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Historic Preservation for Condo Owners
Site manager at Phillips House, Julie Arrison is interviewed about the ins and outs of living in an historic condo.
Architecture
Curb Appeal: The McKnight Historic District in Springfield, 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.
Lifestyle
Living with Rufus Porter: Muralist
Rufus Porter was a Yankee "Renaissance Man." Before going on to found Scientific American magazine and to invent prototypes of the Colt revolver and the helium-filled airship, the visionary inventor and folk artist Rufus Porter (1792-1884) wandered New England in the 1830s painting wall murals in homes and inns.
Lifestyle
Dovecotes and swallow holes are common features of old New England barns. Thomas Durant Visser's Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings quotes a Groton, Conn., farmer writing in 1855: In barns built after the old style, "swallow holes" were always to be seen. In some of these barns I have counted twenty nests at one time, all of them being occupied.
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Architecture
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Curb Appeal: Hatfield… The Real McCoy
Curb Appeal: Hatfield: The Real McCoy by Dan Cooper Curb Appeal is a series of not-so-scholarly musings on historic architecture as seen from the street during the author' ramblings around the Northeast.
Architecture
Curb Appeal: Celebrating (Architectural) Diversity
Dan Cooper is a well-known author, and has published over a thousand articles on the subjects of antiques, architecture, preservation and historic interior design. His first book, New Classic American Houses, was published by The Vendome Press. Dan is also President and CEO of Cooper Lace, has designed and sold historic lace curtains for twenty four years, providing them to private homes, museums and film sets. Dan is also recognized as a leading authority on the subject of historic carpeting.
Marketplace
The Choice is Yours: Paint for an Early Historic House
Homeowners really have two choices. One is to re-create how the paint looked when it first went on 200 years ago. The other is to make it look like it’s lived there for 200 years.
