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Ar. Rahul Mehrotra restores an old colonial home in Ahmedabad to adapt it to a museum to celebrate the renowned industrialist, Kasturbhai Lalbhai's legacy.

This Christmas if you are looking for a home tour which is rich in history and filled with stone houses and colonial architecture, why not give the Oley Valley 2011 Holiday House Tour in Oley Pennsylvania a try. It will be held on December 3, Saturday from 10-5. If you check the journal of Heinrich Gudehus that we have online, you will find that Oley was one of the first towns Gudehus came to from Germany prior to becoming a schoolteacher at Moselem Springs.

In our East Berlin article of Colonial Days, we show a picture of a man using a shaving horse to trim cedar shakes. We also show the use of a shaving horse in our cooper article. Jack the Cooper came up with his own plans to build the shaving horse he uses. There are two traditional styles of shaving horses, the English bodgeris bench and the Continental schnitzelbank or dumbhead. There is pictorial evidence of the dumbhead being used in the 15th and 16th centuries, although the English style does not show up until the late 19th century.

New article with photos & descriptions from the 'White Pine Series,' beginning with Massachusetts

In our previous Foursquare Garden article we posted in Signs of the Times, we discussed the length of the garden the Pennsylvania Germans designed as being sixty-six feet long. This was because the length of an eighteenth century fence panel or rail was eleven feet. There is also an important invention designed in England that helped to shape the layout of our nation. The Gunter's chain played a primary role in mapping out America in for three hundred years beginning in the 1600's.

Neri & Hu adopts the traditional Chinese courtyard house or siheyuan typology to refurbish an old house that was in the style of the British colonial bungalow with hybrid elements of traditional Malay houses.

Designed by Aann Space WelcomHeritage Elysium Resort & Spa isa manifestation of modern design principles that fuses with luxury while embracing the natural terrain of the hillside!

Added a new Feature article, just in time for Xmas; also new Auction Results & Journal updates!