The Marshall House: Lighting Cast-Iron Verandahs and Heart Pine
Built 1851 on Broughton Street, Savannah's oldest hotel, with tiered cast-iron verandahs across the facade and original heart pine floors inside.
Merrill Auditorium: Lighting a 1912 Civic Hall with a Kotzschmar Organ
A 1912 auditorium within Portland City Hall, home to the Kotzschmar Memorial Organ — one of the largest municipal organs in the world.
The Brennan House: Who This Small Venue Suits
An 1868 Italianate townhouse on Fifth Street, preserved with original family furnishings and operating as a house museum. Intimate and genuinely untouched.
Clifton Mansion: A Photographer Answers the Real Questions
Johns Hopkins' summer villa, remodelled in the 1850s into an Italianate house with a tall campanile tower, set in Baltimore's Clifton Park.
The Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi: Who This Small Hotel Suits
A small luxury hotel a few steps off the Santa Fe Plaza, with hand-crafted interiors — stone, timber, leather, hand-woven textiles and kiva fireplaces.
The Old Courthouse: Reading the Light Under a Cast-Iron Dome
Built between 1828 and 1862 in Greek Revival style, with a cast-iron dome and painted rotunda, standing between downtown St. Louis and the Gateway Arch.
Thomas Wolfe Auditorium: The Technical Side of a Civic Theatre
A 1940 civic auditorium in downtown Asheville, part of the city's Art Deco civic complex, with a large stage, fixed seating and theatrical lighting.
Longwood: How to Photograph a House That Was Never Finished
An octagonal antebellum house in Natchez, Mississippi, topped by a Byzantine dome and left unfinished above the ground floor since 1861.
Portland Art Museum: Planning the Shot List
The oldest art museum in the Pacific Northwest, founded 1892, with a Pietro Belluschi-designed building. Museum lighting is the challenge; the architecture is the reward.
The Presbytère: A Photographer Answers Your Questions
Begun 1791 on Jackson Square as the twin of the Cabildo, completed in the 1810s, now part of the Louisiana State Museum with arcaded galleries facing the square.