Homes

Year in and year out, nothing says New England like a Cape Cod house.

A charming collection of New England summer cottages from the pages of Yankee.

Early Colonial homes may have been designed simple and solid to withstand harsh New England winters, but our fondness for the classic Cape Cod house style remains remarkably strong.

In New England’s coastal towns and cities, gracious sea captains’ homes were built as showcases of success, but as This Old House veteran Bruce Irving discovered, the full story is a little more complicated.

The Federal house is sophisticated and stately.

The Georgian house is a love letter to symmetry and order.

How Designer Lisa Ehrlich transformed a 1980s Vermont saltbox into a modern, relaxing mountain escape.

A Connecticut couple has an unbeatable historic real estate deal for DIY types: one 18th-century gem, you supply the setting.

From Colonial, Georgian, and Federal to Greek Revival and Victorian, here’s a guide to New England architecture for the roadside historian.

In creating a home “you don’t want to leave,” Sandra Morgan Downie has drawn thousands of followers to her online doorstep.

If you dream of welcoming guests to your own White Mountain retreat, here it is.

A Martha’s Vineyard stunner that Frank Lloyd Wright would have loved.