A Colonial home is an architectural style that can be found in neighborhoods all across the United States. With a median construction year of 1996, Colonial homes have also proven to be a solid ...

Trends always start somewhere, and in the mid 19th century, the best way to start a trend that would encompass the entire country, was to introduce it at a huge celebration or fair. Before the 1893 ...

Fans of the iconic Halloween movie 'Hocus Pocus' can visit the village at the beginning of the film, and it’s exactly how you ...

The LaPointe-Krebs House is rarer than we originally thought, a historian and architects told Jackson County supervisors on Monday. Scientists have proven it’s old, but it’s also one of the very last ...

Interestingly, Dutch Colonial Revival style didn’t get its name directly from Holland or even Colonial architecture. Instead, it refers to the 17th-century Dutch colonists who settled in coastal New ...

American Colonial Revival homes, with their symmetry, stability and lines as old as our nation itself, evoke a sense of history, tradition and homeyness — sort of like the comfort food of American ...

In preserving architecture, there are many possible approaches—ranging from treating a building as a static monument, meticulously restoring it in situ to the point of limiting public access, to more ...

If there was confusion regarding the architectural differences between the styles of English Cottage and French Eclectic, there will be no confusion when it comes to identifying Spanish Revival. The ...

Despite its relatively small size -- at only 8.15 acres and just short of 20,000 residents -- Colonial Heights is a wonderful city at the intersection of the Piedmont plateau and Tidewater plain in ...

The City of Poughkeepsie is filled with examples of first-rate architecture in a wide array of styles. And few are better to evaluate those examples than Town of Poughkeepsie resident Jeh Johnson Sr.

The Billiou-Stillwell-Perine House is quietly crumbling from the inside out; but city and state funding have been allocated ...