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.
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