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Physick House
Physick House, the home of surgeon Philip Syng Physick, was built in 1786 by Henry Hill - a wine importer who kept City Tavern well stocked - and is the only freestanding, Federal-style mansion remaining in Society Hill.
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Crocker Art Museum
The city's small but handsome house of fine art, the Crocker Art Museum is in the former residence of 19th-century California Supreme Court Judge Edwin B Crocker. It contains his visionary collection of California art.
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Davenport House
Federal-style architecture isn't exactly scintillating, and the house has very little original furnishing, but the tour is sweet and the attention to detail is serious enough that fake bugs crawl on the fake food in the dining room.
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Wickersham State Historical Site
Overlooking downtown Juneau is Wickersham State Historical Site which preserves the 1898 home of pioneer judge and statesman James Wickersham. Inside are photographs, books and other memorabilia from the judge's colorful career.
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Governor's Mansion State Historic Park
The Governor's Mansion State Historic Park was built in 1877 and acquired by the state in 1903. No governor has lived in the house since Ronald Reagan moved out in the 1960s. Guided tours are given hourly from 10:00 to 16:00.
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Marblehead Arts Association
Housed in the King Hooper mansion, four floors of exhibit space have shows changing monthly. Besides rotating exhibits, this facility hosts lectures, classes, receptions and occasional performance pieces by local artists.
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Joseph Carroll House
A beautiful center-hall house with double galleries laced with cast-iron filaments. The house was designed by architect Samuel Jamison. Peer towards the back of the lot to see the similarly impressive carriage house.
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Truman Home
See the simple life Harry and Bess lived following their life in the White House at the Truman Home, furnished with original belongings. Tour tickets are sold at the visitor center (tel: 816-254-9929; 223 N Main St).
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Lovell House
Frank Lloyd Wright influenced any number of architects, including Austrian immigrant Richard Neutra, whose Lovell House featured prominently in LA Confidential; it's not open to the public.
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Cliveden of the National Trust
Cliveden of the National Trust was the summer home of wealthy Benjamin Chew. It was built in 1760 and used as a de facto stronghold in the Battle of Germantown during the Revolutionary War in 1777.
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Charles Greene's former private residence
Some Greene & Greene homes including Charles Greene's former private residence , line nearby Arroyo Tce and Grand Ave. Pick up a self-guided walking-tour pamphlet at the Gamble House bookstore.
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John Brown House
Also on College Hill, the brick John Brown House, called the ‘most magnificent and elegant mansion that I have ever seen on this continent’ by John Quincy Adams, was built in 1786.
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Hayden Tract
Architecture fans gravitate to the Hayden Tract , where Eric Owen Moss has turned a worn-out industrial compound into eyepoppingly deconstructivist office buildings.
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Nickels-Sortwell House
This historical mansion is one of the town’s finest Federal houses (built in 1807), complete with period gardens. Tours begin on the hour and run from 11am to 4pm.
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Pico House
South of the El Pueblo’s plaza are more historic buildings, including Pico House , the 1870 home of California's last Mexican governor and later a glamorous hotel.
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Governor's Mansion
West of the State Office Building (SOB) along 4th Ave is the pillared Governor's Mansion. Built and furnished in 1912 at a cost of around US$440, the mansion is not open to the public.
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Steinbeck House
Steinbeck was born and spent much of his boyhood in what is now Steinbeck House, two blocks west of the center. It's now a twee lunch café. We're not sure he'd approve.
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Betsy Ross House
The Betsy Ross House is where it is believed that Betsy Griscom Ross (1752−1836), upholsterer and seamstress, may have sewn the first US flag.
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Pickering House
Furnished in antiques, Salem’s Pickering House is said to be the oldest house in the USA continuously occupied by the same family.
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Kelly-Griggs House Museum
The Kelly-Griggs House Museum is the most impressive of Red Bluff's classical Victorian homes. It's dressed up with period exhibits. Dig the mannequins.
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Spooner House
The Plymouth Antiquarian Society maintains three historic houses, but only the Spooner House is open for tours.
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Snugg House
Among the historic structures is the wood and adobe Snugg House, which was built in 1857 by a freed slave and is now under renovation.
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Factors Row
Edgar Degas painted The Cotton Market in New Orleans while visiting his uncle’s office in this building in 1873.
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Bailey House
Close by to Eames House is the Richard Neutra designed Bailey House , which was built from 1946 to 1948.
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Howland House
The 1667 Howland House is the only house in Plymouth that was home to a known Mayflower passenger.
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