Happy Halloween! To celebrate holiday, I thought I’d share some of my favorite types of ghosts: architectural ghosts! I love picking out ghost signs on old buildings (I previously wrote about resurrecting ghost signs, here). But ghost signs aren’t the only ghosts in the built environment. Often, especially on old brick buildings, you can see places were… Read More Looking for Architectural Ghosts
I don’t go to the Seattle Art Museum to see architecture, I go to see the art. But let’s face it, I’m an architectural historian, and the line between art and architecture is a blurry one (is there even a line?). So it should come as no surprise that upon spotting the Italian Room I… Read More My Favorite Thing at the Seattle Art Museum
Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve is located in the steep and rolling hills of southern Oregon, on a dead-end highway 20 miles east of the town of Cave Junction. The cave itself, reportedly discovered in 1874 by Elijah Davidson, is the namesake and highlight of the park. However, due to the long history of… Read More Oregon Caves: More Than A Cave
The Vista House (1918), a rest stop and a memorial to the Oregon pioneers, opened just two years after the associated Columbia River Highway was completed. It sits atop Crown Point and offers stunning views to both the east and west along the Columbia River Gorge. Today, it is set apart from and above the busy interstate,… Read More Views of Oregon’s Vista House
Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in the beauty of architecture and in the history, but preservation is first and foremost about people. It is the people, after all, the community, who create spaces, create and use architecture. Architecture is only telling the story of the community. I was excited to discover local artist… Read More Preservation Meets Art
