The Old Talbott Tavern, Bardstown: A Walk Through a Stone Inn
An old stone Bardstown inn walked in the order a wedding day uses it — bar, rooms, stair and street.
My Old Kentucky Home, Bardstown: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A historic Bardstown house in parkland — where one decision about inside or outside governs the whole day.
The Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown: What It Suits, and What It Does Not
A working Bardstown distillery — dramatic where it counts, and genuinely constrained in four specific ways.
The Bardstown Bourbon Company: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A Bardstown distillery — and the one frame a barrel warehouse gives that no other building can.
The Newport Aquarium, Newport: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
An aquarium on the Kentucky bank of the Ohio, with the Cincinnati skyline directly across the water.
The Glendower Mansion, Paris: The Problem, and Four Ways Out of It
A nineteenth-century country house in Bourbon County — beautiful, and smaller inside than the photographs suggest.
The Kentucky Castle, Versailles: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A twentieth-century castle in the Bluegrass near Versailles — theatre rather than history, and better photographed as theatre.
The Maker’s Mark Distillery, Loretto: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A distillery in a wooded hollow near Loretto whose buildings are painted black — which changes every exposure on the property.
The Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort: A Walk Through the Site
A brick distillery campus on the Kentucky River at Frankfort — big enough that the walk is the plan.
The Woodford Reserve Distillery: The Venue’s Own Logic
A limestone distillery in the Bluegrass where the buildings sit in the order the whiskey moves through them.