BIG OLD HOUSES

I'm lucky the main kitchen at Daheim is not buried in the basement - as is the case in many big old houses - but is situated in a conven...

Here's the door to the serving pantry, which occupies a roofed-over section of the original wraparound porch. Please note the thickness ...

Some months ago I blogged about the Halcyon Hall, as derelict Bennett College here in Millbrook, NY, once was called. It is a fantastical st...

I think Winston Churchill said, "No time is wasted on the back of a horse," or something close to it. I was out for several hours ...

My daughter was married last weekend in Philadelphia at the Racquet Club, a fine Georgian Revival building designed in 1905 by Horace Trumba...

The other day, a friend told me a story about about a man who fell in love with an enormous old house. So besotted was he by the prospect of...

Here's that same path today, excavated from an untended jungle of brambles and wild honeysuckle. We're back to the 1920s in this s...

How about these lilacs? These represent about a tenth of what's blooming around the house, lilac-wise. The formal gardens and greenhouse...

I was thinking the other day that writing a blog is like keeping a diary and then leaving it on a bus. Who knows who's going to read it ...

It is a noble tub. My tub in the city is less than 12" deep; pretty pathetic. This one is almost twice that. OK, if I fill it to the to...