All posts tagged "Architecture"
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5.0K11Business and LaborS. Z. Poli, the Italian Immigrant Who Horrified the Yankees
Twenty-one-year-old S. Z. Poli came to America in 1881 with little more than the ability to carve lifelike figures from wax. He...
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5.0K12Arts and LeisureFlashback Photo: Ralph Adams Cram, High Priest of Gothic Revival Architecture
Ralph Adams Cram was a renaissance man who believed the Renaissance was an unfortunate detour for western culture. Cram designed great buildings...
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2.8K3Business and LaborBefore the Winnebago There Was the Springfield Portable House
The idea of the mobile home didn’t start with Winnebago, because the Springfield Portable House came before. The rise of industrialization and...
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13.4K18Business and LaborThe Glory Days of the Berlin Turnpike
In the early 1950s, the king of Connecticut’s roads was the Berlin Turnpike, lined with colorful kitschy roadside architecture. It was the main...
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5.0K7Arts and LeisureFlashback Photos: John Calvin Stevens, Designer of Maine
John Calvin Stevens left an indelible mark on Maine by designing more than a thousand buildings in the state over his six-decade...
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4.6K4Arts and LeisureFlashback Photos: Ithiel Town Revives Greek Architecture and Covered Bridges
New England would look a lot different today if Ithiel Town hadn’t created covered truss bridges and Greek Revival architecture. He was...
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5.3KBusiness and LaborFlashback Photo: Samuel Russell Comes Home to Middletown
Samuel Russell founded the largest trading company in the old China trade, ran it for 12 years and then came home. And...
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3.6K2Business and LaborFlashback Photo: Charles Bulfinch, America’s First Architect
When Charles Bulfinch was a young man trying to find a career, his native Boston was not a city. It was ‘a...
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3.8K3Arts and LeisureFlashback Photo: Hearthstone Castle in Danbury, Conn.
Elias Starr Sanford built a castle in Danbury, Conn., for his new bride, Emma, who apparently didn’t like it much. Sanford was...
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3.8K1Arts and LeisureA Judge, A President, A Librarian and the Forbes Library
The town of Northampton, Mass., owes its extraordinary Forbes Library to an opinionated judge, a president of the United States and a...
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