A Colonial home is an architectural style that can be found in neighborhoods all across the United States. With a median construction year of 1996, Colonial homes have also proven to be a solid ...

We remember Tess Johnston, U.S. diplomat-turned-chronicler of old Shanghai's colonial architecture, who died at the age of 93.

The Billiou-Stillwell-Perine House is quietly crumbling from the inside out; but city and state funding have been allocated ...

A historic stone Colonial in Park Ridge that once anchored one of the borough’s earliest commercial compounds has hit the ...

Trends always start somewhere, and in the mid 19th century, the best way to start a trend that would encompass the entire country, was to introduce it at a huge celebration or fair. Before the 1893 ...

She worked in American consulates around the world but found a home in China’s “Paris of the East,” where she documented a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I think old houses, and the people who love them, are fascinating. “The Colonial house is reinvented about every 100 years,” says ...

Exterior of a row of colorful Victorian homes with intricate wood trim. The story of American architecture has followed much of the same path as art has over the past 400 years. Art, as a whole, tends ...

Explore 10 of the most charming historic towns in the United States to visit this fall. From Vermont’s covered bridges to New ...