C.K.G Billings, the retired president of the People’s Gas Company of Chicago, started construction on his Manhattan estate in 1901. The incredible natural vistas of Fort Washington and his love for ...

Neighbors and friends of northern Manhattan’s Fort Tryon Park, as well as devoted fans of New York City history, lined up this weekend to take a peek inside Fort Tryon Cottage, one of the last ...

Tryon Hall was the first large estate built in the Massapequas by a Jones family member. The next estate was named Massapequa Manor and was completed in 183 7. In this case, the builder was also a ...

As the Spartanburg & Asheville Railroad laid iron for its tracks in 1875, it aimed for the Block House. Marking the border between North Carolina and South Carolina as well as that between Greenville ...

Two hundred miles from home, a 12-year-old boy wakes up in a tiny locked room. Outside, eight inches of snow hides everything but the sixteen-foot fence that surrounds him. The boy is from Brooklyn, ...

Humble beginnings don’t get much humbler than where Nina Simone grew up. It’s in east Tryon, a neighborhood of low rolling hills and hollers, where the homes look like they’re being swallowed by the ...