House Tours

Tours of old houses, historic homes, and new old houses built in period styles, including Arts & Crafts, Greek Revival, Mid-Century Modern, and Queen Anne style; including Frank Lloyd Wright homes.

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A Simple Creole Beach Cottage

A renovated French Creole cottage offers the best of old and new on Florida’s Apalachicola River.

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Salvaging a Brick Farmhouse

A two-story portico is the only embellishment on this sturdy brick I-house, which, although long neglected, escaped modernization.

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Historic Preservation in Waterford, Virginia

Local preservation efforts in the village of Waterford, Virginia, have helped to maintain its picture-perfect charm.

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Saving an Eclectic Colonial House

Surrounded by overgrown weeds, the Colonial house was a mishmash of three buildings from three different centuries. With its rusted tin roof, crumbling foundation, broken windows, and doors falling off their hinges, demolition seemed the only solution.

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A Converted Queen Anne

A California couple enlisted their creative zeal—and a few of their friends—to doctor a decommissioned hospital.

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An Authentic New Spanish Colonial

Architect Thomas Bollay creates an authentic Spanish Colonial house in California’s Montecito foothills.

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An Elegant New England Federal

Architect Peter Zimmerman designs a home that fits perfectly into its pastoral Connecticut setting.

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An Authentic Reproduction Gambrel

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A Community-Fueled Victorian Restoration

For more than 40 years, a group effort has helped sustain Clingstone, a 1905 Shingle Style house perched on an island in Narragansett Bay.

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Richardsonian Romanesque Architecture & Interiors

Although the Gothic and the Romanesque both originated in Europe in the Middle Ages, they couldn’t be more different.

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Gothic Revival & Carpenter Gothic Houses

While a Gothic vocabulary is relevant to many American styles, a full-blown Gothic Revival took hold in mid-19th-century America.

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Expanding a Gothic Revival Cottage

An addition to a Gothic Revival Cottage keeps the original house as the prominent view with a clear delineation between the original building and the new one.

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Shingle Style Victorian Architecture and History of Shingle Style Homes

A rarefied style in the 19th century, the Victorian-era Shingle Style is one beloved today. Architects cherish its grand informality, Colonial Revivalists appreciate its simple forms and classical allusions, and neo-Victorians exult in its embrace of Islamic and Japanese forms alongside Georgian. It is, as Vincent Scully put it, “the architecture of the American summer.”

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Touring Manhattan’s Lower East Side

Locals have begun calling this part of the borough of Manhattan “LES”—that’s the Lower East Side, a four-square-mile corner nestled between Chinatown and the East Village. (The modern LES Historic District is smaller than the historical boundaries of the neighborhood, which extended north to 14th Street.)