The White House Historical Association [DC]

Description

The White House Historical Association interprets the history of the White House, home to the Presidents of the United States since the term of John Adams (1797-1801).

The visitors' center offers exhibits. The website offers lesson plans; educational activities; historic photographs; timelines; virtual tours; educational interactive animations; audio and video clips; and podcasts.

The Point Pleasant Historical Society [NJ]

Description

The Point Pleasant Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Point Pleasant, Point Pleasant Beach, and Mantoloking, New Jersey. To this end, the society operates a museum, which contains artifacts of local historical interest.

The museum offers exhibits, and is open by appointment only. The website offers historical photographs and images, including a collection of post cards.

Stonefield [WI]

Description

Stonefield preserves and displays Wisonsin's agricultural and dairy heritage. Locations on-site include the State Agricultural Museum, which displays farm tools, machinery, and models; a recreated 1901 farmstead; a recreated rural farming village with more than 30 locations; the 1879 estate of Governor Nelson Dewey (1813-1889), first governor of Wisconsin; and the Stonefield Depot. Collection highlights include a Rumley Oil Pull; an 1896 McCormick Auto Mower, the oldest tractor in the U.S.; and the first rubber tire tractor.

The museum offers exhibits and self-guided tours. The farmstead offers self-guided tours, tours by costumed interpreters, and period rooms. The village offers period businesses and demonstrations of broom making, carpentry, and blacksmithing. The estate offers guided tours by costumed interpreters, self-guided tours, and period rooms. The depot is open for annual events. The site offers picnic facilities and snack sales. Field trips require reservations, and meet Wisconsin educational standards.

San Francisco Architectural Heritage [CA]

Description

San Francisco Architectural Heritage seeks to preserve and share the history of San Francisco's architectural structures. The society operates the Haas-Lilienthal House, built 1886. It is the only Queen Anne-style Victorian in the country to offer tours regularly. The interior is decorated in period style.

The organization offers Haas-Lilienthal House tours, neighborhood tours, and an educational program for students. This program consists of a teacher's workshop, a traveling trunk, a treasure hunt tour of a Victorian neighborhood, and a tour of the Haas-Lilienthal House. Teachers must be Heritage-trained to participate in the educational programming. The website offers interior photographs and floor plans of the Haas-Lilienthal House.

Richmond Hill Historical Society & Museum [GA]

Description

The Richmond Hill Historical Society & Museum seeks to preserve and share the history of Richmond Hill and Bryan County, Georgia. To this end, the society operates a museum with displays covering the Colonial era, Revolutionary War, Civil War, and time of Henry Ford. The museum is located in a structure which previously served as the Henry Ford Kindergarten. This school was run by Ford (1863-1947), father of mass production, and his wife, who wintered in the area.

The museum offers exhibits.

Midwest Historical & Genealogical Society [KS]

Description

The Midwest Historical & Genealogical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of the Midwest, particularly that of Sedgwick County, Kansas. The society boasts the largest library owned by a society in the state of Kansas. The library collections consist of more than 21,000 objects, including atlases, census data, directories, genealogies, and cemetery listings.

The society offers a library.

Oklahoma History Center

Description

The Center is an 18-acre, 215,000-square-foot learning center exploring Oklahoma's history through geology, transportation, commerce, culture, aviation, heritage, and more. The Center houses five state-of-the-art galleries containing more than 200 hands-on audio, video, and computer activities. Outside the museum, the Red River Journey offers visitors a walking tour of the Red River Valley featuring land forms, vegetation, and important historical locations. The grounds also include an outdoor oilfield exhibit with drilling derricks, a portable derrick, and machinery associated with Oklahoma oil explorations.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, lectures, and educational and recreational events and programs.

Pope House Museum Foundation [NC]

Description

The Pope House Museum Foundation operates the Pope House Museum, which depicts the life of a well-to-do African American family circa 1900. The house, built in 1901, was the residence of Dr. Manassa Thomas Pope (1858-1934) and his family. Dr. Pope was a 1919 mayoral candidate, an officer in the Spanish American War, and one of the earliest graduates of Shaw University's Leonard school of Medicine. The collections consist of artifacts and documents—with the earliest dating to 1851.

The museum is currently closed for restoration.