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 theater was once one of the most elegant opera houses of the 19th century and Giacomo Puccini himself performed on its stage. Today, it sits abandoned, decaying, and nearly forgotten. As we ...

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

The thickness, colour and texture of facial and head hair showed character traits about men and women, it was believed in ...

Those immersed in social media who find it can become less than friendly might learn from 19th century techniques that used memorization to keep conversations more upbeat. Kevin Sheets, a SUNY ...

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

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?

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 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 2025 record price for British School, 19th Century was for Noah and the Ark The 2024 record price for British School, 19th Century was for Early 19th century English School The 2023 record price ...

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