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
Harrisonburg, 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
Orange, 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
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