Kingfisher, Oklahoma
The Seay Mansion is a historical monument built upon dreams by Abraham Jefferson Seay in hopes that Kingfisher would be the new capitol of Oklahoma Territory (OT). The Seay Mansion is a historical monument built upon dreams by Abraham Jefferson Seay in hopes that Kingfisher would be the new capitol...
Carrollton, Texas
Visitors can catch a glimpse of life as it was in north central Texas at the turn of the 20th Century at the A.W. Perry Homestead Museum.A.W. and Sarah (Huffman) Perry were pioneer homesteaders of Peters Colony who came to Carrollton in the year 1844 from Carrollton, Illinois. They claimed 640...
Nashua, New Hampshire
In addition to the outstanding architecture of this Federal style home, the furnishings are fine pieces collected by the Spalding family, including glass, china and a Portrait of President Franklin Pierce.The Federal Revival style Abbot-Spalding House was the home to a succession of prominent...
Morristown, New Jersey
Headquarters of the Morris County Historical Society are located at this historic, Victorian-Era home.
Acorn Hall, named for one of the largest and oldest red oak trees in New Jersey, symbolizes the Victorian Era in Morris County. This Italianate Victorian mansion built in 1853 housed two families...
Virginia Beach, Virginia
This somewhat undersized colonial home, residence to Adam Thoroughgood in the early 17th century, has been preserved with many unique antiques.The most surprising aspect of this very old house for today's visitors is its size--it seems awfully small to be the home of one of the most prosperous and...
Deadwood, South Dakota
The Adams Museum and House continue the tradition begun in 1930 when the museum was started to maintain the history of the Black Hills pioneers.In 1930 pioneer businessman W.E. Adams founded the Adams Museum in downtown Deadwood with the purpose of preserving and displaying the history of the Black...
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...
Gainesville, Florida
The Alachua Co. Historic Trust offers several venues within its museum complex to explore the history of the greater Gainesville area.The Museum complex includes 4 sites: the Matheson Museum, housing the exhibit hall and research library, the Matheson House, the Tison Tool Museum, and Sweetwater...
Winter Park, Florida
In 1961, the Albin Polasek Foundation was founded by the sculptor and his wife, and at that time, the residence, galleries, chapel and gardens were opened to the public as a museum.The former home of sculptor Albin Polasek is now a museum and sculpture garden. The Albin Polasek Foundation runs the...
Henning, Tennessee
Originally known as the Palmer House, this 10-room, turn-of-the-century, bungalow home was the onetime residence of Alex Haley, writer of "Roots."The front porch was often the place where young Haley heard the oral accounts of family history, including stories of Kunta Kinte, the young Mandingo man...
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...
Staten Island, New York
Alice Austen, one of America's earliest and most prolific female photographers, lived most of her life in Clear Comfort, a Victorian Gothic cottage on the shores of the Verrazano Narrows.In 1877, at the age of 11, Austen received a camera from her uncle. She was immediately mesmerized by this new...
Smyrna, Delaware
The Allee House at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge stands today, as it did in the eighteenth century, overlooking the fields and marshes of Kent County.According to tradition, the Allee House was built about 1753 by Abraham Allee, the son of John Allee, a Huguenot refugee from Artois, France....
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...
Milledgeville, Georgia
Andalusia provided for author Flannery O'Connor not only a place to live and write, but also a functional landscape in which to set her fiction.During her productive years as a writer, noted female writer Flannery O'Connor spent most of her time at Andalusia. There, she routinely wrote every...
Greeneville, Tennessee
Once his home for 25 years, this site chronicles the life of President Andrew Johnson.The Andrew Johnson National Historic Site honors the life of the 17th President. Andrew Johnson's presidency, 1865-1869, illustrates the United States Constitution at work following President Lincoln's...
Grafton, West Virginia
Birthplace of the Founder of Mother's Day, this house was the first field headquarters of Gen George McClellan. The house serves as a museum to Anna Jarvis with one room devoted to McClellan memorabilia.Anna Jarvis was born in the village of Webster, Taylor County, West Virginia, on May 1, 1864, in...
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...
Charlottesville, Virginia
The 535-acre working farm was once owned by President James Monroe and his wife from 1793 to 1826. It continues to provide a unique representation of 19th-century American life.
At the urging of his good friend Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, the 5th U.S. president, bought the property adjacent to...
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...
Lexington, Kentucky
The Kentucky estate of the antebellum statesman Henry Clay, known to contemporaries and historians alike as "The Great Compromiser."Visiting Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate is like taking a step back in time. Allow at least an hour, but on a pretty day you’ll want to take no less...
Key West, Florida
There are 28 first edition Audubon works in the house, while the gardens offer a lush one-acre view of tropical foliage.Famed ornithologist John James Audubon spent much productive time during his 1832 visit to the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas in this house. He left the Keys with 18 new drawings...
Fremont, North Carolina
This typical 19th-century family farm includes the main house, separate open-hearth kitchen, corn crib, and smokehouses. Found off the beaten path, two miles south of Fremont, the historic site features a mid-19th-century farmstead, including a house, kitchen, and outbuildings. The house is...
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...
Surry, Virginia
This historic home was built in 1665, modeled in the Jacobean style.It's not really a castle, nor was it the home of rebellion leader Nathaniel Bacon, but it is one of the oldest houses in America, built in 1665. Some of Bacon's men may have stayed at the home during the 1676 rebellion against Gov...
Badin, North Carolina
Visitors can follow the history of Badin through a collection of permanent and temporary displays at this local museum.The story of Badin township begancirca 10,000 B.C. when Native Americans camped on the hill above the falls of our river and fashioned spearheads from outcroppings of rhyolite rock...
Wailuku, Hawaii
Built in 1833 as the home of Edward and Caroline Bailey, Bailey House is now a museum showcasing Hawaiian culture, artifacts, paintings and furnishings from nineteenth-century Maui.The mission home, built on the site of the Royal compound of Kahekili, last ruling chief of Maui, served as the...
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Former 19th century estate of the wealthy Baker family, it now serves as the headquarters of the Blair County Historical Society. In 2001, a renovation was completed, returning the exterior to its original appearance.Baker Mansion was originally home to ironmaster Elias Baker and his family. Baker...
Meadville, Pennsylvania
Owned by the Crawford County Historical Society, this historic home has seen a variety of owners and renovations its 200-year history.First purchased in 1840 from by Justice Henry Baldwin from Squire Lord, the house has seen a number of owners and is an excellent resource for one looking to better...
Wilmington, California
Besides presenting local pioneer history, the Banning Residence Museum provides visitors with a glimpse into the life of 19th century General and Pioneer Phineas Banning.The house is restored with Victorian style furniture to look as it did when the Banning family resided there. The museum also...
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...
Roswell, Georgia
The city of Roswell is committed to ensuring that the hall will be maintained as a historical treasure and available to the public for historical, cultural and educational purposes.The surrounding seven acres of original grounds look the same as they did 160 years ago. Fourteen Doric columns line...
Bronx, New York
Surrounded by scenic lawns and orchards sloping down to the bay, the Pell family homestead is a National Historic Landmark, restored to its 19th century appearance.In 1836, Pell family descendant Robert Bartow and his wife, Maria Lorillard, purchased part of the old manor and built a fashionable...
Williamsburg, Virginia
This restored home, once residence to the Rockefeller family, lies on historical colonial Williamsburg grounds.One of the restored 18th-century properties at Colonial Williamsburg, this was the Williamsburg home of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. whenever they came to town. Unlike the rest of...
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...
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...
Biloxi, Mississippi
The complex includes the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library, the restored antebellum home, the Confederate Museum, and veterans cemetery.The house was built by James Brown, a wealthy plantation owner from Madison County, Mississippi. The house was started in late 1848 and was completed in 1852....
Freedom, Pennsylvania
Housed in the stately old Vicary mansion is the history center displaying archives, artifacts, and documents detailing the history of the Beaver County area.The Beaver County Historical Research and Landmarks Foundation was incorporated as a nonprofit organization on December 14, 1971. It was...
Salt Lake City, Utah
In the mid 19th century, this 1854 home was once the residence of Brigham Young, leader of the Mormon community in Salt Lake City.The second Salt Lake City home of Brigham Young, the Beehive House is modeled to appear exactly as it would have during Young’s time inhabiting the mansion....
Bowie, Maryland
This restored plantation home of Samuel Ogle now displays the history of its residents and the city of Bowie.
Enjoy Bowie's earliest history at the Belair Mansion (circa 1745), the beautiful five-part Georgian plantation house of Samuel Ogle, Provincial Governor of Maryland. Enlarged in 1914 by the...
Martinsburg, West Virginia
Operated by the Berkeley County Historical Society, the historic childhood home of Belle Boyd (the famed Confederate spy) has ten rooms of displays.The historic home, built in 1853, features several different exhibits detailing American history. Exhibits on the first floor include the history of...
Nashville, Tennessee
Belle Meade Plantation is a 30-acre historic site 6 miles west of Nashville.The centerpiece of the property is the Belle Meade mansion built in 1853. This Greek revival house was home to five generations of the Harding-Jackson family, original owners of the Belle Meade Farm. In the late 19th...
Beloit, Wisconsin
The Beloit Historical Society continues to preserve the history of the region through its different sites including the Lincoln Center and the Hanchett-Bartlett Homestead, a restored 1857 Victorian farmstead.The Lincoln Center is the home of the Robert and Elizabeth Solem Museum. Located on the...
Gilford, New Hampshire
Owned by the township of Gilford, the Rowe House serves as one of the village's museum buildings. The main floor shows rooms typical of an 1800s and early 1900s farmhouse.About 1838, Gilford farmer Benjamin Rowe decided to try his hand at making bricks. In turn, he built this Greek Revival Cape for...
Durham, North Carolina
In 1865 the Confederate General Johnston and Union General Sherman met at the Bennett Place, where they signed surrender papers for southern armies in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. In 1846 at age 40, James Bennett, his wife Nancy, and their three children settled on a 325-acre farm in Orange...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
No visit to Historic Philadelphia would be complete without a stop at the home of America's most famous flagmaker, Betsy Ross.The Betsy Ross House was built over 250 years ago. The front portion was built around 1740, with the stair hall (or piazza) and the rear section added 10 to 20 years later....
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...