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Lush and formal garden rooms are built around this ca. 1760 house with an old barn as a kitchen addition.

Two decades ago, when legendary Manhattan-based interior designer Robert Couturier, a native Parisian, met his now-husband, the Connecticut-born historic preservationist Jeffrey Morgan, their tastes were poles apart. “I didn’t know much about American decorative arts,” says Couturier, famed for creating grand-scale, lavishly decorated interiors on four continents. “Jeffrey said he wanted to show me some […]

Early American Colonial History Timeline

AD takes a look at some of the most distinctive examples of 1700s residential architecture in the United States, among them Monticello, Gunston Hall and Gracie Mansion.

In an antiques dealer's 1820's farmhouse, natural decorations harmonize with cherished furnishings, prized collectibles, and family heirlooms. "An old house is the ultimate antique, and a way of life," claims the owner of this four-square Ohio farmhouse, an antiques collector of 20 years' standing. The loving care that he and his wife devoted to the restoration clearly bears witness to the claim. The house is filled with furniture and accessories collected on cross-country travels in search…

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How to make your new house look like an early country house from New England

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For this Quaker-style English cottage in Washington Crossing, Period Architecture designed an addition that blends seamlessly with the original 1721 house.