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B Haley

@ghastlyfop.bsky.social
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architectural historian, preservation planner, university lecturer

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Revolutionary War 250 @revwar250.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
25 SEPTEMBER 1776, HARLEM, NEW YORK: “Had [the British army] at their head our amiable and worthy General I think poor America would have ere’ now have felt [it] severely”: Henry Knox thinks the only reason the Continental Army has survived the last month is the timidity of British generals.
Henry Knox, painted by Charles Willson Peale
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey look, a guy who deserves to be a billionaire
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just saw a post from a well-regarded preservation grad program that showed students learning how to cut Queen Anne brackets. Until recently they were turning out well-qualified people to do planning who met the Secretary’s PQS for architectural history. They have not become a trades program.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pretty sure “defense of historic preservation” already was, more or less, the purpose of the National Trust, but what do I know.
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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 22/09/2026
This website is for people who have shit like "political junkie" in their bio who have never read a book written for adults in their entire lives.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Someone near me is trying to sell this mid-20th-c piece worth zero to $100 on Facebook Marketplace for $2800. I’ll be monitoring this and if they succeed I’ll probably change careers.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Odd to me that this critic applauds minimal interpretation and no audio guide. You can only get so much from the images if you can’t read Latin. Seeing it in Bayeux, where you can walk along while an audio guide narrates the entire thing, was a remarkable experience.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I took several courses in some of the programs being cut. All of them were excellent. What sad news.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Holyoke, Massachusetts doesn’t have a lot of early buildings but they just lost one of their earliest, a fine brick Greek Revival from the 1840s.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Quite interesting to see a car with a Black Lives Matter bumper sticker blast through a marked crosswalk where a Black pedestrian was trying to cross. People contain multitudes.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Why in the world is the City of Boston/ @parks.boston.gov/ @boston.gov planting Acer griseum, which is native to central China, in its parks? I thought we’d moved beyond this kind of nonsense as we grapple with native insect/pollinator decline, etc.? This is in Evan’s Way Park.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Architectural Digest selecting the person who “designed” this room (which looks thrown together by a college kid who inherited random furniture) and featuring the photo in its “New American Voices of 2026” is equal parts hilarious, sad, and insane.
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Vincenzo DM @vincenzodm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Remarkable: due to the fires in the High Fens in Belgium, a road, probably built between the late 6th c. and early 8th c., that connected Liège with Aachen has resurfaced. Photo: HBVL
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Maybe I’m crazy, but many of Historic New England’s houses are literally falling apart. I cannot fathom the decision making that led to allocating resources to something as objectively insignificant as this. www.historicnewengland.org/the-return-o...
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The Return of the Gropius House Clam Shell | Historic New England
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If he had been allowed to do this without a fight, we probably wouldn’t be facing the elimination or drastic watering down of Section 106.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Well, the “man of the people” who lives in a giant McMansion built on prime agricultural land in a car-dependent suburb could not unseat Richie Neal in the Massachusetts first congressional district
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
He’s going back to his home planet
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
HOMES was/is the acronym for remembering the names of the Great Lakes. If you replace the O of Ontario with the A of America, you can make it SHAME!
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This wonderful Federal house is back on the market. If any house in this area needed a good steward, it’s this one. At this price it’s a candidate for flippers or other ne’er-do-wells. Look at that room with the Doric frieze! www.oldhousedreams.com/2026/04/22/c...
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c. 1791/1830 in Poultney, VT - $295,000
Stately c. 1791 Vermont colonial located within sight of the Historic East Poultney green! The potential is endless! Spacious first floor includes a kitchen, fu
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Revolutionary War 250 @revwar250.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When Prince von Kaunitz, the chancellor of the Habsburg empire, reads the excerpts of the declaration in the newspapers, he declares it contains “extraordinary sections which may cause the spirit of rebellion to spread like a plague.”
Prince von Kaunitz
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Revolutionary War 250 @revwar250.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
31 AUGUST 1776, VIENNA: The Wienerisches Diarium prints a much-abridged version of the Declaration of Independence, including the preamble and conclusion but—in this capital of an absolute monarchy—without the enumerations of George III’s alleged tyranny.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Went to Storm King for the first time in 15 years and was pretty shocked by the state of the 1792 house on the property. With an endowment north of $30m, you’d think they could spend a few grand to keep the wood painted and stave off rot. And also not leave an attic window open (??)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026
strive to live your life in such a way that your freedom doesn't depend on being in good personal standing with laura loomer abcnews.com/US/milo-yian...
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Milo Yiannopoulos, far-right British commentator, detained by ICE
Far-right British political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was detained by ICE on Friday, according to an ICE detention database.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Now THAT is a Shingle Style house! Anyone got a spare million? circaoldhouses.com/property/fab...
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Fabulous Shingle Style Country House on Otsego Lake
6 Westridge Rd is an 8-bedroom, 8-bathroom, 6,600+ sq. ft. Shingle Style estate built in 1884, set on nearly 3 acres overlooking Otsego Lake in Cooperstown, NY. Built in 1884 for Dr. Robert McKim and ...
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I would really like there to be a foundation that has a revolving fund for the purchase, rehab, and resale (with an easement) of properties like this in Massachusetts. Our built heritage is getting wrecked left and right. All you’d need is one wealthy person willing to step up with an endowment.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Athol, MA is a bit rough round the edges owing to it being a former mill town, but this house is a gem and needs the right kind of owner. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
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488 S Main St, Athol, MA 01331 | MLS #73567979 | Zillow
This 2730 square feet Single Family home has 5 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. It is located at 488 S Main St, Athol, MA.
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 26/08/2026
OED has ‘nine-to-five’ adj. to 1903, and n. to 1906.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When I was a teenager I attended a taping of “Live with Regis and Kathy Lee.” Kathy Lee was out that day. Dolly Parton was the guest co-host. I sat in the second row. What a day.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Has anyone in the history of the world ever gotten an AbeBooks coupon code to work
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I always open my historic preservation course with a broad overview of the field, which includes addressing the fact that there’s a significance imbalance in what traditionally has been considered significant and thus what has been preserved. Found another example to illustrate that point.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Nice
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
BROADWOODWIDGER www.stags.co.uk/properties/2...
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Broadwoodwidger, Thornmoor
2 bedroom detached for sale in Broadwoodwidger, Thornmoor - Guide price £495,000
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This sold for $10 today at auction in Massachusetts ($12.80 with buyer’s premium and taxes). lol
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
People need to stop treating old houses as play spaces to enact their mediocre modern-farmhouse fantasies. For example: www.redfin.com/NH/Bath/87-P...
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87 Porter Rd, Bath, NH 03740 - 2 beds/2 baths
(PrimeMLS) For Sale: 2 beds, 2 baths ∙ 2150 sq. ft. ∙ 87 Porter Rd, Bath, NH 03740 ∙ $649,900 ∙ MLS# 5098416 ∙ Welcome to 87 Porter Road, a charming New England retreat nestled in the peaceful country...
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
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The Massive Climate Lie That Will Destroy Human Civilization
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is Spring Lawn in Lenox, ca. 1904, designed by Guy Lowell. The MA Dept of Conservation & Recreation has held an easement on the property for decades. They never enforced the terms of the easement requiring regular maintenance. Now they’ve approved demolition by the new owner. What’s the point?
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Anyone need a copy of Moby Dick
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Need to figure out how to go golfing with Trump
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This enormous secretary bookcase was made by Thomas Burling, and retains the label he used between 1786 and 1793. Burling made furniture for George Washington after he became president and for Thomas Jefferson to furnish Monticello. It sold today for $1800 in Columbus, Ohio 😵‍💫
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Typed “le Corbusier” into WhatsApp and it autocorrected to “le Cornhusker” 👍
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Absolute gutter “journalism” designed to stoke the fears of every redneck moron who doesn’t know that property tax info is a public record. www.foxnews.com/politics/mam...
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Mamdani sparks fears of violence after doxing wealthy NYC property owners: 'Outright dangerous'
The searchable database names affluent property owners who could face the proposed pied-à-terre tax, raising new privacy and security concerns.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
On Cape Cod this weekend I drove by a very nice cape clearly built between about 1770 and 1800 with a plaque on it saying “ca. 1647,” which is cute.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Live footage of Mitch McConnell in the senate chamber for a vote
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A local news outlet reported on a bill working its way through the Massachusetts senate that would allow duplexes by right on residential lots. All of the comments related to the 15-minute cities “conspiracy,” which I didn’t even know had become a conspiracy theory. Don’t people like convenience?
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Saw an “I support ICE” yard sign in front of a farm that definitely relies on migrant labor and probably undocumented people. It is in a town not known for its intellectuals, of course.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
On so many levels, how is this real life www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump threatens new Canada tariffs over wildfire smoke in US cities
Canadian leader Mark Carney says both the US and Canada have an equal responsibility to fight climate change, which experts say are worsening wildfire conditions.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This Georgian house in northern Connecticut is bonkers. Real Connecticut Valley doorway, incredible entry hall, wonderful paneling, balusters and newel post on par with anything of the period. Landscaping leaves much to be desired tho. www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/de...
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This lovely Federal-style house just up the road from me, documented in the 1930s by the Historic American Buildings Survey, has a new owner who drives a car with a bumper sticker that says “my window is down because I farted.”
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is not a Gen Z phenomenon. Virtually everyone I ever worked with in NYC changed jobs every 2-3 years until they got a sufficiently “prestigious” gig. All older generations. An employer once didn’t hire a good candidate bc she’d been in the same job for 10 years. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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I changed jobs 10 times in 10 years to get the career I wanted
The lily-padding trend sees young people repeatedly move jobs to try to advance in the workplace.
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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This house has been on the market for years, and originally it was being sold on over 200 acres. For a mansion in the Berkshires walkable to Tanglewood, there must be something really wrong for it to sell with 80 acres for $4m, yet photos look great?? www.realtor.com/realestatean...
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319 Under Mountain Rd, Lenox, MA 01240 | Realtor.com®
Sold: View 58 photos for 319 Under Mountain Rd, this 7 bed, 6.5+ bath, 13,261 sqft. single family home in Lenox, MA that was last sold on 06/10/2026.
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