11.   Its backers do not want it to be just another house museum, treasured only for its celebrity associations and its pretty window swags.

12.   Like most older house museums, Monticello has rarely depended on the kindness of strangers.

13.   She is also curator of the Wilson historic house museum in Temple, Texas, a sort of shrine to plastic laminate.

14.   The inn, now a house museum with peeling columns out front, served as a stopping place for stagecoaches traveling between Eufaula, Ala., and Americus.

15.   Whatever the outcome, house museums are busting the dust on the way they do business.