Historic Buildings and Sites

August 8, 2024

The Old Clock Shop on an Idyllic Japanese Island

Time flows slowly on the island of Osaki-Shimojima, part of an archipelago off the southern coast of Japan’s main island, Honshu. Elderly fishermen pass the days […]
January 18, 2024

The TikTok ‘Tunnel Girl’ Is Not Alone

Hobby tunneling is a rare, but not unheard-of, pastime that has produced frustrated neighbors, media frenzies and at least one state landmark. A Virginia woman who […]
January 18, 2024

A Watch Collaboration Includes a London Landmark

A special-edition Bovet timepiece celebrates the history and future of the Old War Office building, which now contains residences, a hotel and more. There is a […]
August 22, 2023

Can TikTok Revive the Dead?

#Gravetok influencers post videos of themselves visiting burial sites, cleaning headstones and following recipes inscribed on them. When Rosie Grant made ice cream to share with […]
August 3, 2023

Secret No More: Louis Armstrong Center Amplifies Satchmo’s Vision

New jazz and exhibition spaces, and an inaugural show curated by Jason Moran, feature the trumpeter’s ‘wonderful world’ in full, collaged onto the walls. You can […]
June 1, 2023

‘Transformers’ Statues Cause a Big Fight in Georgetown

A professor decorated a sidewalk in Georgetown with 10-foot sculptures of Bumblebee and Optimus Prime. The well-heeled locals were not pleased. The thing about putting a […]
April 20, 2023

The New Tiffany, Unboxed

For nearly four years, the Tiffany & Company flagship store on the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 57th Street was shrouded in scaffolding while it […]
April 20, 2023

The New Tiffany, Unboxed

For nearly four years, the Tiffany & Company flagship store on the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 57th Street was shrouded in scaffolding while it […]
March 8, 2023

The Tale of a Clock and the Family That Cares for It

SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, Mexico — Every Monday morning Daniel Vázquez unlocks the door to the clock tower on the central square of this postcard-perfect city […]
December 9, 2022

Looking for a House in This Tight Market? Consider an Octagon.

Tony Cenicola/The New York Times In the mid-19th century, a quirky architectural fad swept the country: the octagonal house. Homes shaped like octagons were said to […]