African American history is in the spotlight across Los Angeles, with six buildings having received historic-cultural monument status as part of a project led by the Getty Museum and the city.

Some property owners choose to have the Waukegan Historical Society place a historic marker on their homes because of the prominence of a former owner, while others feel the business within earned a ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Six locations that represent Los Angeles' Black history received landmark status in August, the city announced. Among the newly-designated landmarks are the home of L.A.'s first ...

Back in the 1930s, an untrained architect in Phoenix, Ariz., built a ramshackle structure resembling a sandcastle from found materials. The Mystery Castle, which became a funky roadside attraction, ...

Over-the-Rhine's Urban Sites will transform the 10-story Atlas National Bank Building, a Renaissance Revival structure from the 1920s, into 66 units of mixed-income housing. The $20.8 million project ...

Nine Oregon restoration projects have been selected to receive Restore Oregon’s prestigious DeMuro Awards for extraordinary craftsmanship and excellence in historic preservation. The winning projects ...

Seven-year-old twin sisters Finley and Ollis Thimmesch-Gill posed in front of a historic building at Itasca State Park for a photo — holding their noses. “They thought it was stinky and also weird ...

There's an 85% chance that a damaging earthquake could hit Seattle in the next 50 years. Old brick buildings are most at risk, but retrofitting them could mean a loss of affordable housing. Up and ...