Hello everyone! I know it's been. . . awhile, but I'm here to tell you I've started a new blog! It's called Doses of Hi...

The Oscar G. Mayer Sr. Mansion, Evanston, Illinois  In December of last year, the historic, though crumbling, Oscar Mayer mansion a...

'Bellefontaine.'  The Giraud Foster estate ~ Bellefontaine. Mr. Foster was well known for his charitable contributions and phila...

'Villa Philbrook' The Phillips family was, perhaps, considered one of Tulsa's first families. Waite Phillip s, the Pa...

'Moorland Lodge', 2013. "A rare pastoral estate..." It was in 1920, that Chicago department store he...

640 Fifth Avenue.  A great many people had gathered that day in 1945 in front of the dingy, brownstone mansion that stood at 640 Fi...

It was November 23, 1984, the day after Thanksgiving, when Palm Beach and New York socialite and philanthropist Mollie Wilmot was woken up i...