News + Notes
Hunting the Wild Linthicum
For the purple castle project, I have been trying to establish who first lived in the house. The slightly loony man who brokered the sale of the house (let's call him Mr. Gravy) swore that the house had originally belonged to an architect and his wife. ...
Fieldwork in South Carolina
This past weekend I set off for a lovely weekend in South Carolina, brought on by an assignment: documenting a c.1905 parsonage in Georgetown, about an hour north of Charleston. Given my husband's and my love of Charleston, we decided to make a weekend of it and stay...
Archiving All of This?
An interesting question flew across my radar today, nearly lost in the haze of all-that-must-be-done: how on earth is all that we're creating now being archived? As someone involved on a daily basis with history and the historic in a very tangible way,...
Purple Castle Update!
Someone has requested more information on the purple castle, and I am happy to oblige as I just got some addition photographs of the lovely wreck. From some early research, it looks like it may well have been built by the architects Linthicum and Linthicum in about...