Among the most easily recognized Victorian styles, Second Empire homes are known for their distinct mansard roof and arched dormer windows. In its heyday, the style was considered the height of ...

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As I was photographing Forest Park’s Cabanne House last weekend, I realized that while the Second Empire style survives in St. Louis, many of its most exuberant examples have long since been ...

Home at 2 Collins Avenue Friday August 7, 2015 in Troy, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union) Second Empire architecture is a lesson in perspective, a reminder that what we now look upon as ...

[Noozhawk’s note: This article is one in an occasional series exploring Santa Barbara’s distinct architectural styles. Click here for a previous article on Santa Barbara’s Victorian architecture.] ...

“Twenty years – to the day! – since the original Rex Manning Day, BBQ Films invites you to “Say No More, Mon Amour,” damn the man, and save The Empire. For one night only, Williamsburg’s Rough Trade ...

The Big Apple will soon be home to a second — much smaller — Empire State building. A Manhattan prewar rental building has been given permission to use and engrave the world famous moniker above their ...

THERE is no doubt about it; the historical pendulum is swinging back. The picturesque historians are coming into their own again. The brave days of Macaulay and Froude and Green, of Motley and ...

IN the revolution-racked Paris of 1848, a lad of fourteen named Ludovic Halévy, walking with his grandfather, turned loose a great spate of juvenile enthusiasm for the republic which Lamartine had ...

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