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Donald Lococo Architects preserves history while designing a home for today.

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Southern Historic Sites

The history behind Strasburg, Virginia, homes.

Strasburg is a small Virginia town in the Shenandoah River Valley, just west of the Blue Ridge.

Historic Neighborhoods

With its stones remortared, Stiltington has regained its former dignity on what two centuries ago was Virginia's western frontier.

Recognizing ageless structure beneath vines and crumbling mortar, Bob and Macon Hilton turned a 1790s estate on Virginia's western frontier into a family retreat.

The War Between the States turned peaceful Strasburg into a bitterly contested battleground. This memorial obelisk, erected by Confederate veterans in 1896, sits in the Presbyterian cemetery in Strasburg.

Historic Neighborhoods

Replacing the brick front steps with hefty cast iron ones was one of the more involved projects, requiring buy-in from the couple’s next-door neighbors, too.

Two determined DIYers piece together their home’s history while creating a memorable restoration story of their own.

There are several Sears Old English-style designs, including this Cambridge, which was produced only in 1930 and ’31.

Historic Neighborhoods

The house’s façade is kept simple with board-and-batten siding. Breezeways connect the master suite on one side of the main living space and a recreation room on the other side.

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Historic Neighborhoods

Colonial buildings abound in Alexandria, Virginia. Here's an in-depth look at some of this city's historic gems and the styles that define them.

Tuckahoe's 9/9 windows, toothlike cornice, and triangular pedimented entry are all textbook features of the Georgian style.

The white clapboard façade of the Clifton Inn has changed little over the centuries.

Southern Historic Sites

A painted wood floor in a checkerboard pattern adds interest to the design.

Old-House Kitchens

A Richmond, Virginia, couple transforms a dated 1940s-era kitchen into a space full of utility and beauty.

Waterford's Arch House Row was built in 1810 by a disbanded Quaker, and has played host to a number of businesses, from tavern to shoe store.

Northeastern Historic Sites

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

The living room’s primitive furnishings play to the home’s rustic architectural details.

Neat rows of tulips bloom in the gardens of Colonial Williamsburg.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Three historic gardens inspire and guide landscape design for the new old house.

The house plays off a timber-framed structure that supports it in the center.

Architect Patrick Farley, principal of Watershed Architects, designs an eco-responsible Virginia house that’s good for mind, body, and soul.

President Woodrow Wilson’s 1846 Greek Revival birthplace sits on a hill overlooking the town of Staunton, Virginia. A brick terrace, added in the 1960s by landscape architect Ralph Griswold, leads from the house down to the gardens.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors