Charles Green, born 1807 in Shropshire, England, migrated to Savannah in 1833 at the age of 26 and secured a job as a clerk on Factor’s Walk in the cotton trade.

Naumkeag is the former Berkshire estate of New York City lawyer and U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Joseph Hodges Choate, and his wife Caroline, located in Stockbridge, Massachusettes. The Choate’s, who were part of the newly-rich, traveled in well-to-do social circles. They decided to build a 44-room shingle-style “cottage” with brick and stone details, designed by the architect of the day, Stanford White.

Robert Lincoln, the only child of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, retained the architecture firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge to built his summer home on 392 acres in Manchester, Vermont. Lincoln had served as Secretary of War and Minister to the Court of St. James, and made his fortune as a lawyer before becoming President of the Pullman Company. Robert Lincoln and his wife, Mary Harlan Lincoln, lived at Hildene in high style.

Olana was the eclectic home of Frederic Edwin Church and his wife Isabel. Frederic was one of the major figures in the Hudson River School of landscape painting. The mansion was designed by Mr. Church in conjunction with architect Calvert Vaux and built between 1870 and 1872. A studio wing was added in 1889.

Charles Deering was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the son of William Deering, founder of Deering Harvester McCormick-International Harvester Company

The Edison and Ford properties are both on the National Register of Historic Sites and consist of 20 acres of historical buildings and gardens including the 1928 Edison Botanical Research Laboratory.

Low was inspired by the Scout Movement work of Lord Baden-Powell, and she joined the Girl Guide movement in England, and forming her own group there in 1911.

Crane created this lavish summer retreat for his wife, Florence Higinbotham Crane and three children, Cornelius and Florence. The Crane Estate would come to exemplify the American Country Place Era, which emphasized the integration of indoor and outdoor spaces.

The Martin House was a Frank Lloyd Wright design built between 1903 and 1905 for Buffalo businessman Darwin Martin and his family.

Graycliff was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright between 1926-1931 for Isabelle R Martin, wife of industrialist Darwin Martin, as a summer home for their family.

The beautiful former estate of the world-respected innovator, George Eastman, houses two museums, the inventor’s 50-room fireproof home

The home the Hemingways acquired home was built in 1851 in the Spanish Colonial style. The home was in real bad shape, but both Ernest and Pauline could see beyond the rubble and ruin and appreciated the grand architecture and stateliness of the home.

The Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion has been painstakingly restored to show how Philadelphia’s rising middle class lived in the period from the 1860s to the 1910s.

iMajor and Mrs. James H. Dooley transformed rough fields and pastures into a showplace many American millionaires were creating during the Gilded Age.

The Casements, named for the large hand-cut casement-style windows that adorn the mansion, was purchased in 1918 by John Davidson Rockefeller at age 78.

The Federal-style mansion in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington D.C. was originally the home of Martha Washington’s grandaughter Martha Parke Custis Peter and her husband, Thomas.

Marjorie Merriweather Post was a pioneering business executive, engaged citizen, generous philanthropist, distinguished collector and amazing party hostess.

The Cairnwood Mansion is an L-shaped, Beau Arts gem designed by Carrere and Hastings nestled in the serene countryside. The 26,000 square-foot, 28-room mansion was built in 1895 for John Pitcairn, Jr,

James Deering, socialite and antiquities collector built an elaborate Florida villa and estate named Vizcaya on Biscayne Bay in Miami.

Biltmore, the opulent 250-room French Renaissance chateau, nestled in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, was the vision of George Washington Vanderbilt, carried out by renowned architect Richard Morris Hunt. Construction began in 1889 and the opulent estate, with grounds designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, was opened on Christmas Eve in 1895 to family and friends.