Like a great movie, the Strand Theater’s first act was full of promise. Built in 1917 on San Francisco’s famed Market Street, the Strand began life…
Browsing: Historic
Gazing at the Chicago Athletic Association hotel’s historic handcrafted woodwork, ornate plaster, stately marble staircases and restored vintage ceilings, it’s unthinkable that the space was once…
In 1895, Greenfield, Iowa, was recovering from a town fire and, as such, had just built a new, grand courthouse in the center of its town…
The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and subsequent fires leveled 80 percent of the city’s infrastructure, leaving very few structures that date back before the earthquake.…
Originally designed to be cutting-edge in 1961, the 22,000-square-foot iconic Arboretum building in Garden Grove, Calif., needed aesthetic and technological updates. Irvine, Calif.-based LPA Inc. applied…
Every April at Baldwin Wallace University’s Bach Festival, approximately six members of the university’s brass choir carry their instruments to the cupola atop historic Marting Hall…