American Classicism and the ‘Gentleman Architect’ Thomas Jefferson
Bob Kirchman
In 1784 Thomas Jefferson found himself in France as our first ambassador. While he was there he fell in love. Arrested by
In 1784 Thomas Jefferson found himself in France as our first ambassador. While he was there he fell in love. Arrested by
Night. Somewhere in Northern Europe. (8,000 B.C.) Picture a cave with a fire burning just outside its mouth. Prehistoric men, women, and
If you had traveled with the Marquis de Lafayette to the Piedmont region of Virginia in 1824, you would have been amazed
Charles Carroll of Carrollton might well have been the Elon Musk of his day. The last surviving signer of the Declaration of
There was a gang member who had been in prison all his life, who said he’d never once cried in all his
A series exploring America’s traditional architectural styles In a series, master woodworker Brent Hull will introduce readers to the different architectural styles
If walls could talk, what stories would they tell? During the Civil War, Union soldiers occupied the region of Helena, Arkansas. They
How interior designer Chuck Chewning and architect Christian Sottile oversaw a sensitive restoration of one of Savannah’s landmark mansions In his illustrious
We may be communicating with one another daily, but are we relating? This significant question has been asked in our society in
As 1920 ended, Winston Churchill seemed headed for obscurity. The British failure at Gallipoli brought his political career to collapse in 1916.
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