Historic Houses

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• The House of the Seven Gables Explore New England's oldest mansion, climb the secret staircase, learn about the people who made this house their home, and see the seven-gabled house that inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne to write his famous novel.
  
• McLoughlin House National Historic Site Built in 1845 and located in Oregon City, Oregon, the house and its furnishings have been fully restored to be authentic to the mid-Nineteenth Century, when McLoughlin occupied the home.
  
• Baker Cabin Built in 1856 it is the only cantilevered log cabin in Oregon. Located in Oregon City it is now owned by the Baker Cabin Historical Society, which is gradually restoring the homestead.
  
• St. Louis' Historic House Museums Thanks to the generosity of individuals, businesses, and institutions, all six are now house museums open to the public for individual and group tours.
  
• Richard Salter Storrs House 1786 home of New England's Storrs family. Museum features 18th century furnishings and decorative arts. Maintained by the Longmeadow Historical Society.
  
• Historic Deepwood Estate Museum Tour Salem Oregon's ornate 1894 multi-gabled, Queen Anne style home. Povey stained glass and exceptional craftsmanship throughout.
  
• Huntington Homestead The Birthplace of Samuel Huntington, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Located in Scotland, CT.
  
• The Dickens House Museum Dickens's 19th century home in London, now preserved as a historic house museum.
  
• Historic Latta Plantation Historic farm museum that demonstrates the lifestyles of planters, slaves, and settlers of back country North Carolina.
  
• Prescott House Georgian-style home of local brick built from 1814-1816.
  
• Lyndhurst, A National Trust Historic Site Gothic Revival mansion and historic Hudson Valley estate overlooking the Hudson River in Tarrytown, NY. Site includes a virtual tour of Lyndhurst and a calendar of events.
  
• Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Frederick Douglass purchased his final home in 1877, and named it Cedar Hill.
  
• Croft House Museum A Shetland croft of the 19th century, comprised of a house, steading and watermill.
  
• Eisenhower National Historic Site Home and farm of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, located in Gettysburg, PA.
  
• Ashland: The Henry Clay Estate Museum and National Historic Landmark, reflecting the prominence of Henry Clay, a statesman who was a major political figure in the first half of the 1800s.
  
• Harewood House The restoration of historic buildings ranging from Home Farm to Harewood Castle, and the protection and development of wildlife habitats and the maintenance of listed parkland.
  
• Old Meeting House A community meeting house built in 1765, it served as a religious meeting house and for community meetings and elections.
  
• Luther Burbank Home and Gardens A living history museum with house tours.
  
• Gomez Mill House Virtual Museum Originally built as a trading post by a Sephardic Jew in 1714, the house museum is the oldest extant Jewish residence in North America.
  
• Hutchison House Museum Owned and operated by the Peterborough Historical Society, depicting pioneer life in Ontario 1840-1860. Tours, Scottish Teas, Bookshop.
  
• Orchard House Nineteenth century museum home of Louisa May Alcott, writer of Little Women and of the Alcott family, in Concord, Massachusetts.
  
• Schmidt House Josephine County Historical Society in Oregon preserves this historical home located in Grants Pass.
  
• Keats - Shelley House Find our about the architects, painters, musicians and poets who all lodged here, including John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Tobias Smollet, George Eliot, Goethe, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, and Joyce.
  
• Cliveden of the National Trust Philadelphia historic house museum features original 18th century furnishings and decorative arts, including colonial Philadelphia craftsmanship by James Reynolds, Jonathan Gostelowe and Thomas Affleck.
  
• Glessner House Museum Located in Chicago, Illinois, Glessner House was finished in 1887, one year after the architect, Henry Hobson Richardson's death.
  
• Uniacke Museum Estate Museum Park This was the property of Attorney-General, Richard John Uniacke. It was built between 1813 and 1815.
  
• North Hills Museum Operated by the Historic Restoration Society of Annapolis County for the Nova Scotia Museum.
  
• Keep Homestead Museum A House Museum in Western Massachusetts with an Extensive Button Collection, Nature Trails
  
• Broadgreen Historic House Historic 19th century cob house. Includes visiting hours, a brief history of the Buxton family, services offered, and photographs. Located in Nelson, New Zealand.
  
• Brubacher Farm House Located in Waterloo, Ontario, Brubacher Farm House was constructed in 1850. It is furnished with Pennsylvania German Mennonite furnishings from the 1850-90 period.
  
• Tudor Place Located in Georgetown Washington, D.C., as a house of architectural distinction lived in by six generations of the same family from 1805 to 1984. Set in over five acres of garden.
  
• Reynolda House, Museum of American Art Historic house museum filled with masterpieces of American art and surrounded by formal gardens, shops and restaurants. Located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
  
• Raynham Hall Historic House Museum A historic home on the shores of Oyster Bay, Long Island, revealing life from the American Revolution to the beginning of the Gold Coast.
  
• Charles Macdonald House of Centreville Society Dedicated to the man, Charles Macdonald and the times he lived in. He was a artist, craftsman, social activist and business owner. A pioneer in concrete construction in Nova Scotia.
  
• Oshawa Community Museum and Archives Comprised of three historic homes in Lakeview Park on the shore of Lake Ontario. The Museum brings Oshawa's history to life through guided tours, historic walks, workshops and educational programming.
  
• David Davis Mansion State Historic Site Victorian home of Judge David Davis, a friend of Abraham Lincoln, located in Bloomington, Illinois. The mansion, built in late 1800s has been restored to its original splendor.
  
• Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Home Olmsted moved his home to suburban Boston in 1883 and established at Fairsted, the world's first full-scale professional office for the practice of landscape design.
  
• Scone Palace The ancient Crowning Place of the Kings and Queens of Scotland was at Scone Palace, near Perth.
  
• Sand Historic House Historic house and garden, situated in the picturesque regency seaside resort of Sidmouth.
  
• The Decatur House Museum -  A National Trust Historic Site Built for Naval hero Stephen Decatur in 1817 and designed by architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Visitors may tour the house and gardens, and enjoy furnishings from two decorative eras.
  
• Jason Lee House Tour 1841 home of Oregon pioneer Jason Lee, located in Salem, Oregon.
  
• Gadsby's Tavern Museum Today a historic house museum, the tavern is one of the few remaining 18th century taverns in America. Located in Alexandria, Virginia.
  
• The Vermont Legislature State House After 140 years, the house still commands the landscape of Montpelier, the smallest capital city in America. The House and Senate chambers are the oldest legislative chambers in their original condition anywhere in the country.
  
• Kerr Place 1799 manor house located in Onancock, Virginia on the Chesapeake Bay's lower Eastern Shore. Exhibits include period furnishings and decorative arts.
  
• The Emily Dickinson Homestead Home of Emily Dickinson now a National Historic Landmark owned by the Trustees of Amherst College.
  
• Indian King Tavern Museum Features a virtual tour of the colonial tavern, a premiere example of eighteenth-century colonial tavern architecture as well as the site where New Jersey was legally created.
  
• Hildene Museum Historic summer home of Robert Todd Lincoln in Manchester, Vermont.
  
• Fairfax House Located in York, England, Fairfax House is home to the famous Noel Terry collection.
  
• Haliburton House Former home of Thomas Haliburton, the museum exhibits Victorian decorative arts, including Haliburton's desk and some of his furniture.
  
• Astor House Museum Restored as a late Victorian hotel built in 1867, Astor House Museum exhibits the way of life of legislators, miners, cowboys, and families in early Golden, Colorado.
  
• Methodist Parsonage Tour 1841 Methodist Parsonage in Salem, Oregon.
  
• Historic Rosedale Plantation Built in 1815, Rosedale Plantation and its gardens have been lovingly restored and are open to the public for tours.
  
• Woodrow Wilson House Presidential museum and National Trust Historic site. Woodrow Wilson history, calendar of events and exhibitions, educational programs, tour preview, staff directory, directions and rental information.
  
• Thomas Edison House This museum explores Kentucky's connection to American inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, who worked in Louisville as a telegrapher from 1866-67.
  
• Colonel Black Mansion Maine's Woodlawn is the 300 acre estate of the Col. John Black, built in 1824 and bequeathed to the public in 1928 by George Nixon Black, Jr., grandson of Colonel Black.
  
• Shand House
  
• The Barnum House Museum Early nineteenth century neo-classical house located in Grafton, Ontario, Canada. Museum includes house history, special events and exhibits.
  
• Jutland Manor House Museum With a history dating to the 15th century, this museum was originally the home to two noble Jutland families, the Broks and Scheels.
  
• Welcome to Historic Deerfield A museum of New England history and art within the carefully preserved 328 year old village of Deerfield, Massachusetts.
  
• Paarl Museum This charming museum houses period furniture and exhibits of the history of Paarl and its people.
  
• The House of the Seven Gables Historic Site Located north of Boston, Massachusetts, constitutes its own national historic district with a collection of six houses on The National Register of Historic Places.
  
• The Sherlock Holmes Museum The Sherlock Holmes Museum is located at 221b Baker Street in London, England.
  
• Royal Palaces Official visitor and tour guide to HM Queen Elizabeth's Historic Royal Palaces, the Tower of London, Hampton Court, Kensington, the Banqueting House, Whitehall, Kew Palace and Queen Charlotte's Cottage.
  
• Haliburton House Haliburton's one-and-a-half storey wooden villa, set on a 40-acre estate overlooking Windsor, was built in 1836.
  
• Point Ellice House Features a collection of household Victoriana, with a virtual tour through the site and an on-line database of Victorian objects.
  
• Wyck: Historic House and Gardens Historic home to nine generations of the same Quaker family. Located in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Wyck houses over 10,000 pieces of original furnishings.
  
• Daniel Gebhart Tavern Museum Authentically furnished and restored 1811 log tavern museum in Miamisburg, Ohio.
  
• Surratt House Museum Surratt House Museum focuses on the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspiracy and illustrates life in mid 19th century America. Located in Clinton, Maryland.
  
• Iolani Palace The official residence of King Kalakaua and Queen Lili`uokalani, the last monarchs of Hawai`i.
  
• Gunby Hall and Gardens Built 1700 for Sir William Massingberd.
  
• Astors' Beechwood Mansion An ocean front mansion located in Newport, Rhode Island, is the former home of Caroline Astor, the mother of John Jacob Astor IV, who died on the RMS Titanic.
  
• Kykuit, The Rockefeller Estate A grand house built by family patriarch John D. Rockefeller; it is now open to the public. A description, tour hours, on-line ticket orders, and Rockefeller biographies are found here.
  
• The Cowper and Newton Museum Museum devoted to Cowper and hymn-writer John Newton: biographical data; information on Orchard Side, Cowper's home in North Buckinghamshire.
  
• President Benjamin Harrison Home Former home of President Benjamin Harrison and now a museum exhibiting the different stages of Harrison's life and career: his years as a lawyer, his role in the Civil War, and his years as President. Located in Indianapolis, IN.
  
• Burritt Museum and Park Burritt Mansion is part of a 167-acre park.
  
• Apsley House, The Wellington Museum Home of the Dukes of Wellington since 1817, the museum exhibits fine art paintings, porcelains, silver, and military memorabilia.
  
• Ross Thomson House This museum is located in Shelbourne, Nova Scotia.
  
• Bush House Tour a Salem, Oregon landmark Victorian home built by Oregon pioneer businessman Asahel Bush II in 1877-78.
  
• Garrett Historic Home Built in 1867 as the commanding officers residence. For 23 years, it sheltered colonels, captains, and majors who commanded in the last years of Fort Gibson.
  
• The Felt Manor Guest House The French Second Empire mansion overlooking Galena and the surrounding countryside. Built by Lucius Felt in 1848.
  
• Voigt House History Built in 1895, the house bespoke the prosperity and social status of the Carl G.A. Voigt family.
  
• Wylie House Museum Built in 1835 and the home of Indiana University's first president, Andrew Wylie, and his family, the museum recreates the Wylie home of the 1840s.
  
• Wayne County Historical Society and Museum Located in Wooster, Ohio, the Wayne County Historical Society's campus is based around the General Reasin Beall homestead.
  
• Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is an Italian Renaissance-style villa and formal gardens built in 1916 as the winter residence of industrialist James Deering.
  
• The Williams Residence An 1889 New Orleans townhouse restored by General L. Kemper and Leila Williams in the 1940s.
  
• Pope-Leighey House Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian house was developed as a means of providing affordable housing for people of moderate means.
  
• The Eugene Field House and St. Louis Toy Museum The Eugene Field House and St. Louis Toy Museum is the former home of the famous poet Eugene Field, the poet of childhood. It has an extensive collection of 19th century toys and furnishings.
  
• Cossit House The Reverend Ranna Cossit, the first Anglican minister assigned to Cape Breton, built this house in 1787. It is believed to be the oldest house in Sydney.
  
• The Hay House Built in the late 1850s in an elaborate Italianate style by entrepreneur William Johnston.
  
• The Martha Berry Museum Museum featuring the life of Martha Berry and her life's work, Berry College, in Mount Berry, Georgia.
  
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home Historic home and museum at Mansfield, Missouri.
  
• Huntington House Museum - Windsor, CT Map, flyer, restoration updates, and images from the turn of the century home.
  
• Betsy Ross House The residence of Betsy Ross from 1773 to 1786 is preserved as the historic house where she made her first American flag.
  
• Molly Brown House Museum Learn about the life and times of "Unsinkable" Molly Brown in her restored Victorian home in Denver, Colorado
  
• Alden Kindred and Alden Museum A 17th century house located in Duxbury, MA., has no plumbing, electricity, or modern kitchen and has always been owned by the family.
  
• Tipton - Haynes This was home to statesmen of the American Revolution through the Civil War and a battle over the formation of the State of Franklin was fought on this hallowed ground.
  
• Wyckoff House and Association, Inc. Association created to promote interest in Pieter Claesen Wyckoff, his descendants, and in the Wyckoff House Museum located in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn, New York.
  
• Bala Museum - Memories of Lucy Maud Montgomery In Bala, Muskoka, the Bala Museum features memories of Lucy Maud Montgomery, famous for writing Anne of Green Gables.
  
• Mission Houses Museum A historic house museum of the early 19th-century with a library and gift shop. Annual events include craft fairs, quilt exhibitions, and living history events.
  
• Lawrence House Built in 1870, the museums is representative of the homes of Nova Scotia's prosperous small-town shipbuilders, owners and captains in the "Golden Age of Sail".
  
• Cranbrook Museum Information on the Wealden house located in Kent, England.
  
• Glencoe Museum Historic 1870 home built by Gen. Gabriel Colvin Wharton and located in Radford, VA. Exhibits include period rooms, decorative arts, and temporary exhibits.
  
• The Susan B. Anthony House Home and artifacts of Susan B. Anthony in Rochester, NY. Museum and National Historic Landmark of the champion of suffrage, abolition, temperance and equal rights.
  
• The Ruggles House Located in Columbia Falls, Maine the house is a Federal style small mansion furnished with period antiques and features a "flying" staircase and intricate carving in drawing room.
  
• Louis Armstrong House and Archives Celebrating the life and work of Jazz great Louis Armstrong.
  
• Perkins House The oldest house in the Nova Scotia Museum collection was built in 1766 for Simeon Perkins, a Connecticut native who came to Nova Scotia in 1762.
  
• The House of Merchants - Folk Museum Located in southern Iceland, the House of Merchants, built in 1765, is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Iceland. Exhibits display local history and the role of the house through the centuries.
  
• Joseph Schneider Haus Museum and Gallery House museum with galleries and archives dedicated to the heritage of Kitchener, Ontario.
  
• The Hermitage Historic House It was a Revolutionary War headquarters of Washington and the site of Aaron Burr's marriage to Theodosia Prevost. Furnishings reflect late Victorian lifestyle.
  
• Cossit House Located close to both St. Patrick's Museum and the historic St. George's Church, Cossit House is operated by the Old Sydney Society for the Nova Scotia Museum.
  
• Philip Porcher House A circa 1770 Georgian style home located in the heart of the historic district of Charleston, South Carolina.
  
• Henry Whitfield State Museum Built in 1639, the Henry Whitfield House is Connecticut's oldest house and New England's oldest stone house.
  
• Wilton House Museum Wilton House, located in Richmond, Virginia was completed in 1753. The Randolphs resided here for over one hundred years.
  
• The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House Her last official Washington, DC residence and the first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women.
  
• The McFaddin-Ward House Museum Built in 1906 in Beaumont, Texas, the museum is one of the few remaining Beaux Arts Colonial-style houses in the United States.
  
• Wenham Museum A museum of family life exhibiting how Americans have lived, dressed, worked and played from the 17th century to today. Located in Wenham, Massachusetts.
  
• Oglesby Mansion
  
• McCulloch House The Hector Centre Trust operates McCulloch House on behalf of the Nova Scotia Museum.
  
• McCulloch House Home of Thomas McCulloch, first president of Dalhousie College, the museum contains furnishings and personal items of McCulloch.
  
• Historic House Museums in Ohio The Victorian Preservation Association's guide to historic house museums in Ohio.
  
• Firle Place: Historic House. Firle Place was home to the Gage family for more than 500 years.
  
• Bonelli House Museum Visit turn of the century Arizona at the restored and preserved Bonelli House Museum in Kingman, Arizona.
  
• The Karen Blixen Museum. Dedicated to the life and memory of one of Denmark's great writers, Karen Blixen, also know as Isak Dinesen.
  
• Longyear Museum Historic documentation and artifactual material on Mary Baker Eddy's life and achievements, and those of her early followers.
  
• Eastgate House Home of the Charles Dickens Centre and museum dedicated to the writer.
  
• Lawrence House Built about 1870, it overlooked William Lawrence's shipbuilding yard on Cobequid Bay.
  
• North House Museum History museum and library of Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Contains the collections of the Greenbrier Historical Society, including many examples of early Virginia furnishings.
  
• Gore Place Gore Place, located in Waltham, Massachusetts offers guided tours of the 1806 mansion and a full calendar of events.
  
• MacDonald House Museum Dedicated to the settlers of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and displays an 1850's gothic style home, 1930s school, and barn with wagons and implements.
  
• Milton House National Historic Landmark A stop on the Underground Railroad.
  
• John McLoughlin House Built in 1845-1856 by Dr John McLoughlin, who was the chief representative of the Hudsons Bay Company. After the British gave up their claims to Oregon, he remained and became a prominent citizen of the Oregon Territory.
  
• The Cooke House The Eleutheros Cooke House was built by Sandusky, Ohio's first lawyer and the father of Jay Cooke, the financier of the Civil War, in 1843-1844.
  
• John D. Boon House 1847 house is believed to be the oldest single family dwelling in Salem, Oregon.