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.

By the 18th century, Greenport began to develop as a maritime center. It became known for its whaling, shipbuilding, and fishing when the village was officially incorporated in 1838.

Established in 1897, the Roycroft Campus is the birthplace of the Arts & Crafts Movement in America.

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.

Newburgh boasts a rich history, particularly related to the American Revolutionary War.

The island was known as Blackwell’s Island and Welfare Island and finally becoming Roosevelt Island in honor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1973.

Hidden in plain site in the Glen Oaks section of Queens is one of the longest continually farmed sites in New York City.

Cold Spring, like many other area villages and towns was a major industrial site. Today, the short Main Street lined with historic buildings containing a collection of restaurants, cafes and shops

Downtown Saratoga Springs offers a charming mix of old and new. The main stret is Broadway, lined with Victorian-style buildings housing boutiques, restaurants and galleries.

Old Westbury Gardens is the former estate of John Shaffer Phipps who had the 44-room English manor house house commissioned as a wedding present to his wife, Margarita Grace Phipps. It was completed in 1906 by the English designer George A. Crawley on 200 acres of formal gardens, landscaped grounds, woodlands, ponds and lakes.

The Roosevelt’s home was typical brownstone located on what was a quiet tree-lined street in the city’s fashionable residential district. Theodore Roosevelt was the second of four children born to socialite Martha Stewart Bulloch and businessman Theodore Roosevelt Sr.

The Merchant’s House Museum was the home of Seabury Tredwell, a New York City prosperous hardware merchant, and his family for over 100 years.

The Cornish ruins are a part of the Hudson Highlands State Park Preserve, and offers a glimpse into the past, with the ruins of industrialist Edward Cornish’s 650-acre gilded age estate.

Caleb Smith Preserve contains the historic home of Caleb and his father Daniel Smith II. Caleb, the grandson of Richard “Bull” Smith, and was a member of the New York Assembly and a Suffolk County Judge.

The Mohonk Mountain House is a historic and iconic resort located in the Catskill Mountain on the Shawangunk Ridge, on the shores of Lake Mohonk, near New Paltz, New York.

Boscobel is a historic house museum located in Garrison, New York. It was built between 1804 and 1808 as the dream house of wealthy Loyalist, States Morris Dyckman in Montrose, New York.

In 1902, Herbert Pratt hired James Brite to build the first house to occupy the site. Ten years later the house was torn down and the current building was constructed.

Jim Williams’ contributions can be felt all over Savannah’s Historic District. He was a successful antiques dealer, historic preservationist, as well as local socialite.

Richard H. Jenrette founded the Classical American Homes Preservation Trust in 1993, with a mission to preserve and protect examples of classical American residential architecture and surround landscapes.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was opened in 1870 and boasts 36,000 objects, including 2,500 European Old Masters, Impressionist, and Pos-Impressionist paintings as well as the greatest collection of Egyptian art and artifacts outside Cairo.

Tucked away along the banks of the Hudson River is Washington Irving’s charming home called Sunnyside.