Famous Colonial Houses

Introduction 9 Monticello 17 The Haunted House, New Orleans 29 Doughoregan Manor 43 The Jumel Mansion 55 Mount Vernon 69 The Quincy Homestead 83 The Timothy Dexter Mansion 95 Th...

Jefferson has been much idolized for his directness, his logic, his practicality. He undoubtedly gave the country what today would be termed “a good business administration.” It...

The roll-call ended. All pupils who had negro blood were ordered from the house. When the slight flurry had subsided, and the delegation had left, the principal and one of the t...

The city of Providence was so named because its founders had supreme confidence in its namesake. With the advent of a pathetic little atom of humanity called Betsy Bowen, Provid...

The estate he divided into five farms, each under an overseer responsible to the manager of the estate, and each equipped with the necessary complement of labor, buildings and s...

He turned up at Concord for the meeting of the Provincial Congress on April 15, and after its adjournment he was joined by Dorothy, Madame Hancock and Samuel Adams at the Rev. J...

He died in 1806 and was buried in a simple grave in a public cemetery. A sensible, methodical will disposed of his property, and the house passed into other hands, which cleared...

No such crisp epigram as the Frenchman’s will dismiss the house. True, he would have found himself at home in the midst of gay colorings and an orderly clutter of interesting an...

On the night of October 2–3, the American forces marched quietly down the main road toward Germantown, with flanks thrown out, on the right to the Wissahickon ravine, on the lef...

It was a fine house, there is no gainsaying that. Its fifty rooms must have pleased her, for they outranked in number any house in the whole countryside. There were queer propor...

_Vice-Regents_ Miss Alice M. Longfellow Massachusetts Mrs. Charles Custis Harrison Pennsylvania Mrs. Thomas S. Maxey Texas Mrs. Robert D. Johnston Alabama Mrs. Eugene Van Rensse...