Historic preservation

Machado Silvetti has been selected to preserve an 18th-century home in Virginia once owned by a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

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Adaptive reuse, or adaptive re-use in architecture, is the process of repurposing buildings that have outlived their original purposes for different reasons and adapting them to receive new different uses or functions while at the same time retaining and emphasizing their historic features.

federalist style

Image 6 of 6 from gallery of Lee Bey on Chicago’s South Side, Historic Preservation, and Race. Photograph by Lee Bey

Upper left: Early Twentieth Century. This is not the first view available of the house when it still had it's original Victorian porch. Otherwise, the house is still in excellent condition. Upper right; After the house had been abandoned, this shot taken sometime in the Seventies. Not sure what happened with the main tower, it almost looks like it's being dismantled or has suffered a fire. Lower left; Our first trip to Brush Park in 2001 when the house appeared to be doomed, beyond repair…

Queen Anne modified - Victorian period

Catriona Gray reveals the 20 most beautiful historic interiors in London, from Tudor dwellings to Modernist masterpieces

Be an architecture detective. Print out the worksheets in this article and take them with you as you explore your neighborhood and city. See if you can identify the architectural styles of the buildings around you, using the clues in the worksheets. Take photographs of the most interesting buildings and make a note of their street number and address. When you get home, take out your photographs and examine all the clues you can find. Make notes on the architectural evidence that lets you…