The Bluff Building: A Lesson In Escapism.
On May 29, 1889 the graduating class of MIT in Boston gathered in Huntington Hall to hear the commencement speech of the renowned...
The Roycroft: A quest for independence at the confluence of speculation, regulation, and panic.
In 1899 the quickest route to West Seattle was by train over a wooden trestle that ran along the northern edge of the Duwamish Bay tide...
The Shriners 41st Annual Session of The Imperial Council, July 12 - 17, 1915
While between my feature articles, I decided to take a brief tangent to see what was happening in Capitol Hill this week one hundred...
The Chanslor & Lyon Building: The Golden House of Auto Row
Before 1912, your gas-powered Ford lit the often-precarious road ahead with nothing but acetylene gas headlamps and required a hand crank...
The Flemington Apartments: Best When Viewed Askew
There's a technique well-known to astronomers called “Averted vision” by which distant nebulae are often more easily observed when viewed...
