CHICO — When walking into the foyer of Bidwell Mansion, the eye is immediately drawn to a life-size portrait of John Bidwell, founder of Chico. According to park aide Sondra Murphy, the portrait is as ...

Greystone Mansion estate in Beverly Hills. The mysterious old house on the hill just opened its doors. Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, famous as the setting of the opening of Raymond Chandler’s ...

The front door that an official described as 60 feet tall and weighing two tons -- and thus possibly necessitating the removal of an oak tree at an Old Metairie house construction site -- is actually ...

When Joseph Bettendorf’s grand mansion caught fire in 1949, the townspeople — many of whom worked in the family’s factory — were so proud of that home and the Bettendorf family that they rushed up the ...