These Brownstoner histories of interior design offer the architecturally curious information about everything from fretwork ...

When the historic homes we live in and admire in Brooklyn today were spanking new, they were often enhanced with decorative painting. Special paint effects have a long history in the U.S., going back ...

The Armour-Stiner Octagon House is a fairytale mansion just 18 miles north of Manhattan. Frozen in time to the early 1870s, it was designed as a summer and weekend escape from New York. The residence, ...