Distinctive Destinations: Holiday Homes
Create your own unique holiday festivities and experience how people celebrated the holidays in the past at these historic houses. Watch a holiday light display, enjoy Christmas decorations, eat seasonal food, or take holiday tours by candlelight. See what other wonders and holiday events are in store at these Distinctive Destinations.
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Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
Miami, Florida
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Florence Griswold Museum
Old Lyme, Connecticut
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Mission San Juan Capistrano
San Juan Capistrano, California
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Haas-Lilienthal House
San Francisco, California
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George Eastman Museum
Rochester, New York
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Henry Overholser Mansion
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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The Virginia Quilt Museum
Dayton, Virginia
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Linden Hill Historic Estate
Little Falls, Minnesota
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Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
Buffalo, New York
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Fairfield Museum and History Center
Fairfield, Connecticut
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Jefferson Museum of Art and History
Port Townsend, Washington
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B&O Railroad Museum
Baltimore, Maryland
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Hermann-Grima & Gallier Historic Houses
New Orleans, Louisiana
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Historic Rock Ford
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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Thomasville History Center
Thomasville, Georgia
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Shelton McMurphey Johnson House
Eugene , Oregon
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Steppingstone Farm Museum
Havre de Grace, Maryland
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Charles Allis Art Museum
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Hagley Museum and Library
Wilmington, Delaware
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Greenwich Historical Society
Cos Cob, Connecticut
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Henry B. Plant Museum
Tampa, Florida
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Buffalo Trace Distillery
Frankfort, Kentucky
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Lee-Fendall House Museum and Garden
Alexandria, Virginia
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Strawbery Banke Museum
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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Glessner House
Chicago, Illinois
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Auburn
Natchez, Mississippi
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Conrad-Caldwell House Museum
Louisville, Kentucky
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Elisabet Ney Museum
Austin, Texas
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The Hancock House, Ticonderoga Historical Society
Ticonderoga, New York
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History Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Historic Rosedale Plantation
Charlotte, North Carolina
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Great Plains Black History Museum
Omaha, Nebraska
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The Breakers
Newport, Rhode Island
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Stetson Mansion
DeLand, Florida
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Landmark Center
St. Paul, Minnesota
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Powel House
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Historic Huguenot Street
New Paltz, New York
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The 1875 Vera Estey House Museum
Presque Isle, Maine
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Field House Museum
Saint Louis, Missouri
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African American Art & Culture Complex
San Francisco, California
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Belle Grove
Middletown, Virginia
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Brucemore
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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Decatur House
Washington, DC
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Drayton Hall
Charleston, South Carolina
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Edith Farnsworth House
Plano, Illinois
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Filoli
Woodside, California
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Hotel de Paris Museum
Georgetown, Colorado
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James Madison's Montpelier
Montpelier Station, Virginia
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Lyndhurst
Tarrytown, New York
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Oatlands
Leesburg, Virginia
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The Gaylord Building
Lockport, Illinois
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Touro Synagogue
Newport, Rhode Island
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The Shadows
New Iberia, Louisiana
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The President Woodrow Wilson House
Washington, DC
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Villa Finale
San Antonio, Texas
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C.C. Beekman House Museum
Jacksonville, Oregon
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Fabyan Villa & Japanese Garden
Geneva, Illinois
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Historic St. John's Church
Richmond, Virginia
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South Union Shaker Village
Auburn, Kentucky
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Blandwood Museum
Greensboro, North Carolina
This May, celebrate the historic sites, neighborhoods, and landmarks that tell the full American story—places that remind us of how far we've come and how far we still have to go.
Celebrate!