Frank Carlson Library

Describes places where early American history was made, from Indian and Viking settlements through the Revolution.

American Heritage guide to Historic Houses of America of Open to the Public. Listed alphabetically by state and city.

This book is about how early American families lived in these houses and the range of their lives in them. "In a journey that spans the infant nation from New England to the deep south, we see the full sprctrum of early domestic architecture in its quirky, graceful, crude sophisticated innovative unabashed American-ness" (cover).