National Register of Historic Places recognition plaque If you love historic buildings, you’ve probably seen a plaque that reads: This...

St. Louis Union Station, seen from across Market Street. My father-in-law is a big St. Louis sports fan, so we try to make a trip to the...

Whether you're researching a house, a community, a person, or an entire family, historic newspapers are an invaluable resource. Every...

An incredibly valuable (and fun to use!) source available to historians researching historic homes are Sanborn maps. First printed in...

Tax records , deeds, maps , and photographs are all sources readily available to house historians . Sometimes, however, historians are...

When driving around the rural Midwest, the landscape is dominated by the Italianate. With its tall, narrow windows, low-hipped roofs, and...

When researching house and family histories , one of my favorite things to do is discover the local placenames that were historically...

As we drive through the places we call home, it's easy to take the landscape for granted, overlooking the layers of history hidden in plain

Tax records are one of my favorite sources to use when researching historic homes.

An easy trap to fall into when thinking about old homes is to only consider them important and worthy of preservation if they were owned by