Still, I enjoyed my private tour of the house preserved as modestly as when Armstrong and his fourth wife, Lucille, lived there.
Other notable architectural features include Moyses Hall (a Norman house preserved as a museum) and several fine Georgian buildings, including the Town Hall (c. 1780) by Robert Adam.
Back in Syria, Mr. Jello's eldest daughter, Aziza, dries Aleppo peppers on the sun-washed roof of her house, preserves them and sends them to Paterson.
But I had seen a Chinese house preserved with authenticity, an American house restored with artifice and dozens of other significant buildings, crowded together in a vibrant downtown.
At the center of this 18th-century plantation sits a remarkable Georgian-Palladian house, preserved in a state of grand dilapidation.
In our house, preserved in a china cabinet, on frayed purple braid, were the medals of an uncle who had been a soldier of the Irish Free State and had met with a violent death, aged twenty-eight.
Nearby is "Federal Hill" (1795), a Georgian house preserved as a shrine within a state park, where Stephen Foster is said to have composed the song "My Old Kentucky Home," now the Kentucky state song.
He seeks refuge with a reclusive uncle in a mysterious old house in Spitalfields – based on 18 Folgate Street, the house preserved by Dennis Severs as an 18th-century time capsule.
For decades, Stewart Manville, curator of Grainger House, the house preserved in White Plains in which Grainger lived for 40 years, has been working to assure the composer's place in the musical archives.
