The Monson Historical Society Museum is located on Main Street in the center of Monson, Maine.
 It is housed in a former municipal building, built in 1889 to house firefighting equipment and a fraternal lodge, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Monson Engine House (Former) on August 5, 2005, as one of a small number of surviving 19th-century fire stations in rural interior Maine.
 The museum is open on Saturdays in the summer, showing items of local historical interest.
Jacob Straus House, also known as the Louis Levy House, is a historic home located at Ligonier, Noble County, Indiana.
 It was built in 1898-1899, and is a two-story, frame dwelling with Neoclassical and Colonial Revival style design elements.
 It has a truncated hipped roof with dormers.
 The front facade features a two-story pedimented portico with Ionic order columns and pilasters. Also on the property is a contributing complimentary garage.
 It is open to visitors by the Ligonier Historical Museum.
Ligonier Historic District is a national historic district located at Ligonier, Noble County, Indiana.
 The district encompasses 253 contributing buildings and 2 contributing objects in Ligonier.
 It developed between about 1835 and 1937, and includes notable examples of Italianate, Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Classical Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture.
 Located in the district are the separately listed Ahavas Shalom Reform Temple and Jacob Straus House.
 Other notable buildings include the Dr. Enos Fenton Residence (c. 1855), Silas Shobe Residence (c. 1870), Eli Gerber Residence (1874), Oscar Parks Residence (1892), Solomon Mier Residence (1906), Simon Schloss Residence (1912), Gentry Hotel (1870), Straus Brothers Block (1888), Zimmerman Block (1870, 1906), former Universalist Church (1856), Firs Presbyterian Church (1890), Ligonier Public Library (1908), Ligonier City Building (1914), U.S. Post Office (1935), Lyon and Greenleaf Flour Mill (1886), and former Mier Carriage Factory (1891).
The Ligonier Historical Museum is a museum in Ligonier, Indiana that is housed in the 1889 building of Congregation Ahavas Sholem (Lovers of Peace).
 The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
 It is located at 503 Main Street.
 It is one of the few surviving 19th-century synagogues in the United States.
S. H. Barnicoat Monuments, S. H. Barnicoat Granite Works, or, more recently, Hancock Monument Co. was a granite workshop at 114 Columbia Street, at the corner of Centre Street, in Quincy, Massachusetts.
 It was housed in a rare surviving 19th-century granite workshop building dating to the 1890s, and was, at the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, one of the only 19th-century granite workshops operating in the city.
 Its main feature was a derrick more than 90 ft tall that was used to move granite around the property.
The Catalpa Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Princess Anne, Somerset County, Maryland, United States.
 It is a two-story, five-bay center passage structure built in two principal stages.
 The older section is a two-story, three-bay side-hall parlor house with service wing erected around 1825-1840.
 A two-story one-room plan frame addition was attached shortly thereafter.
 Also on the property are an early 19th-century dairy and smokehouse, a late 19th-century privy, a modern garage, a mid-19th-century corn crib, an early 20th-century gambrel-roofed barn, and an early 19th-century tobacco house.
The Palmer School, also known as the District No. 2 Schoolhouse, is a historic 19th-century one-room schoolhouse at 33 Main Street in Boxford, Massachusetts.
 Built in 1845, it is the town's last surviving 19th-century school building.
 It was used as a school until 1931, replaced by the Cole School, on whose grounds it stands.
 The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
The Old County Road South Historic District is a rural historic district encompassing a well-preserved collection of 18th and early 19th-century rural farm properties in Francestown, New Hampshire.
 It includes nine houses, whose construction dates from 1774 to 1806, and the only two extant 18th-century saltbox-style houses in the town.
 There is also a Cape-style house built using the relatively rare vertical-plank method of framing, and there are several surviving 19th-century barns.
 The district covers 500 acre along all or part of Old County Road South, Pratt (Clark) Road, and Birdsall Road.
The Cooley Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that carries Elm Street across Furnace Brook in Pittsford, Vermont.
 Built in 1849, it is one of a small number of bridges in the state that has a well-documented association with the 19th-century master bridgewright Nicholas M. Powers, who grew up nearby.
 It is one of four surviving 19th-century covered bridges in the town, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The Wedgemere Historic District encompasses the largest single 19th-century residential development of Winchester, Massachusetts.
 It is one of the town's largest surviving 19th-century residential subdivisions, with a concentration of high-quality residences built between about 1890 and 1920.
 The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Question: The Jacob Straus House is a historic home open to visitors by one of the few surviving 19th-century what?
Answer: synagogues