Browsing: Historic Buildings and Sites

LONDON — For five years, the most famous clock tower in Britain was hidden behind an ugly fortress of scaffolding,…

POMPEII, Italy — On a recent morning at the necropolis of Porta Sarno, just outside Pompeii’s eastern edge, Mattia Buondonno…

LAWRENCE, N.Y. — “Are people going to care about one little house?” asked Elizabeth Waytkus, who had been alerted some…

Nestled in the Atlantic Ocean, five miles off the coast of the picturesque town of Port Clyde, Maine, lie two…

Later, he added: “The association of guns and violence against African Americans in this country is one of the things…

The island is also where Lambert Simnel, the young son of an Oxford tradesman, landed in June 1487 with an…

BERLIN — On Jan. 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking officials of the Nazi bureaucracy met in a villa on Lake Wannsee…

LONDON — Ornate English and Bengali typography adorns the signs of Taj Stores, one of the oldest Bangladeshi-run supermarkets in…

CAPE TOWN — Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 49-year-old man with arson, theft and housebreaking in connection with the large…