The Architects’ Alphabet is a 26-part series describing design elements featured in Gregory J. Scott’s upcoming book, “Urban Legend, The Life & Legacy of C. Emlen Urban,” Lancaster’s most renowned ...

Lancaster architect C. Emlen Urban was a big fan of neoclassical design. He was also fond of putting three varieties of column — the Ionic, Doric and Corinthian — on the buildings he designed. Here ...

My previous piece for The American Conservative concerned the mayhem postwar “urban renewal” wrought in Washington, D.C.’s southwest quadrant. A conspicuous feature of that mayhem is the Robert C.

The Civil Courts Building in downtown St. Louis is one of those buildings everyone knows—and many of us know it so well, it’s become almost invisible. Yet there it looms, right at the intersection of ...