Architectural Monographs: Historic Gunston Hall in Virginia
Thomas Jefferson called George Mason, the United States Founding Father who built his family’s 18th century estate in Virginia, “the wisest man of his…
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Architectural Monographs: Alexandria, The Great Port that Almost Was
But for a dramatic 1814 attack, Alexandria, Virginia could have been Baltimore. The Potomac River city that began as a Doeg Indian settlement and…
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Architectural Monographs: Inspiration from Northern Virginia
Concerned that twelve years and one hundred thousand miles of touring America looking for exemplary houses had exhausted the supply, the editor and writer…
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Architectural Monographs: Houses of the Middle and Southern Colonies
In the latter eighteenth century, American architects rediscovered the simple and classic Colonial style found in the earliest architecture of New England, and brought…
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