Roebling’s Shaky Bridge
This little suspension bridge, which spans the attractively named Waste Weir, was built by the Roebling Company. Some internet sources…
The Story Behind the Field Guide to American Houses
See the Curbed article on Virginia Savage McAlester, the author of A Field Guide to American Houses. A revised version…
Louis Sullivan’s Jewel Box in Grinnell
The Merchants National Bank building in Grinnell, Iowa, also known as the Jewel Box, was designed by famed architect Louis…
Early Images of the Classical World: Daguerreotypes of the Monumental Journey
In the 1840s, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, a French photographer and architectural historian, took thousands of photographic images of monuments…
“The Wife of my Youth”
This 19th century graveyard monument in Mercer Cemetery engraved to “The Wife of My Youth” first makes you wonder what…
Mercer Cemetery
The Mercer Cemetery in Trenton, NJ, was created in the 1840s. There were few new internments after the 1930s. Unlike…
The Van Wyck Brooks Historic District, Plainfield, New Jersey
There are over 150 houses within the Van Wyck Brooks historic district, ranging in age from the mid 1800s to…
The Esherick House
A few years after completing the Trenton Bath House, Louis Kahn designed the one-bedroom Esherick house for a bookstore owner…
Modernism and Louis Kahn’s Trenton Bath House
What does concrete block want? Probably a sympathetic and historically accurate restoration. Louis Kahn is considered one of the most…
Canal Bridgetender’s Houses
These three small houses are located along the Delaware and Raritan Canal in Trenton, where movable bridges formerly crossed the…