A Walk Around Baltimore’s Mount Vernon
May 2024 This Washington Monument has graced Baltimore’s historic Mount Vernon neighborhood since 1829. It was based on a design…
VSA
Gropius House, Massachusetts
May 2023 We spent the day in Concord area looking at several very interesting homes, all of which I will…
The Peabody Essex Museum
May 2023 PEM is one of the oldest continuously operating museums in the United States and holds one of the…
Gloucester, Massachusetts
May 2023 A day spent outside of Boston in Gloucester was a quick but interesting day. The Sleeper-McCann House –…
Ballywalter Park
October 5, 2018 This Victorian Italianate Palazzo was built by the present owner’s great great great grandfather. Ballywalter Park was…
Wisconsin Historical Society
816 State Street University of Wisconsin, Madison Campus The building that houses the Wisconsin Historical Society (officially the State Historical…
The State Capitol of Madison, Wisconsin
There is more information on the State Capitol of Madison than many I have seen. So I will just be…
The Jacobs I House
Madison, Wisconsin 441 Toepfer Avenue Traveling with the VSA we had the true pleasure of touring the home of James…
The Unitarian Meeting House
Madison, Wisconsin Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1951, when Wright was 84 years old, this church is…
Taliesin East
Spring Green, Wisconsin So very much has been written about Taliesin that it seems silly to write a post about…
Wyoming Valley School
Spring Green, Wisconsin Built in 1957, the building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who donated his design and 2…
Main Street Railroad Station in Richmond, VA
1500 East Main Street Richmond, VA March 2017 This glorious building was not included in the VSA Spring study tour,…
Bolling Haxall House
2111 Franklin Street Richmond, VA March 2017 The Woman’s Club, that is housed in Bolling Haxall House, was founded in…
Off the Beaten Path in Richmond, Virginia
There are always weird and wonderful things that one finds when traveling, and here are three that I found in…
Two Unique Churches in Richmond, Virginia
Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church 815 E. Grace Street and Confederate Memorial Chapel 2900 Grove Avenue Saint Paul’s is located directly…
Virginia State Capitol
Virginia State Capitol Richmond, VA March 2017 Virginia’s State Capitol, located in Richmond, is the third capital city of the…
Monument Avenue
Monument Avenue Richmond Virginia March 2017 Monument Avenue is either a bone of contention or an art gallery, and stirs…
Richmond, Virginia’s Old City Hall
1000 E Broad Street Richmond Virginia March 2017 This High Victorian Gothic structure was designed by Detroit architect Elijah E.…
Egyptology and Richmond, Virginia
Monument Church 1224 East Broad Street The Egyptian Building 1223 East Marshall Street March 2017 Egyptian revival is an architectural…
Maymont
2201 Shield Lakes Drive Richmond, Virginia March 2017 In 1893, Major James H. Dooley, a wealthy Richmond lawyer and philanthropist,…
Richmond, Virginia’s Canal Walk and Edgar Allan Poe
The Edgar Allan Poe Museum 1914 East Main Street March 2017 Though Poe never lived in the building, the museum…
Hollywood Cemetery
412 South Cherry Street Richmond, Virginia March 2017 Hollywood Cemetery is the resting place of two United States Presidents, James…
Shockoe Hill Cemetery
Fourth and Hospital Street Richmond, Virginia March 2017 Just north out of the downtown area of Richmond, Virginia is Shokoe…
More of Montreal, its landscape and architecture.
September 17, 2016 Montreal is laid out in an interesting pattern. Every fourth street was created wider in order to…
One day in Ottawa
September 16, 2016 In 1841, Lower Canada (now Quebec) and Upper Canada (now Ontario) joined to form the Province of…
Montreal, Canada
September 15, 2016 Walking all around Montreal Attempting to get a sense of history and architecture Montreal, is the most…
Boulder Man
951 Chicago Avenue Oak Park, Chicago On the piers flanking the entry to Frank Lloyd Wrights 1898 architectural studio in…
Eternal Silence
The Eternal Silence, (also called Eternal Silence or Statue of Death) marks the grave of Dexter Graves, who led a…
The Marquette Building
The Marquette Building 140 South Dearborn Chicago These four bronze plaques sit above the entry doors of the Marquette Building…
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
October 2015 Jim Thorpe was originally called Mauch Chunk (Bear Place in the Lenape Indian Language). It is the seat…
History and Architecture of Scranton, PA
October 2015 Scranton Pennsylvania is the county seat of Lackawanna and the 6th largest city in Pennsylvania. Incorporated in 1866,…
Lackawanna Station – Scranton, PA
October 2015 This is now the Radisson Hotel, however, it originally was the Lackawanna Train Station a vital piece in…
Masonic Hall – Scranton, PA
October 2015 The Masonic Hall in Scranton Pennsylvania is so massive, this postcard is the only way to show it…
Walking Scranton Pennsylvania
October 2015 This is the Lackawanna County Courthouse at 200 Washington Avenue. It was designed by Isaac G Perry in…
Bonaventure Cemetery of Savannah, Georgia
I have had a fascination for cemeteries for much of my life. My love of them comes from their quality…
Architectural Styles of Savannah
The architectural styles of Savannah are varied and, thanks to many preservationists, available for us all to study. There are…
Details of Savannah
There is so much cast iron in Savannah but one of the more impressive pieces is the fountain in Forsyth…
Savannah Tidbits
There are so many wonderful architectural styles in Savannah, with details galore. I wanted to focus on a few items…
The Square as the Heart of Savannah
I studied the squares of Savannah in Urban Planning classes at school. I was anxious to finally get to see…
Cotton is King
May 2015 Savannah, Georgia is like other towns in the United States that have a plethora of historic architecture. They…
Two Hours in Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is steeped in Southern history and they are proud of it, beginning with their flag. The South Carolina flag…
Chicago River Cruise
June 2014 There are several river cruises available to take in Chicago, and I highly recommend that you take at…
The Blue Garden and the Arthur Curtiss James Estate
School has finished and I am spending a few days with dearest friends Robert and Gail Ornstein. Robert is an…
Newport, Rhode Island
I arrived in Newport today (May 30, 2014) to begin an 8 day course on the History and Architecture of…
Early Newport
We were told when this course began that we would learn the meaning of “Death March” or “Sherman’s March to…
Newport – The Calm before the Storm
So, I have come to the conclusion that the reason these are called death marches isn’t just because we hike…
So You Want an American Renaissance…
Today was a day of only 3 houses, but what houses they were. All three houses were designed by Richard…
MM&W meet LaFarge
Our day started at the Channing Memorial Church. (E. Boyden and Sons 1881). William Ellery Channing was the foremost Unitarian…
Floors, Ceilings and Walls
Our day began at Slater Mill. The mill is part of the Blackstone River Valley, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Pawtucket…