Historical Features

• Postcard From Past Glen Echo
  Now an cultural arts park, Glen Echo was once a popular trolley amusement park
• Postcard From Past Glen Echo Park
  Glen Echo returns to its roots as a cultural arts park
• Home Again
  "Growing up at Pleasant Plains was like living in a Tom Sawyer novel," recalls Philip Dodds of his childhood on an Annapolis, Maryland, farm.
• Washington slept here!
  Tales of hardship at Valley Forge abound, but even in 1777 rank had its privileges
• Val-Kill
  "The greatest thing I have learned is how good it is to come home again..."
• If these walls could talk...
  Excavating history from layers of wallpaper in a New York tenement house
• A museum to tenement life
  History of 97 Orchard Street revealed in photos and bits of wallpaper
• Log house revival
  Peg-by-peg, the oldest standing building in a Chicago suburb is restored.
• Grant-Kohrs Ranch
  A vision of cowboys, cattle drives and the Old West
• Return to glory
  Beastly ballroom in Oneida, NY mansion is now fit for a beauty
• A new lease
  Doug and Jeanne Robinson finish the transformation of an old bank into a studio and home.
• Have a safe sleep!
  From OHW's archives: A globe-trotting couple transforms an old bank into a retirement retreat.