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Room to grow

Before it opened in 2017, Common House—the co-working, networking, meeting, dining, and events club on Market...

Knock, knock

The door photography craze can be traced to 1970, when a New York ad exec created a colorful collage of 36 arched...

Landmark maker

Stanhope Spencer Johnson doesn’t pop to the top of the list for most architectural historians, but the...

Sense and the city

The concept of urban placemaking surfaced in the 1960s, when writer and activist Jane Jacobs successfully led the...

Natural high

The couple was living in Boston when they started looking for an architect to build their house on a mountaintop in...

All about that bass

Sometimes, when you hear the name of a well-known local chef, you think of him only for his culinary exploits. You...

Spirited debate

Whiskey goes way back in Virginia. In 1620, English settler George Thorpe made the first batch of spirits in...

Moore, please

Just off of Route 29, about 25 miles north of Charlottesville, a two-lane road gently rises and falls with the...

Taco love

Living in Gordonsville while working in Charlottesville, as my girlfriend and I did for many months, had a certain...

Something wild

Sweat glistens on Amy Lewis’ brow as she cracks open a bottle of beer in the kitchen of her home in Free Union. It’s...