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Acknowledgments

Introduction

CONNECTICUT

Gillette Castle, East Haddam

Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington

The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford

The Glass House, New Canaan

Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme

Houses of the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, Old Wethersfield

Roseland Cottage, Woodstock

MAINE

Blaine House, Augusta

Olson House, Cushing

Woodlawn, Ellsworth

McLellan-Sweat Mansion, Portland

Victoria Mansion, Portland

Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland

Winslow Homer Studio and Home, Portland

Hamilton House, South Berwick

Sarah Orne Jewett House, South Berwick

Sayward-Wheeler House, York Harbor

MASSACHUSETTS

Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

The Nichols House Museum, Boston

Gibson House Museum, Boston

Otis House, Boston

The Paul Revere House, Boston

William Hickling Prescott House, Boston

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Brookline

John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site, Brookline

Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters, Cambridge

Ralph Waldo Emerson House, Concord

Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, Concord

The Old Manse, Concord

The Wayside, Concord

Thoreau Farm, Concord

The Fairbanks House, Dedham

Houses of Historic Deerfield, Deerfield

Cogswell’s Grant, Essex

Beauport, The Sleeper-McCann House, Gloucester

Hammond Castle Museum, Gloucester

1830 Brick Dwelling, Hancock Shaker Village, Hancock

Fruitlands Farmhouse and Museum, Harvard

The Great House on Castle Hill, Ipswich

The Mount, Lenox

Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio, Lenox

Hancock-Clarke House, Lexington

Gropius House, Lincoln

Jeremiah Lee Mansion, Marblehead

The Royall House and Slave Quarters, Medford

Forbes House Museum, Milton

The Oldest House, Nantucket

The Cushing House, Newburyport

Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Gardens Museum, New Bedford

Herman Melville’s Arrowhead, Pittsfield

Jabez Howland House, Plymouth

Dwellings of Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth

Houses of Adams National Historical Park, Quincy

Phillips House, Salem

Houses of Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Birthplace, Salem

The House of the Seven Gables, Salem

Hoxie House, Sandwich

General Artemas Ward House Museum, Shrewsbury

Naumkeag, Stockbridge

Chesterwood, Stockbridge

Houses of Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge

Stonehurst, Waltham

Gore Place, Waltham

The Edward Gorey House, Yarmouth Port

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Shaker Dwelling House, Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury

Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish

The Robert Frost Farm, Derry

Zimmerman House, Manchester

The Fells, Newbury

Barrett House, New Ipswich

Governor John Langdon House, Portsmouth

Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden, Portsmouth

Houses of Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth

Warner House, Portsmouth

Wentworth Lear Historic Houses, Portsmouth

RHODE ISLAND

Blithewold, Bristol

Linden Place, Bristol

Chateau-sur-Mer, Newport

Chepstow, Newport

Hunter House, Newport

Isaac Bell House, Newport

Kingscote, Newport

Marble House, Newport

Rosecliff, Newport

Samuel Whitehorne House, Newport

Rough Point, Newport

The Breakers, Newport

The Elms, Newport

The Brayton House at Green Animals, Portsmouth

John Brown House Museum, Providence

Pendleton House, Providence

VERMONT

Old Stone House Museum, Brownington

Rokeby Museum Main House, Ferrisburgh

Hildene, Manchester

Calvin Coolidge Homestead, Plymouth

The Dwellings of Shelburne Museum, Shelburne

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park, Woodstock

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