EYE ON ANTIQUES: WILLARD’S PATENTED TIMEPIECE

Simon Willard’s banjo clock—copied and modified for two centuries—remains a classic.

Gordon Converse

SIDE BY SIDE®: DOOR HARDWARE

Modern blacksmiths offer myriad choices to fit your home and your budget.

Gregory LeFever

LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA: FASHION CAPITAL OF THE NEW REPUBLIC

Philadelphia set the trends, and Louis A. Godey helped spread them across the nation.

Robert Whitworth

RESTORING A KENTUCKY LANDMARK

This Federal gem is a memorial to one woman’s painstaking research into its history.

Gregory LeFever

CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA LOG ARCHITECTURE

Builders who used corner posts to join log walls intended their homes to be permanent.

James W. Mauch

A LOOK BACK

We revisit our first issue to see what’s changed—and what hasn’t—after 35 years.

Jeanmarie Andrews

INVESTIGATING A PENNSYLVANIA LOG HOUSE

Adding flesh and blood to the imagined owners of an everyman’s house.

Tom Huntington