Stories

Historic Habitats

By Sarah Hagerty   In Anne Arundel County, buildings steeped in history are always just around the corner… and open for our education and entertainment.   WILLIAM PACA HOUSE & GARDEN The Paca House is a don’t-miss-experience in Annapolis. It

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Design Talk | Creating Balance in a Room

By Lisa Hoekstra, Sew Beautiful | Photography by Geoffrey Hodgdon   “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – George A. Moore, Irish Poet   Creating balance in this room

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Straight Up on Dining Out | Lewnes’ Steakhouse

An (Almost) Great Steakhouse By Christine Fillat   Lewnes’ Steakhouse has a speakeasy kind of vibe. The exterior, though tidy, is unassuming, sitting on 4th Street and Severn Avenue in an Eastport neighborhood populated with lots of other eateries. You

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Robert’s Picks | Krzysztof Wodiczko

at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden     Some years ago, when I taught as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, I had the great privilege of teaching with the deeply thoughtful artist Krzysztof Wodiczko. We

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A Landscape that Glistens

By Kymberly Taylor | Photography by David Burroughs     Many forget that Georgetown, founded in 1751, was a tobacco port and mill town that predates Washington, D.C. There is an old-fashioned feeling to its quaint cobblestone streets, lined with

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A Progressive Approach to Real Estate

Richard M. Curtis, P.A.     “I tell my agents to ‘take care of your people and make them happy. If you focus on always doing the right thing, your business will grow as a result.’ ” Richard Curtis, owner

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Gray & Gorgeous

More space and more style bring this kitchen up to date By Carol Sorgen | Photography by Mike Kaskel     The current owners of this traditional Annapolis center-hall Colonial had already updated the exterior of their home to suit

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Design Talk | Dark Colors Brighten Up a Room

BY ERIN PAIGE PITTS | PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEOFFREY HODGDON   Everything in life is a balance, and that holds true with design as well. Much of my work has a beach or coastal look, defined by an abundance of white

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Esprit Design in Thomas Point

BY SARAH HAGERTY | PHOTOGRAPHY BY MAUREEN PORTO     The owners of this standout Thomas Point home are a real, live family with two active sons (one teen, one tween). So it is no surprise that the word “durable”

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Stellar Cellars

By Robert Haywood   The fruit of the vine is influenced by many variables, including weather, sunlight, water, temperature, and some would say, history itself. No one wine is the same and that is what attracts the connoisseur, the type

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