The Philbrook Museum: Reading the Light in an Italian Villa and Its Gardens
Waite Phillips' 1927 Italian Renaissance villa in Tulsa, now an art museum, with around 25 acres of formal gardens running down to a tempietto.
The Rawlings Conservatory: A Walk-Through of Glass Houses
Baltimore's 1888 Victorian conservatory in Druid Hill Park — a glass palm house with linked growing houses. Green, humid, and lit entirely through glass.
The George Peabody Library: Reading the Light in a Cathedral of Books
Opened 1878, the Peabody's stack room rises five tiers of cast-iron balconies to a skylight sixty feet above. One of the great interiors in America.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Light, Timing and the Courtyard
Isabella Stewart Gardner's 1903 Venetian palace in the Fenway, built around a glass-roofed courtyard. One of the most beautiful and most restricted interiors in Boston.
The Bishop Museum: Photographing Basalt, Koa and a Great Hall
A museum in Honolulu with late nineteenth-century basalt buildings, a koa-panelled galleried hall and open lawns.