Historic houses
Home of Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes opens to the public as house museum
The celebrated poet and activist lived in the 19th-century brownstone on East 127th Street for the last 20 years of his life
Top-shelf secrets lie behind the Victorian respectability of newly restored Sambourne House
House in London's Kensington includes hundreds of commercial artist Linley Sambourne’s illustrations and cartoons—and (not on view) his pornographic photographs
Historic English villa—built by royal mistress to escape her 'stinker' of a husband—reopens after restoration
Henrietta Howard's Marble Hill is a rare surviving example of such a home, and even rarer as one created by a woman
Eccentric Wentworth Woodhouse estate—home to centuries-old camellias—gets set to bloom again in Yorkshire
The rambling 365-room mansion is being rescued from near collapse, starting with its tea house
Robert E. Lee’s former Virginia mansion reopens to the public with an enlightening focus on the enslaved
Arlington House, where wealthy white privilege contrasts with bondage and suffering, has undergone a $12.3m rehabilitation and reinterpretation
At home with the Surrealists: Leonora Carrington's Mexico City house and studio to open to the public
University-led project prepares artist's home of 65 years and its 8,000 objects for guided tours starting later this year
Once greeted as a sensation, 1931 aluminum-clad house gets a boost for relocation at the Palm Springs Art Museum in California
$100,000 grant will advance an effort to reassemble and display Albert Frey and A. Lawrence Kocher’s Modernist Aluminaire House
National Trust wrongly accused of asset-stripping while government fails to keep its word
The Trust is negotiating endowments with the Treasury for five major country houses in its care
Books: Portraits of a diverse selection of Scottish country houses
Perthshire’s answer to the Ritz revealed
Fate of historic Scottish houses under severe threat
Concerns over collections as National Trust for Scotland closes three properties
National Trust needs £2m for Kenyan poet’s house
Otherwise the Wandworth house's unique fretwork decoration could be lost
How the Verneys, whose seat, Claydon, is a National Trust treasure, fared in the turbulent 17th century
A true story of love, war and madness
Late Kenyan poet’s extraordinary house offered to National Trust
1815 Wandsworth villa with unique wooden fretwork interior
A clutch of books, generated by a V&A exhibition, on the use and function of fine and decorative art in the home
Investigations of domestic doings down the ages
National Trust's total cost of saving Tyntesfield may be £50 million
The Trust is applying for a further £20 million grant to set up an endowment
Serious threats to England’s historic environment, says official report
English Heritage’s first “State of the Nation” report appeals for tax changes to help save country houses
National Trust acquires £5.7 million worth of art for Nostell Priory
Objects sold by former owner
National Trust buys William Morris’s house
Red House, Bexleyheath, to be preserved for the nation
William Morris’s house for the National Trust?
National Trust considers acquiring the Red House, Bexleyheath
Acceptance in lieu deal worth £9.3 million agreed for historic house furniture
Houghton Hall’s William Kent furniture to remain in house but to belong to Victoria & Albert Museum
Fiona Reynolds is the new director general of Britain’s leading heritage charity
'I love the passion here'
Charting Vanbrugh's contribution to the development of the 18th-century garden.
Christopher Ridgway and Robert Williams (eds), Sir John Vanburgh and landscape architecture: art and design in baroque England, 1690-1730
UK's National Trust to catalogue its books collection with US funding
Around 500,000 volumes are scattered across 150 historic houses
Sutton Place, the Surrey estate owned by a succession of America art collectors, has appeared on the market
£25 million is asked for the Tudor manor once called home by John Paul Getty
The rebirth of Florence's Villa Stibbert
Director Cristina Aschengreen-Piacenti has pioneered the project, refusing to allow the residence of a great Anglo-Florentine collector to fade from memory
Mementoes of former glory in Ickworth sale
Sotheby’s were successful; the National Trust furious
The National Trust was not given the option to buy objects from Ickworth House by the Marquess of Bristol
Controversial stately sell-off
The National Trust, the greatest “museum” in the UK celebrates its centenary with an exhibition of paintings from country houses at the National Gallery
A gentle heritage
Ha-Ha: the National Trust goes contemporary with outdoor art
England's stately homes embrace Davey and Goldsworthy