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Alexandria, Virginia
The Ramsay House at the foot of King Street, built by town founder William Ramsay in the 1700s and now Alexandria's visitor center, is a…
Atlanta, Georgia
Furniture magnate Amos Rhodes, whose business later grew into Rooms To Go, built this Romanesque Revival "castle" on Peachtree Street in…
Mobile, Alabama
Riverboat captain Charles G. Richards, from Maine, and his wife Caroline built this Italianate brick house on North Joachim Street in 1860,…
West Palm Beach, Florida
The Riddle House was built in 1905 as the gatekeeper's cottage for Woodlawn Cemetery in West Palm Beach, later served as a funeral parlor…
Ringwood, New Jersey
Ringwood Manor is a nearly 200-year-old 51-room mansion in Ringwood State Park, built on the site of a Revolutionary-era ironworks and now…
Monterey, California
The adobe was built around 1836 for Don Rafael Gonzales, customs administrator at the Port of Monterey, and later became a boarding house…
Wilmington, Delaware
Joseph Shipley, a Wilmington-born merchant banker who made his fortune in Liverpool, built Rockwood in 1854 as his retirement home, hiring…
Watseka, Illinois
Built in 1868 by Dorothy and Asa Roff, this Italianate house in Watseka is the real setting of the Watseka Wonder: in February 1878,…
Salem, Massachusetts
The Ropes Mansion on Essex Street in Salem is a Georgian house built in 1727 and occupied by the Ropes family for generations, now cared…
Frederick, Maryland
Rose Hill Manor in Frederick was built in the 1790s as the retirement home of Thomas Johnson, Maryland's first elected governor and a U.S.…
Phoenix, Arizona
Dr. Roland Rosson, an army surgeon who became a Phoenix physician and mayor, built this Queen Anne house in 1895, wired for electric light…
Oxford, Mississippi
Rowan Oak is the Greek Revival house in Oxford where William Faulkner lived from 1930 until his death in 1962, now a museum run by the…
Glendale, Arizona
William Henry Bartlett came from Illinois and founded Sahuaro Ranch in 1886, building it into a working spread of fig and fruit orchards,…
Atchison, Kansas
The Sallie House in Atchison was built in the mid-1800s and is tied locally to Dr. Charles Finney. Local lore holds that a girl named…
Newport, Rhode Island
Seaview Terrace, also called the Carey Mansion, is a 40,000-square-foot Châteauesque house on Newport's Cliff Walk, the largest privately…
Woodstown, New Jersey
Seven Stars Tavern in Woodstown was built in 1762 and is on the National Register of Historic Places for its architecture and its role in…
Indianapolis, Indiana
This site was the home of Skiles Test, a wealthy Indianapolis businessman who, after his wife's unexpected death, had her placed in a glass…
Clarksville, Tennessee
The Smith-Trahern Mansion in Clarksville is an Italianate house built in the late 1850s above the Cumberland River, now owned by the city.…
Southington, Connecticut
This house on Meriden Avenue, formerly the Hallahan Funeral Home, became nationally known after the Snedeker family moved in in 1986 to be…
Savannah, Georgia
Designed by architect Charles Cluskey and built between 1838 and 1840 for shipping merchant Francis Sorrel, this house is one of Savannah's…
Stone Mountain, Georgia
Stone Mountain Park's Historic Square assembled nineteen real 18th- and 19th-century buildings relocated from across Georgia into a single…
Goleta, California
The Carpenter Gothic Stow House was the headquarters of Rancho La Patera and is now home to the Goleta Valley Historical Society beside…
DeFuniak Springs, Florida
Merchant James T. Sherman and his wife Abigail built this three-story Victorian home over four years starting in 1886, inspired by the…
Jacksonville, Florida
Alpha Paynter was a prominent Jacksonville Beach businesswoman from 1930 until her death in 1962, known for two beloved restaurants: the…