A Colonial home is an architectural style that can be found in neighborhoods all across the United States. With a median construction year of 1996, Colonial homes have also proven to be a solid ...

Colonial America is more than a chapter in a textbook, it’s a living, breathing world scattered across some of the most ...

Trends always start somewhere, and in the mid-19th century, the best way to start a trend that would encompass the entire country was to introduce it at a huge celebration or fair. Before the 1893 ...

Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Winter 2019), pp. 47-58 (13 pages) https://doi.org/10.5749/futuante ...

Although often overlooked, the small state of Delaware really packs a punch with its historical significance. The first state to ratify the United States Constitution is home to a number of quaint ...

The private Aura Beach property outside of Santo Domingo is nothing like what you imagine a coast to look like in the Dominican Republic. There are no rows of lawn-chairs and no race for a good spot.

There is an architecture of the migrant. It is survivalist, built with what is available, made as quickly as possible, with safety as its core value. Americans romanticize that architecture as ...

Extracted from: Journal of modern history (Chicago) 59 (2) 1987, pages 291-316. The urban modernist vision of French architects during the colonial period could not be implemented in metropolitan ...