Designed by Frank H. Paradice and built in 1916, this two-story building originally housed the First National Bank. With classical details like Corinthian pilasters and a Doric cornice, the Valentine Building features some of the best...more

Albert Frey was one of a select group of “Desert Modernists” working in the Palm Springs area in the postwar period. In her book Frey, Gloria Koenig notes that Frey’s work with Le Corbusier influenced his design choices, which went beyond the more well-known suburban...more

Traveler’s Rest is an early tavern and travelers’ inn built in the Tugaloo River region (northeast Georgia at the South Carolina border) along the Great Wagon Road or Unicoi Turnpike, a busy nineteenth-century highway over the Appalachian Mountains. During the American Revolution,...more

Conceived in the second half of the Great Depression, Sun Valley Resort was America’s first destination European-style ski resort. Similar to health spa ski resorts in Switzerland and Austria, Sun Valley offered amenities like mineral spring water, fresh air, nature, recreational sports, and most of all, abundant sunshine. Sun Valley’s target... more