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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ca: Monterey Old Town Historic District
Also known as Monterey State Historic Park, this NHLD contains both California's First Theatre, and the Monterey Customs House, where the American flag was first raised over California. It also incorporates the National Historic...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Jeremiah Lee House
Jeremiah Lee was the wealthiest merchant in Massachusetts in the 1760s, when he had this Georgian mansion built. The mansion is in a remarkable state of preservation, and is operated by the local historical society as a house museum.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Larkin House
This house, part of the larger NHLD Monterey State Historic Park, combined Spanish building techniques with New England features, creating the Monterey Colonial style of architecture.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Derby Summer House
This is a rare example of an 18th-century American garden house. Designed in the 1790s by Samuel McIntire, it resided on the estate of Salem merchant Elias Hasket Derby until 1901, when it was moved to the Endicott family's Glen Magna...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: F. F. Tomek House
A Frank Lloyd Wright house in the Riverside Historic District.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: House of the Seven Gables
Best known for its association with Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel of the same name, this 1668 house was also a key early preservation effort, successfully restored in the early 20th century by historian and preservationist Joseph Everett...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maryland: H. L. Mencken House
A home of author H. L. Mencken. The house is included in the Union Square-Hollins Market Historic District.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Indiana: Levi Coffin House
Levi Coffin lived in this house from 1827 to 1847, where he helped as many as 2,000 slaves escape to freedom. The house was known as the Union Depot of the Underground Railroad, and it contained secret doors that could hide fugitives.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Estudillo House
Adobe house; constructed in 1827; was considered one of the finest houses in Mexican California.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Isaac Royall House
This c. 1692 house was extensively expanded in the 18th century by merchant and slaveowner Isaac Royall, Jr. It was occupied by John Stark during the 1775-76 Siege of Boston. A well-preserved Georgian house that is now a museum, the...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Missouri: George Caleb Bingham House
George Caleb Bingham, a painter, lived in this house from 1837-1845. During his time at this house, Bingham first sketched the Missouri River and local frontier life that later turned into his "genre" works.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Rhode Island: Governor Henry Lippitt House
This well-preserved 1865 Italianate villa-style house was built for Governor Henry Lippitt. It is now a house museum, with original interior furnishings by architect Henry Childs.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Missouri: Field House
This was the home of attorney Roswell Field, who represented slave Dred Scott in the U.S. Supreme Court case Scott v. Sandford (1857). Also the birthplace of Field's son, author Eugene Field, the house is currently known as the Eugene...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Missouri: Joseph Erlanger House
This house was the home of Joseph Erlanger from 1917 until his death in 1965. Erlanger was an American physiologist and a co-recipient of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. More recently, the house fell into a state of...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Peter Tufts House
This house, whose construction date is uncertain but believed to be in the mid-to-late 17th century, is quite possibly the oldest brick house in North America. It was probably built by Peter Tufts (1628-1702), an early settler of Medford.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Washington, d.c.: Decatur House
Federal Style house designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe for naval hero Stephen Decatur across Lafayette Square from the White House. During 1827-1833 was home to successive Secretaries of State Henry Clay, Martin Van Buren, and Judah P....
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Olson House
Andrew Wyeth spent 30 summers at the house and is buried on the grounds. The house is depicted in many of his paintings including Christina's World.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Orchard House
This early 18th-century house was the longtime home of Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888). His daughter, writer Louisa May Alcott, set the novel Little Women here. It is now a house museum.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Tate House
This 1750s house was built for George Tate, a British Royal Navy agent in charge of procuring ship masts. It is the only pre-Revolutionary house in the Portland area that is open to the public.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: General Benjamin Lincoln House
This well-preserved 18th-century house was the birthplace and lifelong home of Revolutionary War General and Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Benjamin Lincoln (1733-1810). The house, which is not open to the public, remains in Lincoln...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: John Ward House
Construction was begun on this house in 1684, with owner John Ward making several modifications to it prior to his death. The building, now owned by the Peabody Essex Museum, stands as a fine example of the organic growth of early...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House
Designed by Isaiah Rogers, this 1833 Greek Revival house was built by ship captain and China Trade merchant Robert Bennet Forbes and his siblings for their mother. Furnished and decorated with acquisitions Forbes made in China, it is now...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Mission House
This house was built in c. 1742 by Reverend John Sergeant, the first Christian missionary to the Stockbridge Indians. It is now owned and operated by The Trustees of Reservations as a house museum.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Fairbanks House
Continuously owned by a single family since its construction in the late 1630s, this is probably the oldest timber-frame house in North America. It is now operated by Fairbanks Family in America, Inc., as a house museum.