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...

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