The Union Club of Boston: A Walk-Through for Photographs
A private club since 1863 in two joined Beacon Hill townhouses on Park Street, looking across to Boston Common. Domestic scale, period rooms, tall windows.
The City Museum: Field Notes on the Strangest Venue in St. Louis
A converted shoe warehouse in downtown St. Louis filled with salvaged architectural fragments, caves, tunnels, a ten-storey slide and a rooftop.
The Omni Grove Park Inn: A Walk-Through of a 1913 Boulder Hotel
Opened 1913 on Sunset Mountain, built from local granite boulders in the Arts and Crafts manner, with a Great Hall, vast stone fireplaces and mountain views west.
The Olde Pink House: Field Notes on a 1789 Georgian Mansion
Built 1789 on Reynolds Square, a Georgian mansion whose stucco has weathered pink from the brick beneath. Small candlelit rooms and a tavern basement.
The Portland Museum of Art: Building the Shot List
Founded 1882, Maine's oldest public art institution, with the 1983 Charles Shipman Payson Building designed by Henry Cobb of I. M. Pei & Partners.
The Mayo Hotel: Lighting a 1925 Terracotta Tower
Opened 1925 in downtown Tulsa, an eighteen-storey grand hotel restored in 2009, with a crystal ballroom, ornate lobby and a rooftop bar.
The Louisville Palace: Field Notes on an Atmospheric Theatre
Opened 1928, a John Eberson atmospheric theatre in downtown Louisville with a Spanish Baroque interior and a ceiling painted as a night sky full of stars.
The Joslyn Art Museum: Photographing a Pink Marble Art Deco Court
Opened 1931 in Omaha, an Art Deco museum clad inside and out in Georgia pink marble, with a fountain court at its centre and a 1994 Foster pavilion alongside.
Victoria Mansion: Who This 1860 Interior Suits
Built 1858–1860 in Portland, Maine, an Italianate villa retaining around ninety per cent of its original interiors — among the most intact of its period in America.
The Seelbach: Lighting a 1905 Beaux-Arts Hotel
Opened 1905, a Beaux-Arts grand hotel in downtown Louisville with a marble lobby, murals, and a basement Rathskeller lined in Rookwood pottery tile.