Elegant summer retreats in Newport, R.I., include Chateau sur Mer.
Turn-of-the-century Wall Street tycoons build Hudson River Valley palaces.
Frank Lloyd Wright and domestic architecture; Oak Park; Taliesin; Taliesin West.
William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon.
Forced to marry English royalty, Consuelo Vanderbilt endures a stormy relationship in Blenheim Palace.
George Washington Vanderbilt's 255 room, French-style Biltmore.
Mexico City's Chapultepec Castle and Casa de la Bola.
Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill; FDR's Campobello.
Victorian estates; the Glessner home; Mark Twain House; Edison's Glenmont.
Savannah's ante-bellum mansions include the Owens-Thomas House and Telfair Academy.
New York City; the Frick collection; Coe Hall in Long Island; the Bartow-Pell Mansion in the Bronx.
Long Island estates: Old Westbury; the Guggenheims' Sands Point.
Southern plantations; Nottaway, Louisiana's white castle; Mississippi's Stanton Hall; 'Nutt's Folly.'
The Adirondacks: J.P. Morgan's Camp Uncas; Vanderbilt's Sagamore Lodge; Durant's Pine Knot.
A visit to America's greatest resorts, including the Hotel del Coronado, which has hosted nine presidents; the Mission Inn, which boasts excesses of architecture and the Grand, with the world's largest porch - 660 feet.
Visit magnificent estates built to house world-class collections of rare books and art. Included are Huntington Home, now a premiere research centre and the Reynolds House Museum of American Art.
Mansions of the lumber barons; Victorian on Lake Superior; French chateau in California; Tudor in Wisconsin.
