Jane wrote a letter to her sister Cassandra saying that she wanted to join her on her trip to Bath, but didn’t want to inconvenience their hosts, so she would fill up on bath buns for breakfast.

Most Germanic houses built in Southeastern Pennsylvania in the 18th and 19th centuries had bake ovens; it was almost a requisite for Pennsylvnia Dutch dwellings. When kitchen stoves replaced ...

To complement the restored Germanic bake oven and cooking hearth of the kitchen, ... In the early 18th century, the garden site was usually fenced with four foot high boards, ...

Known as a beehive, baking ovens like this were common in 18th century households. A woodburning fire heats the inside of this replica of an 18th-century-style clay oven that Justin Cherry uses to ...

A few rooms of the Goundie House in downtown Bethlehem have been nearly gutted in search of their original construction and more precise evidence of family life in the early 19th century community.… ...

Mount Vernon, the estate of George and Martha Washington, was originally rescued for restoration in 1858, and has recently begun a new project to reinforce its foundation ...