You can't go wrong with the classics! In fashion, a crisp white shirt or a little black dress are must-haves that you can depend on. The same is true with home designs. A colonial-style house is a ...

Once you know what you’re looking for, Dutch Colonial style homes are one of the most distinguishable architectural styles of American homes, and their most notable features are still incorporated ...

For most of the early decades of U.S. history, the styles of homes built in this country were inspired by European ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I think old houses, and the people who love them, are fascinating. “The Colonial house is reinvented about every 100 years,” says ...

A resident is dressed as a pineapple, the symbol of Colonial House, an independent-living facility in Parkersburg. (Photo Provided) PARKERSBURG — An open house will be held at Colonial House from 1-4 ...

It’s not every day that an authentic Colonial house is up for grabs. But if you did get the chance to purchase one—like this 1786 home in Longmeadow, Massachusetts—what would it take to make it ...

The German holiday custom came to Virginia in 1842 when Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, a law professor at William & Mary, offered a new college professor a home.

We imagine that in 1968, when this handsome center-hall Colonial house for sale in Devon was built, it looked every inch the model of that locally beloved architectural style. Today, that house still ...

In the grand PBS tradition of ”The 1900 House,” ”Frontier House,” and — my favorite, though it exists only in my head — ”Charlie Rose House” (people forced to spend a weekend with Charlie and his very ...

Colonial houses are our heritage: physical evidence of the people who first traveled to North America and settled here. Today, “Colonial” has come to be a generic mashup of old and new stylistic ...

READY TO BRAVE A BRAND NEW WORLD? PBS AND THIRTEEN/WNET NEW YORK SEEK APPLICANTS FOR COLONIAL HOUSE, THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF THE WILDLY POPULAR "HANDS-ON HISTORY" STRAND Slated To Air On PBS In 2004, ...