12 days ago by oldhousedreamer

208 Tate St, Senatobia, MS – $325,000 3 bed, 3.5 bath, square feet unknown. Check out the street view here.

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16 days ago by Elizabeth Campbell Duke

Ya Hoo! Time to get dressed for the Par-Tay. This is the most fun part (for me, anyway) – thinking about a costume. If you’re not doing a Gothic costume – but still want to check out those vintage shops, think “ MadMen“! There are lots of vintage and 2nd hand shops that have already started their ha ...

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18 days ago by Elizabeth Campbell Duke

Dead flowers and bare branches help set the mood. They're free, and then they're compost. I’m big on 2 things when decorating for a party: make it look as “authentic” as possible (to set the mood)- but use items you already have or can make/get inexpensively. Bonus points for having items you can re ...

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19 days ago by Elizabeth Campbell Duke

Illuminated manuscripts were a major type of art during the Medieval (Gothic) period. It turns out that “Gothic” is quite a loaded word – and its definition depends wholly on the context of the conversation in which you find yourself. A quick trip to Wikipaedia gives a great overview of how the modi ...

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19 days ago by admin

In the world of woodworking, “hardware” has nothing to do with computers. In fact, when the administrators of the Taft School in Connecticut asked us to create dining tables with removable table tops but without bolts and hooks, I had to go back to my roots in timeless techniques. I analyzed the des ...

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21 days ago by David

On Saturday, October 4, Stair Galleries of New York will host an auction of the Hunt Slonem collection contained in Edgewood Terrace, also known as Cordts Mansion, “an imposing Second Empire-style brick mansion that stands at the top of a hill overlooking the city of Kingston in New York’s sprawling ...

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21 days ago by David

On Saturday, October 4, Stair Galleries of New York will host an auction of the Hunt Slonem collection contained in Edgewood Terrace, also known as Cordts Mansion, “an imposing Second Empire-style brick mansion that stands at the top of a hill overlooking the city of Kingston in New York’s sprawling ...

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24 days ago by oldhousedreamer

302 North Ave, Lutherville-Timonium, MD – $350,000 3 bed, 1 bath, 1368 square feet on 1.02 acres. Unfortunately no interior pics but clearly needs some work.

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31 days ago by Chris

Surrounding the mills of Woodberry and Hampden are the workers' cottages, where the manpower that labored all day would stroll home in a five minute walk. A novel idea, isn't it? Walking home from work in less than five minutes, and having all of your needs within a walk of the same time frame. If y ...

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34 days ago by Paul Watson

One of the fashions of the “Gothic Revival” during the mid-1840s to 1860s was for “monastic” style bindings that imitated the Medieval wooden book covers. Rather than reproducing these in wood, the Victorians (presumably for reasons of cost and mass production) recreated this style with Plaster of P ...

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