#8217, aired 2020-05-19 | HISTORIC HOMES $400: Damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Beauvoir, the Miss. home of this Confederate pres., had to undergo a major restoration Jefferson Davis |
#8217, aired 2020-05-19 | HISTORIC HOMES $800: You might recognize the Eldon, Iowa house seen here from this famous 1930 painting of a farm couple posing in front of it American Gothic |
#8217, aired 2020-05-19 | HISTORIC HOMES $1200: Her home in Glen Echo, Maryland doubled as a headquarters for the American Red Cross Clara Barton |
#8217, aired 2020-05-19 | HISTORIC HOMES $1600: Many believe the 160-room San Jose, California "Mystery House" built by the heiress to this rifle company is haunted Winchester |
#8217, aired 2020-05-19 | HISTORIC HOMES $2000: Built by Cornelius Vanderbilt II, this 70-room Rhode Island mansion has been called the "grandest of Newport's summer 'cottages"' The Breakers |
#7433, aired 2016-12-28 | HISTORIC HOMES $200: His birth home on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta is not far from Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he & his dad preached Martin Luther King |
#7433, aired 2016-12-28 | HISTORIC HOMES $400: A Victorian jewel in Denver is the home of this woman who survived the sinking of the Titanic Molly Brown |
#7433, aired 2016-12-28 | HISTORIC HOMES $600: This writer's home in Hartford, Connecticut, where he lived beginning in 1874, is often called Steamboat Gothic Mark Twain |
#7433, aired 2016-12-28 | HISTORIC HOMES $800: The Hermitage, his Tennessee estate, has a cafe called the Kitchen Cabinet; its ham sandwich is named for Roger Taney Andrew Jackson |
#7433, aired 2016-12-28 | HISTORIC HOMES $1000: The home where this man lived until his death in 1791 has a prayer room known as the powerhouse of Methodism (John) Wesley |
#4330, aired 2003-05-30 | HISTORIC HOMES $200: Name of the famous home that's depicted on the back of our current 5-cent coin Monticello |
#4330, aired 2003-05-30 | HISTORIC HOMES $400: His "Body lies a-mouldering in the grave" near his farmhouse in Lake Placid, New York John Brown |
#4330, aired 2003-05-30 | HISTORIC HOMES $600: Beauvoir, his last home in Biloxi, is now operated by the United Sons of Confederate Veterans Jefferson Davis |
#4330, aired 2003-05-30 | HISTORIC HOMES $1000: A window of The Old Manse in Concord, Mass. still bears the diamond-engraved signatures of this author & his wife Nathaniel Hawthorne |
#4330, aired 2003-05-30 | HISTORIC HOMES $3,000 (Daily Double): After Frederick Pabst's death, his 37-room mansion became home to the archbishops of this city Milwaukee |
#2946, aired 1997-05-26 | HISTORIC HOMES $100: The home of Mary Pickersgill, who made the star-spangled banner that waved over Fort McHenry, is in this MD. city Baltimore |
#2946, aired 1997-05-26 | HISTORIC HOMES $200: The first brick home in Portland, Maine was built by Gen. Peleg Wadsworth, this author's grandfather Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
#2946, aired 1997-05-26 | HISTORIC HOMES $300: The birthplace of this founder of the American Red Cross is now a museum in North Oxford, Massachusetts Clara Barton |
#2946, aired 1997-05-26 | HISTORIC HOMES $400: The home this president lived in while he served on the Supreme Court is now the Syrian embassy Taft |
#2946, aired 1997-05-26 | HISTORIC HOMES $500: This Scottish castle, a private residence of the Queen of England, stands on the right bank of the River Dee Balmoral |
#2891, aired 1997-03-10 | HISTORIC HOMES $100: You can visit the Victorian home of this unsinkable heroine at 1340 Pennsylvania Street in Denver Molly Brown |
#2891, aired 1997-03-10 | HISTORIC HOMES $200: The Gibson House on Beacon Street in this city is named for its original 19th century furnishings Boston |
#2891, aired 1997-03-10 | HISTORIC HOMES $300: Hulihee Palace on this large island was once the summer home of monarchs, including King Kalakaua Hawaii |
#2891, aired 1997-03-10 | HISTORIC HOMES $400: Moss-draped oak trees surround Shadows-On-The-Teche, one of this state's most famous plantations Louisiana |
#2891, aired 1997-03-10 | HISTORIC HOMES $500 (Daily Double): Woodlawn in Virginia was the home of this president's step-granddaughter Nellie Custis George Washington |
#2782, aired 1996-10-08 | HISTORIC HOMES $100: Costumed guides lead tours of this lexicographer's birthplace in West Hartford, Connecticut Webster |
#2782, aired 1996-10-08 | HISTORIC HOMES $200: The Martha Vick house in this Mississippi city was constructed in 1830 by the daughter of the city's founder Vicksburg |
#2782, aired 1996-10-08 | HISTORIC HOMES $300: The white frame house that served as the first White House of the Confederacy is in this city Montgomery, Alabama |
#2782, aired 1996-10-08 | HISTORIC HOMES $400: This Asheville, N.C. estate built by George Washington Vanderbilt has a 250-room house & its own winery Biltmore |
#2782, aired 1996-10-08 | HISTORIC HOMES $500: You'll find this president's boyhood home in the Plymouth Notch Historic District of Plymouth, VT. Coolidge |
#2705, aired 1996-05-10 | HISTORIC HOMES $100: He built Poplar Forest, a home near Lynchburg, Virginia, as a retreat from the hubbub at Monticello Thomas Jefferson |
#2705, aired 1996-05-10 | HISTORIC HOMES $200: This 19th century nurse's huge home in Glen Echo, Maryland is a national historic site Clara Barton |
#2705, aired 1996-05-10 | HISTORIC HOMES $300: Built around 1670, Paul Revere's home on North Square is the oldest house in this city Boston |
#2705, aired 1996-05-10 | HISTORIC HOMES $400: The Michigan farmhouse where this automaker was born can be seen in Greenfield Village Henry Ford |
#2705, aired 1996-05-10 | HISTORIC HOMES $800 (Daily Double): The Petersen House was known only as home to a tailor who rented out rooms until this president died there Abraham Lincoln |
#1897, aired 1992-12-01 | HISTORIC HOMES $200: Every Summer, performances of "The Miracle Worker" are presented at her Ivy Green home in Alabama Helen Keller |
#1897, aired 1992-12-01 | HISTORIC HOMES $400: His winter home in Fort Myers, Florida is partially lit by his handmade bulbs that have burned since the '20s (Thomas) Edison |
#1897, aired 1992-12-01 | HISTORIC HOMES $600: Scotchtown, one of the largest Colonial houses in Virginia, was home to this orator before he became governor Patrick Henry |
#1897, aired 1992-12-01 | HISTORIC HOMES $800: The Old Stone House, thought to be the oldest surviving home in Washington, D.C., is located in this historic section Georgetown |
#1897, aired 1992-12-01 | HISTORIC HOMES $1000: A house that belonged to U.S. Sec'y of State James G. Blaine has been home to this state's govs. since 1919 Maine |
#1883, aired 1992-11-11 | HISTORIC HOMES $100 (Daily Double): Her home in Rochester, New York is now a museum filled with memorabilia of the fight for equal rights Susan B. Anthony |
#1883, aired 1992-11-11 | HISTORIC HOMES $200: His cousin's Old Kentucky Home, Federal Hill, is said to have inspired his famous song Stephen Foster |
#1883, aired 1992-11-11 | HISTORIC HOMES $400: The oldest brick house in the town of Amherst was built by this poet's grandfather in 1813 Emily Dickinson |
#1883, aired 1992-11-11 | HISTORIC HOMES $600: This frontier hero's reconstructed log cabin now stands on the grounds of a Tennessee high school Davy Crockett |
#1883, aired 1992-11-11 | HISTORIC HOMES $1000: Chesterwood, a Stockbridge, MA estate, includes the home & studio of this "Minuteman" sculptor Daniel Chester French |
#1692, aired 1991-12-31 | HISTORIC HOMES $100: Now a shrine & museum, Beauvoir, in Biloxi, was the last home of this Confederate president Jefferson Davis |
#1692, aired 1991-12-31 | HISTORIC HOMES $200: Once belonging to merchant Archibald Gracie, Gracie Mansion is now home to this city's mayor New York |
#1692, aired 1991-12-31 | HISTORIC HOMES $300: Wren's nest in Atlanta contains mementos of this former owner & creator of Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris |
#1692, aired 1991-12-31 | HISTORIC HOMES $400: After the White House was set afire in 1814, this presidential couple moved to the nearby Octagon House the Madisons |
#1692, aired 1991-12-31 | HISTORIC HOMES $500: Biltmore House, a 250-room mansion in N. Carolina, was built in the late 1800s by a grandson of this "Commodore" Vanderbilt |