Today in history, Washington D.C. got its name. Since we have already covered George Washington in our presidents' houses series, we will...

Now that Labor Day week is ending, I am ready for fall. Today in history (1628) the Purtians settled in Salem, which I visited the year...

On this day in 1836, Sam Houston was elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas. Like almost all of the presidents of the...

Today in history over 70 years ago Queen Wilhemina passed her rule to her daughter Juliana. She was born in the 19th century at...

Today is Steve Martin's birthday. We have been referencing Father of the Bride a lot because for Libby's bachelorette trip we are staying...

Today in history in 1969 the Apollo 11 astronauts received their awards at a state dinner hosted by Nixon in L.A. Today's post will be...

Today in history Isaac Singer patented the sewing machine in 1851. He actually was not the first to patent one but the difference was...

The 10th of August in France is not unlike the 4th of July in America in its significant role in the Fremch Revolution. This is the...

Today in history, Gerald Ford took over the presidency. For the sake of this post (and generally because she now lives in my town), we...

It is August! Today in 1936, Yves Saint-Laurent was born in a villa in Algeria. We are going to look at how the famous designer grew up...

Today is J.K. Rowling's birthday and of course, her hero character, Harry Potter's. Though the Hogwarts houses are fictional, we will...

400 years ago today, we got our first legislative body- the House of Burgesses for the Virginia Colony in Jamestown. There were 22...

Today is the anniversary of the wedding of Lady Diana Spencer to Prince Charles. We are going to look at the Spencer family houses. This...

Jackie Bouvier (Kennedy Onassis) was born 90 years ago today in Southampton. We will go through the houses she lived in as well as those...

This next president is not one I know much about. He was the 13th president, Millard Fillmore, so maybe it's because it gets hard to...

We are excited to cover the President Taylor family houses today as my grandparents great-great's were part of the same Taylor family....

Our next president in the presidential houses series is James Polk. Like Lincoln, he was born in a log cabin! Like Lincoln, this was not...

President Tyler has always been one of our favorite presidents because it was passed down in the family history that my (Elinor's)...

We have had a brief break in our presidential houses series and are excited to get back to covering the family homes of the American...

Martin Van Buren is the first president we will look at who was not a British colonist. He was born in Dutch Colonial New York which was...