All posts tagged "Architecture"
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27.9K28ConnecticutMiss Porter’s School Finishes Socialites, Scholars and a First Lady
The educational reformer who founded Miss Porter’s School in 1843 could not have imagined the fame, fortune, scandal and accomplishment her students...
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7.5K13Arts and LeisureFlashback Photos: Samuel McIntire, Ingenious Man of Salem
Samuel McIntire, who was born and died in poverty, created so many fine Federal style buildings in Salem, Mass., that an entire historic district is...
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7.4K11Business 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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6.4K12Arts 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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3.8K3Business 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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19.5K19Business 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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