Category: Historic Buildings and Sites

  • How Can a Historic Garden Adapt to Climate Change?

    The New York Times – T Magazine:

    English estates are trying to maintain the heritage and identity of their grounds, while also making them resistant to unfamiliar temperatures and weather.

  • A Hamptons Property Fight Over a Black Whaler’s Homestead

    The New York Times – Fashion & Style:

    Property tussles in the moneyed enclaves of Long Island are nothing new, but the battle to preserve the homestead of Pyrrhus Concer raises questions of whose history gets to be honored.

  • Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and More: Visiting Mexico City’s House Museums

    The New York Times – Travel:

    Curiosity about the daily lives of the famous draws us to the places they lived. In Coyoacán it’s possible to commune with the ghosts of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky and more.

  • Is This the World’s Most Picturesque High Dive?

    The New York Times – Travel:

    Catch a glimpse of a storied tradition in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where, for hundreds of years, divers have leaped from a bridge in the southern city of Mostar.

  • An Irish Castle to Call Your Own

    The New York Times – Travel:

    To most, the striking stone towers that dot the Irish countryside are quaint ruins. To a few ambitious people, they’re the perfect places to make into homes — and one-of-a-kind vacation rentals.