A tattered 1957 storybook ranch home seemed a clear candidate for a tear-down, but this revived home now lives to tell another tale. The previous owner “kind of gave up on it,” said Rania Alomar of Ra ...

Yet stubbornly wedged within all that modernity is a gathering of low-slung abodes fit for the Shire: the Lawrence and Martha Joseph Residence and Apartments, aka the Hobbit Houses. With their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A “Storybook house” on South Yale Street in Spring Garden Township, once a Hollywood dream, devolved into a nightmare as its ...

“Scarcer than hen’s teeth” is how we can describe the Storybook style in Lancaster County. Mainers would say the style is “from away” — far away, like California, where the style originated in the ...

Storybook-style homes are hard to find. There are probably fewer than 10,000 in the U.S., estimates architect Arrol Gellner, who with Douglas Keister wrote the 2001 book, “Storybook Style: America’s ...

With crooked timbers, cockeyed chimneys and details that range from medieval to mirthful, Storybook Style houses seem less like actual homes than Hollywood sets. As it turns out, that’s where their ...

A “Storybook house” on South Yale Street in Spring Garden Township, once a Hollywood dream, devolved into a nightmare as its whimsical wood shingle roof that had endured for almost a century was ...