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 ...

Colonial Revival–style homes combine the distinctive architectural details of the early- to mid-18th century with all the luxuries and comforts of modern-day. Adorned with brick facades, striking ...

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 ...

THE Museum of the City of New York’s new exhibition, “The American Style: Colonial Revival and the Modern Metropolis,” covers the energetic movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to ...

A well-designed home can retain its classic features even as modern life forces updates. Take a look at a renovated, 114-year-old Colonial Revival mansion in Northeast Portland, which is for sale at ...

One sign of a powerful style is its invisibility. It is so familiar it is scarcely noticed. It is so natural, how could things be otherwise? We don’t really pay attention to the style itself. Instead ...

A 12-inch window might seem out-of-place in most Beverly Hills residences, but the one on this Spanish Colonial Revival home once served a unique function: to keep a lookout for police during ...

Papers from a symposium sponsored by Historic Cherry Hill, Albany, N.Y., Oct. 24-25, 1987. Originally published in 1989 by Historic Cherry Hill. Looking backward to the future : the colonial revival ...

"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It was the quintessential Maine ...

The popularity of Spanish Revival can be traced back to the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego. The nearly 4 million attendees enjoyed a grand display of Mediterranean-inspired ...

Any home perched on the side of Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, Arizona, is a winner. With awesome sky views as the backdrop for majestic deep-red sedimentary sandstone mountain ranges, the vistas are ...

Gresham was a young city and mostly farmland in the early 1900s when two Honey brothers bought side-by-side residences in the Easthill neighborhood. Both estates have survived more than a century of ...