Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: David Clapp/Getty Images Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary ...

Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Robert Bork, a professor of art history at the University of Iowa and a specialist in the study of Gothic architecture, was working in his office when a student knocked on ...

Want to take a vacation in your hometown, or learn fun facts to impress guests? Join the Lackawanna Historical Society for ...

In 1945, with enrollment up almost 50 percent since the pre-war era, the Class of 1915 committed to building a new dormitory. Because materials and labor were in short supply, costs ballooned. The ...

What began as an appreciation of Gothic stained glass, and its various arches and geometric patterns soon became a deep dive into architecture as a function and reflection of thought and philosophy.

Gothic Revival came into popularity at a time when Greek Revival was waning, emphasizing organic, irregular shapes where the latter stressed symmetry and confinement. There are over 2,400 listings ...

Today’s Wall Street Journal offers a mixed review of Princeton University’s new Collegiate Gothic residential complex, Whitman College. The piece, by the architecture critic Catesby Leigh, praises the ...

A couple of weeks ago I made an unplanned visit to a college that it’s probably best to leave unnamed. It’s an institution whose campus I hadn’t seen in 20 years or so, and time didn’t seem to have ...

It’s that time of year when Halloween thrusts Gothic motifs into the spotlight: Think Dracula’s castle, haunted Victorians and frightening figures from dragons to gargoyles. But Gothic architecture ...

Sometimes, they’re frighteningly ugly, the things nightmares are made from. Sometimes, they’re angelic or they pay homage to others. And sometimes, “grotesque” can be the most appropriate word for ...