ancestral roofs

Our mother often used an odd expression to convey her confidence that people who had gone to their reward would always be remembered, in th...

Filliter Block (1846)  Seems I mistook signs of aging for building-owner neglect in a recent post about the endangered Henderson Buildin...

Ron Tasker explaining entablature and pediment detail "It is the brain, the little gray cells, on which one must rely."  Anyon...

15 Julia Street The Ontario Cottage has always been with us. A July day in Port Hope provides ample proof of that. It's fascinatin...

 Back in  August  I wrote about fetching stone house on highway 2 just east of Lansdowne. The Mitchell house was written up in the newslet...

the mill on the Black Readers of this tribute to old houses no doubt know how taken I am with Queensborough, Ontario.  After our first ...