Historic Shrines of America

Paul Revere's house, Faneuil Hall, the Craigie House where Longfellow wrote, a hundred more — an American pilgrimage told building by building, when many of these places were still fighting to survive.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 shrine

The Old State House, Boston, Massachusetts

2 shrines

Paul Revere's House, Boston, Massachusetts

6 shrines

Three Historic Churches of Boston

2 shrines

Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2 shrines

The Craigie House, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1 shrine

The Adams Houses, Quincy, Massachusetts

2 shrines

The Quincy Mansion, Quincy, Massachusetts

4 shrines

Fernside Farm, Haverhill, Massachusetts

1 shrine

The Duston Garrison House, Haverhill, Massa-

3 shrines

The Old Manse and the Wayside, Concord, Massachusetts

3 shrines

The Royall House, Medford, Massachusetts

1 shrine

Broadhearth and the Bennet-Boardman House, Saugus, Massachusetts

1 shrine

The Colonel Jeremiah Lee House, Marblehead, Massachusetts

1 shrine

The Old South Church, Newburyport, Massachusetts

2 shrines

The First Baptist Church, Providence, Rhode Island

2 shrines

The Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York City

5 shrines

St. Paul's Chapel, New York City

1 shrine

Fraunces' Tavern, New York City

1 shrine

The Grange, New York City

4 shrines

The Van Cortlandt House, New York City

5 shrines

The Church at Caldwell, New Jersey

4 shrines

Old Tennent Church, Freehold, New Jersey

1 shrine

The Ford Mansion, Morristown, New Jersey

3 shrines

Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey

7 shrines

The Letitia Penn House, Philadelphia

4 shrines

St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia

1 shrine

Cliveden, Germantown, Philadelphia

1 shrine

Old Pine Street Church, Philadelphia

3 shrines

Independence Hall, Philadelphia

4 shrines

The Headquarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

3 shrines

Sweetbrier-On-The-Schuylkill, Philadelphia

2 shrines

Mill Grove and Fatlands, Near Philadelphia

4 shrines

The Moravian Church, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

5 shrines

The Ridgely House, Dover, Delaware

7 shrines

Doughoregan Manor, Near Ellicott City, Maryland

3 shrines

The Upton Scott House, Annapolis, Maryland

2 shrines

The Capitol at Washington

4 shrines

The White House, Washington

2 shrines

The Octagon House, Washington

3 shrines

Mount Vernon, Virginia

2 shrines

Arlington, Virginia

1 shrine

Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia

1 shrine

The Mary Washington House, Fredericksburg, Virginia

4 shrines

Greenway and Sherwood Forest, Virginia

6 shrines

St. John's Church, Richmond

3 shrines

The Nelson House and the Moore House, Yorktown, Virginia

4 shrines

Five Old Houses of Tidewater, Virginia

1 shrine

Gunston Hall, Virginia

2 shrines

The Washington College Building, Lexington, Virginia

4 shrines

William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia

2 shrines

Montpelier, Orange County, Virginia

2 shrines

Oak Hill, Loudoun County, Virginia

3 shrines

Red Hill, Charlotte County, Virginia

3 shrines

Pohick Church, Truro Parish, Virginia

1 shrine

Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia

2 shrines

Two of Virginia's Oldest Church Buildings Lxxiii

4 shrines

The University of Virginia at Charlottesville

2 shrines

Three Old Churches in Charleston, South Carolina

1 shrine

The House of Rebecca Motte, Charleston, South Carolina

1 shrine

The Independent Church, Savannah, Georgia

1 shrine

The Cabildo of New Orleans

4 shrines

The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas

3 shrines

The Hermitage, Nashville, Tennessee

4 shrines

Ashland, Lexington, Kentucky

3 shrines

White Haven, Near St. Louis, Missouri

2 shrines

The Abraham Lincoln House, Springfield, Illinois

2 shrines

The Governor's Palace at Vincennes, Indiana

4 shrines

The House of General Rufus Putnam, Marietta

7 shrines

The Castle at Fort Niagara, New York

2 shrines

The Schuyler Mansion, Albany, New York

3 shrines

The Wentworth House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

3 shrines

The Wadsworth Longfellow House, Portland, Maine

2 shrines

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