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Historical Representation at American House Museums

Collected by: Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation

Archived since: Jan, 2023

Description:

The Historical Representation at American House Museums Web Archive aims to document the changing interpretation and presentation of the experiences of working people and immigrants, the lives of the enslaved, the contributions of women, LGBT individuals, indigenous peoples, and various ethnic groups at historic house museums in the United States. House museums have been a key component of historic preservation in America since the mid 19th century. Until recently, house museums largely interpreted the lives of great men (and, on rare occasions, women), first and second generation settlers in America, or the work of master architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright or Stanford White. More recently, many house museums have begun changing their focus to include the experiences of underrepresented peoples, including but not limited to the groups mentioned above. Websites have in many cases replaced printed guidebooks in disseminating the social history of these sites. The Historical Representation at American House Museums Web Archive is curated by librarians, library workers, and professors at Columbia University (Andrew S. Dolkart and Chris Sala) and Johns Hopkins University (Holly Tominack), under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Society & Culture Government Historic sites Historic house museums Historical museums

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Title: Oak Alley Plantation

URL: http://www.oakalleyplantation.org/

Description: "Oak Alley as a sugar plantation was built by and relied on enslaved men, women and children. This self-guided exhibit focuses on some of the individuals who were owned and kept on the plantation, their lives and living conditions. It also includes a look into life after emancipation, as laborers continued to live in the increasingly squalid housing until the 20th century. "

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Subject:   Historic house museums Historic sites Enslaved persons Agricultural laborers Slavery

Title: Stephen Hopkins House

URL: http://www.stephenhopkins.org/

Description: "The house was the home of Stephen Hopkins—a governor of Rhode Island and signatory of the Declaration of Independence—as well at least six of his slaves."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Enslaved persons Hopkins, Stephen, 1707-1785 Slavery

Title: Van Courtland House Museum

URL: http://www.vchm.org/

Description: "Van Cortlandt House Museum is the centerpiece of a 1,000-acre urban park that encompasses what was once the Van Cortlandt family’s plantation."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Historic sites Indigenous peoples Enslaved persons Slavery Delaware Indians

Title: Benson-Hammond House

URL: https://aachs.org/benson-hammond-house/

Description: "Originally a two-storey, four-room brick house built by immigrant Thomas Benson in the late 1820s, the house on Cedar Farm was enlarged as the Benson family and their fortunes grew. Sold to Thomas and Rezin Hammond in 1887, the property became a "truck farm" which employed immigrant "pickers," mostly of Polish descent."

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Subject:   Polish Americans Agricultural laborers Immigrants Historic house museums

Title: Flavel House Museum

URL: https://astoriamuseums.org/explore/flavel-house-museum/

Description: "The Flavel House has been restored to accurately portray the Victorian period’s elegance and the history of the Flavel family."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Flavel House (Astoria, Or.) Household employees

Title: Palmer-Warner House

URL: https://ctlandmarks.org/properties/palmer-warner-house/

Description: In 1936 Frederic Palmer purchased the Palmer-Warner House, built in 1738.

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Subject:   Historic house museums Sexual minorities Gay men

Title: Field House Museum

URL: https://fieldhousemuseum.org/

Description: The Field House was the home of Roswell Field who served as the attorney for the enslaved Dred and Harriet Scott and their daughters, Eliza and Lizzy, when they brought action in federal court for their freedom. The Scotts were denied their freedom on the grounds that African-Americans were not citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court.

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Subject:   Historic house museums Women Enslaved persons Slavery Field, Roswell M. (Roswell Martin), 1807-1869 Scott, Dred, 1809-1858 Scott, Harriet, approximately 1820-1876.

Title: Filoli

URL: https://filoli.org/

Description: "Filoli is an expansive landscape situated on the unceded ancestral lands of the Ramaytush Ohlone."

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Subject:   Gardeners Filoli Mansion and Gardens (Woodside, Calif.) Indigenous peoples Household employees Historic house museums

Title: Foscue Plantation

URL: https://foscueplantation.com/

Description: "Foscue Plantation welcomes you to Jones County and to a period in time more than 200 years ago."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Enslaved persons Slavery Foscue Plantation (N.C.)

Title: Gunston Hall

URL: https://gunstonhall.org/

Description: "Gunston Hall was a busy, thriving enterprise made possible by the work of hundreds of people who were not part of the Mason family. Some people, such as Thomas Halbert, a tenant farmer, and Mrs. Newman, a governess, had a choice. Others, such as Cato, an enslaved man who probably worked in the fields, and William Bernard Sears, an indentured servant, toiled at Gunston Hall in bondage."

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Subject:   Tenant farmers Household employees Indentured servants Slavery Enslaved persons Mason, George, 1725-1792 Historic house museums

Title: Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses

URL: https://hgghh.org/

Description: "Visitors, students, and researchers explore such diverse topics as the lives of the houses’ owners and enslaved people, free people of color, open-hearth cooking, mourning rituals, and the entrepreneurial pursuits of women."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Enslaved persons Slavery Free African Americans Women

Title: Alice Austen House

URL: https://historichousetrust.org/houses/alice-austen-house/

Description: "A significant site of LGBTQ history, this Victorian Gothic cottage was the home of one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Sexual minorities Women photographers Alice Austen House (New York, N.Y.) Lesbians

Title: Hendrick I. Lott House

URL: https://historichousetrust.org/houses/hendrick-i-lott-house/

Description: "Like most of the large farmers in southern Brooklyn, the Lotts relied on the labor of slaves, indentured servants, and hired hands to grow the crops that they sold in the markets of Brooklyn and Manhattan. However, the Lotts freed their slaves by 1805, years before the abolition of slavery in New York State in 1827. Later, the house may have served as a stop on the Underground Railroad."

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Subject:   Hendrick I. Lott House (New York, N.Y.) Immigrants Underground Railroad Indentured servants Free African Americans Household employees Agricultural laborers Slavery Enslaved persons Historic house museums

Title: Phillipsburg Manor

URL: https://hudsonvalley.org/historic-sites/philipsburg-manor/

Description: "Journey to Colonial America.

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Subject:   Slavery Enslaved persons Historic sites Historic house museums

Title: Abbie Gardner Sharp Cabin

URL: https://iowaculture.gov/history/sites/abbie-gardner-sharp-cabin/

Description: "In 1857, amidst rising tensions between Native Americans and new settlers, 13-year-old Abbie Gardner’s family was killed by men of the Dakota Indian nation. This tragedy became known as the Spirit Lake Massacre. Young Abbie was taken hostage by the Dakota band and released 84 days later. Decades after the massacre, in 1891, Abbie returned to Arnolds Park and purchased the cabin, operating it as one of Iowa’s earliest tourist attractions."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Women pioneers Indigenous peoples Gardner-Sharp, Abbie, 1843-1921 Dakota Indians

Title: Pitney House Museum

URL: https://junctioncity.com/history/pitney.htm

Description: Mary Pitney (1891-1995) was a school teacher, published poet, painter, world traveler, and humanitarian. Born and raised in this house, she lived the later years of her life here. Mary's house was originally built as a town house for railroad workers.

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Subject:   Historic house museums Women

Title: Lee-Fendall House and Garden

URL: https://leefendallhouse.org/

Description: "The Lee-Fendall House Museum & Garden interprets American history through the experiences of the people who lived and worked on the property from 1785 to 1969."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Enslaved persons Slavery Free African Americans Lee-Fendall House

Title: Locus Grove

URL: https://locustgrove.org/

Description: "We preserve and interpret the historic landscape and buildings of Locust Grove, the final home of Louisville's founder George Rogers Clark, and tell the stories of all the individuals who lived and worked here, both free and enslaved, cultivating a deeper understanding of the present through a richer understanding of the past. "

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Subject:   Locust Grove (Louisville, Ky. : Estate) Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818 Enslaved persons Historic house museums

Title: Merchant's House Museum

URL: https://merchantshouse.org/

Description: "The Museum tells the story of the domestic life of a wealthy merchant family and their four Irish servants, 1835-1865, when the mercantile seaport of New York City emerged as a growing metropolis and the commercial emporium of America."

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Subject:   Merchant's House Museum (New York, N.Y.) Immigrants Women household employees Historic house museums

Title: Homewood Museum

URL: https://museums.jhu.edu/homewood-museum/

Description: Built circa 1801 for members of Maryland’s prominent Carroll family, the house also was home to at least 25 enslaved individuals, including William and Rebecca Ross and their two children and Izadod and Cis Conner and six of their 13 children."

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Subject:   Carroll family Carroll, Charles, 1775-1825 Homewood House Museum (Johns Hopkins University) Slavery Enslaved persons Historic house museums

Title: Oxmoor Farm

URL: https://oxmoorfarm.org/

Description: "Come and hear the stories that Oxmoor has to tell of early pioneer days and the Native Americans, the history of hemp cultivation in Kentucky, the antebellum years and the enslaved community that lived and worked here, through the gilded age and present day. "

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Subject:   Indigenous peoples Women landscape architects Coffin, Marian Cruger, 1876-1957 Slavery Enslaved persons Historic house museums

Title: Pearl S. Buck International

URL: https://pearlsbuck.org/

Description: "Pearl S. Buck was a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author and a driving force in humanitarian causes. She was a longtime advocate of cross-cultural understanding and racial harmony as a means of achieving world peace. We continue her legacy of bridging cultures and changing lives through intercultural education, humanitarian aid, and sharing the Pearl S. Buck House National Historic Landmark museum."

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Subject:   Women authors Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 Historic house museums

Title: Pendarvis

URL: https://pendarvis.wisconsinhistory.org/

Description: "Business and life partners Bob Neal and Edgar Hellum met in 1934 and dedicated their lives to saving the structures and stories of Mineral Point’s mining history. The couple salvaged, restored, and made these buildings shine again."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Sexual minorities Gay men

Title: Joseph Lloyd Manor

URL: https://preservationlongisland.org/joseph-lloyd-manor/

Description: "The house was the center of a plantation established in the late 17th century on the ancestral lands of the Matinecock Nation. Jupiter Hammon, one of the first published African American writers, was one of the many people of African descent enslaved at the site."

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Subject:   Enslaved persons Indigenous peoples Historic house museums

Title: Bacon's Castle

URL: https://preservationvirginia.org/historic-sites/bacons-castle/

Description: "Bacon’s Castle is a rare example of High Jacobean architecture. Several outbuildings also survive, including an 1830 slave dwelling."

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Subject:   Nat Turner's Rebellion, Virginia, 1831 Slavery Enslaved persons Bacon's Castle (Va.) Historic house museums

Title: Riverside, the Farnsley-Moreman Landing

URL: https://riverside-landing.org/

Description: "Standing atop a gentle rise overlooking the Ohio River, the Farnsley-Moremen House is the centerpiece of a 300-acre historic site in Louisville, Kentucky, called Riverside, the Farnsley-Moremen Landing. Built circa 1837, the house stands as a testament to the important role agriculture along the river played in the development of our country."

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Subject:   Slavery Enslaved persons Historic house museums

Title: Royall House and Slave Quarters

URL: https://royallhouse.org/

Description: "In the eighteenth century, the Royall House and Slave Quarters was home to the largest slaveholding family in Massachusetts and the enslaved Africans who made their lavish way of life possible."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Enslaved persons Isaac Royall House (Medford, Mass.) Slavery Royall, Isaac, 1677-1739 Free African Americans

Title: Andrew Jackcon's Hermitage

URL: https://thehermitage.com/

Description: The 1,000-acre (400 ha)+ site was owned by Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, from 1804 until his death at the Hermitage in 1845.

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Subject:   Historic house museums Enslaved persons Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 Hermitage (Hermitage, Tenn.) Slavery

Title: Mission House

URL: https://thetrustees.org/place/the-mission-house/

Description: "John Sergeant arrived in 1734 as a missionary to assimilate the Mohican people. He learned their language so he could speak and preach to them without an interpreter. He built the Mission House around 1742 for his family and continued to defend the Mohican’s interests against white colonists until his death in 1749."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Mission House (Stockbridge, Mass.) Indigenous peoples Stockbridge Indians Mahican Indians Sergeant, John, 1710-1749

Title: Tudor Place

URL: https://tudorplace.org/

Description: "Tudor Place Historic House & Garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of Martha Washington, and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this Georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries."

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Subject:   Tudor Place (Washington, D.C.) Immigrants Free African Americans Women Household employees Slavery Enslaved persons Historic house museums

Title: Belle Meade Historic Site & Winery

URL: https://visitbellemeade.com/

Description: "Greek Revival-style plantation house & grounds dating to the 1840s,"

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Subject:   Historic house museums Historic sites Enslaved persons Women Belle Meade Plantation (Tenn.) Slavery

Title: Farmington

URL: https://visitfarmington.org/

Description: "Farmington is a 19th century home and former hemp plantation. From 1809 until John Speed’s death in 1840, between 20 and 70 enslaved African Americans worked on the plantation. The average Kentucky slaveholder owned fewer than five slaves, but Farmington, with its large slave population, resembled the large plantations of the state’s Bluegrass region."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Enslaved persons Slavery Speed family

Title: Ware-Lyndon Historic House Museum

URL: https://www.accgov.com/2779/Ware-Lyndon-Historic-House/

Description: "The historic Ware-Lyndon House Museum hosts a decorative collection reflecting two prosperous doctors and their families: Dr. Edward Ware and Dr. Edward Lyndon. However, the current narrative of the house does not tell the full, dynamic and truthful story of the enslaved plantation and domestic workers. In 2019, a research project began in pursuit of a more holistic account of the Ware-Lyndon House and its inhabitants."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Enslaved persons Slavery

Title: Bidwell House Museum

URL: https://www.bidwellhousemuseum.org/

Description: "Learn about the history of the house, the story of the Bidwell family, and life in the 18th-century Berkshire Hills."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Indigenous peoples Mohican Indians

Title: McLeod Plantation Historic Site

URL: https://www.ccprc.com/1447/McLeod-Plantation-Historic-Site/

Description: "Established in 1851, McLeod Plantation has borne witness to some of the most significant periods of our nation’s history. Today McLeod Plantation Historic Site is an important 37-acre Gullah/Geechee heritage site that has been carefully preserved in recognition of its cultural and historical significance."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Historic sites Enslaved persons Slavery

Title: Daly Mansion

URL: https://www.dalymansion.org/

Description: "The Daly Mansion is the historic family home of Copper King and the founder of Hamilton, Montana—Marcus Daly and his wife Margaret."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Household employees Daly Mansion Daly, Margaret Price Evans, 1853-1941

Title: Frances Willard House Museum and Archives

URL: https://www.franceswillardmuseum.org/

Description: "Built in 1865, and patterned after a design by Andrew J. Downing, this Evanston house was home to Frances Willard (1839-1898). Both author and activist, Frances Willard lived and worked in this house during the years of her presidency of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). For many of those years, the house also served as an informal national headquarters for the WCTU and a boarding house for its workers."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Women social reformers Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898

Title: Rock Hall Museum

URL: https://www.friendsofrockhall.org/

Description: "It was once the home of Josiah Martin, an English sugar plantation owner who was born and raised on the West Indian island of Antigua...The 1790 U.S. census showed that the Martins owned 17 slaves, making them the largest slaveholders in what was then Queens County."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Enslaved persons Slavery

Title: Glebe House Museum & Gertrude Jekyll Garden

URL: https://www.glebehousemuseum.org/

Description: "Set in the picturesque Litchfield Hills in historic Woodbury's village center, the Glebe House is one of the earliest historic house museums in the nation. Its architecture, outstanding regional furniture collection and Gertrude Jekyll Garden combine to create one of the most authentic house museums in the region."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Women gardeners Enslaved persons Slavery

Title: Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House

URL: https://www.historicnewengland.org/property/beauport-sleeper-mccann-house/

Description: "Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House, a National Historic Landmark, was the summer home of one of America’s first professional interior designers, Henry Davis Sleeper. Perched on a rock ledge overlooking Gloucester Harbor, Beauport was Sleeper’s retreat, backdrop for entertaining, and professional showcase, and an inspiration to all who visited."

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Subject:   Gay men Sexual minorities Historic house museums

Title: Sarah Orne Jewett House Museum

URL: https://www.historicnewengland.org/property/sarah-orne-jewett-house-museum-and-visitor-center/

Description: "Sarah Orne Jewett House Museum reflects not only the Jewett sisters’ eclectic tastes and their desire to preserve family’s tradition, marrying Georgian architecture with Aesthetic Style; the house also reflects the life, work, and passion of Sarah, who created a life of artistic and literal freedom for herself in Victorian America."

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Subject:   Lesbians Women authors Sexual minorities Historic house museums

Title: Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

URL: https://www.hullhousemuseum.org/

Description: "Hull-House, Chicago's first social settlement was not only the private home of Jane Addams and other Hull-House residents, but also a place where immigrants of diverse communities gathered to learn, to eat, to debate, and to acquire the tools necessary to put down roots in their new country."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Women social reformers Immigrants Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.)

Title: Rosedown Plantation State Historic Park

URL: https://www.lastateparks.com/historic-sites/rosedown-plantation-state-historic-site/

Description: "The contribution of slave labor to the construction and upkeep of the plantation, as well as agricultural prosperity and wealth accrued by Daniel Turnbull, was immense. During peak years of cotton production, operation of Rosedown utilized as many as 450 slaves."

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Subject:   Rosedown Plantation Women Slavery Enslaved persons Historic house museums

Title: Louis Armstrong House Museum

URL: https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/

Description: "Louis Armstrong was one of the most recognizable entertainers in the world when he chose the working-class neighborhood of Corona, Queens to be his home in 1943."

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Subject:   Louis Armstrong House Museum African American musicians Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 Historic house museums

Title: Menokin

URL: https://www.menokin.org/

Description: "Menokin, the home of Francis Lightfoot Lee — a signer of the Declaration of Independence — is a National Historic Landmark and, like our country, built on the contradictions of slavery. It is one of the best documented 18th century houses in the United States."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Historic sites Enslaved persons Lee, Francis Lightfoot, 1734-1797 Slavery

Title: Middleton Place

URL: https://www.middletonplace.org/

Description: "The historic preservation work and interpretation of history at Middleton Place focuses on major contributions of the Middleton family as well as the enslaved Africans and African Americans who lived and worked here."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Historic sites Enslaved persons Middleton Place (S.C.) Slavery

Title: James J. Hill House

URL: https://www.mnhs.org/hillhouse/

Description: "Explore upstairs and downstairs life in St. Paul’s largest house"

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Subject:   Immigrants James J. Hill House (Saint Paul, Minn.) Women Household employees Historic house museums

Title: Monticello

URL: https://www.monticello.org/

Description: "Thomas Jefferson enslaved over six hundred people throughout his life. Learn about the men, women, and children who built Jefferson's home, planted his crops, tended his gardens, and who helped run his household and raise his children."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Enslaved persons Monticello (Va.) Slavery

Title: Neill-Cochran House Museum

URL: https://www.nchmuseum.org/

Description: "The Hills, like the majority of white Austinites, were enslavers and they designed a home intended to be serviced through slave labor, along with a slave quarters that today is the only intact structure of its type in the city. "

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Subject:   Historic house museums Enslaved persons Slavery

Title: Nichols House Museum

URL: https://www.nicholshousemuseum.org/

Description: "In 1885, Dr. Arthur Nichols and his wife Elizabeth purchased the 1804 townhouse where their three daughters matured into designers, writers, and social activists. Domestic staff, including locals and individuals from abroad, also lived and worked in the four story home."

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Subject:   Immigrants Household employees Women Historic house museums

Title: Campbell House

URL: https://www.northwestmuseum.org/exhibitions/campbell-house/

Description: "Learn about the Campbell household and the changes in business, community life, and technology that faced this family, its servants, and its community, circa 1910."

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Subject:   Campbell House Immigrants Household employees Women Historic house museums

Title: Hunter's Home

URL: https://www.okhistory.org/sites/huntershome/

Description: "Hunter’s Home is the only remaining pre–Civil War plantation home in Oklahoma. A kitchen garden, field crops, animals, log cabin, and the historic home give visitors a window into life on an antebellum Cherokee plantation. "

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Subject:   Cherokee Indians Indigenous peoples Historic house museums

Title: Locke Boarding House

URL: https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=24343

Description: "Once known as the Jack Ross Boardinghouse, the Locke Boarding House was constructed in 1909, prior to the formal development of the town of Locke. Chinese men working on the construction of the Southern Pacific Railroad boarded in the small establishment which was located near the Southern Pacific Railroad shipping warehouse. The Kuramoto family operated the boarding house from 1921 until they were interned during World War II in 1942. The family did not return to resume operation of the Boarding House after the war. "

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Subject:   Historic house museums Immigrants Japanese Americans Foreign workers, Chinese

Title: Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum

URL: https://www.pphmuseum.org/

Description: "The story of Forty Acres, the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House, extends beyond the family that lived within the house. Enslaved people and indentured servants were present on the property from its construction in 1752, and many stayed on after the abolition and gradual abandonment of the practice of enslavement in Massachusetts in the last quarter of the 18th century.'

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Subject:   Agricultural laborers Indentured servants Slavery Enslaved persons Historic house museums

Title: Lefferts Historic House

URL: https://www.prospectpark.org/visit-the-park/places-to-go/lefferts-historic-house/

Description: Lefferts Historic House is an 18th-century Flatbush farmhouse which seeks to recognize its role as a site of slavery, of the enslaved Africans and the Indigenous people of the Lenapehoking  who lived and worked the land.

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Subject:   Historic house museums Indigenous peoples Enslaved persons Lefferts Homestead (New York, N.Y.) Slavery Agricultural laborers Tenant farmers Women Delaware Indians

Title: Pyle House Museum

URL: https://www.pylehouse.org/

Description: "The 1893-1894 Pyle House is a Queen Anne-Style Victorian home that celebrates the Pyle Family and their meritorious careers, specifically Mamie Pyle and Gladys Pyle. Mamie Pyle was the lead Suffragist in South Dakota as president of the Universal Franchise League. Gladys Pyle was a woman of firsts in politics; first woman elected to the South Dakota Legislature, first woman to hold a constitutional office, as South Dakota Secretary of State, and the first woman elected, without previously being appointed, to the United States Congress, just to name a few."

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Subject:   Historical museums Stateswomen Suffragists

Title: Rancho Los Cerritos

URL: https://www.rancholoscerritos.org/

Description: Built in 1844, the adobe home and grounds echo with the rich history of Spanish, Mexican and American California and with the families who helped transform Southern California from its ranching beginnings to a modern, urban society.

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Subject:   Rancho Los Cerritos Indigenous peoples Historic house museums

Title: Riverdale House Museum

URL: https://www.riversdale.org/who-lived-here/

Description: "The workforce at Riversdale was made up of enslaved, indentured, and free men, women, and children."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Enslaved persons Slavery Riverdale (Prince George's County, Md.) Indentured servants Free African Americans Women household employees

Title: Shadows-on-the-Teche

URL: https://www.shadowsontheteche.org/

Description: "Shadows-on-the-Teche holds many layers of history in its walls and gardens. Built for wealthy sugar planters, Mary and David Weeks, the house remained in the same family for four generations. As a former plantation home, the story of the Shadows is as much about the hundreds of enslaved men, women, and children who lived and labored at the site as it is about the Weeks family."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Enslaved persons Slavery Shadows on the Teche Plantation (La.) Weeks family Women plantation owners Free African Americans

Title: Sylvester Manor

URL: https://www.sylvestermanor.org/

Description: "Once a Native American hunting, fishing and farming ground, Sylvester Manor has since 1651 been home to eleven generations of its original European settler family. It reflects a remarkably intact history of America’s evolving tastes, economies and landscapes."

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Subject:   Free African Americans Slavery Sylvester Manor Plantation Site (N.Y.) Indigenous peoples Enslaved persons Agricultural laborers Indentured servants Historic house museums

Title: Owen-Thomas House & Slave Quarters

URL: https://www.telfair.org/visit/owens-thomas/

Description: "The Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters allows visitors to explore the complicated relationships between the most and least powerful people in the city of Savannah in the early 19th century."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Enslaved persons Slavery

Title: Gibson House Museum

URL: https://www.thegibsonhouse.org/

Description: Explore the Gibson House and the gay subculture of early-twentieth-century Boston through Charlie Gibson's eyes. The story of the Museum's founder is one of legacy and family history, of the fading grandeur of Victorian-era Boston, and of Boston's LGBTQ history."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Sexual minorities

Title: Glen Burnie House

URL: https://www.themsv.org/the-house/

Description: "The Glen Burnie House sits on land that Winchester founder James Wood surveyed, claimed, and then settled in 1735. The oldest portions of the house were built by Wood’s son Robert in 1794 and 1797. Until the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the 13th amendment, every generation of Wood and Glass descendants enslaved men, women, and children on the property."

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Subject:   Glen Burnie Historic House (Winchester, Va.) Slavery Enslaved persons Sexual minorities Gay men Historic house museums

Title: Whitney Plantation

URL: https://www.whitneyplantation.org/

Description: "Whitney Plantation educates the public about the history and legacies of slavery in the United States."

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Subject:   Historic house museums Enslaved persons Whitney Plantation (Saint John the Baptist Parish, La.) Slavery Historic sites

Title: Ximenez-Fatio House Museum

URL: https://www.ximenezfatiohouse.org/

Description: "While the builder of our house museum was a man, Andres Ximenez, women have played an iatrical part of the business operated within over our 223-year history. Historically women have been the silent partners of the men who built our communities, but here at the Ximenez-Fatio House Museum, the women have been the entrepreneurs and the face of their businesses. "

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Subject:   Women Historic house museums

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