Old House Tours

Memorial Hall – Centennial Art Gallery

As part of a 9 mile walk that my joints endured this past weekend I had a chance to appreciate the architecture of the “Please Touch Museum” in Philadelphia.  This structure has recently undergone an $81 million renovation and the results are stunning. This building was part of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition and was originally known [...]

Ernest Hemingway House – Key West

A few years ago I spent Christmas in Key West (which I highly recommend by the way) and toured Ernest Hemingway’s house museum.  He moved there in 1931 and his wife collected the furnishings and chandeliers that are still present today. You’ll see a few of the polydactyl cats (they have extra toes) in the photos [...]

Oxford, Maryland Walking Tour

Oxford, Maryland is a beautiful historic town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It is one of the oldest towns in America, marking it’s founding in 1683.  It is a quiet, water-lover’s paradise still populated with working watermen intermingled with Washington D.C. weekenders and retirees.  This photo collection is part of a larger one, [...]