Build in 1907, this historic Massachusetts house helped launch the career of one of America's first professional decorators.
This historic eighteenth-century house enters a new chapter as a family home with careful restoration and renovation, sympathetic interiors by Hugh Henry and gardens that open out to the surrounding woods, streams and coast beyond.
How to transform a stately 1906 house in Bellingham, WA, into inviting family quarters? The solution was largely cosmetic and the dark wood was preserved.
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You can undoubtedly call this home unique with a location close to the English coast, bold color combinations, and various historical elements. The late
It’s like stepping back in time.
Learn how to do a house history search using historic Sanborn maps. We walk you through the process step by step to search for and interpret these beautiful historic documents that have recently been made available online by the Library of Congress. PIN IT FOR LATER I've been using Sanborn maps for years, probably because
Discover the story of the Duchess of Lauderdale, who transformed Ham House into one of the grandest Stuart houses in England.
Elibank House was built in 1705, designed by English architect Sir John Vanburgh, who was most renowned for designing Blenheim Palace.
Build in 1907, this historic Massachusetts house helped launch the career of one of America's first professional decorators.
Catriona Gray reveals the 20 most beautiful historic interiors in London, from Tudor dwellings to Modernist masterpieces
This home in south Wayne historic district recieved a complete renovaiton and included the addition of a two story, two car garage.
An intact historic house gets the right owners: a couple of antiques dealers.
Build in 1907, this historic Massachusetts house helped launch the career of one of America's first professional decorators.
An Edwardian style luxury kitchen on the Solent designed to feel like its always been there and to last for generations.
This home in south Wayne historic district recieved a complete renovaiton and included the addition of a two story, two car garage.
An English country house in Somerset with spectacular Tudor and Palladian features
The goal was more to dust off the sleeping beauty, rather than completely reimagine it
The Rush R. Sloane House, Sandusky, OH. 1850s Photo: Wikimedia The Sloane house in Sandusky, OH was built in the early 1850s, but is known by its most famous occupant Rush R. Sloane who purchased it in 1854 from its builder, Samuel Torrey. Sloane was a lawyer early in his career and later became a railroad president and mayor of Sandusky. The house is well-known because it likely served as a stop on the Underground Railroad. This house follows the side hall plan, but it is also towered, a sometimes seen variation on the traditional side hall house. Although the house seems in rough shape in this image, the decay shows us that it is built of fieldstone with a plaster coating, probably to simulate cut stone; cut stone is also implied by the corner quoins. The white coloring of the house is probably not historical; it is likely it would have been painted various shades of brown, also to simulate stone and because Downing's color theories held a lot of sway in the 50s. Downing railed against white houses as being disturbing in the landscape and instead advocated for tans, browns, pinks, and pale blues as appropriate colors. The cornice is of the paneled style, with heavy brackets and large dentils. The ornament is overall exuberant. The house has eared moldings with hood moldings that appear like broken reverse ogee arches with incised ornament and strong keystones. They seem to be made out of cast iron. The left side features a rather damaged Juliette balcony with a fringed wooden awning, while the entrance porch has a flat top trefoil arch and Corinthian columns. The lions on the newel posts do not look original to me. The roof and tower are particularly beautiful in their execution. To increase the appearance of the tower's height, it is situated on a base with panels and rusticated edges. The arched windows are surrounded by panels and pilasters. The tower roof is a very small mansard with a shallow slope. One more detail that caught my fancy was the chimney. The chimney visible in the image is paneled and has a bracketed cornice with a round pediment. This is a particularly French looking detail. Certain aspects of the house, the trefoil arch, the elaborateness of the hood moldings, the Second Empire style chimney, and the complex cornice tell me this might have been remodeled or added to in the late 60s or 70s. Since Rush achieved his fortune in the 60s and became mayor in the late 70s, he might have decided to update his more sedate villa of the 50s with fashionable elaborateness. It does remain a grand looking house despite its current disrepair. The following enlargements show some of the details.
The Jacobean manor in Suffolk, England gets a fresh renovation from Laura Ingrams but still holds onto its historic charm.
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Jessica Buckley, the winner of this year's The List Award for Design Excellence, sponsored by Philip Jeffries, has taken this historic country house and restored it to its traditional roots after an overly modern makeover by its previous owners
Build in 1907, this historic Massachusetts house helped launch the career of one of America's first professional decorators.
Designer Jessica Helgerson gives an 80-year-old Pacific Northwest home an invigorating update—maximizing space, light, and views
Dulwich is one of London's most beautiful villages. This guide will give you a helpful overview of this part of south London.
British decorator Rita Konig makes magic in her rustic retreat in northeastern England. Here's a look inside the charming Victorian farmhouse.
Build in 1907, this historic Massachusetts house helped launch the career of one of America's first professional decorators.
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Serial renovators of historic houses on a grand scale, the dynamic design duo Peter Sheppard and Keith Day took on their greatest challenge yet with exquisite 18th-century Wolterton Hall in north Norfolk, which had lain uninhabited for almost 30 years
1878 Italianate For Sale In Kalamazoo Michigan. $998,000. The home boasts and elegant foyer, music room, elevator, and large kitchen.
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