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Greek Revival Houses

Architect Marc Rueter designs a new Greek Revival style house on a farm in rural Michigan.

"The Moorings"

The gazebo of this cherished 1864 Italianate house on Cape Cod has become a beloved feature in the neighborhood—as much a part of the history of the house as its Italianate elements.

The landscape was designed to bring out the earthy historic colors found in the freshly completed paint job.

Arts & Crafts Houses

With a nod to Modernism, Garrison Hullinger and J Jones refine a 1909 Portland Foursquare saved from the wrecking ball.

Mercer tiles above the main entrance display dates of architectural changes; 2008 blends in with tilework set in 1904—much as the current restoration proves a seamless fit.

Arts & Crafts Houses

Despite a failing roof and decades of damage, an Arts & Crafts home gets rescued and restored.

The house is a balanced melange of towers and turret, mixed materials and ornamental details.

Hard to believe this house had been cut up into four shabby apartments, or the woodwork painted industrial green and the verandah enclosed with aluminum siding and jalousie windows. Then there were the structural problems.

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A dynamic couple revives and expands a historic California house for their growing family.

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Arts & Crafts Houses

When it comes to old homes, not all renovations are stellar. Sometimes updates left over from previous owners are better reversed.

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Fall in love with an old house, and you may find yourself moving from big city to rural hamlet to tackle a big project.

The living room: describe rug, chair upholstery, built-ins, name basset hound.

You could almost call this house a Bungalow-square! The house in Portland, Oregon, has a foursquare plan typical of its 1911 date, but it is decked out in artistic Craftsman details inside and out.

Crowds flood Cleveland's Forest Hill for the opportunity to glimpse inside the French-Norman homes that were built on the John D. Rockefeller estate in the 1920s.

Dining room doors open onto the home's dramatic rotunda.

A renovated Art Deco home on Chicago's Astor Street.

Peter Zimmerman Architects designed this stone house following the vernacular style of the region—Pennsylvania Dutch. Salvaged stone and brick were used in the construction of the building.

A second-story door—lost for decades—was returned to provide deck access.

Arts & Crafts Houses

A Seattle couple finds that taking it slow with their restoration reveals ideas—and a gem of a finished product—that were worth the wait.

Stone house in Texas with German influences

A big place like Texas can accommodate a variety of architectural styles. The Monte Vista District of San Antonio, for example, features house styles that range from Queen Anne to Prairie to Spanish Colonial Revival. It was from one such character-drenched house that a particular couple decided to move 10 years ago.

In the kitchen, an 18th-century English swing-leg table is surrounded by Pennsylvania plank-seat chairs. The crock nearest the center box on the mantel was made by a member of the Van Deusen family.

The new addition (at left) is understated.

Sage-green tile with gray grout creates a unique backsplash for the new farmhouse sink.

Arts & Crafts Houses

Thanks to a few fortunate coincidences, a California couple was able to create the ideal bungalow for their young family.

The four-story stone hunting lodge was built in 1550 in a classically symmetrical Elizabethanmanner. A walled garden added during the 1980s enhances the entrance.

The best parlor has a 17th-century Dutch gateleg table. The leather chair is 17th-century English or Spanish, and the tall chair is Colonial Revival. The 18th-century press bed has bed-hangings made by the homeowner.

The front façade of the house features distinctive corrugated asbestos tiles.

Mid-Century Modern Houses

Have you watched the PBS special on Frank Lloyd Wright? Mark Seeger and Jeff Harper, in the market for a new home, were visiting a house they’d seen listed in the newspaper when the inquisition began. Do you know the history of this home? “I think we were being vetted,” says Mark a decade later, as he recounts the surprising questions the home’s seller posed, “to make sure we were going to be good stewards of this house.”

The old kitchen fireplace is in the original building, now an ell behind the brick manse.

"The only thing you really see from the street is the jut out of the den," Decker says. "We tried to not take away from the prominence of the old house."

Queen Anne Houses

Can abandoned houses be saved?

Architect Ken Tate fabricated an intricate fictional timeline for the house based on four historical styles: vernacular, Georgian, Federal, and Colonial Revival.