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...castle theme grew out of their penchant for medieval architecture, cultivated during trips abroad and tours of stone fortresses in the U.S. and Europe. For years, Kim had also nurtured a passion for Renaissance Revival--style antiques from the 1800s and collected items such as a 1900s grandfather clock and a 17th century suit of armor. In December 2002 the twosome set out to build their own castle in Middlefield, Mass., a quiet, rural community in the Berkshire Mountains that has a few well-hidden, elegant homes. Kim, 49, helped design the structure and is serving as general contractor...
This is not be the first time that the ’00s have left a whole decade unbranded. Can you name any significant happening of the 1900s? Preceded by The Gay ’90s (1890s), this period has merely been relegated to the ‘turn of the century,’ and it took about two decades for the 1900s to even eek out a decadent roar. Perhaps at the beginning of each century, society must regroup and start back...
Inspired by the Sears, Roebuck mail-order homes that sprang up in the early 1900s, "designer prefab" spans a number of highly nuanced--and often confounding--housing categories. Variously described as systems-built, modular, panelized, kit or manufactured, prefab homes are constructed at least partially in factories before being transported to building sites. There they can be assembled quickly, sometimes in a matter of days. While most of the new-age houses in a box have yet to be mass-produced, an expected rise in interest rates and a public hungry to meld good design with low cost will make...
...gasket in a freeway traffic jam, exercising no more than our fingers at the computer--that centenarians can't imagine. Most of them were born into an America as remote from today's metaphorically as the craggy villages of Sardinia, Okinawa and Nova Scotia are geographically. In the early 1900s people walked miles to work not by choice but out of necessity; cars were still a luxury. People tilled the fields because their farmer parents needed cheap help. People ate what they grew because it was there. Most labor was manual then, and most nutrients were natural. Preserved food...
...with the twisted ideologies of the emerging fascist right in the new Russia is nonsense. Mark Eiffe Cork City, Ireland Your article on young Nazis in Russia may surprise a lot of people, but not if you are Jewish. After things got really bad in Russia in the early 1900s, my great-grandfather left and went to Germany. All his family had was what they carried. In 1936 my mother left her family in Germany. As a young girl, I used to cry for all my lost relatives. But as we mature, we grow in strength and courage...