This enchanting storybook suite—once a historic dovecote—is a masterclass in rustic French charm and whimsical elegance.
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Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
At the very top of the house, in a former dovecote with oxeye windows, there’s now a yoga studio and a roof deck with a hair-raising view of the river valley.
Fort Massac on the Ohio River waterfront is a faithful reconstruction of an 1802 American fort built on the site of a French stockade erected in 1757 to safeguard the region from British invasion during the French & Indian War.
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Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
During the Civil War, a deadline was a line of demarcation around the inner stockade of a prison camp, generally about 17 feet.
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Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 June 2025
On the day of the rettir, hundreds of sheep are released into a central wooden sheepfold that’s surrounded by marked compartments—one belonging to each local farmer—that jut out from the inner circle like rays of the sun.
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Laura Kiniry,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Oct. 2022
This tidy residence in the western Swiss village of Etoy was built in 1830 as a sheepfold.
The patacabra wooden tool, which is used to set folds and seams on leather goods and is personal to each craftsperson, is also given star treatment here.
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Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2025
The idea is that your hard work one night, pays off two-fold when leftovers can be easily turned into a second, different recipe, the next day.
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