BIG OLD HOUSES

I've blogged about our vintage Bowling Alley in a previous post, but it deserves to be revisited. It is truly an architectural "tou...

Here's the view looking to the east, with the long twin alleys clearly articulated by the shape of the building. The next shot shows one...

I spent some time on google maps yesterday, cruising around Mill Neck, Long Island at low altitude. (How great is google maps?) Conventional...

I really "got into" the Van Rensselaer house in Philadelphia (see the 4 posts following this), perhaps because it was both beautif...

Preservoids and Hysterical Society members - among whose numbers I count myself - refer to this building as the Fell-Van Rensselaer house. C...

In September of 1974, a photographer named George Eisenman took a series of 10 photos of the Van Rensselaer house for the Historic American ...

Design Research, founded in Cambridge, MA in 1953, billed itself as America's first "lifestyle store." It promoted a fresh, in...

One room in this very fine house has survived virtually intact. Located in the northernmost wing, overlooking what was apparently a small wa...

We drove through Germantown yesterday which, contrary to expectations, was not exactly Georgetown. Germantown Avenue is pretty beat up all t...

I had an epiphany yesterday while exploring Fairmount Park. Starting in the 1840s the city of Philadelphia began protecting the wooded banks...

Here's Jazzy on the stairs inside Lemon Hill, a country house on the banks of the Schuylkill River. It was built in the countryside in 1...

I saw it, liked it, and took a photo. (Forgot to include it below)

I am really getting off on Philadelphia. How about this terrific old house on 20th and Delancey? (The address might be off a block, but I...