Around 200 acres of arboretum and formal gardens in north Baltimore, centred on an 1880s stone mansion. Mature specimen trees and long open lawns.
A resort on around 300 acres in the Sangre de Cristo foothills north of Santa Fe, built around Archbishop Lamy's nineteenth-century private chapel.
Ten acres of native Southern Appalachian plants beside Reed Creek, next to the UNC Asheville campus. Woodland, water and no built structure of consequence.
A nineteenth-century house remodelled into a white-columned Classical Revival mansion, with formal gardens and mature trees in Louisville's Highlands.
Thomas Gilcrease's museum of American West art on around 460 acres of Osage foothills in Tulsa, with themed historic gardens on the grounds.
Ten thousand rose bushes on a west-facing terrace with the city and Mount Hood behind. Spectacular in June, and the busiest ceremony spot in Portland. The honest answers.
A Pueblo Revival inn built in the 1970s in the form of a multi-storey adobe pueblo, beside the Loretto Chapel in central Santa Fe, with courtyards and terraces.
Built 1831 in the French Quarter, an American-style townhouse with a walled courtyard, original kitchen and stable buildings, run as a house museum.
A 190-acre tree museum on a ridge in Washington Park, with twelve miles of trail and a conifer canopy that changes the exposure by three stops in twenty paces.
A small 1850s Classical Revival house with mature gardens, half an hour south of Portland. Intimate is the selling point and the constraint. An honest fit assessment.