Pride Of The Prairie
At the dawn of this century a new form of residential architecture rose from the American heartland, ruled by the total integration of space, site, and structureAlexander O. BoultonJuly/August...
View ArticleThe House Of Many Layers
The Colonial Revival was born in a time of late-nineteenth-century ferment, and from then on the style resurfaced every time Americans needed reassuranceAlexander O. BoultonMay/June 1992What would you...
View ArticleFortress America
A Romanesque mansion in Chicago was built to forbid outsiders while providing a warm welcome to guests withinAlexander O. BoultonDecember 1992 May 15, 1885. The architect Henry Hobson Richardson...
View ArticleWashington Acropolis
The U.S. Capitol stands where it always has, but the columns that originally held it up have become a hauntingly beautiful monument somewhere elseWilliam E. CarnahanApril 1993One of the most recent...
View ArticleThe Buy Of The Century
The generation that fought World War II also won a housing revolution that promised and delivered a home for $7,990Alexander O. BoultonJuly/august 1993Years later, after the fall of his financial...
View ArticleThe White City
THE 1893 WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION WAS SO WONDERFUL THAT EVERYBODY HOPED IT WAS A PROPHECY OF WHAT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY HELD IN STORE. BUT IN FACT, THE CITY THAT MOUNTED IT WAS.Donald L....
View ArticleThe Padre’s House
It belonged to Taos’s most influential family until well into the twentieth century, but this unadorned adobe hacienda speaks of the earliest days of Spanish occupation of the SouthwestAlexander O....
View ArticleCity Station
ONCE THE VERY HEART of downtown St. Louis, Union Station has come through hard times to celebrate its one hundredth birthday—and even though the trains don’t pull in here anymore, it’s still an urban...
View ArticleJefferson’s Paris
The ambassador from an infant republic spent five enchanted years in the French capital at a time when monarchy was giving way to revolution. Walking the city streets today, you can still feel the...
View ArticleLandmarks On The Rim
People visit the Grand Canyon for scenery, not architecture. But an assortment of buildings there, infused with history and the sensibility of one strong woman, are worth a long look.Michael S....
View ArticleMother’s House
DECEPTIVELY SIMPLE IN NAME AND FORM, an icon of postmodernism comes wrapped in centuries of architectural historyAlexander O. BoultonJuly/august 1996 VANNA VENTURI USED TO SIT AT HER DINING ROOM TABLE...
View ArticleSmall World
ROBERT MOSES built small with the same imperial vigor as he built big, and at his behest the art of making scale-model cities reached its peak. The result still survives, and although few New Yorkers...
View ArticleThe Rise Of The Skyscraper And The Fall Of Louis Sullivan
He showed the way to the future and then was stranded there, at odds even with his own aesthetic sensibilityCarter WisemanFebruary/March 1998If a single building type can—and should—be identified with...
View ArticleThe Flowers And The Glory
How a highly historic eighteenth- c entury Connecticut house learned to live in harmony with a twentieth-century garden that is the only surviving American design of a great British landscape...
View ArticleGlory In Stone
The great age of Christian faith fulfilled its passion of spirit in the soaring vaults and glowing glass of the Gothic cathedralDonald Culross PeattieDecember 1955The glorious west front of the great...
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