Built 1858–1860 in Portland, Maine, an Italianate villa retaining around ninety per cent of its original interiors — among the most intact of its period in America.
Opened 1905, a Beaux-Arts grand hotel in downtown Louisville with a marble lobby, murals, and a basement Rathskeller lined in Rookwood pottery tile.
Waite Phillips' 1927 Italian Renaissance villa in Tulsa, now an art museum, with around 25 acres of formal gardens running down to a tempietto.
Built 1922 in Pueblo Revival style on the corner of the Santa Fe Plaza, with adobe walls, carved timber, tin fixtures and a rooftop bar.
H. H. Richardson's 1877 Romanesque church on Copley Square, with La Farge interiors and stained glass. Magnificent, dark, and governed by church rules rather than venue rules.
George Vanderbilt's 250-room chateau, completed 1895, with Olmsted-designed grounds on around 8,000 acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
A 1914 French Renaissance house 1,000 feet above Portland, with the best city view in Oregon and interiors that punish a careless exposure. Here is the walk-through.
Built 1895 in Old Louisville's St James Court, a Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in rough-faced limestone, now a house museum with event use.
Opened 1878, the Peabody's stack room rises five tiers of cast-iron balconies to a skylight sixty feet above. One of the great interiors in America.