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SOME INTERESTING U.S. HOMES TO VISIT |
House of Seven Gables was for a time the home of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was born there in 1804. It is nestled outside the “witch town” area of Salem, the House of Seven Gables consists of five structures built between 1655 and 1830, including Hawthorne’s birth house. They still exhibit all three centuries of architecture. Website
Point of Honor was built in 1815 as the home of Dr. George Cabell, physician to American Revolution patriot Patrick Henry and a known friend of Thomas Jefferson. This federal-style home, offset on a private hill, gets its name from the stories of men fighting sword or gun duels for honor on the property. It passed from the Cabell family to Judge William Daniel of the Virginia Court of Appeals in 1839. During the Civil War, it was the home of Robert Owen, president of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. His son became Oklahoma’s first State Senator. Website
Ca d’Zan In the early 1920’s, John Ringling was already a multi-millionaire—the thirteenth richest man in America—by Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey Circus fame. He and his wife Mable visited Italy, fell in love with the palatial Venetian villas, and decided to fashion a Florida home in that style. They named it– Italian for House of John. Website
Mark Twain Museum One of America’s greatest authors, Mark Twain was born Samuel Clemens in 1835 in Hannibal, Missouri—the town on the Mississippi River that inspired Twain throughout The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Now the town honors him with The Mark Twain Museum, a collection of eight buildings, each an important part of Twain’s early life and six of which are on the National Register of Historic Places.If it wasn’t marked as such, you might walk by Twain’s small frame house at 208 Hill Street, which has been recreated with period furniture in each room, but it’s hard to miss the more lavish Hawkins house across the street, where Laura, the inspiration for Becky Thatcher, lived. Website
Rocky Ridge Farm is Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum, Mansfield, Missour i At age 65, Laura Ingalls Wilder started writing the Little House on the Prairie books at Rocky Ridge Farm.The site features many of Wilder’s possessions and photos.. Website |
Peabody-Essex Museum--Salem, Massachusetts At Peabody-Essex,New England's premier museum of art, architecture, and culture you can travel through time, from the 1689 John Ward House that withstood the turmoil of the witchcraft trials to the stately Gardner Pingren Website
Brucemore is a Queen Anne-style house built in the 1880’s which has been bequeathed to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The focal point of a magnificent 26-acre park-like estate in the heart of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, tours of the 21-room mansion provide a glimpse of the privileged life of another time. Website
Witch House Salem Built in 1675, the home of Witch Trial Judge Jonathan Corwin is the only original house standing from a main historical figure of that frightening year, 1692. Every room, with authentic floors, period furniture and trappings, can be toured. It’s just down the street from the Old Town Hall and the memorial cemetery dedicated to the innocent people who were executed.Corwin, the local magistrate who gained infamy by ruling over the trials of all nineteen victims, lived here for forty years. The home remained in his family for nearly two centuries Website .
Cross Creek Cross Creek was the home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. She wrote her winning book, The Yearling, while living in this house.The property is now a Florida Historic State Park, Rawlings also used the town’s name, “Cross Creek,” as the title of her scathingly scandalous memoirs about the town and its people Website
Orchard House, the home of Louisa May Alcott where she created one of the most beloved novels in American literature, Little Women. She based the main characters on herself and her sisters and the March family home on this house on Lexington Road; indeed, no major structural changes have altered the appearance of the house since the Alcotts lived there from 1858 to 1877. Now the house is full of original family possessions and mementos Website
Hemmingway Home Ernest “Papa” Hemingway is one of America’s most admired and fascinating authors—and the Spanish Colonial home where he lived and wrote for 10 years in Key West holds just as much intrigue as the writer himself. His writing studio, converted from a carriage house, remains today as it was when he was writing novels For Whom the Bell Tolls and To Have and Have Not and short story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” Website
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