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New England House Museums: A Guide to More than 100 Mansions, Cottages, and Historical Sites

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A photographic guide to historical homes and dwellings across New England

The one hundred sites in this guide are in all six New England States, dating from the early 17th century to the threshold of our time and the architectural styles reflect those popular over a period of four centuries. The sites are varied and were the homes of leaders and literati, merchants and millionaires, poets and Pilgrims, philosophers and farmers, and seafarers and Shakers.

Each chapter lists the museum’s location, web address, and telephone number and provide a description of the historical occupants as well as an in-depth look at the house's place in national and architectural history.

Sites include:

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford CT
  • Sarah Orne Jewett House, Souther Berwick ME
  • Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst MA
  • Robert Frost Farm, Derry NH
  • The Breakers, Newport RI

ISBN-13: 9781581574975

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Countryman Press - The

Publication Date: 03-06-2018

Pages: 224

Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Robert J. Regalbuto has traveled extensively, staying at monastery guesthouses along the way. He is the author of several books, including Monastery Guest Houses of North America, Weekend Walks in Historic New England, Weekend Walks in the Historic Washington, DC, Region, and Weekend Walks in Brooklyn. Regalbuto graduated from Harvard cum laude and lives in Rhode Island.

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