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It took a mere fourteen years to complete (compared to Monticello’s forty), and its condition today, thoughtfully and painstakingly restored by a team of preservationists, resembles almost precisely the raw structure he knew early in its construction.

In Rural Virginia, Jefferson’s Retreat at Poplar Forest

Mike Welton May 28, 2010

Its moderate summers appealed to tourists from the South and its short winters were a balm to their counterparts up North.

At the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, a Southern Tonic

Mike Welton May 27, 2010

So he began to paint with acrylics on canvas, back in the early ‘90s. Later, he branched out into working on walls

Steve Staresina’s Carolina Frescoes in Carrara Marble

Mike Welton May 26, 2010

Much of that can be laid at Mike Hughes’ feet, since he may be the most well liked person in Richmond, if not the entire advertising industry.

In Richmond, Mike Hughes and the Agency of the Future

Mike Welton May 20, 2010

Instead, he helped fast-track a small Southern ad agency into a top-tier, nationally-known communications firm.

Martin’s Mike Hughes: An Architect for Advertising

Mike Welton May 19, 2010

Remarkably, of the total 702 preservation covenants held by statewide organizations in the U.S., 407 are held by PNC.

At Preservation North Carolina, Protecting the Past

Mike Welton May 14, 2010

Kroon Hall, home of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, was designed and completed in 2008 by an energy-savvy team from Centerbrook Architects and Planners in Connecticut and Hopkins Architects Ltd. in London.

On the Yale Campus, Reducing an Appetite for Energy

Mike Welton May 13, 2010

The Ambassador and its Cocoanut Grove nightclub fell into slow decline after the nightmare evening of June 5, 1968.

At the Ambassador, How to Honor RFK’s Words and Ideals

Mike Welton May 12, 2010

While designing and developing a community at Ambergris Cay, a 1,100-acre private island there, he began to draw.

Campion Platt’s Rugs Inspired by Beaches and Water

Mike Welton May 11, 2010

This year is no different, said Skram founder Jacob Marks (that’s Skram spelled backwards) – except for the debut of heavyweight saddle leather in a number of new items.

From Hillsborough, N.C., Scram’s Lowdown in Leather

Mike Welton May 7, 2010

It’s an exploration of the myriad and often contradictory forces that shaped Miami’s postwar construction, and looks at how those forces projected the city’s image onto the world stage.

‘Miami Modern Metropolis’ by Architect Allan Shulman

Mike Welton May 6, 2010

But then, wouldn’t anything bearing the Buckminster Fuller name have to be all three?

$100,000 for Solving the Major Crises Facing Humanity

Mike Welton May 5, 2010

“You can ride the city bike, take a swim in the harbor bath, and see the real Little Mermaid,” Bjarke Ingels, founder of the design group that bears his name, says of his perforated, white-painted steel structure.

A Danish Pavilion by Bjarke Ingels Group at Shanghai Expo

Mike Welton May 3, 2010

“This is an American Vincent Van Gogh story,” says Mark Richard Smith, whose independent film, “Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture” has just been named best documentary film at the Kansas City Film Festival.

Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture

Mike Welton April 29, 2010

In 2008, when he learned that a county board of commissioners planned to demolish the Bauhaus master’s downtown Atlanta library, the Marietta native kicked a campaign into gear to stop it.

Max Eternity: How to Write, Paint, and Save a Monument

Mike Welton April 28, 2010

Among the residences he surveyed was his own ancestral home, the Nelson House in Yorktown, Va.

Courtenay S. Welton: ‘If He Be Truthful and an Artist!’

Mike Welton April 26, 2010

It’s been in the planning stages for twelve years

Learning from the North Carolina Landscape

Mike Welton April 22, 2010

Her first, “Alabama Stitch Book” won high praise from respected sources. Vogue magazine called it “haute homespun out of the Deep South.”

Y’all Hear ’bout the Alabama Bauhaus?

Mike Welton April 21, 2010

Timothy Richards's Model for the Pantheon.

Timothy Richards: The Language of Architectural Models

Mike Welton April 19, 2010

In the case of Vicenza and Venice Palladio built enough to establish markers and guidelines for his successors to continue his work.”

Palladio, Democracy and America at the Morgan Library

Mike Welton April 19, 2010

As Howard Burns points out in the exhibit catalog, Palladio’s aim was “to rebuild the cities and restructure the countryside of the Veneto, and by implication, the world.

Palladio Takes a Transatlantic Journey to New York City

Mike Welton April 16, 2010

From Ocean Home: A Home Dedicated to Surfing on the North Shore of Kaua’i

October 3, 2025 by Mike Welton

Clayton Korte Designs a Modern Wine Cellar in Texas Hill Country

September 29, 2025 by Mike Welton

From Clayton Korte, a Monograph on the Hill Country Wine Cave

September 26, 2025 by Mike Welton

Last Chance to See The Susan Grant Lewis Collection at the Paul Rudolph Institute in NYC

September 19, 2025 by Mike Welton

From Ocean Home Magazine, an Ode to the Shingle Style by Patrick Ahearn Architect

September 12, 2025 by Mike Welton

A Monograph on the Highland Park Residence by Afterstudio Architects

September 8, 2025 by Mike Welton

In a Tony Dallas Neighborhood, Afterstudio Architecture Creates a Home and Studio

September 5, 2025 by Mike Welton

‘Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration’ at the Sarasota Art Museum in Florida

September 2, 2025 by Mike Welton

At the Sarasota Art Museum in Florida, ‘Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration’

August 29, 2025 by Mike Welton

Rammed Earth for the 21st Century Featured in Big Sky Journal’s HOME Edition

August 25, 2025 by Mike Welton

From Period Homes Magazine, a Secluded Residential Compound in Buckhead

August 22, 2025 by Mike Welton

On the North Carolina Coast, the Curious Facts Concerning Cottage Time

August 18, 2025 by Mike Welton

A Team of Designers Leaves No Trace behind in a Duxbury Bay Compound

August 15, 2025 by Mike Welton

A Down-at-the-Heels Midcentury Modern Gets a 21st-Century Reprieve

August 11, 2025 by Mike Welton

Atlanta’s Point Office Respects the Coastal Vernacular of Figure Eight Island Architecture

August 8, 2025 by Mike Welton

At New Ravenna, Glass and Stone Mosaics Inspired by the Seaside

August 4, 2025 by Mike Welton

At the Paul Rudolph Institute in New York, The Susan Grant Lewin Collection

August 1, 2025 by Mike Welton

In Malibu, a Modern-Day Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of a 2018 Fire

July 28, 2025 by Mike Welton

NCModernist Names Six Winners in Matsumoto Prize Competition

July 24, 2025 by Mike Welton

Klopf Architecture Remodels a Mid-Century Modern in Orinda

July 21, 2025 by Mike Welton