"What a pity it is that we in America have no such wealth of historic places," one returning tourist was heard to remark. "Oh, of course, there are a few spots like Independence Hall and Concord and Lexington," he went on, "but there are not enough of them to make it worth while to plan a tour such as those in which we have taken delight in England."
It was easy to point out to the traveler his mistake; most Americans know that the country is rich in places of historic interest. Just how rich it is they may not realize until they make a serious study of the landmarks of their own land, as does the European tourist of the centers noted in his guidebook.
In fact, there are in America so many houses, churches, and other buildings having a vital connection with our history that volumes would be required to tell of them all. Even a brief record of the buildings whose owners or occupants played a conspicuous part in the early history of the country would fill a large book.
It is fascinating to learn of these houses and public buildings and to delve into the biographies which tell what happened to the people who lived in them. Fiction seems tame after connecting, for instance, the story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler with the Ford Mansion and the Campfield House at Morristown, New Jersey, then with the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York, and The Grange in New York City. The heart of the patriot burns with new love for his country as he reads of Faneuil Hall and the Old South Church and Carpenters' Hall. The story of the Revolution is clothed with living interest when Washington and his generals are followed to Valley Forge and Newburgh and Cambridge and Morristown and Princeton. Fresh appreciation of the sacrifice of the pioneers comes from going with them into the garrison houses of New England, along the Wilderness Road in Kentucky, to the settlements on the Ohio, or to the banks of the Wabash where more than one Indian treaty was made.
Next comes the keen pleasure of visiting the houses and churches which, through the piecing together of these facts, have become like familiar friends. The vacation journey that includes a careful study of a few of these buildings becomes a fascinating course in patriotism.
It is the purpose of the author of "Historic Shrines of America" to tell just enough about each of one hundred and twenty of these buildings of historic interest to create a hunger for more; to present pictures sufficiently attractive to make those who turn the pages of the book determine to visit the places described; to arrange the brief chapters in such sequence that it will be possible for the reader to plan for successive vacations a series of journeys through the centers where historic buildings may be found, and, in doing this, to pass by so many structures of interest that the reader and the tourist will have abundant opportunity to discover houses and churches of which he will say, "I wonder why this was not included."
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| ONE: IN THE LAND OF THE PILGRIMS | ||
| I | The Old State House, Boston, Massachusetts | [19] |
| II | Paul Revere's House, Boston, Massachusetts | [23] |
| III | Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts | [28] |
| IV | Three Historic Churches of Boston | [32] |
| V | Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts | [36] |
| VI | The Craigie House, Cambridge, Massachusetts | [40] |
| VII | The Adams Houses, Quincy, Massachusetts | [44] |
| VIII | The Quincy Mansion, Quincy, Massachusetts | [49] |
| IX | Fernside Farm, Haverhill, Massachusetts | [54] |
| X | The Duston Garrison House, Haverhill, Massachusetts | [56] |
| XI | The Old Manse and the Wayside, Concord,Massachusetts | [61] |
| XII | The Royall House, Medford, Massachusetts | [66] |
| XIII | Broadhearth and the Bennet-Boardman House,Saugus, Massachusetts | [69] |
| XIV | The Colonel Jeremiah Lee House, Marblehead,Massachusetts | [72] |
| XV | The Old South Church, Newburyport, Massachusetts | [75] |
| XVI | The First Baptist Church, Providence, RhodeIsland | [80] |
| TWO: WHERE PATROONS AND KNICKERBOCKERSFLOURISHED | ||
| XVII | The Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York City | [87] |
| XVIII | The Philipse Manor House, Yonkers, New York | [91] |
| XIX | St. Paul's Chapel, New York City | [95] |
| XX | Fraunces' Tavern, New York City | [97] |
| XXI | The Grange, New York City | [100] |
| XXII | The Van Cortlandt House, New York City | [104] |
| XXIII | The Hasbrouck House, Newburgh, New York | [106] |
| THREE: ACROSS THE JERSEYS WITH THE PATRIOTS | ||
| XXIV | The Franklin Palace, Perth Amboy, New Jersey | [115] |
| XXV | The Church at Caldwell, New Jersey | [119] |
| XXVI | Old Tennent Church, Freehold, New Jersey | [122] |
| XXVII | The Ford Mansion, Morristown, New Jersey | [126] |
| XXVIII | Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey | [130] |
| XXIX | Three Historic Houses at Princeton, New Jersey | [134] |
| XXX | The Springfield Meeting House, New Jersey | [138] |
| FOUR: RAMBLES ABOUT THE CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE | ||
| XXXI | The Letitia Penn House, Philadelphia | [145] |
| XXXII | Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia | [149] |
| XXXIII | St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia | [153] |
| XXXIV | Cliveden, Germantown, Philadelphia | [156] |
| XXXV | Old Pine Street Church, Philadelphia | [159] |
| XXXVI | Independence Hall, Philadelphia | [162] |
| XXXVII | The David Rittenhouse Home, near Philadelphia | [170] |
| XXXVIII | The Headquarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania | [174] |
| XXXIX | Three Headquarters of Washington | [178] |
| XL | Sweetbrier-on-the-Schuylkill, Philadelphia | [183] |
| XLI | Mill Grove and Fatlands, near Philadelphia | [187] |
| XLII | Waynesborough, near Paoli, Pennsylvania | [192] |
| XLIII | The Moravian Church, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania | [196] |
| FIVE: OVER THE MASON AND DIXON LINE | ||
| XLIV | Historic Landmarks at New Castle, Delaware | [203] |
| XLV | The Ridgely House, Dover, Delaware | [208] |
| XLVI | Rehoboth Church on the Pocomoke, Maryland | [211] |
| XLVII | Doughoregan Manor, near Ellicott City, Maryland | [216] |
| XLVIII | The Upton Scott House, Annapolis, Maryland | [220] |
| XLIX | The Capitol at Washington | [225] |
| L | The White House, Washington | [230] |
| LI | The Octagon House, Washington | [234] |
| SIX: HOMES AND HAUNTS OF THE CAVALIERS | ||
| LII | Mount Vernon, Virginia | [241] |
| LIII | Arlington, Virginia | [246] |
| LIV | Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia | [249] |
| LV | The Mary Washington House, Fredericksburg,Virginia | [251] |
| LVI | Greenway and Sherwood Forest, Virginia | [257] |
| LVII | Two Historic Courthouses of Virginia | [262] |
| LVIII | St. John's Church, Richmond | [266] |
| LIX | The Nelson House and the Moore House, Yorktown,Virginia | [270] |
| LX | The John Marshall House, Richmond, Virginia | [274] |
| LXI | Five Old Houses of Tidewater, Virginia | [278] |
| LXII | Gunston Hall, Virginia | [281] |
| LXIII | The Washington College Building, Lexington,Virginia | [285] |
| LXIV | Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia | [288] |
| LXV | William and Mary College, Williamsburg,Virginia | [291] |
| LXVI | The Monumental Church, Richmond, Virginia | [294] |
| LXVII | Montpelier, Orange County, Virginia | [296] |
| LXVIII | Oak Hill, Loudoun County, Virginia | [301] |
| LXIX | Red Hill, Charlotte County, Virginia | [305] |
| LXX | Pohick Church, Truro Parish, Virginia | [311] |
| LXXI | Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia | [314] |
| LXXII | Two of Virginia's Oldest Church Buildings | [318] |
| LXXIII | Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia | [322] |
| LXXIV | The University of Virginia at Charlottesville,Virginia | [326] |
| SEVEN: THROUGH THE SUNNY SOUTH | ||
| LXXV | Three Old Churches in Charleston, SouthCarolina | [333] |
| LXXVI | The House of Rebecca Motte, Charleston, SouthCarolina | [336] |
| LXXVII | The Independent Church, Savannah, Georgia | [340] |
| LXXVIII | The Cabildo of New Orleans | [343] |
| LXXIX | The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas | [347] |
| LXXX | The Hermitage, Nashville, Tennessee | [351] |
| LXXXI | Ashland, Lexington, Kentucky | [355] |
| LXXXII | Sportsman's Hall, Whitley's Station, Kentucky | [359] |
| LXXXIII | White Haven, near St. Louis, Missouri | [362] |
| EIGHT: ALL THE WAY BACK TO NEW ENGLAND | ||
| LXXXIV | The Abraham Lincoln House, Springfield, Illinois | [369] |
| LXXXV | The Governor's Palace at Vincennes, Indiana | [374] |
| LXXXVI | The House of General Rufus Putnam, Marietta,Ohio | [377] |
| LXXXVII | Monument Place, Elm Grove, West Virginia | [381] |
| LXXXVIII | The Castle at Fort Niagara, New York | [386] |
| LXXXIX | The Schuyler Mansion, Albany, New York | [391] |
| XC | The Wentworth House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire | [395] |
| XCI | The Wadsworth Longfellow House, Portland, Maine | [400] |
| Bibliography | [407] | |
| Index | [411] | |