The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park works to preserve the birthplace and childhood home of the Earnest Hemingway. Hemingway was born in a small home located outside Chicago in Oak Park, Illinois. The foundation operates the Hemingway's childhood home as a historic house museum and also maintains a museum on Hemingway's life a short walk away.

The foundation offers exhibits and presentations in the museum, group and individual tours of the Hemingway birthplace, and traveling exhibits. The website offers visitor information, a brief biography of Hemingway, and links to literature by Hemingway.

The Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation operates the Tor House and Hawk Tower. The Tor House was built in 1918 through 1919 as the residence of poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) and his family. The property was modeled after English Tudor barns. Jeffers later built the 1924 Hawk Tower for his wife and children. Guests who visited the Jeffers on their land include Sinclair Lewis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Charles Lindbergh, George Gershwin, and Charlie Chaplin. The site also includes an English-style garden. Jeffers's poetry often focused on the Californian coast, and today his work is highly lauded for its environmental consciousness.

The foundation offers tours.

The Brick Store Museum presents the history of Kennebunk, Maine. The museum collection consists of more than 70,000 artifacts. Collection highlights include Maine's largest collection of World War I and II posters; maritime artifacts; possessions of historical novelist Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957) and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and dramatist Booth Tarkington (1869-1946); and artworks by Impressionist painter Abbott Fuller Graves (1859-1936) among others.

The museum offers museum tours, walking tours of the historic district, exhibits, and archival and non-circulating library access. Reservations are required for group tours. Please call ahead for library or archival visits. The website offers virtual exhibits.

The House of Seven Gables was built in 1668, making it the oldest wooden mansion remaining in New England. Best known for being immortalized in Nathaniel Hawthornes' novel The House of the Seven Gables, today the home holds more than 2,000 artifacts and a research library. A number of other properties have been moved to the site. These are the 1655 Jacobian and Post-Medieval-style Retire Beckett House, the oldest residence in Massachusetts; the 1682 Hoope-Hathaway House (of the same styles as the previous structure); the 1750 Georgian-style Nathaniel Hawthorne House, birthplace of famed dark romanticist author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864); and the circa 1830 counting house, where a maritime supercargo would have calculated his finances. The grounds also contain gardens.

The site offers tours of the House of the Seven Gables, period rooms, exhibits, hands-on activities, summer camps, educational programs on navigation and daily life in the 1600s Massachusetts Bay area, and an outreach program on colonial trade. The website offers a lesson plan on the Progressive Era (1890s-1920s). Reservations are required for educational programs.

The Thomas Paine National Historical Association seeks to share the story of Thomas Paine (1737-1809) and gain widespread acknowledgment of Thomas Paine as the primary founder of the United States. The association operates a museum, the Thomas Paine Cottage, and a monument. The cottage once served as Paine's home. Thomas Paine was a pamphleteer and revolutionary, who promoted the concept of human rights and supported both the French and American revolutions. Although he supported the French Revolution, he did not support the execution of Louis XVI—instead proposing that he be exiled to America, since he had financially aided the United States in the Revolutionary War.

The cottage offers exhibits. The association offers educational programs, public speakers, and presentations.

The museum is currently closed for re-cataloging and preservation.

The Falmouth Historical Society operates a selection of museums, which preserve and share the history of Falmouth, Massachusetts. Two 18th–century houses display fine art, furniture, and other decorative arts; while exhibits discuss pre–Civil War medical practice, the 1800's whaling industry, and the life of Katharine Lee Bates (1859–1929), author of "America, the Beautiful." The area surrounding the structures contains three gardens—one a Colonial–style flower garden—and a green which has been used for Colonial militia practice.

The society offers period rooms; exhibits; guided walking tours; trolley tours on maritime life and agricultural life; hands-on children's activities; and archives, including maritime log books.

The Gene Stratton-Porter State Historic Site is the second home of the Hoosier author and nature photographer Gene Stratton-Porter (1863–1924). The site presents information on her life and sources of inspiration; and currently encompasses 125 acres of land, 20 of which were part of Porter’s original property. "The Cabin in Wildflower Woods," designed by Porter and built in 1913, is a two-story cabin with exterior walls of Wisconsin cedar logs. Much of Porter's furniture and personal memorabilia, including her library, are preserved at the home. In her lifetime, Porter authored seven nature books, two books of poetry, children’s books, numerous magazine articles, and 12 novels, including Song of the Cardinal and Freckles. Her personal interest was in writing about nature. However, her romantic works were most commercially successful. Stratton-Porter and her daughter, Jeanette's, graves are also on site.

The site offers group tours in accordance with state educational standards, educational outreach programs, and educational materials for checkout.

The 13–acre Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site commemorates the only Nobel Prize–winning U.S. playwright, through preservation of the Tao House. A Spanish–colonial structure with an interior scheme inspired by Chinese Taoism, this building served as the home of O'Neill and his wife Carlotta between 1937 and 1944. Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953) is the author of The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and A Moon for the Misbegotten, among other works. His pieces introduced realism to American drama, were among the first U.S. plays to include speeches in the vernacular, and are populated with marginalized characters.

The site offers guided tours of the Tao House, self–guided tours of the grounds, and twice yearly presentations of O'Neill's plays. Reservations are required to enter the house.

The Caldwell Birthplace is a historic house museum showcasing the birthplace of famous author Erskine Caldwell. In addition to being preserved in its condition at the time of Caldwell's birth, the museum offers books written by and about Erskine Caldwell, items that belonged to Caldwell or his parents, and photographs from various period of his life.

The museum is open on weekends and offers self-guided tours. The website offers visitor information and recent news regarding the museum.

Built between 1821 and 1841, the three mission houses that make up the Museum served as homes and workplaces for the first Christian missionaries to travel to the Hawaiian Islands. The Frame House (Ka Hale La'āu), was shipped around Cape Horn from Boston in 1820 and is the oldest wood house in Hawai'i. The Chamberlain House (Ka Hale Kamalani), built of coral blocks in 1831, was both a family home and storehouse for mission supplies. The third building, also of coral blocks, completed in 1841, today functions as the Printing Office (Ka Hale Pa'i). A working replica of the first printing press to be brought to Hawai'i is demonstrated there on a regular basis. In addition, the Museum grounds are the location of the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society (HMCS) library. Among the library's artifacts are the earliest books printed in the Hawaiian language. These books were used by missionaries and scholars alike in church and school.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, demonstrations, workshops, lectures, and other educational and recreational programs.