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 ...

Whether it's the ornate details or the mysterious dormer windows, Second Empire homes are stunning structures that have been slapped with the haunted house stereotype. But you can turn the outside ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...