Greenwich, CT

Another year draws to a close. The days are shorter, the nights seem darker. But look, listen…each old house glows with the light of all its stories. It’s up to us to keep those lights shining.Scrolling back through this year’s CIRCA Old Houses Magazine, here are some favorite lessons:Old houses are a relationship, not a one-time project. The best preservation work grows over years, not months....

Portland, ME

Charleston, SC

Nyack, NY

NH & VT

Macon, GA

Detroit, MI

Old houses can be a lot. They creak, they sigh, they shed paint chips like confetti, and they tend to surprise us in all the wrong ways (usually involving water). And yet, we see that abandoned 150-year-old Italianate with the collapsing plaster and ca-1974 kitchen, and instead of running away, a voice inside our head whispers, this house needs me. That whisper is how many of us start our journey...

Washington, DC Metro

Lynchburg, VA

Dedham, MA