Yes, Jeffery, I know exactly what you mean about visiting old Chace homes.. Last summer I spent three weeks researching my father's side (Reeder) but managed to sneak off for three days to visit some of my Chace roots after they left Freetrown, MA. In this case it was my Captain Holder Chace who managed to leave there and take up residence just east of Cleveland in an area called Chardon and very close to Lake Erie. (He became a Captain of a ship on Lake Erie) I was lucky as one of my distant Hathaway cousins just happens to have been the main researcher in Geauga County for years and years. She is retired now but knows everything about the Chace and Hathaway past there. Well, I had thought for years I knew which house he lived in and a cousin who belongs to this very group had sent a picture of the house to me. I visited the house and even the lady who lived there thought that was HOlder Chace's house. (They were wrong.Can you believe it?) Then, after checking with my genius researcher cousin I learned that was a Hathaway house (not a Chace house)and was located only just down the street from the REAL CHACE HOUSE.. I then visited the real house and sure as your life there was a plaque beside the door CENTURY HOME BUILT 1834 BY HOLDER CHASE . (Chase was the wrong spelling of course) It was the highlight of my trip for sure to see the house and have an opportunity to see the inside where Holder had built a secret tiny room where he hid the escaped slaves who were on their way to Canada. The house and grounds are very beautiful. It turned out that there were several interesting and beautiful Chace as well as Hathaway houses that had been restored in the area. I was very proud of being a Chace descendant after having visited there. Also, of course Freetown and all around that area of Mass. there are many many restored homes they once lived in . Of course in Freetown it is just as though the whole town is being maintained for our Chace and Hathaway name--the streets, gardens, museums, and so much is named after them. In my case my grandfather Chace lived in a wonderful Victorian house he built in Stanton, Nebraska. It was a big rambling place with two Parlors, wonderful hardwood floors and a third floor where my mother had her art studio. After she graduated from college she spent several years painting in her studio while she waited for my father to finish Medical School. Nuff of that. Ginger