Penobscot Marine Museum is in the historic seacoast village of Searsport, Maine. Eight of our twelve exhibit buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places. We have the largest camera obscura in Maine. Our permanent exhibits include a beautifully furnished ship captain's house, an exquisite collection of Buttersworth marine... Learn More >

In 1821, four intact rooms from an earlier house were transported by ox sled to Salem's fashionable Chestnut Street to form the core of a new Federal-style mansion being constructed by Captain Nathaniel West. Nearly a century later, Anna Phillips bought the house and launched a fourteen-month renovation in the Colonial Revival style. When she, her... Learn More >

Pierce House is one of the last surviving examples of seventeenth-century architecture in the city of Boston. Lived in by ten generations of one family, the house documents the building practices and tastes of the Pierces over three centuries. At different times, family members expanded and adapted their house to meet demands for space, function,... Learn More >

Pilgrim Hall Museum (PHM), erected 1824, is the oldest continuously operating museum in the country. The museum’s unsurpassed collection of Pilgrim possessions connects you with the actual experiences of America’s earliest beginnings. What did the English families aboard the Mayflower bring with them to make a new life in a new world? See... Learn More >

The Pilgrim Monument was founded in 1892 as the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association—Cape Cod’s oldest not-for-profit organization. Its purpose is to commemorate the Mayflower Pilgrims’ first landing in the New World in Provincetown, in November 1620. Here the Pilgrims spent 5 weeks meeting the native Wampanoag people, exploring the tip of... Learn More >

The Humphrey House was built roughly around 1715 as a private home for James and Dorcas Fairbanks Humphrey of Dedham. It changed hands and families several times from 1715 through 1930. In 1930 the town of Plainville purchased the house as the first stand-alone library in town. In 1988 with the construction of the new public library, the Humphrey... Learn More >

With an extensive collection and nationally renowned exhibitions, the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) is the cultural heart of Portland, Maine. The PMA boasts significant holdings of American, European, and contemporary art, as well as iconic works from Maine—highlighting the rich artistic tradition of the state and its artists. The museum brings... Learn More >

Portsmouth Historical Society (PHS), founded in 1917, is a tax-exempt 501(c)3 nonprofit devoted to introducing, interpreting and stimulating the study of Portsmouth history, art & culture. PHS operates three facilities: the John Paul Jones House & Garden, open Memorial Day through Columbus Day; the Discover Portsmouth Welcome Center and our main... Learn More >

The President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site in Plymouth Notch preserves the birthplace and childhood home of Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States. Brought to the world’s attention on August 3, 1923, when Calvin Coolidge took the presidential oath of office in the parlor of his family home, the historic village appears... Learn More >

The President Chester A. Arthur State Historic Site was the first historic site owned by the State of Vermont. With great fanfare, the granite monument marking what was believed to have been the site of Chester A. Arthur’s birth was dedicated in 1903 on land granted to the State of Vermont by Peter Bent Brigham Northrop. Fifty years later, in... Learn More >