HISTORIC HOMES & MORE: PRESERVATION
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Interpreting historically accurate home design can be confusing, but a new series of free pattern books should help h...
After a three-year overhaul, the American Museum of Natural History welcomes the public to its newly restored Theodor...
If you’re working on a remodeling project that calls for removing old woodwork, here are some tricks from the pros to...
Before the advent of modern heating and cooling systems, home builders would design temperature control directly into...
The best remodeling work on old houses almost invariably involves preserving some original elements, restoring others, and identifying how the new work can augmen...
Hemingway & Gelhorn, which previewed on HBO last night offered an extraordinary look at the literary careers, pas...
My February trip to Havana with the Finca Vigía technical team was a short, three-day visit focused on paper conserva...
I am a casual collector of vintage paper goods and assorted ephemera. My stash includes vintage dictionaries and ency...
One of America’s first free-black communities reemerges in a twenty-first century neighborhood.
Five years ago, friends of mine finished building a gracious family retreat on a beautiful, remote site in the Adiron...
In 1939, after selling the film rights to his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway purchased Finca Vigía, ...
For many, living in a historic home—perhaps like the Lightfoot House (pictured above) in Colonial Williamsburg, VA—wo...
Thanks to the determination of six enterprising coeds at Dartmouth College, a landmark cabin razed by fire was rebuil...
With the advances in marine navigation systems—radio, satellite, and radar—the need for lighthouses to guide mariners...
The second half of Bob Vila’s Home Again Season 15 features two very different approaches to building a home as Bob revitalizes a 1890s brownstone on New York Cit...
Bob takes us to Stockbridge, MA, to tour Naumkeag, a wonderful example of the grand Shingle Style by architect Stanford White.
Karen Brooks Hopkins, president of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), gives Bob a peek at the restoration of the main building.
Bob introduces an 1890s Brownstone on New York City's Upper West Side.
Bob and Roxane Gilmore, the erstwhile first lady of Virginia, tour the governor's mansion, and meet preservationist Fred Ecker, who is removing a mantel for resto...
Bob takes a walking tour of some of Boston's best-preserved antique commercial buildings in the Leather District with architectural historian Brian Pfeiffer.
Bob offers some history of Providence, RI, particularly of the city's Elmwood neighborhood.
Bob recaps the entire Elmwood project. It was a community effort involving an array of houses, though great pains were made to adhere to the historic look of the ...
Bob joins restoration contractor Richard Marks in the library of the Federal-Style home to review the restoration of the mantel.
Bob takes a grand tour of the elegantly restored Federal-style project house, focusing on the portico and back façade.
For inspiration, Bob tours the John Quincy Adams House in Quincy, MA.
