As anyone who made it through third-grade American history may recall, the Brits had a bit of a political and cultural impact on the new world. British-inspired homes, for example, are so prevalent in ...

The popularity of Spanish Revival can be traced back to the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego. The nearly 4 million attendees enjoyed a grand display of Mediterranean-inspired ...

Dancers Alma Real and Filipe del Hoyo at Old Spanish Days Fiesta, circa 1935. Credit: Santa Barbara Historical Museum Collection photo [Noozhawk’s note: One in a daily series leading up to Old Spanish ...

Now you can tour the Spanish-influenced architecture of the French Quarter without ever leaving home, courtesy of the The Historic New Orleans Collection. Sharing the theme of the collection's ...

A Colonial home is an architectural style that can be found in neighborhoods all across the United States. With a median construction year of 1996, Colonial homes have also proven to be a solid ...

The Panama-California Exposition in 1915 was an unparalleled World’s Fair created ostensibly to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal and its first stop at San Diego on the way north up the ...

The historic Bowman-Cotton House, billed as “one of Point Loma’s most iconic waterfront homes,” was constructed in 1929 under the supervision of master architect Richard Requa. Requa, who studied ...

Last month, the Tallahassee Builders Associations’ Parade of Homes celebrated its 70th anniversary by allowing Tallahasseeans to take digital tours of the city’s most innovative and interesting new ...

This column touched last week on the well-worn idea, revived most recently by the New York Times, that Los Angeles has an unusually weak set of civic institutions and a correspondingly spotty ...

I. Historical note:The background / Social, Political, Economic, Religious -- II. The Spanish architectural tradition -- III. Spanish-Colonial architecture in Florida -- IV. Spanish-Colonial ...

Keaton was also known around the West as a world-class house-flipper, where she bought and resold historic homes in ...