The Armour-Stiner Octagon House
The Armour-Stiner Octagon House in Irvington, N.Y., is an absolutely stunning architectural delight. It was built in 1860 as a summer home for financier Paul J. Armour, and was originally just two floors with no …
The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
The Armour-Stiner Octagon House in Irvington, N.Y., is an absolutely stunning architectural delight. It was built in 1860 as a summer home for financier Paul J. Armour, and was originally just two floors with no …
Doug and I went all in on the Edgar Allan Poe sites in Baltimore. Poe died at just 40 years of age under mysterious circumstances in Baltimore, Md. We listened to an excellent book, A …
The Brandywine Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, PA showcases the works of American illustrator and artist N.C. Wyeth, his son Andrew Wyeth, and Andrew’s son Jamie Wyeth, along with other talented family members and …
Winterthur, pronounced “winter-tour” and named after an ancestral home in Winterthur, Switzerland, is one of the famous du Pont-related estates in Wilmington, Del., (we also toured Hagley and Nemours, and they are very different experiences). …
There’s a lot going on at the Hagley Museum, the site of the first-built of the trifecta of remaining du Pont estates in Wilmington, Del. (the others being Winterthur and Nemours, both of which we …
I love interesting historic homes, so of course we stopped to tour Clayton while in Pittsburgh. Clayton was the Victorian home of coke- (relating to coal, not drugs) and steel-magnate Henry Clay Frick and his …