All posts tagged "Architecture"
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17.3K6Arts and LeisureBeatrix Farrand Breaks the (Green) Glass Ceiling
Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1893 dismissed 21-year-old Beatrix Farrand as a dilettante gardener, but six years later she had...
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30.4K28ConnecticutMiss 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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8.3K13Arts 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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8.3K11Business and LaborS. Z. Poli, New Haven’s Italian P.T. Barnum
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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7.0K12Arts 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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4.2K3Business 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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