ancestral roofs

I just picked up a great little book at the library - The Gaiety of Gables. It was published in 1974 (is it just me or do the 1970's see...

I find it interesting how often we have to explain words and expressions that we use, to folk who are 30 and under. The world is changing so...

I read something in Built Heritage News, an online journal I subscribe to (cnasmith@builtheritagenews.ca). The item advertised a training co...

My Mom, to whom I attribute my early love of old houses, used to say, "the stories that house could tell" whenever we passed derel...

Not long ago, I obtained a copy of a lovely book titled Rural Ontario from my favourite out-of-print bookseller, AbeBooks. The evocative bla...

Wouldn't you just love to explore this house? I would love to see what it's like in the room above the front door, the one with the...

Not so long ago I travelled with a neighbour to her childhood haunts in Lennox and Addington county. She showed me places with personal sign...