

Grinter Place

Grinter Place

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

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

Grouseland

Grouseland

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  • 812-882-882
  • 3 West Scott Street, Vincennes, IN, USA

Grouseland was built about 1803 by William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States. This was his home when he served as the first governor of the Indiana Territory. Some of the furnishings are original. 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

Grundy Museum

Grundy Museum

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  • 215-788-9432
  • 610 Radcliffe Street, Bristol, PA, USA

When the Grundy family purchased this home in 1884, they set about turning the existing structure into a fashionable, modern house. The home was remodeled in the Queen-Anne-style that combined modern conveniences and technological innovations of the day with a nostalgic styling that recalled an earlier, less industrial time. The home's location along the banks of the scenic Delaware… Read More

Guibourd House

Guibourd-Vallé House

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  • 573-883-7544
  • North 4th Street & Merchant Street, Ste. Genevieve, MO, USA

Built in 1806 by Jacques Guibourd, this poteaux sur-sol (post on sill) home features not only vertical log construction, but also the use of the classic Norman truss. Read More

Gundy House

Gundy House

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  • 608-987-2844
  • 234 Madison St, Mineral Point, WI, USA

Upon its completion in 1868, Orchard Lawn began as an impressive eleven acre working estate situated on a hill overlooking the industrious city of Mineral Point, founded 40 years before. Built by Cornish immigrants Joseph and Sarah Gundry, it boasted gardens, an orchard, tennis lawn, outbuildings (including a barn, carriage house, woodshed/icehouse and a hothouse used to nurture seedlings… Read More

Gunston Hall

Gunston Hall

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

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

Haan Mansion

Haan Mansion Museum of Indiana Art

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  • 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

Haas-Lilienthal

Haas-Lilienthal House

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  • 415-441-3000
  • 2007 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

The exuberant Haas-Lilienthal House is a Queen Anne-style Victorian, and was completed in 1886. It is the only intact private home of the period that is open regularly as a museum, complete with authentic furniture and artifacts. The House has elaborate wooden gables, a circular corner tower and luxuriant ornamentation. Read More

La Hacienda De Los Martinez

Hacienda de los Martinez

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  • 575-758-1000
  • 708 Hacienda Rd, Taos, NM, USA

La Hacienda de los Martinez is one of the few northern New Mexico style, late Spanish Colonial period "Great Houses"" remaining in the American Southwest. Built in 1804 by Severino Martin (later changed to Martinez) Read More

Hackley Home

Hackley and Hume Historic Site

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  • 231-722-278
  • 484 W Webster Ave, Muskegon, MI, USA

This site preserves the homes of Muskegon's most famous lumber baron, Charles H. Hackley, and his business partner, Thomas Hume. The Site envelops the visitor in a unique living space, bringing late 19th century craftsmanship to life. Read More

Hale Farm and Village

Hale Farm & Village

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  • 330-666-3711
  • 2686 Oak Hill Road, Akron, Bath, OH, USA

An outdoor living history museum featuring life and crafts from the mid-1800s. It includes farm animals, pastures, gardens, and historic houses with historical interpreters dressed in period costume. Read More

Hale-Byrnes House

Hale-Byrnes House

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  • 302-998-3792
  • 606 Stanton Christiana Road, Newark, DE, USA

The Historic Hale-Byrnes House was the site of a Council of War on September 6, 1777, five days before the Battle of the Brandywine. The house was built during the eighteenth century. The oldest section dates back to c.1750; the service wing was built in 1773. Read More

Rock House Museum

Haller-Gibboney Rock House Museum

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  • 276-223-3330
  • 205 Tazewell Street, Wytheville, VA, USA

Historic house museum was built in 1823. Home of Wytheville's first resident physician. Collection includes period furnishings, personal mementos, medical records and supplies from the 1800s, and a small museum of local artifacts. There is an herb garden with plants typically grown in the 19th. century. Read More

Hamilton House

Hamilton House

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  • 207-384-2454
  • 40 Vaughans Lane, South Berwick, ME, USA

Shipping merchant Jonathan Hamilton built this striking Georgian mansion c. 1785. Its picturesque situation on a bluff overlooking the Salmon Falls River made it an ideal location for Hamilton’s shipping business and, more than a hundred years later, for the summer retreat of Emily Tyson and her stepdaughter Elise. Read More

Hammond Castle

Hammond Castle Museum

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  • 978-283-2080
  • 80 Hesperus Ave, Gloucester, MA, USA

John Hays Hammond, Jr. built his medieval-style castle between the years 1926 and 1929 to serve both as his home and as a backdrop for his collection of Roman, medieval, and Renaissance artifacts. The castle was constructed as a wedding present for his wife Irene Fenton Hammond to prove how much he cared for her. In addition, the building… Read More

Hammon-Harwood House

Hammond-Harwood House

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  • 410-263-4683
  • 19 Maryland Avenue, Annapolis, MD, USA

Hammond-Harwood House is the Jewel of Annapolis, the grandest Colonial house in Annapolis, preserved intact since 1774. It was the last project of the renowned Colonial architect William Buckland. In addition to its magnificent, perfectly preserved architecture inside and out, this National Historic Landmark contains an outstanding collection of John Shaw furniture and Charles Willson Peale paintings. Read More

Hamptons

Hampton National Historic Site

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  • 410-823-1309
  • 535 Hampton Lane, Towson, MD, USA

Hampton National Historic Site offers an exceptional, perhaps unmatched, look at a nineteenth century slave estate. Still visible today is the careful design intended to impress visitors. The mansion looks down on the overseer's house, and the overseer's house looks down on the slave quarters, reminding visitors and workers of their place in life. The mansion survives almost unchanged… Read More

Hampton-Preston Mansion

Hampton-Preston Mansion & Gardens

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  • 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

Hanby House

Hanby House

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  • 614-891-6289
  • 160 West Main Street, Westerville, OH, USA

Hanby House is the former home of William and Ann (Miller) Hanby. Built in 1846 at the corner of Main and Grove Streets, the Hanby family occupied the house from 1853-1870. It has been moved twice, most recently during the 1930s, to its present site which is just one block west of the original location. Read More

Hardin Museum

Hardin County Museum

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  • 419-673-7147
  • 223 N Main St, Kenton, OH, USA

The Victorian mansion features decorative glass and rich carvings in cherry and oak. Read More

Harding Home

Harding Home and Harding Memorial

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  • 800-600-6894
  • 380 Mt Vernon Ave, Marion, OH, USA

It was from this home that Warren Harding conducted his "Front Porch Campaign" in the 1920 presidential election. From wallpaper to gaslight fixtures and original furnishings, the home is authentically restored. Read More

Harding Museum

Harding Museum Franklin Area Historical Society

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  • 937-746-8295
  • 302 Park Avenue, Franklin, OH, USA

This Colonial Revival mansion was built by Clarence and Lily Harding and is located in Franklin’s Historic Mackinaw District. The Harding family continuously resided here until the late Major General Edwin Forrest Harding (1886-1970) and his wife Eleanor willed the property to the Franklin Area Historical Society to serve as a local museum. The Harding Museum contains numerous exhibits,… Read More

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