The educational reformer who founded Miss Porter’s School in 1843 could not have imagined the fame, fortune, scandal and accomplishment her students...
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...
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...
Ralph Adams Cram was a renaissance man who believed the Renaissance was an unfortunate detour for western culture. Cram designed great buildings...
The idea of the mobile home didn’t start with Winnebago, because the Springfield Portable House came before. The rise of industrialization and...
In the early 1950s, the king of Connecticut’s roads was the Berlin Turnpike, lined with colorful kitschy roadside architecture. It was the main...