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Wilmington, California
Established in January 1862 as Camp San Pedro and soon renamed Camp Drum after Lieutenant Colonel Richard Drum, this post served as Union…
Titusville, Florida
Built in 1905 as a saloon and hotel, this building was refurbished within the decade as the Magnolia Hotel and Theater, screening silent…
Key West, Florida
Built in 1851 by wealthy shipwreck salvager Asa Tift, this Spanish Colonial house at 907 Whitehead Street fell into disrepair and…
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…
Franklin, Indiana
Franklin College's Old Main, a grand building housing administration offices and classrooms, was one of three campus buildings damaged by…
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…
Gakona, Alaska
Gakona Lodge was built in 1929 on the site of the earlier Doyle's Roadhouse, at the junction of the Copper and Gakona rivers, and is among…
Hannibal, Missouri
Garth Woodside Mansion is an 1871 Second Empire Victorian mansion built by Colonel John H. Garth near Hannibal, and it now operates as a…
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
For three days in July 1863, the fields and ridgelines around the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, hosted the largest battle ever…
Dubuque, Iowa
Designed by Chicago architect Willoughby J. Edbrooke and opened in 1890, the Grand Opera House is the last surviving opera house in…
Dearborn, Michigan
Staff and former employees at Greenfield Village describe unexplained activity in several buildings: footsteps upstairs and a figure at the…
Indianapolis, Indiana
Alexander Hannah, a respected Indiana state legislator and abolitionist, built this 24-room house in 1858. Local legend holds it was a…
Santa Clarita, California
La Loma de Los Vientos — "Hill of the Winds" — was completed in 1927 for the silent-film star William S. Hart: a 10,000-square-foot Spanish…
Washington, Washington DC
The Hay-Adams Hotel, opened in 1928 across Lafayette Square from the White House, stands on the site of the homes of John Hay and Henry…
Florence, Oregon
Heceta Head Lighthouse, completed in 1894 on a headland north of Florence, is among the most photographed lighthouses on the Oregon coast.…
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The Henry and Anna Overholser Mansion, built in 1903 for one of Oklahoma City's early developers, is a historic house museum of the…
Spokane, Washington
The Davenport Hotel, opened in 1914 by Louis Davenport, is Spokane's grand historic hotel. The hotel's communications director has told…
Council Bluffs, Iowa
Chicago architect W. W. Boyington designed this Second Empire mansion, built in 1869 for Grenville M. Dodge (1831–1916), a Union Army…
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
The Lowe Hotel on Main Street in Point Pleasant, across from the Mothman Museum, opened around 1901 to cater to travelers on the Ohio…
Tunnel Hill, Georgia
The Western and Atlantic Railroad tunnel at Tunnel Hill was completed in 1850 through Chetoogeta Mountain, a 1,447-foot bore that was the…
Holly, Michigan
The Holly Hotel, built in 1891 on a railroad junction in downtown Holly, was for decades a restaurant and comedy club and is often called…
Hollywood, California
In September 1932, when the sign on Mount Lee still read HOLLYWOODLAND and advertised a housing development, Peg Entwistle, a 24-year-old…
Worth, Illinois
At Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, 6001 W. 111th Street in Worth, pilgrims still visit the grave of Mary Alice Quinn, known locally as Chicago's…
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Walter Devereux built the Hotel Colorado in 1893, eight years after Glenwood Springs was incorporated, modeling it on an Italian villa;…