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Madison, Georgia
The town of Madison, in Morgan County, Georgia, was lauded in 1849 by the historian George White (1802-1887). "There are as many well educated...
Magazine Antiques, 04/01/09 by William Nathaniel Banks · More from publication -
History in towns: Key West Florida
Approaching Key West aboard the United States revenue cutter Marion in May 1832, some ten years after Spain had ceded the territory of Florida to...
Magazine Antiques, 02/01/08 by William Nathaniel Banks · More from publication -
History in towns: Royalston, Massachusetts
At their first meeting, in 1753 at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern in Boston, the nine proprietors who had recently bought 28,357 acres in northern...
Magazine Antiques, 12/01/06 by William Nathaniel Banks · More from publication -
Living with antiques: the Mary and Robert Raley collection
On August 12, 1986, in Harrisville, New Hampshire, at a reception in his honor given by Mary and Robert Raley, Virgil Thomson (1896-1989)...
Magazine Antiques, 10/01/05 by William Nathaniel Banks · More from publication -
History in towns: Haverhill Corner, New Hampshire
The advertisements of local merchants and innkeepers in Haverhill Corner's weekly newspapers in the early decades of the nineteenth century evoke...
Magazine Antiques, 12/01/04 by William Nathaniel Banks · More from publication -
History in towns: Deadwood, South Dakota
The town of Deadwood is cradled in a narrow gulch between pine-covered bluffs in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Main Street (see Pl. III), the...
Magazine Antiques, 07/01/04 by William Nathaniel Banks · More from publication -
History in houses: Woodlawn in Ellsworth, Maine
Woodlawn, a splendid house in the neoclassical style, was built in the 1820s on a commanding site on Bridge Hill, overlooking the town of...
Magazine Antiques, 01/01/03 by William Nathaniel Banks · More from publication -
History in towns: Hancock, New Hampshire
On June 3, 1779, when the few inhabitants of the recently settled town of Hancock, New Hampshire, petitioned the state legislature for...
Magazine Antiques, 09/01/02 by William Nathaniel Banks · More from publication -
Coliseum Square: A New Orleans renaissance
[It] is carpeted with close smooth grass, and planted with luxuriant trees. It is more than one fourth mile long, and four or five hundred feet...
Magazine Antiques, 04/01/01 by William Nathaniel Banks · More from publication -
Living with antiques: THE GILMOUR-CHRISTOVICH HOUSE IN NEW ORLEANS
In 1853, when Anna (Fig. 4) and Thomas C. Gilmour built their stylish house on Prytania Street in New Orleans (Pl. I), "prosperity flushed the...
Magazine Antiques, 02/01/01 by William Nathaniel Banks · More from publication
