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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
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12130 Booker T Washington Hwy, Hardy, VA, USA
Booker T. Washington was born a slave in April 1856 on the 207-acre farm of James Burroughs. After the Civil War, Washington became the first principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School. Later as an adviser, author and orator, his past would influence his philosophies as the most influential African American of his era. Read More
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5800 Main St, Stratford, CT, USA
Boothe Memorial Park & Museum sits on an idyllic, 32 acre site in the north end of Stratford by the Housatonic River, which was the estate of the Boothe family for many generations and willed to the town in 1949 for the public to enjoy. The park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are many… Read More
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1601 Route 9D, Garrison, NY, USA
Built between 1804 and 1808 on a 250-acre river front site in Montrose, New York, Boscobel is considered to be one of the finest examples of Federal-style architecture in New York. Boscobel’s complex history represents several different periods and restoration philosophies. The house is restored to the Federal style of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and is… Read More
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19349 Bothwell State Park Road
Built in four stages from 1897 to 1928, this home was the country retreat of lawyer and businessman John Homer Bothwell. The home is furnished much as it was when he died in 1929. Read More
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4005 Bowers Mansion Road, New Washoe City, NV 89704, USA
Tour back in time to Nevada's heyday and see how Comstock millionaires Eilley and Sandy Bowers lived the posh life in Washoe Valley. Picnic, swim and play on the grounds as every generation of visitors has done since the Victorian era. Read More
Bowring Ranch near Merriman is a Hereford demonstration ranch, donated by former U.S. Senator Eve Bowring in memory of her husband. The ranch house displays fine antique china, crystal and silver as well as memorabilia from their active public service careers. The visitor center interprets ranching, homesteading, geology, wildlife and many other areas related to the Sandhills and Bowrings. Read More
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1073 East Jersey Street, Elizabeth, NJ, USA
Built about 1750, Boxwood Hall became the residence of Elias Boudinot, president of the Continental Congress that ratified the Peace Treaty with Great Britain. George Washington visited his friend Boudinot in 1789 on his way to New York for his first inauguration. Read More
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2019 S Walnut St, Coffeyville, KS, USA
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the beautiful home is situated in a commanding position atop a hill. Inviting first and second-story verandas grace the south and west sides. An ornate portico tops the porte cochere. These and other features have caused the home to be labeled the “Brown Mansion” ever since its completion in 1906. Read More
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2160 Linden Drive Southeast, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
21 room Queen Anne mansion surrounded by rolling lawns, formal gardens, pool and pond. A National Trust property. Read More
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146 E Wilson St, Bement, IL, USA
Bryant Cottage was built in 1856 as the home of Francis E. Bryant, a local businessman and friend of Stephen A. Douglas. According to Bryant family tradition, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas met in the parlor of Bryant Cottage to plan their famous series of 1858 debates. The cottage is maintained with original and period furnishings, providing a glimps… Read More
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3755 Tonawanda Creek Road, East Amherst, Amherst, NY, USA
Tour historical homes, a rural church and one-room schoolhouses from the Buffalo Niagara region. Read More
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160 Johnson Street, Winona, MN, USA
An outstanding example of Rural (or Steamboat) Gothic Architecture, the home is built of northern white pine and furnished with items appropriate to the mid-to-late 1800's. Knowledgeable guides walk visitors through three floors of pioneers life, encompassing the historical period during which Native American canoes gave way to steamboats and game-trails became roads and highways for Euro-Americans. Read More
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545 SW 9th St, Newport, OR, USA
Built in 1895 as a home for newlyweds Susan and John Burrows, both in their 60s. The house was originally located at Alder and the Coast Highway. At the time, it was isolated and surrounded by dense shore pine. Its location between the Bayfront and Nye Beach earned it the nickname "The Half-Way House." Read More
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600 Mission St SE, Salem, OR, USA
Located in Bush’s Pasture Park, the Bush House Museum offers tours to the public and preserves and interprets the heritage of the Bush House and Bush’s Pasture Park to illuminate Oregon history and culture associated with the lives and legacy of Salem’s Bush Family. Featuring many iconic 19th century furnishings, this technologically advanced home also contains the original light… Read More
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39 Strickland Road, Cos Cob, CT, USA
The circa 1730 structure began life as a home for prosperous merchants and gained recognition later as a boarding house and gathering place for many prominent American artists and writers. It is a National Historic Landmark operated by the Greenwich Historical Society, which also runs an art gallery, gift shop, summer camp, and many programs throughout the year such… Read More
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327 North 2nd Street, Hamilton, OH, USA
Located in the Benninghofen House, the museum displays Victorian furnishings. Read More
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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
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1310 Bannock Street, Denver, CO, USA
Step into the past at the Byers-Evans House Museum. The house was built in 1883 by Rocky Mountain News publisher Williams Byers and sold in 1889 to the family of William Gray Evans, an officer of the Denver Tramway Company. This distinctive house museum has been beautifully restored to the period between 1912 and 1924, and it is decorated… Read More
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1067 Montgomery Street, Oroville, CA, USA
Although now over 150 years old, only two generations have lived in this house. Much of the original furnishings are on display to help tell the story of how the well-to-do lived out west. The collection includes antique furnishings, paintings, rugs, textiles, clothes, silver, and glassware from the period 1849-1910. A tour of the house reveals stories of the… Read More
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219 East Woodlawn Street, Clinton, IL, USA
Construction was started on the C. H. Moore Homestead by John and Minerva Moore Bishop. Mr. Bishop was a prosperous grain and lumber dealer in Clinton. Work on the C. H. Moore Homestead was completed in 1867 after the Civil War had ended and life took on a more normal pattern. Soon after this, the Bishops lost their only… Read More
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3999 Pioneer Village Rd, Waynesville, OH, USA
A recreated 19th century town using rebuilt and restored structures including the 1807 Levi Lukens house, the only building original to the site. Read More
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107 Elm St, Cahokia, IL, USA
The Cahokia Courthouse was built as a residence around 1740, when present-day Illinois was a colony of France. In 1793 the structure was purchased by the Common Pleas Court of the United States Northwest Territory and subsequently became a center of territorial political and legal activity. The building is historically significant as the oldest courthouse in Illinois and the… Read More
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1005 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, Huntingdon Valley, PA, USA
Designed by the renowned architectural firm of Carrére and Hastings to be a home for the industrialist John Pitcairn and his young family, Cairnwood is a National Historic Landmark that evokes the grandeur of the Gilded Age. Read More
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15 Race Street, Upland, PA, USA
Built in 1683 and occupied by Caleb Pusey, this is the only building still standing which can claim documented association with the Proprietor, William Penn, and which he is known to have visited on several occasions. This unique English Vernacular house stands beside Race Street, the small road once paralleling the millrace that brought water from Chester Creek to… Read More
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201 Camarillo Ranch Road, Camarillo, CA, USA
The Camarillo Ranch was originally a 10,000 acre Spanish land grant created in 1837, patented to Gabriel Ruiz in 1866, then purchased by Juan Camarillo in 1875. His son Adolfo built the Queen Anne Victorian home in 1892. Later the barn and stables were added to support the agricultural work and house the renowned Camarillo White Horses. Today the… Read More
The Campbell House was designed by Kirtland Cutter and Karl Malmgren and was built in 1898 for Amasa B. Campbell, his wife Grace, and their daughter Helen. Campbell made a fortune in mining exploration and operations in the Coeur d’Alene mining region northeast of Spokane. He partnered with John Finch, his neighbor living two houses to the west. Helen… Read More
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1508 Locust Street, St. Louis, MO, USA
Built in 1851, the first house in the elegant Lucas Place neighborhood, the Campbell House was the home of renowned fur trader and entrepreneur Robert Campbell and his family from 1854 until 1938. The museum contains hundreds of original Campbell possessions including furniture, paintings, clothing, letters, carriages and a unique set of interior photographs taken in the mid-1880s. Read More
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1418 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA, USA
The Camron-Stanford House was built in 1876, the first of many stately homes that once encircled the Lake. During 27 years as a private residence, it was the home of some of Oakland's most notable families. Read More
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1S151 Winfield Road, Wheaton, IL, USA
The Museum is an historic house museum that depicts the country home of a family that made the Chicago Tribune the “World’s Greatest Newspaper.” Built in 1896 for Joseph Medill, the house and grounds, known as Red Oak Farm, first passed to Joseph’s daughter Katherine and then to her youngest son, Robert Rutherford. Robert and his first wife Amy… Read More
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27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA, USA
The White-Ellery House, located at 245 Washington Street in Gloucester at the Route 128 Grant Circle Rotary, was built in 1710 and is one of just a handful of First Period houses in Eastern Massachusetts that survives to this day. The Captain Elias Davis House, built in 1804 by one of Gloucester's most successful sea captains, houses much of… Read More
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1925 1st Street, Columbia City, OR, USA
An early pioneer, Dr. Charles Green Caples migrated across the Oregon Trail as a boy. After his marriage to Lucinda McBride, he studied medicine in Portland and passed the examination by the Board of Physicians for his degree. In 1870 he constructed his two story home on the same spot where his father Joseph Caples built his log cabin… Read More
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4 Elm Street, Cohasset, MA, USA
Built by David Nichols and purchased soon thereafter by Captain John Wilson, the house remained in the Wilson family until 1912. Through the years the house became a marine supply store, tea room and gift shop, photographer's studio, candy store until it was given to the Historical Society by William McGaw in 1936 for ithe Society's first headquarters and… Read More
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1418 E West Shady Side Rd, Shady Side, MD, USA
The Captain Salem Avery House was built c. 1860 on the Banks of the West River in Shady Side, Maryland. Captain Avery, a Long Island fisherman, came to the area to make his living from the abundant waters of the Chesapeake Bay. He married Lucretia Weedon of Mayo, Maryland, and they lived in the house for thirty years raising… Read More
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5th Street & Main St, Brownville, NE, USA
The house is a seven-gabled Victorian residence that was home to a Civil War veteran. It was originally built nearer the Missouri River, then taken apart brick by brick and reassembled on the present site in 1877. There is a famous ghost story associated with the Bailey House that entertains all guests to the Museum. Displayed are period furniture,… Read More
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81 Carl Sandburg Lane, Flat Rock, NC, USA
Carl Sandburg, nationally renowned poet, biographer, lecturer, newspaper columnist, folksinger, author of American fairytales, and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, provided broad and enduring 20th century insight into the circumstances, worth and spirit of the American people. This farm offered the peace and solitude required for his writing. Read More
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331 East 3rd Street, Galesburg, IL, USA
The Carl Sandburg State Historic Site is the birthplace of Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Lincoln biographer, a children’s author and folk song collector. The small frame home, architecturally significant as a “workingman’s cottage,” contains three rooms—parlor, bedroom, and kitchen. Also on the site is a two-story Greek Revival frame house built in 1858. The house… Read More
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121 N Fairfax St, Alexandria, VA, USA
The historic Carlyle House was completed in 1753 by British merchant John Carlyle for his bride, Sarah Fairfax of Belvoir, member of one of the most prestigious families in colonial Virginia. Their home quickly became a center of social and political life in Alexandria and gained a foothold in history when British General Braddock made the mansion his headquarters… Read More
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7800 Shull Road, Dayton, OH, USA
Farm life in the 1880s comes alive at Carriage Hill MetroPark. Visitor Center exhibits start the journey back in time while demonstrations, reconstructed and historical buildings, and even period farm animals paint the picture. There are also acres of natural beauty to enjoy and a horseback riding center. Read More
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1128 5th Ave, Leavenworth, KS, USA
John McCullough Foster came to Leavenworth, Kansas Territory in 1857, less than three years after the establishment of the town. Twenty-four year old Foster and his wife, Letitia, purchased Lots 8, 9, and 10 on the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Middle Street from William and Abby Marshall for $900.00. A carpenter by trade, Foster built the original… Read More
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
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421 E Broadway, Logansport, IN, USA
The museum consists of the 1853 Jerolaman-Long Home, a cabin, a carriage barn, and a schoolroom. Read More
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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
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455 Old Mountain Road, Moultonborough, NH, USA
Retirement estate of Thomas Plant, shoe manufacturer, and his wife Olive. Nestled in the Ossipee Mountain Range. Overlooks mountains & Lake Winnipesaukee with breathtaking views. Self-guided tours offered, as well as guided tours (additional fee). Learn the rags to riches to rags story, and travel back in time as you explore the 16 room mansion. Read More
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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
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2611 Quasqueton Diagonal Blvd, Independence, IA, USA
The Walter house is an example of a simplified style of house Frank Lloyd Wright developed and called "Usonian". The plan for the Walter house follows the characteristic "tadpole" form Read More
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3522 College St, Jackson, LA, USA
A restored professor's residence is on the grounds of Centenary College. Read More
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513 Main Street, Centerville, MA, USA
The Centerville Historical Museum, founded in 1952, is dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of Centerville and Cape Cod. The fourteen-room museum includes an 1840 house and contains an outstanding collection of historic costumes, maritime and military artifacts, quilts, Crowell birds, 18th and 19th century decorative arts, paintings, tools, and children's toys and dolls. Read More
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14653 East Park Street, Burton, OH, USA
Century Village Museum is an authentic representation of a Western Reserve Village from 1798 to the end of the 19th century. The Museum contains over twenty historically authentic buildings, more than 15,000 museum artifacts, and a working farm with a sugar bush for making maple syrup. Read More
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1313 Augustine St, Kaukauna, WI, USA
In 1837, Charles A. Grignon built this Greek revival style Mansion as a wedding gift for his Pennsylvanian bride, Mary Elizabeth Meade. This stately home was known as "The Mansion in the Woods" to countless travelers. Read More
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1620 Lindbergh Drive South, Little Falls, MN, USA
Charles Lindbergh's 1927 flight from New York to Paris launched an aviation revolution. Tour his boyhood home, explore the visitor center exhibits, including a "Spirit of St. Louis" flight simulator, and walk an interpretive trail along the river. Additional trails are located in the adjacent Charles A. Lindbergh State Park. Read More
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1801 N Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI, USA
When Charles and Sarah Allis decided to build a home that would eventually become a public museum, they turned to Alexander Eschweiler, a prominent local architect, to design it. The resulting mansion is strongly influenced by the English Tudor style. Construction began in 1909 and was completed in 1911. Read More
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1254 Long Point Road, Mount Pleasant, SC, USA
Charles Pinckney was a principal author and a signer of the United States Constitution. This remnant of his coastal plantation is preserved to tell the story of a "forgotten founder," his life of public service, the lives of enslaved African Americans on South Carolina Lowcountry plantations and their influences on Charles Pinckney. Read More
The house on the grounds of the Charlotte Museum of History is the Revolutionary Era home of Hezekiah Alexander. Built in 1774, it is the oldest surviving structure in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Read More
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201 E River Rd, Medora, ND 58645, USA
Located southwest of Medora, this site memorializes the life and activities in North Dakota of Antoine de Vallombrosa, the Marquis de Mores, who arrived in 1883. Among his enterprises were a beef packing plant, a stagecoach line, a freighting company, refrigerated railway cars, cattle and sheep raising, land ownership, and a new town which he called Medora, in honor… Read More
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3352 Demenil Place, St. Louis, MO, USA
The Chatillon DeMenil House is a magnificent example of the late Greek Revival style in St. Louis, but its significance is more than architectural. The house embodies the stories of the families who lived here, including members of the founding families of St. Louis and Carondelet, a nationally known Western trailblazer, the family of an Oglala leader, the first… Read More
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Historic Cherry Hill, 2 S Pearl St, Albany, NY 12202, USA
Historic Cherry Hill tells a story of America through the lives and experiences of five generations of an Albany, New York family. One of Albany's most recognizable landmarks, Cherry Hill, built in 1787 for Philip and Maria Van Rensselaer, is rare among this country's house museums. Its extensive and intact collection is unique. It includes more than 70,000 items-decorative… Read More
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4 Williamsville Road, Stockbridge, MA, USA
Chesterwood, a National Trust Historic Site, is the country home, studio and gardens of America’s foremost sculptor of public monuments, Daniel Chester French (1850-1931), creator of the Minute Man and Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial. Read More
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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
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6379 East Mansion Road, Milburn, OK, USA
Built in 1895, the Chickasaw White House was the home of Chickasaw governor Douglas H. Johnston. Elected governor of the Chickasaw Nation in 1898, Governor Johnston became an important political figure during the transition from Indian Territory to Oklahoma Statehood in 1907. His political service lasted for 40 years and during that time, the Chickasaw White House served as… Read More
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Chief Vann House Historic Site, Georgia 225, Chatsworth, GA, USA
During the 1790s, James Vann became a Cherokee Indian leader and wealthy businessman. He established the largest and most prosperous plantation in the Cherokee Nation, covering 1,000 acres of what is now Murray County. In 1804 he completed construction of a beautiful 2 ½-story brick home that was the most elegant in the Cherokee Nation. After Vann was murdered… Read More
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7567 Glendale Milford Road, Camp Dennison, OH, USA
In 1794, Christian Waldschmidt, a veteran of the American Revolution, moved his family to a site on the Little Miami River and built a new community called New Germany. In 1804, he built his home, which included a store. Waldschmidt was a businessman and encouraged new settlement, staffing a church and helping to found a school, and beginning industries… Read More
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348 Washington Street, Norwich, CT, USA
The Christopher Leffingwell House Museum is considered one of the finest restored examples of New England's Colonial Architecture. Displayed within it's walls are wonderful examples of early Norwich silversmiths and clock makers. It is a living museum where visitors can experience 18th century civilian life as they walk through its' rooms and feel a connection to those who founded… Read More
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520 East Nelson Avenue, Canadian, TX, USA
An old Abandoned Baptist Church was re-configured and rescued by Malouf and Therese Abraham . The church was built in 1910 and turned into a huge home in 1977. It has been in magazines and on HGTV. The Dallas Morning News said, "rooms filled with art and antiques that rival the White House" Read More
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66 Clara Barton Road, North Oxford, MA, USA
Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton was born in a small North Oxford farmhouse on Christmas day 1821. She was raised in the Universalist tradition and attended the Oxford Universalist Church founded by the Rev. Hosea Ballou. A timid, bashful child, Clara grew into a courageous, compassionate leader known the world over for her work as a Civil War battlefield nurse… Read More
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5801 Oxford Road, Glen Echo, MD, USA
Clara Barton National Historic Site commemorates the life of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. The home served as the headquarters and warehouse for the organization. From this house, Miss Barton organized American Red Cross relief efforts for victims of natural disasters and war. Read More
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1830 S Boulder Hwy, Henderson, NV, USA
The museum is a 30-acre site that features a modern exhibit hall with a timeline exhibit about southern Nevada from pre-historic to modern times and a collection of restored historic buildings that depict daily life from different decades in Las Vegas, Boulder City, Henderson, and Goldfield. Read More
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233 S Main St, Wolfeboro, NH, USA
The Clark House is one of three historic buildings that make up the museum. It is furnished as a typical Colonial farmhouse. Read More
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109 Park Avenue West, Princeton, IL 61356
The Clark Norris Home was built in 1900 as the retirement home for Samuel and Anne Clark. It is over 11,000 square feet spread over three floors and a basement, containing four bathrooms and 5 bedrooms, plus servants quarters. Read More
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1827 South Indiana Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA
Built in 1836 for Henry B. Clarke, the Clarke House Museum is Chicago’s oldest house. The house shows what life was like for a middle-class family in Chicago during the city’s formative years before the Civil War. Its fascinating history began at a time when family members could see the campfires of Native Americans in the distance. Read More
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87 Clermont Avenue, Germantown, NY, USA
Clermont was built between 1740 and 1750, by Robert Livingston, Jr., on land acquired in 1686 by his father, just a dozen years after New Netherland finally became British New York. A royal patent secured by Robert Livingston, Sr. granted him the privileges of a manor lord and 160,000 acres, stretching all the way from the Hudson River’s east… Read More
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4157 Post Road, Warwick, RI, USA
The house at Clouds Hill was built as a wedding gift for Elizabeth Ives Slater on her marriage to Alfred Augustus Reed, Jr. The home passed from Elizabeth to her daughter, Helen, on to Elizabeth’s granddaughter, Anne, and finally to her great-granddaughter, Anne. Anne is the current owner and graciously invites you to visit her family home which is… Read More
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34 Codman Road, Lincoln, MA, USA
In the 1790s, John Codman carried out extensive improvements to the original Georgian house and surrounding grounds. Sixty years later, his grandson updated the house in keeping with Victorian taste and filled the house with the finest New York furnishings. Today, the interiors are richly furnished with portraits, memorabilia, and art works collected in Europe, showing the decorative schemes… Read More
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14 High Road, Newbury, MA, USA
Coffin House was occupied by the Coffin family over three centuries, and provides fascinating insight into domestic life in rural New England. The structure, which contains the family's furnishings, began as a simple dwelling built in the post-medieval style. Tristram Coffin and his family lived, cooked, and slept in two or possibly three rooms; their possessions were few. Read More
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60 Spring Street, Essex, MA, USA
A mecca for lovers of American folk art, Cogswell’s Grant was the summer home of renowned collectors Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little. The colonial-era farmhouse on the property serves as a rich backdrop for their celebrated collection, assembled over a period of nearly sixty years. Though known for their meticulous research, the Littles decorated with an eye for… Read More
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1440 29th Avenue, Oakland, CA, USA
The uniqueness of this house, what makes it stand out above all others is that it is still lived in by members of the original family. They with the help of the friends and the professionals on the board have made the effort to preserve and protect the original interiors. You will find the furniture, wallpaper, pictures, rugs and… Read More
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109 Madison St, Jefferson City, MO, USA
The 1871 rowhouse built by Gov. B. Gratz Brown contains period furniture from historic homes in Cole County and exibits of inaugural ball gowns worn by many of the state's first ladies. Read More
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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
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Colonel Davenport Historical House, Davenport Avenue, Rock Island, IL, USA
The Davenport House is historically important for several reasons. First, it reflects the growth in the prosperity of one man, George Davenport. Davenport was a settler, provider, homesteader, businessman and counselor. His history equals the Quad City's history shaping its growth and development. On a much larger scale, it reflects the settling of the West. Read More
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300 Old Boalsburg Road, Boalsburg, PA, USA
An intriguing glimpse into our American identity awaits travelers in the picturesque village of Boalsburg, Pennsylvania. Eight generations of the Boal family have lived the story of America, and even have a tangible family connection with Christopher Columbus. Read More
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506 8th Street South, Moorhead, MN, USA
The Comstock House was built in 1883 by Solomon G. Comstock, a politician, businessman and civic leader. Comstock was a U.S. Representative, established the First National Bank of Moorhead and Moorhead State University, and helped James J. Hill build a railroad system in the Red River Valley. His daughter, Ada Comstock, became the first dean of women at the… Read More
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13400 Allisonville Rd, Fishers, IN, USA
Conner Prairie is an open-air living history museum. It serves as a local, regional, and national center for research and education about the lives, times, attitudes, and values of early 19th-century settlers in the Old Northwest Territory, based upon the Indiana experience. Conner Prairie features a modern Museum Center, special facilities, and three historic areas: the historic 1836 village… Read More
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28 Weiser Drive, Womelsdorf, PA, USA
The story of Conrad Weiser and the historic site is told through an exhibit which is located in three different buildings at the Conrad Weiser Homestead. Read More
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1402 St James Ct, Louisville, KY, USA
A magnificent Richardsonian Mansion on St. James Court. The finest in the city. Also known as "Conrad's Castle," this is one of the most stunning of Old Louisville's houses and defines Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. The house was built for Theophilus Conrad, a Frenchman (Alsace) who made his fortune in the tanning business. Read More
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505 West Grand Avenue, Chippewa Falls, WI, USA
The finest example of Victorian Italianate architecture in the Midwest. The Mansion is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A lavish red brick house with carved bric-a-brac, a graceful veranda with extending portcochere, and iron cresting surmounting the roof and cupola. Completely restored and filled with period correct furnishings. Read More
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1415 Columbus Avenue, Sandusky, OH, USA
Formerly the home of Eleutherus Cooke, this 1840's stone and brick home was moved to its current location in 1874. Sandusky's first lawyer, Cooke was also a politician serving in the Ohio Legislature and U.S. Congress. Read More
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219 West Granite Street, Butte, MT, USA
A 34 room Victorian mansion built by William Andrews Clark, now open for tours as well as serving as a Bed and Breakfast type of lodging. In 2002 it was designated as one of a dozen of the most distinctive destinations by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It is located in the center of the largest Historic Landmark… Read More
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126 E Walnut St, Corydon, IN, USA
Governor Hendrick's Headquarters, the former home of Indiana's second elected governor, is furnished with mid-19th century antiques. Read More
The Benjamin Thompson House (also known as the Count Rumford Birthplace) is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at 90 Elm Street, in the North Woburn area of Woburn, Massachusetts. It is significant as the birthplace of scientist and inventor Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814), who became Count Rumford of the Holy Roman Empire as well as Sir Benjamin… Read More
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Hwy 40 W, Fraser, CO, USA
Cozens Ranch Museum brings to life pioneer times of the late 1800s at the first homestead of the Fraser Valley. Travel back to the days of stagecoach travel and pioneer ranching. See where countless visitors found shelter and food after the arduous journey over Berthoud Pass. The restored buildings at Cozens Ranch Museum are all that remain of a… Read More
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200 Cragfont Rd, Castalian Springs, TN, USA
Built around 1800, the house was the home of Gen. James Winchester, a Revolutionary War hero. The house is furnished with antiques and handmade pioneer items. Read More
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404 West Main Street, Lebanon, IN, USA
The Cragun House construction was completed in 1893, by Strange Nathaniel Cragun. Born in Boone County in 1857, Strange left Boone County for a short time as a young adult, but returned in 1881 to begin a career in education. He served as principal of Whitestown, Zionsville, and Lebanon schools. In 1891, he purchased a local newspaper, the Lebanon… Read More
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9 1/2 Riverside Avenue, Rensselaer, NY, USA
Crailo was built in the early 18th century by Hendrick Van Rensselaer, grandson of the First Patroon. Hendrick died in 1740 and his eldest son, Johannes, inherited Crailo. He remodeled the house and added an east wing in the Georgian style, reflecting the increasing influence of the English on the Albany-area Dutch. In the late 18th century, Crailo was… Read More
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2728 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN, USA
Built in 1834, the house was the centerpiece of a 600 acre farm. The restored home features 18th century American and English furniture and decorative arts. Terraced Italianate gardens with fountains descend to the river. Read More
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702 Deschutes Way, Tumwater, WA, USA
The Crosby House dates from c. 1860 and was built by Nathaniel Crosby III after he married Cordelia Jane Smith in August of 1860. Miss Smith was the daughter of Jacob and Priscilla Smith who lived in the Lacey area. Read More
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6140 North Bray Road, Flint, MI, USA
The restored Genesee County community of 1860 to 1880 includes several residences and a number of craft shops. Read More
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331 First Parish Road, Scituate, MA, USA
The Cudworth House sits on land granted to Richard Garrett before 1646. In 1728 Jael Garrett sold the dwelling house and land to James Cudworth. Ownership passed to his grandson, Zephaniah, who built the present house in 1797 around the chimney of the original structure on the site. In 1851 Israel Thorndike purchased the property from the Cudworths, and… Read More
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914 East Main Street, New Albany, IN, USA
With its hand-painted ceilings, carved rosewood staircase, marble fireplaces and crystal chandeliers, the Culbertson Mansion reflects the affluence of a man once considered to be the wealthiest in Indiana. In 1867, William S. Culbertson spent about $120,000 to build his grand home in New Albany. The three-story French, Second-Empire mansion encompasses more than 20,000 square feet and contains 25… Read More
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1350 North Milwaukee Avenue, Vernon Hills, IL, USA
Construction on the Cuneo Mansion and Gardens began in 1908 and stopped during World War I. It was completed in 1918 as the home of Samuel Insull, an original founder of the General Electric Company, and designed by Chicago architect Benjamin Marshall in the Italianate style. Its gardens and landscaping were designed by world-renowned landscape architect Jens Jensen. In… Read More
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150 Ash Street, Manchester, NH, USA
The museum features two Frank Lloyd Wright homes, the 1949 Zimmerman House and the 1955 Kalil House. Read More