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 ...

A historic farmhouse in Malta Bend is hitting the market for $4.8 million, following a five-year, $7 million renovation.

The architect for the Saunders House is unknown, but it’s an exuberant example of the Second Empire style, which borrowed elements from French Renaissance and Baroque sources and takes its name ...

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 ...

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.

Mathews Mansion Museum in Norwalk added lighting, HVAC and fire suppression systems and allows it to be open year-round.

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 ...