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For the first time, the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam will replicate the cramped rooms where Frank and her family spent two years hiding to evade Nazi capture. It will [...]

Byline: Julia Burdelski Oct. 10A historic former government office building in Downtown Pittsburgh is on track to be turned into affordable housing as part of a $55 million project. The [...]

It was supposed to be a mall, then ice rinks. Nearly 30 years later, a community group may have the best shot at revitalizing a fortress in New York's poorest [...]

Byline: Kerri Sakamoto Kerri Sakamoto is a novelist whose latest book is Floating City. On Sept. 3, 1993, my mother was fussing over what to wear to a reunion with [...]

Byline: Michael DiVittorio Mar. 31Sewickley council plans to take action on a request to tear down a former Catholic school in the borough's historic district. The future of the Herbst [...]

Byline: DAVE LeBLANC TORONTO Despite the unseasonably cold weather, business is booming at the tiny Terminal Barber Shop at 594 Bay St. Wrapping scarves a little tighter around newly shaved [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Oct. 6Pittsburgh's Planning Commission on Tuesday unanimously recommended 412 Boulevard of the Allies for historic designation. Construction on the building was completed in 1927, according to the [...]

Byline: Michael DiVittorio Sep. 15Sewickley officials want a structural study done on a historic district property before possibly authorizing its demolition. Council tabled action at its Sept. 13 meeting on [...]

Byline: DAVE LeBLANC BANFF, ALTA. -- Lead I once drove five hours through pouring rain to spend two nights at the Louis Penfield House outside of Cleveland. A few years [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes In the coming days, if plans hold, the Kansas City Missouri Homesteading Authority will start seeking formal proposals from developers for a massive house on 28th Street, [...]

Byline: Alex Bozikovic, Staff Lead Alex Bozikovic is The Globe and Mail's architecture critic. He is the co-author of Toronto Architecture: A City Guide and the co-editor of the anthology [...]

Byline: Peggy McGlone WASHINGTON - When the Smithsonian introduced a futuristic plan for the 17 acres around its iconic administration building, the National Historic Landmark known as the Castle, officials [...]

Byline: WENDY STUECK, MIKE HAGER VANCOUVER -- Lead The City of Vancouver has acquired two shuttered buildings from the Sahota family, ending a lengthy fight to expropriate the 300 rental [...]

Byline: Asli Aydintasbas For Print Use Only. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople lowered his voice in exasperation. 'What can I say as a Christian clergyman and the Greek patriarch [...]

Byline: Seth Robson YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan - An 80-year-old building that once housed secret Japanese aircraft during World War II is coming down at the home of U.S. Forces [...]

Byline: FRANCES BULA, Special to The Globe and Mail VANCOUVER -- Lead Vancouver's largest non-profit housing operator is planning to tear down five of its buildings and replace them with [...]

The Secretariat, a building in Myanmar's former capital where the independence hero Aung San was assassinated in 1947, is a powerful touchstone for the country's history and identity. Next week, [...]

Byline: DeNeen L. Brown A historic mansion on farmland once owned by George Washington is set to be demolished, a loss bemoaned by some in Virginia. The Collingwood mansion, located [...]

When Georges Bizet finished composing his opera ''Carmen'' in the summer of 1874, he was full of optimism about its prospects. ''I have written a work that is all clarity [...]

Byline: Emily Balser March 22--Alle-Kiski Valley residents who grew up roller skating at the Ches-A-Rena in Cheswick will get one last chance to walk down memory lane before the building [...]

NORTH BAY, Ontario -- The tiny log house alongside the Trans-Canada Highway is easy to miss among the strip malls, fast-food outlets and car dealers. But 83 years ago, it [...]

Byline: Roxanne Roberts WASHINGTON - Where will Donald Trump spend Inauguration Eve? Will he embrace tradition and stay at Blair House? Or will he opt for something grander - say, [...]

The City of Burbank may be attempting to intentionally prevent an Orange County-based developer proposing to redevelop a Burbank landmark into a townhouse complex from accessing the streamlined approvals process [...]

High-rise towers have been changing Downtown Brooklyn's skyline, but renters in the area who are looking to live in a building with Old World charm will have their chance when [...]

Byline: Lonnie Shekhtman After years of controversy, the Austrian house where Adolf Hitler was born could be torn down, Austria's government announced Monday. If sealed in legislation and voted on [...]

Byline: Ishaan Tharoor A right-wing Austrian politician who may yet be the country's president has called for the demolition of Adolf Hitler's first home. The Nazi leader was born in [...]

Byline: Angela Waters, Special for USA TODAY Austria announced Tuesday it would take over and possibly destroy the house where Adolf Hitler was born to prevent right-wing extremists from using [...]

Alabama Birmingham: Isaiah Core, 20, a former high school standout athlete arrested two months ago on drug and gun charges, was shot to death by a Shelby County sheriff's deputy [...]

BERLIN -- The fate of Adolf Hitler's birthplace in the picturesque Austrian border town of Braunau has been fiercely debated at least since victorious American G.I.s stopped the Nazis from [...]

BERLIN -- For almost 20 years, the stern, cuboid forms of the German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Wolf House loomed over the town of Guben on the Neisse [...]

BERLIN -- For almost 20 years, the stern, cuboid forms of the German-American architect Mies van der Rohe's Wolf House loomed over the town of Guben on the Neisse River [...]

The National Academy, the nation's oldest continuously operating artists' society, which has struggled in recent years to define its mission and to balance its budget, has decided to sell two [...]

PITTSBURGH -- A plan to convert Pittsburgh's 12-story landmark Macy's department store into a one-million-square-foot mixed-used behemoth has become one of the latest votes of confidence in the decade-long resurgence [...]

Byline: Jonathan Hunley Effingham, an 18th-century manor house in Nokesville, began its life as the home of a Revolutionary War figure, but the next chapters of its history may be [...]

Byline: Linda Wheeler The Civil War Trust will open Gen. Robert E. Lee's Gettysburg headquarters on six days this year, all connected to anniversary dates or special programs. The Lee [...]

Byline: Jonathan Hunley Milk used to be the dominant beverage at Route 28 and the Prince William Parkway outside Manassas, where the old Thomasson Barn still stands. But the plan [...]

Since the Metro Theater showed its last movie in 2005, numerous deals have been announced for the Art Deco gem on the Upper West Side. It was supposed to become [...]

LONDON -- One of the most imposing heritage buildings on Whitehall, a road in the heart of Westminster, is to become a hotel and residential development. Commissioned at the end [...]

SEATTLE -- Edith Macefield's tiny house in the old waterfront neighborhood of Ballard -- likened by many people to the house in the Disney movie ''Up,'' in spirit and architecture [...]