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Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Waugoshance Lighthouse Preservation Society. Located in northern Lake Michigan, this site contains the history, photographs,and blueprints of the lighthouse.

Save or South Channel Lights is an all-volunteer, non profit organization that was formed to raise public awareness and support for the preservation and restoration of the Old South Channel Range Lights constructed in 1855.

Spencer House, built in 1756-66 situated in the heart of St. James's is London's only surviving eighteenth-century private palace. The House is open to the public and is available for banqueting and entertainment.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy. Nonprofit group dedicated to preserving lighthouses and life-saving stations and their artifacts.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Grand Traverse Lighthouse. Northport.

Jutting out into the Pacific Ocean from the spectacular Big Sur Coast, the Point Sur Lightstation stands as a silent sentinel to a by-gone era. Point Sur, a National Historic Landmark, is the only complete turn-of-hte-century lightstation open to the public in California. Point Sur State Historic Park and Lighthouse offers guided tours and field trips.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Porto-Colleoni-Thiene. The official site gives an illustrated history and virtual tour of this Italian Renaissance villa with frescos and ornate 18th-century stables.

Columbine Hall Manor House - Stowmarket, Suffolk, East Anglia, Southern England

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Acton Court. A Tudor courtier house built by Nicholas Poyntz at Iron Acton, near Bristol.

This astonishing Renaissance-style chOteau was designed by French architect Destailleur in 1874 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild to display his vast collection of 18th century art treasures. It has formal gardens, parkland, a fully stocked Rococo-style aviary and wine cellars with over 15,000 bottles of Rothschild wines. Special Interest Days and Events take place throughout the year.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - St Michael's Mount. Crowning an island off the coast of Cornwall is the home of the St Aubyn family, incorporating parts of the priory that once stood there.