Maison Research brings together the biggest analytical pieces on the site. Some pages track how a single property is marketed, interpreted, or visited. Others look across hotels, museums, and historic sites to compare larger patterns.
The common thread is simple: each page starts with a clear question, a named set of places, and an argument strong enough to stand on its own. Over time this section will keep growing into a working library of indices, audits, and place-based analysis.
Looking for outside coverage? Press & Media collects links to stories and mentions from other outlets. If you want to see how Maison builds and updates its own index work, use Methodology & Standards.
Flagship National Indices
These are the biggest national pieces now live on the site. Each one is built around a real question and a visible frame, not a generic trend angle.
The State of Heritage Travel 2026
A full Maison overview of the six pressures reshaping the field, from ghost-tour packaging and screen-tourism friction to climate triage and capital stacks.
The Maison Haunted Hospitality Index 2026
A close look at how historic hotels turn ghost lore into tours, premium packages, room mythology, and branded paranormal programming.
The Maison Semiquincentennial Redaction Index 2026
A longform piece on how major sites frame conflict-heavy national history as the United States moves deeper into the 250th-anniversary cycle.
The Maison Historic-Site Triage Matrix 2026
A longform analysis of climate pressure, mitigation logic, and the triage decisions already reshaping how public history gets protected.
The Maison Screen-Tourism Friction Index 2026
An index measuring the gap between filmed fantasy and real-world visitor access at high-demand screen-tourism properties.
The Maison Historic Tax Credit Revival Index 2026
A look at adaptive reuse, rehabilitation momentum, and the state-by-state revival patterns visible through the federal tax-credit story.
House and Museum Audits
These pages apply the same approach to the lived mechanics of historic-house tourism: what visitors really get to see, what kinds of tours actually exist, and how interpretation changes once labor and service history are brought back into view.
The Maison Victorian House Tour Index 2026
A comparative look at real public Victorian house tours, separating intact visitable houses from vague decorative nostalgia.
The Maison Whole-History Access Index 2026
An index that asks a harder visitor question: do historic sites expose the full operating system of a house, or only the polished front rooms?
The Maison House Museum Interpretation Index 2026
A pilot scorecard ranking how strongly selected house museums interpret labor, service, and domestic systems rather than stopping at decoration.
What Makes a Maison Research Page
- Named places beat vague themes. Maison research is strongest when it is tied to a named property, named institution, or named program that people can verify and revisit.
- Official and institutional material comes first. The site uses current public-facing source material from the places themselves and other primary or institutional documentation before it builds an argument.
- Every strong page needs a frame. The aim is not to publish endless "best of" copy, but to create pages with a visible question, a method, and a defensible conclusion.
- Old donor slugs are retired. When a page is superseded by a stronger canonical version, the older slug is taken offline and redirected rather than left to compete with the newer work.
- Research pieces should be updateable. A good Maison index is something that can be refreshed, rescored, and expanded as public facts, tours, or site narratives shift.
How to Use This Section
If you are browsing as a reader, start with the flagship indices above and then branch into the property guides beneath them. If you are here for background or reporting, this page is the fastest way to see the strongest Maison-built angles now live on the site.
For media mentions of Cornerstone Mansion, visit Press & Media. For practical traveler-facing planning, use the Visitor's Guide. For preservation context, use The Story of Saving America's Mansions.