In 1927, Floyd and Jane Wray purchased 320 acres of land near the Everglades for $5.00 per acre to establish a citrus orchard. They named their enterprise Flamingo Grove and planted their first orange tree on February 22, 1927. Over the next three years, the Grove expanded to 2,000 acres, with an inventory of more than 60 fruit varieties.
Their business model included selling 5-acre plots of…
Most architects would see a seven-metre-deep gorge cutting through a site and call it a problem. Vinu Daniel and his studio, Wallmakers, looked at it...
Returning home is a deeply intentional process. Not just to a place, but to a life — one shaped by memory, family, and the particular...
Perched on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea in Tarumi-ku, Kobe, the 4×4 House by Tadao Ando occupies a narrow coastal strip that Japanese...
Salt Spring Island doesn’t need much convincing — it already has the cliffs, the meadows, and the trees. The name sounds more like a childhood...
Deep in the Serra da Mantiqueira, where the air is thin and the forest floor barely registers sunlight, Cornetta Arquitetura has completed Casa Pinhal —...
Before Arbor Day was a date on calendars across the U.S., it was an idea taking shape inside this sprawling Nebraska City estate. Arbor Lodge began as a modest home in 1855, but its owner, J. Sterling Morton, expanded it over time until it ended up a 52-room mansion.
Morton, a newspaper editor and later U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, believed trees could make the plains of Nebraska feel more…
Most architects are handed a site and told to make something of it. Luiz Volpato was handed a forest and told not to ruin it....
A Gothic Queen Anne mansion where Gilded Age grandeur, ghost stories, and modern luxury share the same staircase.
Built in 1888 by businessman James H. Hornibrook, this towering Victorian mansion rises above Little Rock’s historic Quapaw Quarter like something from a storybook. With its steep gables, ornate woodwork, and dramatic turret, the house is widely considered one of the finest examples…
This small West Yorkshire farmhouse was built some time before 1567, and initially consisted of a single farm (known as Withens Farm) before being expanded into three farms known as Top, Middle, and Bottom Withens in 1591. Centuries later, the farm was still in use in the 1840s when Yorkshire native Emily Brontë wrote her novel "Wuthering Heights", initially published under the pseudonym Ellis…
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McRaven Tour Home is Mississippi's most haunted house. It's strictly a tour home built in 1797 by highwayman Andrew Glass as a hideout. It was added on in 1836 and again in 1849, but the original portion of the house remains 1797. Civil War buffs will love learning about how McRaven was used as a field camp and later field hospital during the Siege of Vicksburg.
Open daily for history tours,…
When you think about building a house, what materials come to mind? Brick, wood and metal all come to mind; there are also some very distinctive glass houses out there. (Even if their occupants should refrain from throwing stones — though honestly, that’s a good tip for indoor living in general.) A group of MIT […]
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