Frederick Law Olmsted

1880s Isaac Newton Van Nuys, entrepreneur and member of the homesteading Lankershim group, has built the San Fernando Valley's first wood-frame house, its curb appeal immediately driving up prices in an area of adobe structures. Van Nuys' house, which...

They are ruining Washington, ruining it in the name of saving it. Five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, this once-lovely city of broad diagonal avenues and open vistas conceived in 1791 by French engineer Pierre L'Enfant is becoming an ever...

(WGN-AM) - Talks are under way to create a massive post-Olympics indoor youth athletic center in Washington Park, the cornerstone location of Chicago's plan to host the 2016 Games, the bid team confirmed. State officials are conducting preliminary...

The Great American Staycation: How to Make Vacation at Home Fun for the Whole Family (and Your Wallet!) Adams Media, $9.95 To quote from a Clash song, "Should I stay or should I go?" writer and columnist Matt Wixon definitely chooses the former. With...

HARTFORD Lately billed as New England's rising star, the Insurance City – Connecticut's state capital – is making a comeback from its low point in the early 1990s when people, jobs, retailers and the major-league hockey franchise left for greener...

The Great Falls of the Potomac may not have the instant name recognition of, say, Niagara Falls. But each year, about 3 million people visit this series of rapids and cascades along the Potomac River, where the rushing water and varied topography make...

Since Sept. 11 I have driven to the beach, flown to New York, served on jury duty downtown. I am trying to live my normal life, but with a backdrop of anxiety, there's something comforting about exploring new places close to home, sometimes very close...

When the Rev. Horace Bushnell was in his last years, he had to fight an effort to cut his Hartford park in half to build a new State Capitol (eventually it was built next to, but not in the park.) At a public meeting he held up a letter from a former...

"The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People," by Paul S. Boyer et al., D.C. Heath and Co., 1990 "The Tiffany Fortune and Other Chronicles of a Connecticut Family," by Alfred M. Bingham, Abeel & Leet Publishers, 1996 Federal Census of...

Past the heavy glass doors of the world's most famous jewelry store, two glimmering rings sit waiting to be selected for the proper marriage. One is a diamond-inlaid platinum band selling for $11,700, the other a matching engagement ring priced at $37,...

As war in Iraq loomed over the last many months, archeologists, art historians and others expressed grave concerns about the fate of countless historic monuments, ancient sites and museum collections in the region, many dating back as far as the beginning...

Broadway runs on a diagonal; the D train goes to Yankee Stadium; for bagels, go to H&H on the Upper West Side. There are plenty of guidebooks to tell you things like that. What they don't explain and what many visitors never understand is how residents...