John Calvin Stevens left an indelible mark on Maine by designing more than a thousand buildings in the state over his six-decade...
New England would look a lot different today if Ithiel Town hadn’t created covered truss bridges and Greek Revival architecture. He was...
Samuel Russell founded the largest trading company in the old China trade, ran it for 12 years and then came home. And...
When Charles Bulfinch was a young man trying to find a career, his native Boston was not a city. It was ‘a...
Elias Starr Sanford built a castle in Danbury, Conn., for his new bride, Emma, who apparently didn’t like it much. Sanford was...
The town of Northampton, Mass., owes its extraordinary Forbes Library to an opinionated judge, a president of the United States and a...