Relevant Organizations
Stately American Architecture
- Biltmore Estate
- The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
- Filoli
- The Frick Collection
- Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
- Historic Hudson Valley
- The Huntington
- Lynnewood Hall
- Nemours Mansion and Gardens
- Newport Restoration Foundation
- The Preservation Society of Newport County
- Shangri La
- Vizcaya Museum & Gardens
- Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Stately European & Russian Architecture
- Alexander Palace
- American Friends of Blerancourt
- Catherine Palace
- Château de Champ de Bataille
- Château de Versailles
- Château du Marais
- Château Menetou-Salon
- Dumfries House
- Musée Nissim de Camondo
- Peterhof
- Royal French Châteaus
- Royal Oak Foundation
- The State Hermitage Museum
- Waddesdon Manor
- Wentworth Woodhouse
Landscape
- American Association of Landscape Architects
- California Garden & Landscape History Society
- California Horticultural Society
- Garden Clubs of America
- The Garden Conservancy
- Northwest Horticultural Society
- Pacific Horticulture
- San Francisco Botanical Garden
- Southern California Horticultural Society
Preservation
- California Preservation Foundation
- California State Parks Office of Historic Preservation
- Historic Pullman Foundation
- Les Vielles Maisons Française
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Real Finishes, blog by Patrick Webb
- San Francisco Heritage
- Save Venice
- University of Miami
Architectural History
- Society of Architectural Historians, Northern California Chapter
- US Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
- University of Virginia
- Victorian Society in America
- UC Berkeley Environmental Design Archives
Historical Societies
- San Mateo County Historical Association
- California Historical Society
- Chicago Historical Society
- French Heritage Society
- California Heritage Council
Further Reading
Carolands
- Carolands, Michael Middleton Dwyer, ISBN 0-9785259-0-6
- California Splendor, Kathryn Masson, ISBN 978-0-8478-3965-0
- Gardens Private & Personal, Nancy D’Oench, Bonny Martin, ISBN 0810972808
- The Houses Of The San Francisco Peninsula Area, Ward Hill
- Mario Buatta: Fifty Years of American Interior Decoration, Emily Evans Eerdmans, Mario Buatta, Paige Rense, ISBN 0847840727
- Architectural Digest: Romancing History, Therese Bissell
- Deck The Halls, Ann Seymour
- SFGate: “The House On The Hill”, Judy Richter, S.F. Chronicle
Stately American Architecture & Landscape
- The American Heritage History of Notable American Houses, Marshall B. Davidson
- American Splendor: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer, Michael C. Kathrens, Richard C. Marchand, Eleanor Weller
- The Architecture of Richard Morris Hunt, Susan R. Stein (Editor)
- A Backward Glance, Edith Wharton
- Biltmore Estate: The Most Distinguished Private Place, John M. Bryan
- The Colonial Revival House, Richard Guy Wilson
- Design on the Land: The Development of Landscape Architecture, Norman T. Newton
- Edith Wharton at Home: Life at the Mount, Richard Guy Wilson
- Gardens for a Beautiful America, 1895-1935, Sam Watters
- Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society, Wayne Craven
- More Great American Mansions: and Their Stories, Merrill Folsom
- Great Houses of Chicago 1871 – 1921, Susan Benjamin, Stuart Cohen
- Harbor Hill: Portrait of a House, Richard Guy Wilson
- Hearst Castle: The Biography of a Country House, Victoria Kastner
- The Henry Clay Frick Houses: Architecture, Interiors, Landscapes in the Golden Era, Martha Frick Symington Sanger
- The Houses of McKim, Mead & White, Samuel G. White
- Julia Morgan Architect, Sara Holmes Boutelle
- The Twilight of Splender: Chronicles of the Age of American Palaces, James T. Maher
- McKim, Mead and White, Richard Guy Wilson
- Millionaires, Mansions, and Motor Yachts: An Era of Opulence, Ross MacTaggart
- Mr. Vanderbilt’s House and Collection, Edward Strahan
- North Shore Chicago: Houses of the Lakefront Suburbs 1890 – 1940, Stuart Cohen, Susan Benjamin
- Newport Mansions: The Gilded Age, Richard Cheek, Thomas Gannon
- Newport Villas: The Revival Styles 1885 – 1935, Michael C. Kathrens
- Of Houses & Time: Personal Histories of America’s National Trust Properties, William Seale
- This House Was The Pride of The Town: Mr. Nickerson’s Marble Palace Becomes Mr. Driehaus’ Museum, M. Kirby Talley, Jr.
- The Twilight of Splendor: Chronicles of the Age of the American Palaces, James T. Maher
- Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers, Witold Rybczynski, Laurie Olin, Steven Brooke
Stately European And Russian Architecture & Landscape
- André Le Nôtre in Perspective, Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin, Georges Farhat
- The Château Of Louis XIV, Andrew Zega, Bernd H. Dams, ISBN 0-8478-2473-X
- Dream Palaces: The Last Royal Courts of Europe, Marc Walter, Jérôme Coignard
- England’s Lost Houses: From the Archives of Country Life, Giles Worsley
- The French Garden, Jean-Pierre Babelon, Mic Chamblas-Ploton, ISBN 0-86565-216-3
- Palaces Of The Sun King: Versailles, Trianon, Marly: The Châteaux of Louis XIV, Bernd Dams, Andrew Zega, Vicomte De Rohan
- Palaces That Changed the World, Klaus Reichold
- Le Palais Parisiens de la Belle Époque, Gérard Rousset-Charny
- Les Pavillons: French Pavillons of the Eighteenth Century, Jerome Zerbe, Cyril Connolly
- Royal Style: Five Centuries Of Influence And Fashion, Stephen Calloway, Stephen Jones
- Royal Places Of France, Ian Dunlop, ISBN 0-393-02222-6.
- The Winter Palace Saint Petersburg, Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky
Preservation
- The Destruction of the Country House, 1875 – 1974, Roy Strong
- Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Stanley Price, Nicholas, M. Kirby Talley, Jr., Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro
Interiors
- The Creation of the Rococo Decorative Style, Sidney Fiske Kimball
- The Decoration of Houses, New York, Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman, Jr.
- The French Interior in the Eighteenth Century, John Whitehead
- Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age, Katherine S. Howe
- House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection, Gail Davidson, Floramae McCarron-Cates, Charlotte Gere
- Nineteenth-Century Decoration: The Art of the Interior, Charlotte Gere