While scouting for a location for a publicity photo shoot, I was fortunate to find a Victorian painted lady with a fascinating past. Far too often fine examples of Victorian architecture fall beneath the wrecking ball of modern developers. It takes true passion to fight to save a building that seems long past its glory…
I recently bought a personalized engraved brick to support the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe. The bricks are part of a fund-raising campaign to create a museum and science center on the site of Nikola Tesla’s final laboratory. The original purpose of the laboratory was to create wireless telegraphy and power transmission. The site included a…
Did you know that in 1864 it was possible to build a home with central heating, indoor plumbing, a geo-thermal air conditioning system and a burglar alarm? These futuristic marvels are not the imaginings of a steampunk author. Two years before the birth of H. G. Wells, the residents of the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion embraced the very…