The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Property tussles in the moneyed enclaves of Long Island are nothing new, but the battle to preserve the homestead of Pyrrhus Concer raises questions of whose history gets to be honored.
Category: Historic Buildings and Sites
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Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and More: Visiting Mexico City’s House Museums
The New York Times – Travel:
Curiosity about the daily lives of the famous draws us to the places they lived. In Coyoacán it’s possible to commune with the ghosts of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky and more.
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Is This the World’s Most Picturesque High Dive?
The New York Times – Travel:
Catch a glimpse of a storied tradition in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where, for hundreds of years, divers have leaped from a bridge in the southern city of Mostar.
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An Irish Castle to Call Your Own
The New York Times – Travel:
To most, the striking stone towers that dot the Irish countryside are quaint ruins. To a few ambitious people, they’re the perfect places to make into homes — and one-of-a-kind vacation rentals.
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He Inherited a New Orleans Jazz Institution. What Does He Owe?
The New York Times – Music:
In the 1960s, Ben Jaffe’s family founded Preservation Hall to help keep a defining Black art form alive. In 2022, that’s a complicated part for a white musician to play.
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An Italian Maximalist Moves Into a Muted Turin Villa
The New York Times – T Magazine:
The tentmaker Guido Toschi brings color and pattern to a 12th-century citadel once occupied by his five great-aunts.
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Inside a 17th-Century Italian Palace, an Untouched Sanctuary
The New York Times – T Magazine:
The writer Skye McAlpine’s apartment, part of a storied palazzo in Venice, is filled with layers of history.
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Stanley Turkel, Manager and Avid Historian of Hotels, Dies at 96
The New York Times – Travel:
A hotelier, a history maven and a New York civic activist, he chronicled hotels in extraordinary detail both in books and on a blog.
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Exploring Spain’s Arab Influence
The New York Times – Travel:
Exploring the country’s Arab influence is an impossibly romantic journey, involving palaces with intricate geometric designs, castles and grand mosques reconfigured by Christians into cathedrals.