Table settings play a key role in creating an elegant atmosphere at your vintage tea party. Use china dishes with intricate designs, lace tablecloths, and polished silverware to add sophistication. ...

Walking up to the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum in Manhattan is startling. It’s set back from East 61st Street, so after passing bodegas and restaurants and a parking garage, suddenly there’s a stone wall ...

Short of discovering the means for time travel, the easiest way to enjoy -- and sample the flavor of -- the Victorian era is to head for the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum in Norwalk on Sunday, May 5 ...