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West Brownsville, Pennsylvania
Nemacolin Castle in Brownsville began in 1789 as a trading post on the National Road and grew into a 22-room castle for the Bowman family,…
Vacherie, Louisiana
Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie is famous for the double row of live oaks leading to its Greek Revival house. Josephine and Andrew Stewart…
Mobile, Alabama
Cotton broker James W. Roper built Oakleigh in 1833, a raised Greek Revival house with its main floor a storey above the ground against…
Franklin, Kentucky
Octagon Hall was built between 1847 and 1859 by Andrew Jackson Caldwell near Franklin, in an unusual eight-sided plan, and it served both…
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
The Octagon House in Fond du Lac is an eight-sided house from the 1850s, built in the Orson Fowler style and containing hidden passages and…
Savannah, Georgia
Built in 1964 as the Downtowner Motor Lodge and later operated as a Ramada Inn before SCAD acquired it as a dormitory, Oglethorpe House has…
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The Oklahoma Governor's Mansion, a Dutch Colonial Revival house dedicated in 1928 near the state Capitol, is the official residence of the…
Milledgeville, Georgia
Built in 1838 and designed by architect Charles Cluskey, this Greek Revival mansion served as the residence of Georgia's governors from…
Little Rock, Arkansas
Built between 1833 and 1842, the Old State House served as Arkansas's first state capitol until a new capitol opened in 1912; it later did…
Ventura, California
Raymundo Olivas and his friend Felipe Lorenzana were granted the 4,670-acre Rancho San Miguel by Mexican governor Juan B. Alvarado in…
Bisbee, Arizona
Guests at the Oliver House report ghostly footsteps in the hallways at night, cold spots, a rocking chair that moves of its own accord,…
Savannah, Georgia
Built in 1819 by British architect William Jay for cotton merchant Richard Richardson, the house later passed to the Owens family,…
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion on Milwaukee's Wisconsin Avenue was built in 1892 for the brewing magnate Frederick Pabst and is now a…
Eatonton, Georgia
Henry and Elizabeth Perry Tripp built Panola Hall, one of Georgia's finest Greek Revival landmarks, in 1854. Local legend holds that…
Belleville, Illinois
This East Washington Street building in Belleville has hosted a string of restaurants over the years — Diamond Lil's, The Carriage House,…
Pawnee, Oklahoma
The Pawnee Bill Ranch Mansion was the 1910 home of Gordon "Pawnee Bill" Lillie, a Wild West showman, and his wife May, and is now a…
Highland, Illinois
This two-story 1850s brick building on 9th Street in Highland now houses Peacock Bakery and Cafe; for decades before that it was home to…
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
The Pettigrew Home & Museum is the 1889 Queen Anne house of Richard F. Pettigrew, South Dakota's first U.S. senator and a leading citizen…
Williamsburg, Virginia
The Peyton Randolph House in Colonial Williamsburg, home of the first president of the Continental Congress, is one of the historic area's…
Stratford, Connecticut
In March 1850, Congregational minister Rev. Eliakim Phelps and his family returned home from Sunday service on Elm Street to find the house…
Savannah, Georgia
Operating since the 1750s, The Pirates' House began as a pub serving sailors near the Savannah waterfront, and tunnels dug beneath the…
Portland, Oregon
Pittock Mansion, a French Renaissance-style château in Portland's West Hills, was finished in 1914 for Oregonian publisher Henry Pittock…
Perth Amboy, New Jersey
The Proprietary House in Perth Amboy was built in the 1760s for the royal governors of New Jersey and was the last home of William…
Mankato, Minnesota
The Rensselaer D. Hubbard House in Mankato is a Second Empire mansion built in 1871 for the founder of the Hubbard Milling Company and now…