A converted early twentieth-century industrial building in north downtown Omaha, with exposed brick, heavy timber, large windows and open floor plates.
Opened 1997 in downtown Santa Fe, a museum devoted to Georgia O'Keeffe, in adobe-form buildings with a small courtyard and intimate galleries.
Founded in 1807, one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States, in an 1849 building on Beacon Street beside the State House. Books, busts and balconies.
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.
Built 1807 on Munjoy Hill, an octagonal maritime signal tower — the last surviving one in the United States — with views over Portland and Casco Bay.
An 1892 Renaissance Revival mansion in red brick with cast-iron detailing, on Columbia Square, operating as a small luxury inn.
Opened 1927 in downtown Omaha as a vaudeville and movie palace, restored in the 1970s, with gilded plasterwork, chandeliers, a proscenium stage and a balcony.
Built 1789 on Reynolds Square, a Georgian mansion whose stucco has weathered pink from the brick beneath. Small candlelit rooms and a tavern basement.
Founded 1882, Maine's oldest public art institution, with the 1983 Charles Shipman Payson Building designed by Henry Cobb of I. M. Pei & Partners.
Opened 1928, a John Eberson atmospheric theatre in downtown Louisville with a Spanish Baroque interior and a ceiling painted as a night sky full of stars.