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Bethany Beach, Delaware
Pittsburgh plumber John Addy built the Addy-Sea in 1902 as a family home — the first building in town wired for gaslight and plumbed…
Acworth, Georgia
On October 5, 1864, roughly 3,200 Confederate troops under General Samuel French attacked the Union garrison holding the Western and…
Fernandina Beach, Florida
After Congress funded the move in 1838, the Cumberland Island Lighthouse was dismantled brick by brick, shipped across the river, and…
Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire
The Amos J. Blake House in Fitzwilliam was built in 1837 as a combined store and family home and is now a museum run by the Fitzwilliam…
St. Charles, Illinois
Built in 1926 by local philanthropists Dellora and Lester Norris and now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Arcada…
Mineral Wells, Texas
The Baker Hotel opened in 1929 as a 14-story resort of more than 400 rooms built for the mineral-water trade in Mineral Wells, and it…
Virginia City, Montana
The Bale of Hay Saloon in Virginia City opened in 1863 and is considered Montana's oldest saloon. It stands in a historic gold-rush town…
Catalina Island, California
The Banning brothers owned Santa Catalina Island from 1892, and in 1910 built this house as their summer home on the hilltop above Two…
Warsaw, Indiana
The Barbee Hotel was considered a very high-class resort during Al Capone's time. He stayed in the hotel frequently, often clearing out all…
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
William Duncan built the Basin Park Hotel from local limestone in 1905, on the site of the Perry House, which had burned in 1890 in the…
Parkersburg, West Virginia
Blennerhassett Island in the Ohio River at Parkersburg is a state park with a reconstructed mansion on the site of Harman and Margaret…
Virginia City, Montana
The Bonanza Inn in Virginia City, Montana, stands in an 1866 building that served as the Madison County courthouse while the town was the…
Peoria, Illinois
Bradley University's theatre program is housed in the Hartmann Center for the Performing Arts. Longtime students and staff tell of the…
Coffeyville, Kansas
Completed in 1904 at a reported cost of $125,000, the three-story, 16-room Brown Mansion in Coffeyville was built for businessman W.P.…
Lake Charles, Louisiana
The Calcasieu Parish Courthouse in Lake Charles is a brick and terra-cotta building completed in 1912 to replace the courthouse destroyed…
Salt Lake City, Utah
The Capitol Theatre in downtown Salt Lake City opened in 1913 as the Orpheum and is now a performing-arts venue. According to local…
Cassadaga, Florida
Built in 1927 in the Spanish style, this hotel sits at the center of Cassadaga, a spiritualist community established in 1894 by the…
Pensacola, Florida
Clara Barkley Dorr had this Victorian house built in 1871 to raise her five children after her husband Eben, a Bagdad lumber-company…
Bisbee, Arizona
This Art Deco courthouse, designed by the Tucson architect Roy Place and built in 1931, became the seat of Cochise County government when…
Tucson, Arizona
Guides and visitors at Colossal Cave describe a shadowy figure taken for one of the bandits who once hid here, a woman in white near the…
Hood River, Oregon
The Columbia Gorge Hotel, built by Portland timber baron Simon Benson in 1921 on a cliff beside Wah Gwin Gwin Falls, is a Spanish-style…
Denver, Colorado
Thomas Croke, a Denver businessman, built this Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in 1891; two years later U.S. Senator and newspaper…
Columbus, Indiana
Built as an addition to Keith's Arcade in 1889 by John Smith Crump, the Crump Theatre anchors Columbus's historic downtown and is listed on…
Clare, Michigan
The Doherty Hotel in Clare opened in 1924 and became a stop for travelers heading north and, during Prohibition, a speakeasy and meeting…