The Armour-Stiner Octagon House in Irvington, New York, is a whimsical example of a 19th-century, eight-sided mansion.

Explore the East Side neighborhood where artist Edward Bannister and his entrepreneur wife, Christiana Carteaux, mingled with the city's White elites.

This piece explores what everyday life looked like at the end of the 19th century. The 1890s were a turning point between two eras. Many communities still relied on familiar traditions from earlier ...

Tombstone’s Bird Cage opened in 1881 in what was then a young, remote boomtown. Today, the historic variety theater is ...

This theater was once one of the most elegant opera houses of the 19th century and Giacomo Puccini himself performed on its ...

A bitter election. Social unrest and violence at home and abroad that seem to augur ruinous times. A gaping political divide fed in part by new technology and ways to communicate. Sound familiar?

It wasn't just cakes. According to the New England Historical Society, Hemenway was said to have roasted a pig on the ...

Henry Cole, the founding director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK sent the first Christmas card in 1843.

The Victorian Era corset is a heavy duty clothing apparatus, capable of constricting a person's waist down to a dainty 17 inches. A slim midsection and an hourglass figure were all the rage in 19th ...

The old light fixtures we see so often in Brooklyn townhouses that we think are original to the building are quite often early electric lights or mid 20th century chandeliers. “It is rare to find ...

The remains of Sandy Bay Pier, in Lake Michigan waters off the Town of Carlton, represent how commercial port complexes grew ...

The program for the National American Woman Suffrage Association procession in the capital city. This march occurred before the rift between the more moderate NAWSA and the less conciliatory National ...