The imposing Second Empire is a mainstay in spooky movies and television shows. Have you checked out Creel House in “Stranger Things?” The steep slopes of its mansard roof and other common ...

Perhaps the older home didn’t make a grand enough statement or the pair was ready for a change, as by 1872 they had begun construction on a new house in the popular and ornamental Second Empire style.

While it looks like many of the neighboring Victorian-era homes on the outside, on the inside, owner Dick Stockmann says, “We ...

Eight years ago, my partner and I spotted a man sitting on the porch of a once-grand Second Empire in Frankfort. We’d recently purchased a house nearby, and were milling around after watching the ...

Stairs on the right side of this towering Second Empire home (with its own tower ... Using the stairwell in the front of the house leads to a serpentine hallway that runs the length of the ...

During the French Second Empire of Napoleon III, Paris was renewed on a grand scale, its rise to the top of the world of art and fashion expressed through the construction of wide boulevards and ...