Montgomery, Alabama
This 1847 Greek Revival structure saw both the ascendancy of the Confederacy prior to the Civil War and the triumph of civil rights solidarity with the 1965 Voting Rights March.Completed in 1851, this National Historic Landmark is a museum of state history and politics. Additions to the building...
Tallahassee, Florida
This state park, located in the heart of Tallahassee, is a place where visitors can enjoy scenic gardens, lakes, and hiking trails.These beautiful ornamental gardens were first planted in 1923 by Alfred B. and Louise Maclay after they purchased the property for their winter home. A masterpiece of...
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...
Amana, Iowa
One of Iowa's most famous travel destinations, these seven authentic German villages were founded as a religious commune 150 years ago.The name Amana means to "remain faithful". It has, in many ways, remained faithful to the communal culture; historical buildings have been preserved; the...
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...
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...
Columbia, Tennessee
Built as a private residence, the Athenaeum Rectory became one of the most prestigious schools for women in the United States.Originally designed in 1835 as a home for Samuel Polk Walker, President James K. Polk's nephew, in 1837 it became the residence of the Reverend Mr. Franklin Gillette Smith....
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...
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...
Miami, Florida
Developed over a period of more than 40 years, the residential buildings in this district reflect Miami's growth from a pioneer settlement to a significant metropolitan area.Comprised of four distinct subdivisions, Bayside mirrors the diversity and taste of its early, fashionable residents. Houses...
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...
Camp Smith, New York
When completed in 1924, the 1,641-foot-long edifice was the largest suspension bridge in the world. The Tudor-style tollhouse provides tourist information for Bear Mountain’s parks.As the oldest of NYSBA’s bridges, Bear Mountain Bridge was the first vehicular river crossing between New York...
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...
Nashville, Tennessee
The mid-19th-century Italian-style villa was one of the most elaborate antebellum homes in the South, containing an art gallery, conservatories, lavish gardens, aviary, lake and zoo.The moving spirit of Belmont Mansion was Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham. Born on March 15, 1817, to an...
Bennington, Vermont
The tallest structure in Vermont commemorates the Battle of Bennington, a battle that lead to the turning point in the Revolutionary War.Soaring more than 300 feet above the lovely streets of Old Bennington, a striking stone monument marks the site of a critical military supply depot. In the late...
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Dr. James Weems built this plantation house in 1740. Today, it is one of the oldest buildings in the area and an invaluable piece of colonial architectural history.Although Major John Billingsley never lived on the property he acquired from Lord Baltimore on the Patuxent River and the Western...
Knoxville, Tennessee
This historic mansion houses period antiques and boasts General James Longstreet as one of its occupants.Bleak House, an antebellum mansion of fifteen spacious rooms and wide halls, stands well back on an eminence among lovely trees and elaborately landscaped grounds. The property fronts 250 feet...
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...
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
The delightfully extravagant interior offers a wide array of peculiar objects: visitors will marvel at the ceiling murals, fish sculptures, antique china, and turn-of-the-century carousel animals.The American artist Frederic Clay Bartlett used the Bonnet House as his winter residence. A number of...
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...
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...
Maryville, Tennessee
Formerly a historic residence, Thompson Brown House Museum now features artifacts, photos, personal histories, and other items from the rich history of Cades Cove.Thompson-Brown House, included in the National Register of Historic Places and located at 1004 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville,...
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-...
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...
Carson City, Nevada
Originally, this building functioned as the Carson City Post Office, Land Office, Weather Bureau and U.S. District Court. It is now home to the Nevada Commission of Tourism.The Carson City Post Office is an imposing late 19th-century building encompassing an entire block in the heart of Carson City...
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...
Hagerstown, Maryland
Preserving America’s colorful canal era and transportation history, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park is 184.5 miles of adventure.Originally, the C&O Canal was a lifeline for communities and businesses along the Potomac River as coal, lumber, grain and other...
St. Michaels, Maryland
Resting on an 18-acre waterfront, this expansive museum looks at the history of the Chesapeake Bay.Founded in 1965, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum has expanded from a two acre campus to an 18-acre waterfront. On permanent display are collections of Chesapeake Bay artifacts, visual arts, 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...
Deadwood, South Dakota
Established in 1876 as a mining town, the addition of the railroad in 1891 turned Deadwood into a prosperous pioneer town.What you'll see in Deadwood today is a careful, accurate restoration of a historically significant city. Deadwood's extensive Victorian architecture is unique to the West. While...
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...
St. Augustine, Florida
The only living history museum in St. Augustine looks back to the city's legacy of colonial Spanish rule.As St. Augustine's sole living history museum, the Colonial Spanish Quarter offers a rare glimpse of the city under Spanish rule. Reenactors fill a number of occupations common in 1740, from...
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...
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...
Crown Point, New York
During the French and Indian War, Ft. Fredric served as a critical French Bastion guarding against British invasions to the north. Destroyed by the retreating French in 1759, the British occupied the peninsula and eventually built a new and much larger fort adjacent to the old one. During the...
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...
Fremont, Ohio
The Presidential Center purchased the Dillon House in 1962 because of its historical link to President Rutherford B. Hayes.The Dillon House represents one of Fremont’s finest Victorian-era homes. It was constructed over the course of two years and is of a Towered Second Empire design....
Cambridge, Maryland
Located on the Eastern Shore, the Dorchester County Historical Society is based out of the Meredith House, a Georgian-style home built in approximately 1760.
The Dorchester County Historical Society is a private, nonprofit, organization dedicated to the collection, preservation, maintenance,...
St. Augustine, Florida
The nine houses in the Dow Museum of Historic Homes, dating from 1790 to 1910, are accompanied by five exhibit galleries that elaborate on the history of the area.The nine houses in the Dow Museum of Historic Homes, dating from 1790 to 1910, are accompanied by five exhibit galleries that elaborate...
Miami, Florida
The home of one of Miami's first black physicians has been restored as an educational center on the grounds of Booker T. Washington High School.Dr. William Chapman, one of Miami's first black physicians, was known for his educational programs on communicable diseases. Built during Miami's Land Boom...