But just four days later, the newspaper disclosed F.X. Roth, owner of Roth Motor Co., had big, big plans for one of Cape Girardeau’s most historic sites. City building records today showed a ...

One common-held theory is that spiral staircases were first installed in historic castles as vertical baffles, tiring out enemy infiltrators before they could make it to the top. This is why ...

While a new visitors center built to handle stronger storms opens in Fort Fisher, Brunswick Town looks to bounce back from a ...

Downtown San Antonio occupies the site ... the area attracted a large number of wealthy merchants from Germany in the mid- to late-19th century. This neighborhood's historic buildings make it ...

San Francisco rests on the tip of a peninsula along the northern California coast ... In the Presidio, you'll also find tons of historical buildings as the site once served as an Army post ...

The San Diego Chinese Historical Museum is a nonprofit organization. The museum was founded in 1996 by the San Diego Chinese Historical Society under the leadership of its first three presidents ...

So there's a lot of history. There's only one Chateau Normandie.” Early 20th-century buildings were actually deemed “fireproof” at the time, said Merritt. “They switched from a lot of wood ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will auction off state lands in popular northern counties next month. The public land — in Aitkin, Cook, Itasca, and St. Louis counties — will go ...

The historic Harris’ building in downtown San Bernardino caught fire just after midnight Thursday, Oct. 24, the second time the building has burned in recent months. San Bernardino County Fire ...

The San Antonio Historic and ... s proposal for the buildings on Wednesday, a news release stated. The agreement is a public-private partnership between the Hemisfair Park Area Redevelopment ...

help cover 20% of all rehabilitation expenses for buildings that meet certain criteria. Usually they have to be at least 50 years old or be places on the National Register of Historic Places.

Having places to live, work ... construction projects are much more set in advance. If you're building a skyscraper and it has to have a certain amount of windows, you can't just decide to ...