Perry County Historical Society [OH]

Description

The Perry County Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the historical heritage of Somerset, Ohio, and the rest of Perry County. The society maintains two historic structures, the Perry County Museum, which is located at the entrance to the Perryville City Park, and the Faherty House, which serves as a historic house museum and as the society's headquarters.

The society offers guided tours and exhibits on Perry County history. The website offers research information, visitor information, and historical information regarding Perry County.

The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum [OH]

Description

The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum contains permanent exhibits about Native Americans, Ohio history, East Asia, and 18th- and 19th-century European and American art, as well as art and history temporary exhibits. Native American artifacts date to prehistory and the 19th century. The East Asian collection includes artifacts from the 18th and 19th centuries, decorative arts, and weaponry.

The museum offers exhibits, guided tours for children, hands-on activities, and educational outreach programs.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center [OH]

Description

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is located in Cincinnati, Ohio, and seeks to tell the story of America's fight against slavery, and the Underground Railroad in particular.

The center offers exhibits, guided tours, field trip programs, professional development for teachers, and special events and presentations. The website offers information regarding upcoming special events, a history of the Underground Railroad, and visitor information. In order to contact the website via email, use the "contact us" link located on the left side of the webpage.

Delaware County Historical Society [OH]

Description

The Delaware County Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the historical heritage of Delaware, Ohio, and the surrounding area. The society is located in downtown Delaware, and is home to a research library.

The society offers periodic walking tours of Delaware as well as frequent presentations in the society's headquarters. The website offers an events calendar and historical information regarding Delaware County.

Miamisburg Historical Society [OH]

Description

The Miamisburg Historical Society is dedicated preserving the historical heritage of Miamisburg, Ohio, and the surrounding area. The society owns and operates three local historic structures, the Daniel Gebhart Tavern Museum, which serves as a local history museum, the Market Square Building, which serves as the society headquarters and as the location for the society's research room, and Jacob Kercher Pioneer Home, which is open as a historic house museum.

The society offers guided tours of all three of their historic structures, along with special events. The website offers an events calendar, a brief history of the society, photo galleries of Miamisburg and the society's historic structures, and visitor information.

Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens [OH]

Description

The 70-acre Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens is a historic house museum. The Tudor Revival manor was built in 1912; and reflects the architecture of Charles S. Schneider (1874-1932), interior design of Hugo F. Huber, and landscaping of Warren H. Manning (1860-1938). Manning favored naturalistic, as opposed to heavily stylized, garden design. The residence is intended to be visually complementary to its surrounding environment. Guests who visited the estate owners, the Sieberlings, included Shirley Temple (born 1928) and Will Rogers (1879-1935). Other structures on site include the Gate Lodge, site of a conversation among Henrietta Seiberling and two men suffering from alcoholism which would determine the guiding principles of Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as a reproduction of the original greenhouse. The Lodge contains an exhibit on the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous.

The estate offers an exhibit, period rooms, gardens, self-guided manor tours, guided manor tours, other guided tours, educational programs for students, traveling trunks, educational outreach presentations, teacher's workshops, a children's club, Scout programs, and collections access. Appointments are required for collections access. Two weeks advance notice is required for group tours. Boxed lunches can be provided with five days advance notice.

National First Ladies' Library and Historic Site

Description

The National First Ladies' Library is a national archive devoted to obtaining and sharing resources pertaining to the First Ladies of the United States of America. The historical site also presents information on other U.S. women of historical note. The First Ladies' National Historic Site is housed within the circa 1865 Saxton-McKinley House, family home of First Lady Ida McKinley; and presents relevant exhibits. The National First Ladies' Library is located within the 1895 City National Bank Building.

The site offers exhibits, educational programs, tours of both the historical site and library, and research library access. Reservations are required for tour groups of six or more. The website offers an extensive searchable listing of lesson plans, a timeline of major national events, and a virtual tour of the Saxton-McKinley House.

Taft Museum of Art [OH]

Description

The Taft Museum of Art is housed within the circa 1820 Palladian-style Federal Baum-Longworth-Taft House; and its collections include European paintings and decorative arts, American paintings, and Chinese porcelain. Major artists represented in the collection include Dutch Golden Age painter and etcher Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Dutch Golden Age portrait artist Frans Hals (circa 1580-1666), Spanish printmaker and painter Francisco Goya (1746-1828), English painter and landscape artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), English Grand Manner portrait artist Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), French Neoclassical painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), American painter James Whistler (1834-1903), and American portrait artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925).

The museum offers exhibits, research library access, 45-minute to one-hour guided tours, self-guided tours, audio tours, children's workshops, a pre-professional high school arts education program, studio programs, lectures, educational programs which complement Ohio and Kentucky educational standards, summer camps, Scout programs, and a teacher resource center with materials for rental. Four weeks advance notice is required for school tours; and two weeks are needed for sensory tours tailored to individuals with hearing, visual, or developmental impairments. The website offers coloring pages.

Women in History [OH]

Description

Women in History seeks to increase awareness of women's impact on U.S. history through dramatic re-creations of the lives of notable female figures. Costumes are period or patterned from period pieces, and hairstyles are created by a specialist in historic hair design. The organization is able to portray more than 100 historical figures.

The organization offers presentations, which generally include two 25-minute living history presentations by costumed "historical figures," an opening and closing, and time for questions and answers. The organization also offers two programs designed specifically for elementary and middle school students.

Pro Football Hall of Fame [OH]

Description

The Pro Football Hall of Fame commemorates athletes who have excelled in the sport of football, and presents the history of football in the U.S.

The hall offers self-guided tours, traditional and interactive exhibits, films, educational questionnaire booklets, educational programs in accordance with state educational standards, distance learning programs, seminars, teacher workshops, and a snack bar. Reservations are required for school groups. The website offers photographs, audio and video files, classroom activity suggestions by program, a teacher activity guide, and team activity guides.