Adams Museum and House [SD]

Description

The Adams Museum and House seeks to preserve and share the history of Deadwood, South Dakota and the surrounding Black Hills. The Adams Museum collections include folk art, Lakota artifacts, and Wild Bill Hickok's (1837-1876) gun, among other items. Other figures represented in the collections include Calamity Jane (1852-1903) and Deadwood Dick, a fictional character whose name was used by a variety of individuals. The Adams House is a 1892 Queen Anne Victorian, abandoned entirely furnished in 1934, which now functions as a circa 1900 house museum.

The museum offers three floors of exhibits and self-guided tours. The house offers period rooms and an orientation exhibit.

Slave Relic Museum [SC]

Description

The Slave Relic Museum presents the history of the U.S. African American population via artifacts made and used by slaves between 1750 and the mid-19th century.

The museum offers exhibits. The website offers audio interviews; a video tour of slave dwelling ruins in the Bahamas; and several primary source documents, including 63 pages of documents relating to the Amistad and William E. Channing's "The Duty of the Free States."

Thomas Lee House [CT]

Description

The Thomas Lee House, located in East Lyme, CT, is one of the oldest wood frame houses in Connecticut in its primitive state. The original structure dates to circa 1660, with additions having been made circa 1700 and circa 1765. The site is located by the Little Boston Schoolhouse (dating to circa 1805 and also open to the public).

The house offers period rooms, exhibits, colonial days for fourth graders, and the possibility of scheduling tours.

Amherst History Museum [MA]

Description

The Amherst History Museum, housed in the 1750s Strong House, presents Amherst's history from colonial times to modern day.

The museum offers exhibits; a guided architectural walking tour; a guided tour of the Strong House; educational tours for students; period rooms; and special events, including lectures.

Liberty Museum and Arts Center [NY]

Description

The Liberty Museum & Arts Center Building was first constructed as a hotel in 1894. The Poellman House, as the hotel was known, contained 30 rooms with baths, steam heat, all "sanitary arrangements" and a first class Café and Bowling Alley. The hotel closed in 1936. The Liberty Museum has a dual mission of presenting creative arts as well as programs of local and regional history. Themes which have been previously covered include Catskills resorts, Main Street, and the history of Route 17.

The museum and art center offer exhibits, art classes, lectures, cultural programs, and programs designed for children.

Meadow Brook Hall [MI]

Description

Meadow Brook Hall is the fourth largest historic house museum in the United States. Built between 1926 and 1929 as the residence of Matilda Dodge Wilson (widow of auto pioneer John Dodge) and her second husband, lumber broker Alfred G. Wilson, the 110–room, 88,000–square–foot mansion is complete with vast collections of original art and furnishings. The exterior and most of the interior rooms at Meadow Brook Hall were designed in the Tudor-revival style. However, a few rooms were decorated in other period-revival styles: the dining room and Matilda’s study are 18th–century Neoclassical, Matilda’s room and the French bedroom are 18th–century French Rococo, and Frances’ bedroom is American Colonial. The hall's collections include original paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, furniture, ceramics, carpets, glass, silver, costumes and other textiles, and family archival materials. Highlights of the collection include Tiffany art glass, costumes by Paul Poiret, Stickley furniture, paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sèvres and Meissen porcelain, and Rookwood pottery.

The hall offers guided mansion and garden tours, period rooms, educational programs, and a variety of special events, including lectures.

Wells Fargo History Museum [CA]

Description

The Wells Fargo History Musuem presents the role of Wells, Fargo & Co., a joint stock banking and express business company founded in 1852, in the commercial history of Sacramento, California. Artifacts of note include an original Concord Coach, historical panoramic paintings, original maps and views of Sacramento, a Wooten patent desk, and The Livingston Sacramento Postal History Collection.

The museum offers exhibits.

Wayne County Historical Society [NY]

Description

The Wayne County Historical Society seeks to heighten awareness of and to preserve the history of Wayne County, New York. The society operates the Museum of Wayne County History, which currently has over 8,000 items in its collection, spanning a wide range of time.

The society offers a quarterly newsletter specifically written for educators, a historic map club, a series of pen-pal letters written by a fictional child from the past, educational kits for rental, in-classroom presentations by costumed docents, and guided tours.

Preservation Burlington [VT]

Description

Preservation Burlington is a preservation advocacy and education organization which seeks to protect and share the history of Burlington, Vermont.

The organization offers downtown, waterfront, and Old North End historic walking tours scheduled upon request and a weekly preservation television program.

Trenton Police Museum [NJ]

Description

The Trenton Police Museum preserves and shares the history of the law enforcement officers of Trenton, New Jersey. Collections include historic photographs. The museum is currently located in the basement of the city police department.

The museum offers exhibits for individual visitors and small groups. All visitations require appointments. The website offers a digital exhibit summarizing the history of the department.