Historical Shelters

It’s hard to believe, but there was a time when San Francisco’s famed Painted Ladies were not the vivid colors you expect, but a dull, drab gray. In fact, you’d hardly even know that this week’s Historical Shelter – an 1898 pastel Queen Anne Victorian flanked by sisters in blue and taupe – once likely […]

It’s not often that you come across a home that saw the birth of the United States, but this week’s historical shelter is a New Jersey property that has watched America grow from a collection of colonies, through the Revolution, to a 50-state country with a couple hundred (and change) years under its belt.  Saddle […]

Sometimes our Sunday Historical Shelter has an intriguing backstory, but sometimes — as is the case this week’s Tampa Mediterranean bungalow — it was picked because it is just simply adorable. The home sits in Seminole Heights, which is a historic Tampa neighborhood and district chock-a-block full of historic bungalows and buildings. One of Tampa’s […]

When William Lightfoot Price bought 80 acres from the estate of Antrim Osborne in 1901 in the name of the Rose Valley Association, it was with the aim of creating a home for artists and craftsmen.  Our historical shelter today came to our attention thanks to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and sits in […]

The listing agent calls the location of this stunning Denver Midcentury Modern A-frame “one of the sweetest blocks in Park Hill” – which only boosts how much in love any lover of post-war modern architecture could be in this historical shelter. Near the tony Seventeenth Avenue parkway and just blocks away from Denver’s large City […]

On the water, but not on the beach, our historical shelter for this week is a beautifully maintained home on the Intracoastal Waterway in Jacksonville, Florida. If you haven’t spent a lot of time on the East Coast, the Intracoastal Waterway may be a bit of a mystery. But basically, here’s the skinny: It’s a […]