Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 11
Introduction 13
Connecticut
Gillette Castle, East Haddam 17
Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington 18
The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford 19
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford 22
The Glass House, New Canaan 23
Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme 24
Houses of the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, Old Wethersfield 26
Roseland Cottage, Woodstock 29
Maine
Blaine House, Augusta 33
Olson House, Cushing 35
Woodlawn, Ellsworth 36
McLellan-Sweat Mansion, Portland 37
Victoria Mansion, Portland 39
Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland 40
Winslow Homer Studio and Home, Portland 42
Hamilton House, South Berwick 45
Sarah Orne Jewett House, South Berwick 46
Sayward-Wheeler House, York Harbor 47
Massachusetts
Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst 51
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston 53
The Nichols House Museum, Boston 55
Gibson House Museum, Boston 56
Otis House, Boston 59
The Paul Revere House, Boston 60
William Hickling Prescott House, Boston 63
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Brookline 64
John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site, Brookline 66
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters, Cambridge 69
Ralph Waldo Emerson House, Concord 71
Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House, Concord 72
The Old Manse, Concord 75
The Wayside, Concord 76
Thoreau Farm, Concord 78
The Fairbanks House, Dedham 79
Houses of Historic Deerfield, Deerfield 80
Cogswell's Grant, Essex 85
Beauport, The Sleeper-McCann House, Gloucester 86
Hammond Castle Museum, Gloucester 89
1830 Brick Dwelling, Hancock Shaker Village, Hancock 90
Fruitlands Farmhouse and Museum, Harvard 92
The Great House on Castle Hill, Ipswich 93
The Mount, Lenox 94
Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio, Lenox 96
Hancock-Clarke House, Lexington 97
Gropius House, Lincoln 99
Jeremiah Lee Mansion, Marblehead 100
The Royall House and Slave Quarters, Medford 101
Forbes House Museum, Milton 103
The Oldest House, Nantucket 104
The Cushing House, Newburyport 106
Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Gardens Museum, New Bedford 107
Herman Melville's Arrowhead, Pittsfield 110
Jabez Howland House, Plymouth 112
Dwellings of Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth 113
Houses of Adams National Historical Park, Quincy 115
Phillips House, Salem 119
Houses of Peabody Essex Museum, Salem 121
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Birthplace, Salem 123
The House of the Seven Gables, Salem 125
Hoxie House, Sandwich 127
General Artemas Ward House Museum, Shrewsbury 128
Naumkeag, Stockbridge 129
Chesterwood, Stockbridge 130
Houses of Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge 133
Stonehurst, Waltham 136
Gore Place, Waltham 138
The Edward Gorey House, Yarmouth Port 139
New Hampshire
Shaker Dwelling House, Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury 143
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish 144
The Robert Frost Farm, Derry 146
Zimmerman House, Manchester 148
The Fells, Newbury 150
Barrett House, New Ipswich 151
Governor John Langdon House, Portsmouth 152
Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden, Portsmouth 154
Houses of Strawhery Banke, Portsmouth 155
Warner House, Portsmouth 156
Wentworth Lear Historic Houses, Portsmouth 158
Rhode Island
Blithewold, Bristol 161
Linden Place, Bristol 162
Chateau-sur-Mer, Newport 164
Chepstow, Newport 167
Hunter House, Newport 169
Isaac Bell House, Newport 172
Kings cote, Newport 174
Marble House, Newport 177
Rosecliff, Newport 180
Samuel Whitehorne House, Newport 182
Rough Point, Newport 183
The Breakers, Newport 185
The Elms, Newport 187
The Brayton House at Green Animals, Portsmouth 190
John Brown House Museum, Providence 192
Pendleton House, Providence 193
Vermont
Old Stone House Museum, Brownington 196
Rokeby Museum Main House, Ferrisburgh 197
Hildene, Manchester 198
Calvin Coolidge Homestead, Plymouth 201
The Dwellings of Shelburne Museum, Shelburne 203
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park, Woodstock 206
Index 209