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Why do these floorboards on two sides of a zig zag line look so different? One side of the line has all ...

Today we talk about a tiny treasure, the penny-round, or penny tile.  Penny-rounds became popular around 1900 as Victorian homes added them ...

No matter what the age, size or style of a building, masonry work can be essential to proper restoration. These two terms, ...

The Dictionary of Building Preservation, written by our own Ward Bucher, defines them as a set of drawings that accurately record an ...

At the Preservation Maryland Phoenix Rising event, my guest Rick Brown asked me if I had considered writing an Appendix to the ...

Back in the 1950’s my parent’s house had a single landline shared with three other families. The clunky, rotary dial phone sat ...