Established in 1810, this bed and breakfast is steeped in Civil War history. When it housed Confederate soldiers during a three-day battle, one accidentally shot Mary Virginia “Jennie” Wade, a 20-year ...

Even before she commissioned a modernist marvel that made architectural history, Dr. Edith Farnsworth was a woman ahead of her time. Born in 1903 in Chicago, she studied at the University of Chicago ...

Whenever the Edith Farnsworth House is discussed, written about or photographed, the home — a white single-story modernist steel-and-glass pavilion — commands the spotlight. But the residence is only ...