Along with history and design, one of our favorite pastimes is reading and designing books and publications, and through our publishing arm,...

This year’s STBA and SPAB Conference will take place online over three days focusing on key issues affecting the traditional built environme...

Back in May, I provided a brief overview of this year’s UK trip, which centered around London and areas close by. One of our stops was at Hi...

Similar treatment. Totally different plan. I recently came across this Toronto Star story about two couples in Canada who were involve...

Once again we take a brief moment to talk about one of the books in our collection; I have wanted this for some time, but was only recentl...

Things have been quiet for some time, as I have become involved in a local historic preservation project as well as ongoing work at my own ...

Through its Grand Houses and Gardens Tour Program , set to run from September 15-23, 2017, Scotland’s National Trust has developed a deluxe...

If you love traditional Old English homes, there can be no doubt you will run into some type of stucco or exterior plaster at one time or ...

One of the more gratifying things one can do is to be able to put knowledge to good use, and I was able to do exactly this last weekend as I...

Years ago, when I first dreamed of building a house of my own, I often dropped into newsstands and book stores to pick up copies of maga...

While we’ve always been focused on a specific area of architecture and design, there can be no doubt that preservation of historic buildin...

The cards are full color - 54 included I have always loved trading cards. Collecting baseball cards and football cards is something al...

ST. PAULS SUNDAY SCHOOL & PARISH HOUSE - BUILT 1880'S. Back in 1986, I was sitting in the kitchen of Elsie Snyder, a local prese...

Here is the first of our video book reviews - or as I like to call them: New Reviews of Old Books. As regards my reasoning for this, please ...

Tudor cottage renovation - Shannon Taylor Scarlett, Architect   Those of us who study, restore or would like to live in an Olde English ...

Why would you want to review a book that’s been out of print for thirty years? Or fifty? Or eighty, for that matter? Well, if I was rev...

THE OLD HOUSE IN SURREY I happened to come across this story about an old, original Tudor-period home in Surrey [UK] that was about to r...

While I have seen and even paged-through Prince Charles’ 1989 book, A Vision of Britain: A Personal View of Architecture many times, I ha...

About one hundred years ago, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. co-founder F.A. Seiberling and his family were getting ready to move into their ...

Where does the time go? I remember reading about Longwood Manor’s impending demise back in 2007, as the Akron Beacon Journal reported tha...