Bob Vila

The Guide to Historic Homes of America (1996)[11] included two-hour segments on each of four major regions of the United States: the Northeast (including New England and the Mid-Atlantic States),[12] the South, the Midwest, and the West.

• Morris–Jumel Mansion overlooking Yankee Stadium in Washington Heights, Manhattan.
• Dyckman House on Broadway in Upper Manhattan.
• Hancock Shaker Village in western Massachusetts.
• Strawbery Banke restoration in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
• Olana — “a palatial amalgam of Middle Eastern and European influences.”[11]

• Chesapeake Bay and Annapolis, Maryland — William Paca House and Hammond–Harwood House.
• New Castle, Delaware — George Read, Jr. House, built by the son of George Read.
• Baltimore, Maryland — Homewood House on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus.
• Washington, D.C. — Decatur House on President's Park and Tudor Place in Georgetown.

• Thomas Jefferson
  • University of Virginia — ten residential pavilions surround the great, terraced Lawn.
  • Ash Lawn–Highland.
  • Poplar Forest — octagonal house filmed while undergoing complete restoration.
  • Monticello — includes Dome Room at top of building (not open to the public) and Honeymoon Cottage.
• Natchez, Mississippi
  • House on Endicott Hill — early trader's house.
  • Rosalie — Federal architecture mansion[13] with John Henry Belter[14] furniture and a panoramic view of Mississippi River.
  • Stanton Hall — “perhaps the grandest Greek Revival house anywhere.”[11] Designed by Captain Thomas Rose.[15]
  • Longwood—begun in 1860 by Samuel Sloan. Never finished; construction halted in April 1861.[16]
• Texarkana, Texas — the Ace of Clubs House.[17]

• Ellwood House — built by barbed wire entrepreneur Isaac L. Ellwood in DeKalb, Illinois.
• Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Dana-Thomas House — Prairie School style home in Springfield, Illinois. Quoted as being “richer in detail than any other Wright home.”[11]
  • Fallingwater — Organically designed residence that draws heavily upon inspiration from Japanese architecture. Located in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains.
• Cooper–Molera Adobe — early Spanish Colonial owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Monterey State Historic Park.
• Filoli — Georgian home designed by Willis Polk; located in Woodside, California on the eastern slopes of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
• Tor House[18] — stone house and tower overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California; built by Robinson Jeffers.

In Search of Palladio (1996) was a three-part, six-hour study of the work and lasting influence of the 16th-century architect Andrea Palladio. Palladio designed various types of buildings, but the series concentrates on his domestic architecture. (see also: Palladian Villas of the Veneto).

• Villa Giustinian, Roncade → For Vila, this building (not by Palladio) provided the context for Palladio's innovative thinking—gothic battlements, portcullis, and stone walls that concealed a Renaissance palace and farm buildings.
• Villa Pisani[19] in Montagnana → a descendant of the original owners served as Vila's guide.
• Villa Cornaro → A suburban villa on a town street, a palatial residence which was also an on-site place of business for running a large farming enterprise.
• Villa Barbaro.
• Villa Emo – For Vila this is "perhaps the most dramatic farmhouse ever built".
• La Rocca Pisana – spectacular hilltop belvedere by Palladio's pupil Vincenzo Scamozzi.

II. The Palladians in England and Ireland

• London: Chiswick House, Marble Hill House and Stourhead.
• Bath, Somerset: Queen Square,[20] The Circus and the Royal Crescent.
• Ireland: Casino at Marino – "the architectural equivalent of a Fabergé egg".
• Northern Ireland: Castle Ward – overlooking Strangford Lough with both Palladian and Gothic facades and interiors.

III. The Palladian Legacy in America

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Mount Pleasant.
• Marblehead and Waltham, Massachusetts: Jeremiah Lee Mansion and Gore Place
• Hudson Valley, New York: Boscobel House Museum – purchased in 1955 for thirty-five dollars. Meticulously restored, situated on a bluff on the east bank of the Hudson River opposite the United States Military Academy at West Point.[21]
• Hartford, Connecticut: Austin House – built for Wadsworth Atheneum director Arthur Everett Austin, Jr.
• South Bend, Indiana. In Indiana Vila looks at University of Notre Dame architectural school "where Palladio and classical architecture are taken seriously indeed", Vitruvian House[22] designed by Thomas Gordon Smith and Villa Indiana designed by Duncan G. Stroik.[23]

Restore America consisted of 50 one-hour segments which explored historic preservation and building restoration in each of the fifty U.S. states. Anticipating the turn of the 3rd millennium, it was first broadcast on HGTV between July 4, 1999, and July 4, 2000.[24]