A practical Eliza Thompson House guide covering adults-only rules, breakfast and evening receptions, Jones Street location, street-parking passes, and why the inn works so well for a quieter Savannah stay.
A practical Liberty Hotel guide covering valet parking, pet rules, Beacon Hill location, former-jail history, and when this stay makes more sense than Omni Parker House.
A practical Biltmore lodging guide comparing Village Hotel, The Inn, Cottages, and a wider Asheville base for travelers deciding whether to sleep on the estate or keep Biltmore as one major day.
A practical Hawthorne Hotel guide covering parking, check-in, pet rules, fall booking policies, and why the hotel works so well for visitors who want to stay inside Salem itself.
A new index measures whether hard history is built into the main visitor journey at major American historic sites, finding a sharp divide between sites that integrate difficult narratives and those that segment them.
The 2026 Maison Index evaluates six major Victorian house museums, arguing that the best visitor experiences are defined by narrative substance and operational transparency, not just ornamental facades. This analysis reveals which institutions are successfully moving beyond the parlor-and-portraits tour.
Maison tracks where Federal Historic Tax Credit support most clearly changed the fate of risky old buildings, from Boise’s Owyhee to small-city Main Street and midcentury housing projects.
Maison scores how real places from 66 Perry Street to Chief Joseph Ranch ration, price, script, or defend access as the 2026 set-jetting boom collides with physical reality.
The first Maison Haunted Hospitality Index scores how far historic hotels have pushed ghost lore into public commercial structure, from passive stories to fully productized paranormal ecosystems.
Historic houses have always absorbed new technology, but the real question is whether balcony solar can join that long line of adaptations without ruining the silhouette that made the building worth saving. Here is where small plug-in systems fit, where preservation rules push back, and why the quietest solar option may be the smartest one for older American homes.
Five landmark buildings show why Richardsonian Romanesque must be read through authorship, program, construction and surviving fabric—not façade alone.
Few film locations evoke such primal dread as the house from *The Texas Chain Saw Massacre*. But what becomes of a place steeped in such fictional horror when the cameras stop rolling? I've journeyed to countless cinematic landmarks, yet this one offers a peculiar blend of terror, history, and surprisingly good Southern hospitality.