The Good Guys Won This One!
The Merchant’s House Museum, showing the original Duncan Phyfe chairs. The carpet and window treatment are exact reproductions of what …
The Merchant’s House Museum, showing the original Duncan Phyfe chairs. The carpet and window treatment are exact reproductions of what …
August, 1933—The country was in the depths of the Great Depression. Gertrude Tredwell had just died at the age of …
We never know who is going to walk through the door of the Merchant’s House. One day in August of …
Ada Louise Huxtable was the first architecture critc for a major U.S. newspaper and will long be remembered for the …
On September 26, the New York City Council will vote on whether to approve a developer’s application to build an …
In 1853 Louisa Bird Cunningham was traveling by steamboat down the Potomac River. As the boat passed George Washington’s home, …
First Cup of Coffee Our youngest grandson came by yesterday. A junior in college, he towers over us and has a …
John Sawhill, the conservationist who made this observation, had nature in mind, but I think it applies even more powerfully …
In 1840, when Henry Cole painted The Dinner Party, napkins had to be very large to cover the voluminous skirts …
After we moved to Manhattan we made it a point to see all the things people come to the city …