House Tours

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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Chadsworth Cottage

Some houses speak to us. Their voices are honest, eloquent, and deeply resonant. They communicate in a language that is grounded in our architectural history and an authentic local dialect.

An Art Moderne Restoration

An Art Moderne house is usually the oddball in the neighborhood, and that’s true of this one in Alexandria, Virginia. But one couple knew just how cool it could be.




Farmhouse Retreat in the Country

Gertrude Stein once wrote, “A house in the country is not the same as a country house.” It is a subtle distinction that architect John B. Murray can appreciate. Shortly after founding his New York-based architectural firm, John B. Murray Architect, LLC, in 1997, Murray and his family were seeking just the sort of country house Stein had in mind.




Texas Ranch Rebirth From Michael Imber

To a talented and skillful architect, architectural history is nothing more—and certainly nothing less—than a bountiful source of inspiration for creating architecture that is unmistakably new, yet firmly anchored in the culture of its time and place.

Massachusetts Farmhouse

Rita Shepard had been looking for years for an old house in her childhood summer haven of Marblehead, Massachusetts, but could not find a farmhouse she was truly happy with.



Arts & Crafts Connection

Author Robert Winter explores the parallels between the past and present Arts & Crafts movements, exposing the roots of architect Curtis Gelotte’s Chavez House in Kirkland, Washington.


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