The Thomas Edison House: Field Notes on a Shotgun Cottage
An 1850s shotgun-style cottage in Louisville's Butchertown, where Thomas Edison lodged as a young telegraph operator. Very small, very characterful.
The Museum of International Folk Art: A Photographer Answers Your Questions
On Museum Hill above Santa Fe, holding the largest collection of international folk art in the world, including the famously dense Girard Wing installation.
Magnolia Hall: Photographing a Greek Revival Town House
A mid-nineteenth-century Greek Revival mansion in central Natchez, with crystal chandeliers and ornate plaster ceiling medallions.
The Cyclorama: Field Notes on a Domed Room
Built in 1884 to house a cyclorama painting of the Battle of Gettysburg, now a vast domed event room in Boston's South End with a central oculus.
The Saint Louis Zoo: A Photographer Answers Your Questions
In Forest Park, with the 1904 World's Fair Flight Cage among its structures. Free to enter, heavily visited, and unlike any other kind of venue.
Multnomah Athletic Club: Is It Right for Your Photographs?
A private athletic club founded in 1891, beside Providence Park in Portland's West End. Polished, spacious and private — with the constraints that private clubs bring.
The Tate House: Who This 1755 House Suits
Built 1755 in the Stroudwater district of Portland, a Georgian house with an unusual clerestory gambrel roof, and an eighteenth-century-style garden.
The Pirates’ House: Who This Venue Suits
One of the oldest buildings in Savannah, an eighteenth-century seamen's inn near the river, with a warren of small low-ceilinged dining rooms and a cellar.
The Lensic: Lighting a 1931 Moorish-Spanish Theatre
Opened 1931 on San Francisco Street, a Moorish and Spanish Renaissance movie palace, restored in 2001 as Santa Fe's main performing arts venue.
The Audubon Zoo: A Season-by-Season Photography Guide
In Audubon Park, Uptown New Orleans, with mature live oaks, a 1920s sea lion pool and grounds laid out among some of the city's oldest trees.