It is fascinating to learn of these houses and public buildings and to delve into the biographies which tell what happened to the people who lived in them. Fiction seems tame after connecting, for instance, the story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler with the Ford Mansion and the Campfield House at Morristown, New Jersey, then with the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York, and The Grange in New York City. The heart of the patriot burns with new love for his country as he reads of Faneuil Hall and the Old South Church and Carpenters' Hall. The story of the Revolution is clothed with living interest when Washington and his generals are followed to Valley Forge and Newburgh and Cambridge and Morristown and Princeton. Fresh appreciation of the sacrifice of the pioneers comes from going with them into the garrison houses of New England, along the Wilderness Road in Kentucky, to the settlements on the Ohio, or to the banks of the Wabash where more than one Indian treaty was made. Next comes the keen pleasure of visiting the houses and churches which, through the piecing together of these facts, have become like familiar friends. The vacation journey that includes a careful study of a few of these buildings becomes a fascinating course in patriotism. It is the purpose of the author of "Historic Shrines of America" to tell just enough about each of one hundred and twenty of these buildings of historic interest to create a hunger for more; to present pictures sufficiently attractive to make those who turn the pages of the book determine to visit the places described; to arrange the brief chapters in such sequence that it will be possible for the reader to plan for successive vacations a series of journeys through the centers where historic buildings may be found, and, in doing this, to pass by so many structures of interest that the reader and the tourist will have abundant opportunity to discover houses and churches of which he will say, "I wonder why this was not included." CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE ONE: IN THE LAND OF THE PILGRIMS I THE OLD STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 19 II PAUL REVERE'S HOUSE, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 23 III FANEUIL HALL, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 28 IV THREE HISTORIC CHURCHES OF BOSTON 32 V ELMWOOD, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 36 VI THE CRAIGIE HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 40 VII THE ADAMS HOUSES, QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS 44 VIII THE QUINCY MANSION, QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS 49 IX FERNSIDE FARM, HAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS 54 X THE DUSTON GARRISON HOUSE, HAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS 56 XI THE OLD MANSE AND THE WAYSIDE, CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS 61