Plus, glorious gardens—the next stop in our Historic Sites virtual tour series.
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Garden Glory: A Virtual Tour of Four National Trust Historic Sites
In our third installment of the National Trust Historic Sites virtual tour series, we visit four estates across the country that feature spectacular, serene landscapes and gardens.
In 1883, Joshua Secrest commissioned a local master builder named George Frank Longerbeam to help him build an octagonal barn on his farmstead in Downey, Iowa. Working together at Secrest’s kitchen table, they designed the roof that makes the Secrest barn so unique.
The Structural Mystery of the Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio
It’s difficult to miss a 5-foot crack in a 12-foot span of glass. And it was one of the last things that Kinney Frelinghuysen, director of Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio in Lenox, Massachusetts, wanted to see.