Princeton, Kentucky
This historic home has been meticulously restored and now reflects the lifestyle of the prominent Smith-Garrett family at the close of the "Golden Age."Visitors are invited to tour the home which reflects the era of top hats and fans, graphophones, lavender scented sheets, elegant china and crystal...
Miami, Florida
The 1918 worldwide influenza outbreak compelled Miami officials to construct this, the city's first hospital.The first city hospital, which opened at the time of the influenza epidemic of 1918, is Miami's oldest surviving hospital building. It was designed by August C. Geiger, who is best known for...
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The late 19th-century architectural masterpiece still functions as a courthouse today, nestled in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh.Designed by famed architect Henry Hobson Richardson, the Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail complex is the most lasting symbol of Allegheny County. Completed in 1888...
Bensalem, Pennsylvania
This National Historical Landmark, a 19th-century Greek Revival mansion, sits on an estate filled with lush gardens and greenery on the banks of the Delaware River. Home for generations to the Biddle family, Andalusia is one of the finest examples of monumental Greek Revival architecture in America...
Little Rock, Arkansas
This program provides walking tours to local landmarks and historic sites.The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program is devoted to getting the citizens of Arkansas involved in their past. The AHPP also offers workshops and programs for youth education. In addition, a virtual tour is available of...
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Built in 1861, this Victorian mansion was home to American philanthropist and railroad magnate Asa Packer, who went on to found Lehigh University.Mary Packer Cummings willed the mansion and all its contents to the county in 1912 and the home has been open to the public since 1956. Tours lead...
Salem, Oregon
Built by Asahel Bush II in 1877, this mansion is now a museum that preserves the history of the Salem community.Bush House typifies a Victorian home in the truest sense of that word. Built by Asahel Bush II in 1877-78 and occupied by members of his family for the next seventy-five years, the house...
Napoleonville, Louisiana
Built in 1896 and still-functioning, this courthouse is the parish's only specimen of Italianate architecture.The Assumption Parish Courthouse was built in 1896, while the nearby jail is an earlier building that was in place by at least 1885. The late 19th and early 20th centuries were a time of...
Golden, Colorado
Explore how the people of Golden, Colorado settled a bustling town that served the developing West as a government center and mining supply town.The Astor House was built in 1867, and stayed in continuous operation as a boarding and rooming house until 1971. It rented rooms and served hot meals to...
Collegeville, Pennsylvania
This 18th century National Historic Landmark is still practicing today and adjoins a cemetary with tombstones dating back to 1729.The first church building of Augustus Lutheran Church is still standing and is the oldest unchanged Lutheran Church building in continuous use in the United States. The...
Avon, New York
The nearly 200-year old architecturally reknowned inn near Rochester, NY serves visitors meals as well as history.This stately, 19th-century Greek Revival mansion, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, now serves as a venue for special occasions and as a restaurant Fridays through...
Westerly, Rhode Island
This early Georgian-styled mansion was built circa 1734 for Dr. Joshua Babcock, who was Westerly's first physician and a Chief Justice of Rhode Island. Since the middle of the eighteenth century the Babcock-Smith House has stood amid an ever-changing area atop Granite Street in Westerly. One of...
Michigan City, Indiana
This site is the former residence of local millionaire-industrialist John H. Barker. Much of the decor consists of authentic Barker family artifacts, including furnishings and art objects, family portraits, library collections, and personal belongings. Visitors can also embark on a journey to the...
Barlow, Kentucky
Clifton Jesse Barlow and his family lived in the 11-room Victorian mansion, where 19th-century furniture and mementos are on display.On display in the house are many wonderful examples of Mr. Barlow's varied and valued collections. Amidst the home's turn of the century architecture, visitors will...
Miami, Florida
The distinctive vernacular architecture that prevailed in Miami at the end of the 19th century is wonderfully preserved in Commodore Ralph Munroe's former home.The distinctive vernacular architecture that prevailed in Miami at the end of the 19th century is wonderfully preserved in Commodore Ralph...
Rockville, Maryland
Built in 1815, this Federal-style home features period rooms and rotating exhibits that illuminate the domestic life of a prominent early nineteenth-century jurist.Though today Rockville, MD, is a bustling suburb of the nation's capital, it was but a small rural town when Upton Beall built this...
Catskill, New York
This 1839 Greek Revival villa overlooking the Hudson River was once home to prominent businessman and State Assemblyman, James Powers.The site, with sweeping views of the Hudson River and the state historic site of Olana, remained in the Powers family for more than one hundred years. The home and 7...
Wilmington, North Carolina
This restored antebellum mansion features changing exhibits on architectural history, historic preservation and the design arts.The Bellamy Mansion is one of North Carolina's most spectacular examples of antebellum architecture built on the eve of the Civil War by free and enslaved black artisans,...
Tuscumbia, Alabama
Bearing a striking similiarity in design to Monticello, Belle Mont Mansion's unknown architect is rumored to be none other than Thomas Jefferson.Magnificently sited on a commanding hilltop, Belle Mont is one of early Alabama’s crowning architectural achievements. It is also one of the...
Asheville, North Carolina
The heritage area at Blue Ridge is known for its thriving traditions of craft, music, agriculture, and Cherokee culture.The Blue Ridge National Heritage Area encompasses the mountains of North Carolina and includes the Blue Ridge Parkway and Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The region’s...
Sainte Genevieve, Missouri
The properties include the Louis Bolduc House, an outstanding example of French colonial architecture, and the Bolduc-LeMeilleur House, combining French and American styles.Built in 1770 out near the river on the Le Grand Champ field by Louis Bolduc, a Canadian lead miner, merchant and planter, the...
Garrison, New York
Built by States Dyckman in 1808, this historic home is a fine example of the Federal style of American architecture.Boscobel is situated on a bluff on the east bank of the Hudson River opposite the United States Military Academy at West Point. Visitors are invited to tour the house museum and...
Louisville, Kentucky
This historic home, once residence to the Brennan family, is the last remaining private residence in Louisville's downtown business district. The three story, red brick Italianate-style home is furnished in a Victorian interior, and has remained virtually untouched since that era. The Brennans...
Coxsackie, New York
After purchasing land from the Katskill Indians in 1662, Dutch colonist Pieter Bronck built a one-room home with large beams and wide floor boards that still stand today.The home that Bronck built in 1663 is the oldest home in upstate New York. The complex today is made up of the 1738 brick house,...
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
This National Trust Historic Site in Cedar Rapids is a museum and a community cultural center, alive with concerts, festivals, performances, and activities.Brucemore’s story is about hundreds of immigrants drawn to Cedar Rapids to work in the families’ businesses. It is about new...
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
The architectural allure is what draws 30,000 visitors a year to these two castles/museums. Bucks County Historical Society manages Fonthill Museum and Mercer Museum, stunning both on the outside and inside.Inspired by the vision and creativity of Henry C. Mercer (1856-1930), it is the mission of...
Campbell Hall, New York
Visitors can step back in time as they roam the 120 acres complete with the fourth oldest stone house in the county. The site also boasts the only standing New World Dutch Barn.Built in 1722, the house was once home to William Bull, a stonemason builder, and his wife Sarah Wells, pioneer maiden to...
Roswell, Georgia
This antebellum historic site offers visitors quality tours, educational programs, community outreach and other events.Completed in 1839 for Major James Stephens Bulloch, one of Roswell's founders, Bulloch Hall is a Greek Revival structure and one of the South's finest examples of true temple-form...
Cahokia, Illinois
This architectural rarity was constructed in 1740, when Illinois was still a colony of France.Built about 1740 as a four-room private residence by Jean le Poincet and later purchased by Francois Saucier, son of the designer of Fort de Chartres, the Cahokia Courthouse is an example of the French...
St. Louis, Missouri
Built in 1851, the house was the home of renowned fur trader and entrepreneur Robert Campbell and his family from 1854 until 1938.After a monumental five-year, $3 million restoration the museum now stands as one of the most accurately restored 19th Century buildings in America, reflecting the high-...
Katonah, New York
The 90-acre former estate of Walter Rosen hosts world-class music concerts year-round. The mansion contains rooms imported from European palaces and a lavish collection of art.The Rosen House, built around a central courtyard, is the former summer home of Caramoor's founders Lucie Bigelow and...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Carpenters' Hall hosted the First Continental Congress in 1774 and was home to Franklin's Library Company, The American Philosophical Society, and the First and Second Banks of the United States.Since its founding, Carpenters’ House has been the home to numerous tenants in the arts, sciences...
Baltimore, Maryland
The Carroll Mansion was built between 1804 and 1808. The Phoenix Shot Tower, which was built in 1828 and was the tallest U.S. building until 1846, churned out "drop" shot, used in game hunting.Two sites operated by Carroll Museums, located in historic Jonestown, which was founded in 1732 and...
St. Augustine, Florida
The last standing 17th-century fort in the U.S., the monument has a complex cultural history beginning with Native Americans and running through Spanish, French, and English colonial domination.Begun in 1672, the Castillo de San Marcos is the last 17th century fort left in the United States....
Marietta, Ohio
With its octagonal tower, trefoil attic window, and stone capped spires, The Castle, opened in 1994, is one of the best examples of Gothic Revival style architecture in Ohio.The Castle of Marietta is the backdrop where groups and individuals of all ages come to experience history firsthand. Young...
Chesterfield, Virginia
This 1817 plantation home serves as the headquarters for the Chesterfield Historical Society.One of the finest Palladian style period houses in Chesterfield County, Castlewood has a five-part building plan that bears no likeness to any other recorded dwelling in Virginia. Its unique place in the...
St. Augustine, Florida
This cathedral is most well-known for establishing the first parish in the United States when Spanish settlers inhabited the area in 1565.First completed in 1565 of pine posts and cypress fronds by the founders of the city and continually restructured until 1788, this Spanish Colonial and...
Chesapeake Beach, Maryland
This museum highlights the story of the Chesapeake Beach Railway. It includes exhibits of the railway's route and equipment.Located in a train station that was in operation from 1900 until the Great Depression, this museum tells the story of the railway in which the station was a part. Exhibits in...
Grove Hill, Alabama
Housed in the historic Alston-Cobb house, the Clarke County Historical Museum seeks to educate the local community and visitors about the area's history.
Included on the National Register of Historic Places, the Clarke County Historical Museum is a treasure trove of local history. Housed in an 1854...
Germantown, New York
Clermont State Historic Site includes a visitor's center, carriage trails, formal gardens and exhibition galleries along with the renovated mansion, home to seven generations of the historic Livingston family.Clermont became the home of the historic Livingston family in 1728 when Robert Livingston...
Louisville, Kentucky
This historic home is one of the most stunning of Old Louisville's houses, defining Richardsonian Romanesque architecture.The house was built for Theophilus Conrad, a Frenchman who made his fortune in the tanning business. After his death in 1905, the Caldwell family purchased the home. This...
Homestead, Florida
A garden of carved stone, baffling in its construction, is the work of the reclusive Ed Leedskalnin.A garden of carved stone, baffling in its construction, is the work of the reclusive Ed Leedskalnin.
The grounds of Coral Castle consist of 1,100 tons of stones found in the forms of walls, carvings...
Lebanon, Pennsylvania
This furnace's Gothic Revival architecture makes it unique, especially because it is so well-preserved. Cornwall Iron Furnace is a classic example of the early American iron industry.Cornwall Furnace is indeed a unique survivor of the early American iron industry. Originally built by Peter Grubb in...
Port Washington, New York
Along with collecting historic records and artifacts, the society maintains two house museums used to displays its collections and sponsors programs for adults and children.The society maintains the Sands-Willets House, part of which dates from the early 1700s, as a museum and educational center....
Castalian Springs, Tennessee
Home of Revolutionary War General James Winchester, Cragfont typifies late Georgian architecture and houses many Federal antiques once owned by the Winchester family.Cragfont was the home of General James Winchester, a protagonist of the American Revolution, a pioneer in the Middle Tennessee...
Defiance, Missouri
This four-story home, the last residence to Daniel Boone and his wife, was built between 1804 and 1810 in the Femme Osage Valley of St. Charles County.The adjoining Boonesfield Village is a collection of historic buildings from throughout Missouri that are being reconstructed to form a living...
DeBary, Florida
Originally a European wine merchant's winter residence and hunting grounds, New Yorker Frederick deBary transformed the site into an oasis of entertainment and leisure in the 1870s.Visitors to Debary Hall will learn about the nineteenth-century tourism that overtook Florida, the period's incipient...
Washington, District Of Columbia
The Decatur House, designed by the father of American architecture, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, features exhibits on one-time resident naval hero Stephen Decatur.The Decatur House, designed by the father of American architecture, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, features exhibits on one-time resident naval hero...
Deland, Florida
The historic Deland Memorial Hospital, dating from the early 1920s, today serves as a museum complete with eight galleries and exhibits, including a reconstructed operating room and apothecary.Currently a museum housing eight galleries and exhibits, The DeLand Memorial Hospital was originally built...
High Falls, New York
The museum displays nearly 4,000 objects from the Delaware & Hudson Canal's construction, and maintains a walking trail to five of the original canal's locks.Nearly 4,000 artifacts maps, models, paintings, and documents relating to the canal’s 185-year history are on display in the 19th-...