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Look! A Victorian Home Grows in Brooklyn

For a while now the trend in Brooklyn is to level an existing lot and erect a cold, glass tower. So we have to give kudos when someone goes against the grain and restores an existing building with h...

House Tour: Martha & Jeff's Period Piece
New York

Name: Jeff and Martha Location: St. George, Staten Island, New York City Size: 3,000 square feet — 8.5 bedrooms Years lived in: 3.5 years >> Enter Martha and Jeff's Gallery! We all know ...

Restored Chelsea Hotel Suite by Greco Deco

Apartment Therapy reader Adam shared this suite with us after we wrote about the Chelsea Hotel last week. He was the designer for the restoration of this two bedroom suite at the New York City landm...

Astor Courts: Renovating a Historic Hudson Valley Escape
The New York Times 11.6.08

The Astor Courts Estate is in Rhinebeck, New York, overlooking the Hudson River. Designed by Stanford White in 1902 for John Jacob Astor IV, the massive home has been used as a family vacation home,...

Barns: The Ultimate Country House

Welcome to Amy — a new voice for ATNY! Through a series of articles titled, Going Down the Road, The New York Times has been looking back at states and landmarks from the WPA-produced American...

Clingstone Mansion: House on The Rocks
The New York Times 8.7.08

How about an escape to a 103-year-old mansion set on a rock in Narragansett Bay off the coast of Rhode Island? Boston architect Henry Wood shares his weekend bohemian retreat — Clingstone &mda...

Black and White Bungalow of Colonial-Era Singapore
The New York Times 6.11.08

The European-style homes of expatriates and colonial families in colonial-era South East Asia were often black and white. The New York Times shows us one such home in Singapore, currently inhabited ...

Moving Alexander Hamilton's House
The New York Times 6.8.08

We've talked a lot about moving the past few weeks â€” but few of us will ever have the experience of physically moving an entire house. On Saturday, Alexander Hamiltonâ€™s country home, the Grange ...

Philip Johnson's Other House
The New York Times 5.25.08

Last year, Philip Johnson's Glass House opened to the public (with an appointment) to much fanfare. A lesser-known Philip Johnson-designed house, also in New Canaan, Connecticut, is being threatened w...

Yonkers Castle
New York Magazine 5.19.08

In Yonkers? Really? For the past seven years, Kohle Yohannan has called this nineteenth-century castle, home. We can't begin to imagine the state of the eighteen-room house before his restoration â€...

Saving Downtown Syracuse & Restoring an Eames Lounge
NYT House & Home Roundup 4.3.08

The picture at left is the home of the Dean of Syracuse University's School of Architecture, Mark Robbins. The New York Times shows us how Robbins has helped to jump-start the Syracuse community into ...