Welcome to Hooked on Fridays, a blog party I host at the end of every week to celebrate the things that make us happy. This week–and every week–I’m hooked on old houses. Every time I run across a photo of a great old house like this Victorian from Georgia, my heart skips a beat. I [...]
Welcome to another Movie Monday, when I feature the beautiful homes used in television and film. With due respect to the fine actors in the 2008 version of “Brideshead Revisited,” the hauntingly beautiful Castle Howard was the true star of the movie for me. Castle Howard is considered to be one of the grandest private [...]
Jane Eyre is one of my favorite novels of all time, so I have made a point of watching every movie version I could find over the years. I’ve seen the ones with Orson Welles, William Hurt, Timothy Dalton, and Ciaran Hinds. I know it’s widely debated among Jane Eyre fans, but the best one [...]
If you live anywhere near Louisville, Kentucky, then you’re in luck! The annual Old Louisville Holiday House Tour is going on Sunday, December 7. Just take a look at some of the old mansions that have been featured in past home tours in this neighborhood! Wouldn’t you love to see some of these for yourself? [...]
Remember the Historic House Tour I told you I went on a couple of weeks ago in Columbia Tusculum, Ohio? I already showed you some photos of it in my Porches on Parade for Fall post but thought I’d show you some more, including a few I took inside.
The neighborhood has rows of Victorian Painted [...]
Last weekend I went on an historic homes tour in Columbia Tusculum, the oldest neighborhood in Cincinnati. Columbia Tusculum was founded in 1788 on the hilly banks of the Ohio River, shortly before Losantiville (now known as Cincinnati) was settled. The oldest home still standing was built in 1804, so you can imagine how much [...]
Hey, everybody! I’m back after spending eight days in the Washington, D.C. area. It was a great trip but, as my daughter Lily said, “It’s good to be home again.”
We took a trolley tour through Georgetown this week because I had to see all the old townhouses there. And of course I elbowed my way [...]
The Ashmore–the “Aristocrat of Bungalows”–was one of the Sears Honor-Bilt Homes sold through the catalog between 1916 and 1922 for between $1,648 to $3,632. It’s considered one of the rarer models. Rosemary Thornton, who’s a well-known expert on Sears Kit Homes, has been able to identify only three still existing in the United States. (For [...]
Architect Richard Neutra designed the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, California, in 1947, and it still stands as a prime example of modernist architecture.
The house was commissioned by Edgar Kaufmann, a department-store tycoon, who had hired Frank Lloyd Wright to build Fallingwater in Pennsylvania the decade before. After Kaufmann died in 1955, his Palm Springs [...]
For those of you who loved my recent post about Sears Modern Home Kits, which were sold through catalogs between 1908 and 1940, I thought you’d like to see some interior photos of one. This Model Home Design #3309 was sold in the Sears catalog in the 1930s as part of the Honor-Bilt line and was called the Lynnhaven. According [...]
