Today on Architectural Digest we visit Longmeadow, Massachusetts to tour a colonial-era home with a ton of potential but needing lots of work. Contractor Nick Schiffer from NS Builders takes us ...

Colonial houses are our heritage: physical evidence of the people who first traveled to North America and settled here. Today, “Colonial” has come to be a generic mashup of old and new stylistic ...

It's hard to believe that a Revolutionary War hero once lived in a jazzy white Colonial that looks like it stepped out of the pages of "House Beautiful." (It has.) Or that in 1953, the home was ...

Certain locations won’t relinquish their history, and to be frank, that’s what makes them special. These towns have ...

Originally built in the early 1700s, the John Glover-Schmidle House at 53 Echo Valley Road in Newtown was home to one of Newtown’s first settlers and its first official town clerk. Set on more than ...

Colonial-style homes are something you've seen many times, even if you don't know what they're called. First built during the era between 1565 and 1783, Colonial homes were built by settlers from ...

A Connecticut estate dating back almost three centuries has hit the market for $2,499,000. Stone walls line the 3.6-acre estate at 1081 Hillside Road in Fairfield, which is home to an heirloom apple ...

Nails, tool marks and roof pitches provide clues to the age and authenticity of a house. Historic house consultant and antiques appraiser Gordon Lohr will put his sleuthing skills to the test Sunday ...

We are officially in the dog days of summer. With temperatures frequently rising to the 90s most weeks, many visitors to Colonial Williamsburg are asking, “What did they do back in the day without AC?

Storms Tavern once offered respite as an inn for travelers along what was then "The Kings Highway" in Colonial times.