The Ryerss Museum and Library served as the home of Joseph Ryerss and his family during the second half of the 19th century. The Ryerss were great collectors of international art and the home today includes an Asian gallery, a European gallery, as well as many of the Ryerss' personal items and restored living rooms.
The Museum offers group tours free of charge and a library for student and teacher research.
The Pultneyville Historical Society seeks to preserve and present the history of Williamson Township, New York. To this end, the society offers exhibits within a circa 1858 home. Exhibits address the life and work of Horatio Nelson Throop, the 1898 loss of the schooner St. Peter, and local history as depicted through photography. Throop was a boat builder and captain. In the 1830s, he conducted experiments with wind and screw propeller propulsion systems. He was also active in the Underground Railroad. The society owns a collection of artifacts recovered from the wreck of the St. Peter.
The society offers exhibits and archival access. Appointments are required for archival access.
The Century House, also known as the Snyder Estate, is the former home of Andrew Snyder, and was a small family farm until the discovery of natural cement in the region in 1825. The area experienced impressive industrial growth up to the 1970s, and was the United State's largest producer of cement during that time.
The estate offers guided tours of the Century House, Widow Jane Mine, and Cement Industry Museum. The estate also offers field trip programs, outreach programs, and special events. The website offers visitor information, a history of the estate, and information regarding upcoming events.
This site preserves a military post built in 1867 and used continuously as a military reservation until 1890 when it became a boarding school for Indian children. The brick buildings, which replaced an earlier log fort, appear much as they did when built of locally made brick in 1868. Original buildings are now being used to house museum exhibits. Fort Totten served American Indian policy from 1867 to 1959. Constructed as a military post, it became an Indian boarding school, Indian health care facility, and a reservation school.
The site offers a short film, exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events.
The Flavel House is located in Astoria, Oregon, and is one of the best preserved examples of Queen Anne architecture in the Northwest. The house was built in 1885 for Captain George Flavel and his family. Captain Flavel had made his fortune through real estate investments and his job as a river bar pilot. Today, the Flavel House serves as a historic house museum, and is furnished to accurately portray the elegance of the Victorian period and the history of the Flavel family.
The home offers guided tours. The website offers a detailed history of the home as well as visitor information.
Dedicated as the Nebraska Statehood Memorial in 1968, the Kennard House is the oldest standing structure in Lincoln's original plat. At the 1869 Italianate home of Nebraska's first Secretary of State, Thomas P. Kennard, visitors will learn about the excitement of creating a new state capital, and see the formality of Victorian lifestyles. The oldest residence in Lincoln has been restored to the 1870s with tours available year round.
The site offers tours and occasional recreational and educational events.
The Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum, housed in the former corporate headquarters of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company, interprets the rise of the copper mining industry in the region. The Museum also maintains the Muheim Heritage House Museum, an 1898 home restored to its turn-of-the-century state.
The museum offers exhibits and research library access; the Muheim Heritage House offers tours.
The Acadian Village presents daily life and society within 19th-century Acadian Southern Louisiana. Seven of the 11 site structures are restored historic residences containing local period furnishings. Exhibit topics include Cajun music; spinning; weaving; medicine; and Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc (1894-1971), who strove to preserve Cajun culture. Replica period settings include a blacksmith shop, chapel, home, and schoolhouse; while the LeBlanc exhibit is located within the senator's birth home.
The village offers exhibits, period rooms, and self-guided tours. Reservations are appreciated for group visits. Picnics are encouraged. Tour brochures are available in English and French. The village is open January through October.
Fendall Hall is one of Alabama's outstanding Italianate houses and contains elaborate and rare interior decorative painting dating from the 1880s. Completed in 1860 by Edward and Anna Young, it was home to five generations of the Young family. Among its many treasures are family and period furnishings, marble mantles, and a black and white marble tiled entry. The five-acre site includes gardens and archaeological features.
The site offers tours and occasional recreational and educational events.
The Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame presents the history of basketball within Indiana. Artifacts honor acclaimed high school, college, and professional basketball players and those who have influenced the game. The hall's museum emphasizes male and female high school coaches and players. Exhibit topics include basketball and the media, sports officials, basketball history from 1894 to present day, and the sport histories of individual Indiana high schools.
The museum offers exhibits, films, and research library access. Library access is by appointment only.