Perhaps there’s an offbeat detail in your home akin to David Fox and Patricia Tjaden’s vintage basement murals. If so and you’re in need of old property records, consider compiling a house history.

While the pressure is on to tour the space in short time-slots, take the time to stop and listen. This is your time to envision living here. By taking in the silence, you are sure to hear if the house ...

When Arthur Conan Doyle was told in 1893 that his consumptive wife had only months to live, he absorbed the diagnosis — then went home and built her a house. Undershaw, an imposing red-brick edifice ...

ROCKINGHAM — Susan Buck is a sleuth. She can take a tiny chip of old paint (actually layers and layers of old paint) and tell you amazing things. Buck, who has a Ph.D. in historic paint analysis from ...