<p><span class="deck">When Pierre S. du Pont bought the deteriorated Longwood Gardens in 1906, he thought that owning property was a sign of mental derangement. Still, he worked hard to create a stupendous fantasy garden, a place, he said, “where I can entertain my friends.”</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> The shady courtyards, tiled roofs, and white stucco walls of 1920s Palm Beach owed something to the style of the Spanish Renaissance and everything to the vision of Addison Mizner</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">In its majesty and in its simplicity, the Greek Revival house seemed to echo America’s belief in the past and hopes for the future.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A guide who has been taking it all in for 60 years leads us on a lively, intimate, and idiosyncratic ramble through quiet yards where students once argued about separating from the Crown, and to hidden carvings high on the Gothic towers that show scholars sleeping through class and getting drunk on beer.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">In the most self-consuming of cities, an impressive and little-known architectural legacy remains to show us how New Yorkers have lived and prospered since the days when the population stood at around 1000.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">At the dawn of this century, a new form of residential architecture rose from the American heartland, ruled by the total integration of space, site, and structure.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The Colonial Revival was born in a time of late-19th-century ferment, and, from then on, the style resurfaced every time Americans needed reassurance.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The U.S. Capitol stands where it always has, but the columns that originally held it up have become a hauntingly beautiful monument somewhere else.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">THE 1893 WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION WAS SO WONDERFUL THAT EVERYBODY HOPED IT WAS A PROPHECY OF WHAT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY HELD IN STORE. BUT IN FACT, THE CITY THAT MOUNTED IT WAS.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">It belonged to Taos’ most influential family until well into the 20th century, but this unadorned adobe hacienda speaks of the earliest days of Spanish occupation of the Southwest.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Once the very heart of downtown St. Louis, Union Station has come through hard times to celebrate its 100th birthday, and ,even though the trains don’t pull in here anymore, it’s still an urban draw.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The ambassador from an infant republic spent five enchanted years in the French capital at a time when monarchy was giving way to revolution. Walking the city streets today, you can still feel the extravagant spirit of the city and the era he knew.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">People visit the Grand Canyon for scenery, not architecture. But an assortment of buildings there, infused with history and the sensibility of one strong woman, are worth a long look.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><lead_in> DECEPTIVELY SIMPLE IN NAME AND FORM,</lead_in> an icon of post-modernism comes wrapped in centuries of architectural history </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">ROBERT MOSES built small with the same imperial vigor as he built big, and, at his behest, the art of making scale-model cities reached its peak. The result still survives, and, although few New Yorkers know about it, they can see their whole town, right down to their own houses or apartment buildings, perfectly reproduced.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">How a highly historic 18th-century Connecticut house learned to live in harmony with a 20th-century garden that is the only surviving American design of a great British landscape architect.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> The great age of Christian faith fulfilled its passion of spirit in the soaring vaults and glowing glass of the Gothic cathedral</span> </p>
