click image for close-up Although he was known primarily as a portraitist, Charles Willson Peale's The Accident on Lombard Street provides an example of how Peale used his work to make statements ...

The Deere-Wiman House, a historic landmark in Moline, reached a significant milestone with the successful completion of its ...

Anyone who has ever scene a movie or TV show set in San Francisco has probably caught a glimpse of Lombard street. A particular one block section of the street that goes down a very steep hill is ...

A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical (1839), combines the practical knowledge of an engraver with the critical inquiry of an historian. Compiled and edited by William Andrew Chatto, ...

The Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum was one of the first buildings erected under the terms of the Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867. Messrs. Harston, who came third in the competition for this building in ...

Lombard trustees have approved revised plans from a developer for a neighborhood with high-end custom homes. Afsar Developers ...

"The Little Street of Clubs," as the historic Midtown Village thoroughfare is known, had been paved over with asphalt in 2015 ...

Wood engraving, or "Xylography," as it is technically termed, reached its various stages of perfection in Europe through the instrumentality of a few celebrated painters, who, it may be said ...

In San Francisco’s quaint, upscale community of Russian Hill, home to the famously crooked Lombard Street, a 4-bedroom home is now up for grabs. And it comes with some of the best views money ...

Joseph Wood, of Lombard, formerly longtime of Berkeley, age 91. Beloved husband of the late LaVerne Wood and the late Brigitta Sonnekalb-Wood. M.D.; loving father of Joseph (Linda), Nancy (Thomas ...

This hospital was built by the Poor Law Union in 1879-81 in northern Kensington as no land was available in St Marylebone. Known as St Marylebone Infirmary until 1922, it was renamed St Charles' ...

Located towards the middle of the brick-paved, winding stretch of Lombard Street, 2-4 Montclair Terrace ... kitchen,” primary suite soaker tub and wood-paneled pent-floor with views of Alcatraz ...