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Tolland, Connecticut
Built in 1720 by Daniel Benton, this house belonged to one of Tolland's wealthiest and most influential families. His grandson Elisha…
Savannah, Georgia
Master builder Isaiah Davenport built this Federal-style home on Columbia Square in 1820; after he died of yellow fever in 1827, his widow…
Washington, Washington DC
Decatur House on Lafayette Square, designed by Benjamin Latrobe and completed around 1818, was home to naval hero Stephen Decatur, who was…
Destrehan, Louisiana
Destrehan Plantation, established in 1787 by the Destrehan family along the Mississippi River, is considered the oldest documented…
Salt Lake City, Utah
The Devereaux House, built in 1857 for William Staines, is considered the first mansion in Utah. It later belonged to William Jennings, who…
Mount Dora, Florida
The Donnelly House in Mount Dora was built in 1893 for John Donnelly, the town's first mayor, and his wife Annie, and was listed on the…
Waldorf, Maryland
The Mudd House is the former home of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who treated John Wilkes Booth's leg after Lincoln's assassination. Reports include…
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Dr. John R. Drish began this plantation house off Greensboro Avenue in 1837 and enlarged it into an Italianate mansion with a three-storey…
Vicksburg, Mississippi
The Duff Green Mansion in Vicksburg was built in 1856 and has served as a family home, a Confederate and Union hospital during the 1863…
Aberdeen, South Dakota
Easton Castle in Aberdeen is a 22-room Victorian mansion on a 17-acre property that Dr. Sam Holman bought in 1967 to save it from…
Cape May, New Jersey
The Emlen Physick Estate is an 18-room Queen Anne mansion designed by Frank Furness and built in 1879 for Dr. Emlen Physick, and it is now…
Key West, Florida
Built in 1851 by wealthy shipwreck salvager Asa Tift, this Spanish Colonial house at 907 Whitehead Street fell into disrepair and…
Atlanta, Georgia
Built in Washington County in 1787, the Pope-Walton House was disassembled and rebuilt on three acres in Buckhead in 1967, where it…
Bennington, Vermont
Students, faculty and staff at the Everett Mansion have reported strange noises, furniture moved with no explanation, flickering lights, a…
Dearborn, Michigan
The best-known ghost at Fair Lane is said to be Ford's butler, who hurries through the hallways, follows visitors, and cleans up after them…
Superior, Wisconsin
Fairlawn Mansion in Superior was built around 1890 for the lumber baron Martin Pattison and later served as a children's home before…
Holland, Michigan
The Felt Mansion is a 25-room lakeshore estate built in the 1920s by the Chicago inventor Dorr Felt as a dream home for his wife Agnes.…
Astoria, Oregon
The Flavel House Museum in Astoria is the Queen Anne mansion of Captain George Flavel, a Columbia River bar pilot and one of the town's…
Morristown, New Jersey
The Ford Mansion in Morristown is a Georgian house built in the 1770s that served as General George Washington's headquarters during the…
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
The Frank Phillips Home is the 26-room Neoclassical mansion that Phillips Petroleum founder Frank Phillips built in downtown Bartlesville…
Joliet, Illinois
Built in 1887 from Joliet limestone by local architect and Egyptologist Frank Shaver Allen, this house at the corner of Morgan and Dewey…
Cleveland, Ohio
Franklin Castle is the Gothic Revival mansion in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood built in the 1860s for German immigrant Hannes…
Camden, Alabama
This house on Highway 10 outside Camden was built in the late 1820s or 1830s for the Reverend Ebenezer Hearn, remembered as the father of…
Walton, Kentucky
The Gaines Tavern History Center is the Abner Gaines House, a Federal-style house built in 1814 on the site of a tavern that dated to 1795,…