Nestled along a quiet bend of the Mississippi River in the Delta lowlands of Chicot County, Arkansas, the Lakeport Plantation rises from the flat earth like a memory that refuses to fade. Built around 1859 by Lycurgus Johnson, a wealthy planter whose empire stretched over 4,000 acres and was worked by 155 enslaved men, women, and children, Lakeport was more than a home—it was a declaration of power. The house itself was a masterpiece of Greek Revival architecture, elegant and

On a ridge above downtown Juneau, where mountains rise behind and the Gastineau Channel gleams below, stands a house that has quietly watched more than a century of Alaskan history unfold. Perched at 213 Seventh Street, the House of Wickersham was built in 1898–99, the first grand home on the hillside once known as Chicken Ridge . Back then, Juneau was still a gold rush town, and mining executive Frank Hammond wanted a residence that showed both stability and success. The res

Not far from the foothills of Phoenix, tucked beside the Adelman property and shaded by desert brush, sits a home with a quiet kind of elegance. The Jorgine Boomer Cottage doesn’t demand attention—but it rewards it. Built as what Frank Lloyd Wright called a “mountain cottage,” it stands not as a monument, but as a moment—a pause in the desert that still holds a whisper of the past. Legend has it that the Boomers and Adelmans met at the nearby Biltmore Hotel, drawn together by