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Famous Remodels

  • “Brownstone Diary”

    by Nalina February 23, 2011
    February 23, 2011

    Among all the home remodeling blogs I visit there is one guilty pleasure: “Brownstone Diary,” Julia Angwin’s column in the Wall Street…

  • For Art’s Sake

    by Nalina August 16, 2010
    August 16, 2010

    This weekend I visited the house that Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock shared in East Hampton, Long Island.  It’s in The Springs,…

  • Teddy’s House

    by Nalina June 9, 2010
    June 9, 2010

    Tucked in between the fancy showrooms and fine restaurants on East 20th Street is the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace, the house where our…

  • Living in a Glass House

    by Nalina June 3, 2010
    June 3, 2010

    On a splendid spring day last week I visited the famous Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. Architect Philip Johnson built the…

  • Lefferts Historic House

    by Jean March 29, 2010
    March 29, 2010

    While out enjoying the lovely spring day at Prospect Park, my husband and I decided to actually go into the Lefferts Historic…

  • The Song: Before and After

    by Sweeten February 2, 2010
    February 2, 2010

    “Home Sweet Home” Before:  John Howard Payne’s 1823 opera  Clari Maid of Milan. Composed by Sir Henry Bishop with lyrics by John…

  • Kykuit: Rockefeller’s major remodel

    by Jean October 27, 2009
    October 27, 2009

    Even with all the money in the world (really, look at this list Rockefeller is at the top), figuring out how to…

  • I urge you now to build a home, but never let it be finished, for then you will live. . . .

    by Jean October 19, 2009
    October 19, 2009

    These were the words that Sarah Winchester apparently heard from her dead husband, which drove her to start the construction and remodeling…

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