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.

Gunston Hall, Virginia

2 shrines in this part of Historic Shrines of America.

Gunston Hall, Virginia

THE HOME OF GEORGE MASON, "THE PEN OF THE REVOLUTION IN VIRGINIA" Four miles from Mt. Vernon, on the Potomac, is the well-preserved…

Gunston Hall, Virginia: Mason

Gifts of various kinds passed back and forth between the two manors; one day in 1785, when Mason was driven from Mt. Vernon in Washington's…

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