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Homeownership
When in Doubt, Ask First (before wielding that hammer)
Sometimes it's pointing, sometimes it's plumbing. And, if you're lucky, somtimes it's simply peeling paint.
Homeownership
As we dwell in these structures built so many years before us, we often come to wonder about their origin, their history and their date of construction.
Preservation
A Brief History of the American Doorknob - “Ode to a Doorknob” – singing praise to such a simple everyday object, sounds bizarre and ridiculous, doesn’t it?
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Architecture
Hospitality at the Quaker Tavern InnArchitecture
The Cape Cod House, A New England Original
Aside from white-steepled churches and village greens, probably nothing characterizes New England as much as the Cape Cod house.
Preservation
Massachusetts’ Community Preservation Act
This bill allows communities to raise and appropriate money designated for their own local open space, affordable housing and historic preservation projects.
Architecture
Curb Appeal: Highland Avenue in Greenfield, Massachusetts
Curb Appeal is a series of not-so-scholarly musings on historic architecture as seen from the street during the author’s ramblings around the Northeast. If you have a favorite neighborhood, town center or enclave of historic homes that you’d like featured, please contact me via email at lacelord@gmail.com.
Preservation
Q & A with Brad Schide: Connecticut Circuit Rider
As a circuit rider for the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, Brad Schide drives around the state helping cities and towns, property owners, preservation groups and developers save historic buildings.
