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

In the rolling hills outside Rougemont, North Carolina, a castle rises from the trees like something out of a fairytale. Its red turrets and gothic arches catch the light in strange, romantic ways, and from a distance it seems as if it might be centuries old, brought over stone by stone from some European hillside. In truth, this is Castle Mont Rouge , and its story belongs entirely to North Carolina. The castle was the vision of sculptor Robert Mihaly, who set out to create