The Panama-California Exposition in 1915 was an unparalleled World’s Fair created ostensibly to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal and its first stop at San Diego on the way north up the ...

Dancers Alma Real and Filipe del Hoyo at Old Spanish Days Fiesta, circa 1935. Credit: Santa Barbara Historical Museum Collection photo [Noozhawk’s note: One in a daily series leading up to Old Spanish ...

Built in 1926, the Mediterranean Revival-style building was the county’s first integrated elementary school in 1962. Now ...

Keaton was also known around the West as a world-class house-flipper, where she bought and resold historic homes in ...

Colonial-style homes are something you've seen many times, even if you don't know what they're called. First built during the era between 1565 and 1783, Colonial homes were built by settlers from ...

Washington Highlands is one of my favorite places to run because it's hilly, the streets curve around in interesting ways and, above all, there are plenty of interesting houses to catch my eye. One of ...

Exterior of a row of colorful Victorian homes with intricate wood trim. The story of American architecture has followed much of the same path as art has over the past 400 years. Art, as a whole, tends ...