Built sometime between 1751 and 1765, the story-and-a-half brick house is laid in Flemish bond and was home to Jacob Faulcon and his family. It has been fully restored and has a fine collection of English and American furnishings. Today, visitors can see the site of the retreat fort, the house, and its small herb garden.
The house offers tours.
With its cruciform shape, triple chimneys, and curvilinear gables, Bacon's Castle is a rare surviving example of Jacobean architecture in America. Built in 1665, the house was home to a prosperous planter, Arthur Allen. Visitors today can step back to the late 17th and early 18th century through the doors of Bacon's Castle. Using the Allen's inventories from 1711 and 1755, furnishings have been selected to interpret daily life.
The house offers tours.
Francis Thelaball II built this house with its massive chimneys in 1725. Typical of early colonial planters' homes, the Lynnhaven House features a hall-parlor plan with molded ceiling joists and a closed string Jacobean-type stair. Furnishings reflect the early 18th century. Costumed docents conduct tours of the House and grounds as guests arrive. On the grounds are gardens and a small Revolutionary War graveyard.
The house offers short films, tours, exhibits, and recreational and educational events.
Pear Valley represents a rare survival of what was once a common building type in rural Virginia. This yeoman planter's cottage has been dated by to 1740.
The site offers tours by appointment.
Reverend Samuel Adair and his wife, Florella, were peaceful abolitionists who came to Kansas and settled near Osawatomie, an abolitionist community and a center of conflict during "Bleeding Kansas." The Adair cabin was a station on the Underground Railroad and Florella's half brother, John Brown, used this cabin as his headquarters. The cabin survived the Battle of Osawatomie where John Brown and 30 free-state defenders fought 250 proslavery militia in 1856, and stands on the battle site today. Visitors to the Museum can learn more about the Adairs, John Brown, and others who struggled to survive the border war.
The museum offers exhibits, tours, and occasional educational and recreational events.
Built by Eleazor Arnold in 1693, the Arnold House is a rare surviving example of a "stone-ender," a once common building type first developed in the western part of England.
The house offers tours and educational programs.
Built by Richard Clemence in 1691, the Clemence-Irons House is a rare surviving example of a "stone-ender," a once-common building type first developed in the western part of England.
The house offers tours.
Built around 1687 for the young family of William Boardman, a local joiner, this house has survived remarkably intact since its construction.
The house offers tours.
Constructed between 1694 and 1701 for a farming family, the Abraham Browne House was originally a modest one-over-one dwelling, probably with a minor dependency to one side. Although the house has evolved through a series of enlargements, they occurred behind the original block, thus preserving the profile of the one-over-one elevation (the only exception to this was a 19th-century addition which was removed before 1919). The Browne House is one of fewer than a half dozen houses in New England to retain this profile.
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At the end of the 19th century, railroads opened the Berkshires, which soon became a summer destination for wealthy New Yorkers. This 1825 brick structure, which dates from the late Federal period, was purchased by William and Elizabeth Doane as a summer home in 1875. Around 1900, the Doanes doubled its size by adding a shingle-style ell and remodeled the interior of the main house. They decorated the house in an eclectic manner with European and American furnishings, much of which they collected during their extensive travels. The house was preserved by the Doanes' daughter, Vipont Merwin, who added her own memorabilia to the decorative scheme.
The house offers tours.