This is the grave of Samuel McIntire. Born in 1757 in Salem, Massachusetts, McIntire was just a regular guy in his early life, a woodcarver by trade. But he proved.
This is the grave of Wallace Neff. Born in 1895 in La Mirada, California, Edwin Wallace Neff grew up super rich. His grandfather was Andrew McNally, i.e., Rand-McNally. His father.
This is the grave of Charles Bulfinch. Born in 1763 in Boston, Bulfinch grew up in the late colonial elite. His father was a prominent doctor and his grandfather was.
This is the grave of Mary Colter. Born to a reasonably well-off family in Pittsburgh in 1869, Colter's family moved around a bit when she was a child, first to.
This is the grave of Gustav Stickley. Born in 1858 in Osceola, Wisconsin, Stickley grew up in a huge German immigrant family, one of 11 children. They were poor. His.
I love this story so much. It's the most New Gilded Age story possible. “Absolutely stunning” is how the University of California, Santa Barbara, described plans for Munger Hall, a.
The brutalist architect Gottfried Böhm died the other day. The way his Pilgrimage Church dominates the town of Neviges, Germany to me is just an atrocity. But I know there.
This is the grave of Cass Gilbert. Born in 1859 in Zanesville, Ohio, Gilbert was named for Lewis Cass, one of the truly reprehensible politicians of the antebellum years, a.
