B Haley
@ghastlyfop.bsky.social
architectural historian, preservation planner, university lecturer
Mount Holyoke College continues its destructive renovations. This house had really nice original clapboards in great condition. All in the dumpster now. It’s so frustrating to watch.
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Mount Holyoke College continues its destructive renovations. This house had really nice original clapboards in great condition. All in the dumpster now. It’s so frustrating to watch.
He chastised a synagogue for promoting violations of international law. Fixed the headline for ya.
Zohran Mamdani chastised a Manhattan synagogue that hosted an event promoting migration to Israel and settlements in occupied territories. His stance further tested his strained relationship with pro-Israel Jews in New York.
Mamdani Response to Protest Inflames Tensions with Jewish Leaders
The mayor-elect chastised a synagogue that hosted an event promoting migration to Israel and settlements in occupied territories. His stance further tested his strained relationship with pro-Israel Jews.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
He chastised a synagogue for promoting violations of international law. Fixed the headline for ya.
Anyone looking for a rehab/restoration project should check out this gem in South Windsor, CT, supposedly partly First Period www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Anyone looking for a rehab/restoration project should check out this gem in South Windsor, CT, supposedly partly First Period www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
Great to see that Marcel Breuer’s summer house in Wellfleet is fixed up and ready to rent though the Cape Cod Modern House Trust. www.boston.com/real-estate/...
Marcel Breuer’s modernist Wellfleet summer cottage was brought back to life and opened to the public
The Cape Cod Modern House Trust purchased the architect’s decaying 1949 house and restored it to its former glory.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Great to see that Marcel Breuer’s summer house in Wellfleet is fixed up and ready to rent though the Cape Cod Modern House Trust. www.boston.com/real-estate/...
Shaker furniture is aesthetically pleasing in its simplicity. Now imagine having a house with Shaker built-ins! www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Shaker furniture is aesthetically pleasing in its simplicity. Now imagine having a house with Shaker built-ins! www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
What Mount Holyoke College has started doing to its old buildings is depressing. They’ve begun heavy-handed renovations, chucking out perfectly good old materials. A college with so many old buildings should have someone knowledgeable about preservation on staff. Clearly they don’t.
November 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
What Mount Holyoke College has started doing to its old buildings is depressing. They’ve begun heavy-handed renovations, chucking out perfectly good old materials. A college with so many old buildings should have someone knowledgeable about preservation on staff. Clearly they don’t.
Wow. Weird. Who could have guessed.
The commerce secretary Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family’s companies are profiting from them.
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Wow. Weird. Who could have guessed.
Interesting to contrast the response to Trump’s Khashoggi remark versus what happened to all the people who “dared” to write or say anything critical of Kirk after his murder.
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Interesting to contrast the response to Trump’s Khashoggi remark versus what happened to all the people who “dared” to write or say anything critical of Kirk after his murder.
Maybe my favorite Sargent work after El Jaleo sold the other day for $11m. press.christies.com/christies-pr...
Christie's Presents Three Masterpieces by John Singer Sargent From the Collection of Carol and Terry Wall - Christie's
NEW YORK – Christie’s New York is delighted to announce In Pursuit of Light: The Collection of Carol and Terry Wall, featuring an exceptional trio of paintings by John Singer Sargent that will highlig...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Maybe my favorite Sargent work after El Jaleo sold the other day for $11m. press.christies.com/christies-pr...
250 years ago today, Henry Knox began the diary he’d keep for much of the Ticonderoga expedition. It begins with:
Worcester Nov 20 1775
paid Miller
of worcester to leave
with his wife two
seven dollar one six
dollar Continential Bills
The diary is held by @mhs1791.bsky.social
#rev250 #ma250
Worcester Nov 20 1775
paid Miller
of worcester to leave
with his wife two
seven dollar one six
dollar Continential Bills
The diary is held by @mhs1791.bsky.social
#rev250 #ma250
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
250 years ago today, Henry Knox began the diary he’d keep for much of the Ticonderoga expedition. It begins with:
Worcester Nov 20 1775
paid Miller
of worcester to leave
with his wife two
seven dollar one six
dollar Continential Bills
The diary is held by @mhs1791.bsky.social
#rev250 #ma250
Worcester Nov 20 1775
paid Miller
of worcester to leave
with his wife two
seven dollar one six
dollar Continential Bills
The diary is held by @mhs1791.bsky.social
#rev250 #ma250
Dunno, but the fact that Democrats are so bad at what they do that Trump got a second term puts a lot of this on them.
How are rural residents supposed to shop around for emergency care? What do they do when there's only one hospital for miles?
Especially when GOP Medicaid cuts are CLOSING those hospitals!
Especially when GOP Medicaid cuts are CLOSING those hospitals!
Cassidy: "If she goes and gets 2 types of shampoo & one is a dollar cheaper, she'll get the cheaper one & the other lowers their price. Once you give her the power of making the decision, she's gonna shop -- that begins to save her money and squeezes waste out of the healthcare system."
November 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Dunno, but the fact that Democrats are so bad at what they do that Trump got a second term puts a lot of this on them.
The issue of the loss of this particular house beyond architecture (if it really was partly First Period, it was one of only a few hundred left) and the James Otis connection is the 2 enslaved people who lived here and who sued for their freedom in the 1770s and won andovermanews.com/historic-169...
Historic 1699 Osgood House Torn Down After Years of Neglect, Hoarding | Andover News
The 1699 Osgood home — where Revolutionary firebrand James Otis Jr. was killed by lightning — was demolished Monday after decades of neglect and hoarding left it beyond repair.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The issue of the loss of this particular house beyond architecture (if it really was partly First Period, it was one of only a few hundred left) and the James Otis connection is the 2 enslaved people who lived here and who sued for their freedom in the 1770s and won andovermanews.com/historic-169...
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Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.
There’s so much nonsense out there about “ancient stone astronomical alignments” and “ceremonial stone landscapes” in the NE US. Like this talk, it’s all nonsense but is a growing movement. Glad I’m not going into archaeology now, nor can I imagine what the field will be like in 20 years.
November 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
There’s so much nonsense out there about “ancient stone astronomical alignments” and “ceremonial stone landscapes” in the NE US. Like this talk, it’s all nonsense but is a growing movement. Glad I’m not going into archaeology now, nor can I imagine what the field will be like in 20 years.
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17 NOVEMBER 1775, PHILADELPHIA: The Continental Congress unanimously votes to appoint Henry Knox colonel of the Continental Army’s artillery regiment; the United States Army Field Artillery Branch marks the event as its birthday.
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
17 NOVEMBER 1775, PHILADELPHIA: The Continental Congress unanimously votes to appoint Henry Knox colonel of the Continental Army’s artillery regiment; the United States Army Field Artillery Branch marks the event as its birthday.
An affirmative maintenance/demo by neglect bylaw perhaps could have saved this house, but very few communities have them. andovermanews.com/historic-169...
Historic 1699 Osgood House Torn Down After Years of Neglect, Hoarding | Andover News
The 1699 Osgood home — where Revolutionary firebrand James Otis Jr. was killed by lightning — was demolished Monday after decades of neglect and hoarding left it beyond repair.
andovermanews.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
An affirmative maintenance/demo by neglect bylaw perhaps could have saved this house, but very few communities have them. andovermanews.com/historic-169...
Yesterday marked the 250th anniversary of the start of the Ticonderoga Expedition in which 25-year-old Henry Knox led the effort to haul 60 tons of artillery on sleds from Fort Ticonderoga south to Albany and east across Massachusetts to the Continental Army camps in Cambridge.
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Yesterday marked the 250th anniversary of the start of the Ticonderoga Expedition in which 25-year-old Henry Knox led the effort to haul 60 tons of artillery on sleds from Fort Ticonderoga south to Albany and east across Massachusetts to the Continental Army camps in Cambridge.
The Western Railroad btw Springfield and Worcester was surveyed and built FROM SCRATCH in under 3 years in the 1830s. Just making the existing rail line from Springfield to Albany faster (the “full build,” presuming Boston to Springfield will be done ~2030) will take until 2045.
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The Western Railroad btw Springfield and Worcester was surveyed and built FROM SCRATCH in under 3 years in the 1830s. Just making the existing rail line from Springfield to Albany faster (the “full build,” presuming Boston to Springfield will be done ~2030) will take until 2045.
While some “brown furniture” seems to be coming back (hello, Regency!), a lot of prices are still so low that I managed to acquire a piece that seems to be by Duncan Phyfe for next to nothing. May have been a companion to this one at Boscobel, which is identical. www.boscobel.org/the-collecti...
Dressing table - Boscobel
Duncan Phyfe New York Dressing table with mirror, c. 1825 Mahogany, mahogany veneer, brass, looking-glass plate Gift of funds from Barnabas McHenry in honor of Jennifer Carlquist; and others, by excha...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
While some “brown furniture” seems to be coming back (hello, Regency!), a lot of prices are still so low that I managed to acquire a piece that seems to be by Duncan Phyfe for next to nothing. May have been a companion to this one at Boscobel, which is identical. www.boscobel.org/the-collecti...
VERY well-paying historic property survey job with the City of Northampton for a very cool place, a former Methodist camp meeting. #historicpreservation www.northamptonma.gov/bids.aspx?bi...
Bids • Laurel Park Historic Documentation
Bid Publication Date/Time: 11/14/2025 12:00 AM; Closing Date/Time: 12/19/2025 11:59 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
VERY well-paying historic property survey job with the City of Northampton for a very cool place, a former Methodist camp meeting. #historicpreservation www.northamptonma.gov/bids.aspx?bi...
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For years, visitors to the Gropius House had to contend with an outdoor porta loo. A new architecture competition is betting the design community is flush with solutions https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/walter-gropius-house-toilet-competition
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
For years, visitors to the Gropius House had to contend with an outdoor porta loo. A new architecture competition is betting the design community is flush with solutions https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/walter-gropius-house-toilet-competition
Imagine owning this fabulous ca. 1790 house in Virginia and putting in those vinyl replacement windows 🙃
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Imagine owning this fabulous ca. 1790 house in Virginia and putting in those vinyl replacement windows 🙃
How can there be a person named Salem Derby. That there’s a horse race.
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
How can there be a person named Salem Derby. That there’s a horse race.
remarkable that the issue of selling an unused parking lot to develop housing was as contentious as it was www.nepm.org/regional-new...
Greenfield voters agree to sell downtown parking lot for housing
After a contentious campaign, a ballot question, which would have overturned the city council's decision to develop the land, failed.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
remarkable that the issue of selling an unused parking lot to develop housing was as contentious as it was www.nepm.org/regional-new...
The rise of Regency and Regency-style furniture continues apace
November 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The rise of Regency and Regency-style furniture continues apace