A regal 1891 home, with its wrap-around veranda porch complete with wicker chairs, swings and other furniture, looks inviting enough to stop and stay. Polished black-and-white tiles create a clean ...

In 2004, truck driver Joe Macken created a miniature replica of New York City’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza out of balsa wood.

Miniatures are full of bite-sized portions of our world and lives. By transcending spatial norms, models envision and measure real-world size and performance. They help to understand the cultural and ...

“Now, you walk around it and get an aerial view. Back then, you sat on a train or a tram, and you went around it,” Macken recalled. “And I just remember just going around it and thinking, ‘Wow, this ...

Christopher Petersen often describes what he does as “building memories.” Petersen, 63, lives in Colorado but grew up in Park Ridge, in a white house on Washington Street. That house has seen some ...

Discover the step-by-step creation of a stunning miniature landscape, combining detailed diorama techniques and realistic ...

PARIS – He hunches at the dining room table, putting the finishing touches on his miniature World War II tank. Deep in concentration, he keeps his hand steady as he works to make the scaled-down ...

A popular exhibition of miniature models will visit Milford and Sway to raise funds for  Alzheimer's Research UK.

FITCHBURG — What do you get when you combine index cards, cardboard pieces, clear plastic collar stays, lengths of copper and the foam trays from a supermarket’s meat department? Kevin Macomber is ...

Greenwood resident Jimmy Landers poses with his latest miniature home on Wednesday at the Johnson County Museum of History in Franklin. Landers and Florida resident Frank Crescente have miniature ...