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Stockbridge, Georgia
The Aaron and Margaret Parker Jr. House, built around 1830, is one of the oldest surviving houses in Rockdale County and stands at the…
St. Augustine, Florida
Lucy Abbott, a spinster from North Carolina still in her twenties, arrived in St. Augustine in 1860 and began buying land north of the…
Simsbury, Connecticut
Built in 1780 by Jonathan Pettibone Jr. as a stop on the Boston-to-Albany turnpike, this tavern hosted travelers including George…
Winchester, Virginia
Abram's Delight, a limestone house built in 1754, is the oldest house in Winchester and is now a historic house museum. Staff and local…
Monticello, Arkansas
The architect Sylvester Hotchkiss built this Queen Anne house on North Main Street in 1906 for Joe Lee Allen and his family. In December…
Allerton Park, Illinois
Robert Allerton (1873-1964) built this mansion and its formal gardens starting in 1899, later donating the estate to the University of…
Ellisville, Mississippi
Visitors, DAR members and local news have reported rocking chairs that rock on their own, footsteps like heavy boots walking through the…
New Castle, Delaware
Built in 1738 and also known as the Dr. Finney House, the Amstel House has stood through disease outbreaks, a change of national control,…
Savannah, Georgia
Cotton merchant Andrew Low built this Italianate mansion on Lafayette Square in 1848; his daughter-in-law Juliette Gordon Low, founder of…
Salt Lake City, Utah
The Armstrong Mansion, a Victorian house built in 1893 by Francis Armstrong for his wife Isabel, was long a social hub of Salt Lake City…
Key West, Florida
The Artist House still carries a reputation for unexplained activity and moved objects tied to Robert the doll's years there:…
Galveston, Texas
Ashton Villa, an Italianate mansion on Galveston's Broadway, was built in 1859 for businessman James Moreau Brown and is one of the grand…
Fort Collins, Colorado
Franklin Avery, the surveyor who laid out Fort Collins's original street grid, built this house for his family in 1879. It was a private…
Surry, Virginia
Bacon's Castle in Surry County is a brick house built in the mid-1600s and named for Bacon's Rebellion of 1676. It is a Preservation…
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Baker Mansion in Altoona was built in the 1840s for iron master Elias Baker and is now a museum of the Blair County Historical Society.…
Mesa Verde, Colorado
Built between roughly 1190 and 1270 CE into a sandstone alcove 700 feet above Soda Canyon, Balcony House holds three plazas and 38 rooms —…
Adairsville, Georgia
English cotton merchant Godfrey Barnsley bought 8,000 acres of former Cherokee land in the 1840s to build this estate, though his wife…
St. Joseph, Missouri
The Beattie Mansion, known locally as the House on the Hill, is one of St. Joseph's best-known haunted places. During renovations in 2004,…
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Beauregard-Keyes House in the French Quarter was built in 1826 for auctioneer Joseph LeCarpentier, grandfather of the chess champion…
Newport, Rhode Island
Beechwood, the Newport summer home of the Astor family, was built in the 1850s and became famous when Caroline Astor, the Mrs. Astor of…
Newport, Rhode Island
Belcourt Castle on Bellevue Avenue is a 60-room Gilded Age mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt and completed in the 1890s for Oliver…
Valdosta, Georgia
Built around the turn of the 20th century, this house is named for Dr. David S. Bell, a traveling medicine man who sold tonics and potions…
Wilmington, North Carolina
The Bellamy Mansion on Market Street in Wilmington is a grand Italianate and Greek Revival house built in 1859 for a wealthy physician and…
King George, Virginia
Belle Grove at Port Conway on the Rappahannock River is the birthplace of President James Madison, who was born on this land in 1751, and…