Most people wouldn’t get excited about the prospect of staying in a building originally designed to house the incarcerated. However, they may not kno...
A stone’s throw from a main commercial street northwest of Boston, in an 1850s Italianate farmhouse basks in the serenity of an intimate lot separate...
It’s always intriguing and enlightening to peruse the portfolios of top architects because peeling back the layers to look beyond the brick and morta...
When a recently retired couple decided to build a home on Gloucester’s Back Shore, they asked architect John DaSilva to use local materials that tell...
October may be over, but there are still plenty of reasons to explore Salem, particularly the Peabody Essex Museum's new audio postcard series PEM Wa...
Some people wish upon a star. Martin Nally wished upon a lighthouse. From his modest home in Manchester-by-the-Sea, where he and his wife were raisin...
At the tail end of the 19th century, architect F. Patterson Smith (1870-1932) decided to build his own residence on the banks of Upper Mystic Lake in...
Nineteenth-century American painter Fitz Hugh Lane, a native of Gloucester, Massachusetts, often depicted maritime landscapes near his North Shore ho...
Interior designer Andra Birkerts is drawn to the unexpected. She uses the element of surprise to energize spaces, generate conversations, and nudge e...
