Built 1755 in the Stroudwater district of Portland, a Georgian house with an unusual clerestory gambrel roof, and an eighteenth-century-style garden.
One of the oldest buildings in Savannah, an eighteenth-century seamen's inn near the river, with a warren of small low-ceilinged dining rooms and a cellar.
A former 1920s school building in Louisville's Highlands, its gymnasium converted into an event hall with a barrel-vaulted ceiling and tall arched windows.
Opened 1926 in downtown Omaha as the Riviera, an atmospheric movie palace with Spanish-Moorish detailing and a ceiling painted to suggest an open sky.
A private club occupying a historic mansion on Mount Vernon Place, with marble entrance hall, panelled rooms and a substantial staircase overlooking the square.
A large Greek Revival mansion on its own city block in Natchez, with white-painted columns and mature gardens.
Opened 1931 on San Francisco Street, a Moorish and Spanish Renaissance movie palace, restored in 2001 as Santa Fe's main performing arts venue.
An arts hotel in the Grand Center district of St. Louis, where guest rooms are themed by saturated single colours and guests choose a room by mood.
A private club in Back Bay with panelled function rooms, oil portraits and traditional finishes. An indoor venue whose photographs still change completely with the season.
A downtown Portland hotel formed from two early 1900s buildings, including a former Elks lodge with an ornate ballroom. Grand interiors, and almost no daylight in them.