Sears Mail-Order Homes
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2021
What’s the heaviest thing you can buy from Amazon? The internet says it’s a 1,500-pound, 6-feet tall gun safe , but back when Sears was the ...
Showing posts with the label House
Christopher Columbus’s House in Genoa
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2020
It would have been wonderful to see the actual house where Christopher Columbus grew up. Unfortunately, the one that stands in Genoa today i...
Villa Girasole: The House That Rotates
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2019
In the hills of northern Italy near Verona stands an L-shaped house called Villa Girasole, which means “sunflower” in Italian. And just li...
The Abandoned Mansions of Bishops Avenue
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 29, 2019
Bishops Avenue, in North London, dubbed the “Billionaire's Row” is one of the wealthiest streets in the world. The average value of a pr...
Jakarta’s Rooftop Villages
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 8, 2019
Rooftops make great gardens, especially in dense urban environments where every available space has been utilized for living and for commerc...
Thomas Edison’s Forgotten Passion: Building Concrete Houses
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2019
Of all things Thomas Alva Edison is known for, concrete is not one of them. It was one of Edison's less successful ventures, but not one...
François Coignet’s Reinforced Concrete House
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 20, 2019
In a quiet suburb, north of Paris, by the River Seine, stands a derelict four-story building. Its windows and doors are broken, some are bar...
William Clark’s Expensive Folly
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2018
In late 19th century New York, on an avenue dubbed the “Millionaire’s Colony”, there stood an insanely ornate house belonging to the wealthy...
Smith Mansion: The House That Killed its Builder
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 28, 2018
For over thirty years a five story rickety wooden structure with long undulating staircases and haphazardly protruding balconies have been s...
The House Built From Tombstones
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 26, 2018
This humble two-storied marble-clad house in Petersburg, in the US state of Virginia, has more than 150 years of Civil War history embedded ...
The Kome Cave Houses And Cannibalism
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 19, 2018
Photo credit: Amada44/Wikimedia These smooth walled, well maintained, igloo-shaped mud houses near the village of Mateka, in Lesotho, beli...
The House That Was Moved Across The Atlantic
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 25, 2018
Sometimes a house just needs to be moved no matter what’s the cost. Usually, these are historic structures that are in danger of demolition ...
The Backstugas of Sweden
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 15, 2017
In a forest in southern Småland, in southern Sweden, there is a small earthen cabin you can rent on Airbnb. The cabin is partially buried in...
The Birmingham Back to Backs
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 28, 2017
In the late Georgian era, Britain’s urban population began to grow rapidly as the country’s economy shifted from agricultural to industrial....
The House Where Hitler Was Born
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 23, 2017
Braunau am Inn, on the south bank of the Inn river, close to the border with Germany, is a charming little town in Austria. But it carries a...
The House Made of Newspapers
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 21, 2017
If you go to Rockport someday, in Massachusetts, the United States, take some time to drive down Pigeon Hill Street and look out for a sign ...
Winchester Mystery House: The House That Sarah Couldn’t Stop Building
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 1, 2016
Standing in the middle of suburban San Jose, California, is a sprawling Victorian mansion surrounded by beautifully kept gardens, which from...
The Astronaut Beach House
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2016
Before astronauts get suited up and launched into space, they spends their final days relaxing with their wives and kids in a private beach ...
The Half House of St. Patrick Street, Toronto
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2016
This old Victorian-era row house on St. Patrick Street, in the heart of Toronto, Canada, has been cut in half with surgical precision. The h...
‘Fallen Star’, University of California, San Diego
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 27, 2016
Teetering on the corner and edge of Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, is a small cottage that appears...
