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There are paths to walk, bikes to ride, kayaks to paddle, and ruins to explore.

September 13, 2019 by Mike Welton

On Cumberland Island, the Greyfield Inn

And they called on Brian Smith, a Florida-based financier, to head an American foundation to do the same.

June 17, 2019 by Mike Welton

Help Restore the Oldest Church in Paris

“There are so many positions you can take,” he says. “But it pays off as a business model if my clients are part of the process.”

January 16, 2019 by Mike Welton

Richard Landry: ‘Modern to Classic II’

Saint Germain des Prés in the sixth arrondissment has not only survived, it’s endured.

October 31, 2018 by Mike Welton

Help Restore the Oldest Church in Paris

The tapestry hall is memorable for its near-palpable feeling of having been truly lived in and enjoyed, almost a century after George Vanderbilt stopped spending his leisure time here.

September 9, 2010 by Mike Welton

At Biltmore Estate, Books, Prints, Tapestries and Mountains

The collaborative efforts in the Carolina mountains by Frederick Law Olmsted, Richard Morris Hunt and George Vanderbilt left behind more than a beautiful French Renaissance home in the American style.

June 2, 2010 by Mike Welton

Near Asheville, N.C., a Triple Threat at Biltmore Estate

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.

May 28, 2010 by Mike Welton

In Rural Virginia, Jefferson’s Retreat at Poplar Forest

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

April 26, 2010 by Mike Welton

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

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

April 19, 2010 by Mike Welton

Palladio, Democracy and America at the Morgan Library

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.

April 16, 2010 by Mike Welton

Palladio Takes a Transatlantic Journey to New York City