TravelAwaits
May.23.2021
While public parks and monuments are a beautiful way to experience U.S. history, nothing feels quite as personal and intimate as a private tour of someone’s former home. Across the country, historic houses are open to the public, either because of the legacy of their owners or because of the building’s own important legacy.
For those interested in experiencing American history in a more unconventional way, here are seven gorgeous historic homes to choose from.
1. George Washington’s Home
Mount Vernon, Virginia
Located in northern Virginia, just a few miles from Washington, D.C., Mount Vernon is the former home of the nation’s first president. What started in 1734 as a 1.5 story house built by George Washington’s own father soon expanded under the president, who oversaw a transformation into the 21-room mansion visitors can see today. Tourists can explore Washington’s study, front parlor, kitchen, and bedrooms, as well as the surrounding ga
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Walking in Ala Moana Regional Park, between Waikiki and downtown Honolulu.
Photograph by Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) / Ben Ono
“When a Hawaiian says ‘aloha’, you must respond with energy,” says the guitarist leading a hula group on Kuhio Beach. It’s a word imbued with love, compassion and respect a catch-all for laid-back island life. It also captures the spirit of Honolulu: a city of shave ice and tropical print shirts, of shady
lanais (verandahs), fragrant
leis (garlands) and buff beach boys surfing as sunshine smacks off cool, blue water. The skies are bright year-round and the ocean infuses everything, from fresh poke bowls to stories of early voyagers arriving by canoe.
Introduction
When the philosophy of Manifest Destiny was posited to induce citizens to set out and populate lands to the west of the original 13 colonies of the United States, few people expected to encounter the wondrous lands that lay just beyond the horizon.
The Great Plains, the Mountain West, California, and the Pacific Northwest all ended up humbling those that sought them out, and it was in these places that they laid down roots, setting the table for statehood in the ensuing years.
In 1959, this process (for now at least, as Puerto Rico might join the party at some point in the future) came to a conclusion in grand fashion, as America brought the ultimate tropical paradise, Hawaii, into the fold as its 50th state.