The Lorton Reformatory prison complex, originally commissioned by Theodore Roosevelt, was built in 1910 and shuttered in 2001. In 2002, Fairfax County bought the 2,324-acre campus for $4.2 million.

We really felt that we were liberating these buildings from its dark past, and for that reason we thought Liberty was a good ...

Pontiac, Illinois beckons from just 100 miles southwest of Chicago, a community where retirement dollars stretch like warm taffy and historic buildings stand as monuments to simpler times.

Imagine that your glass walls could transform at the touch of a button, shifting from clear to opaque in seconds, offering ...