In the eighteenth century, if people in British North America had to travel, they stayed at public houses that were often just repurposed private homes.

How Better Homes in America—a collaboration between Herbert Hoover and the editor of a conservative women’s magazine—promoted idealized whiteness.

Chicago's "Eleanor Clubs" were designed to give young, working women affordable and congenial places to live.

Orson S. Fowler thought houses without right angles would offer a better life, but his own architectural experiments did not end well.

Butter sculpture is a fixture of American state fairs. The practice of using food as a medium for art dates back centuries.

The family room was a post-WWII invention, a sign of new affluence and middle class aspirations.