MJ Cooper

On the shore of Lake Michigan, where the wind comes in broad and cold and the water seems to breathe against the…

The Pfister Hotel stands in Milwaukee not merely as a building, but as a kind of civic memory made stone and glass.…

Off the New Hampshire coast, where the Atlantic does not so much meet the land as worry it, grind it, and gnaw…

Anchorage began, in those early years, as a place of noise. Not the settled, domestic noise of an old city—the softened wheels,…

Before the Bijou Theatre became a place of footlights, curtains, music, and applause, there was the Lamar House. It stood older than…

In Alexandria, Louisiana, where the heat settles heavily and the past seems to rise from the streets after dusk, the Hotel Bentley…

In Monticello, Arkansas, there stands a house that seems to have learned how to keep its own counsel. It was built in…

On the northeast coast of Guam, where the land shoulders itself against the Pacific and the wind comes inland tasting of salt…

In St. Paul’s Irvine Park, where old trees lean over the walks and the city’s earlier century still seems to breathe between…

Penfield Reef does not announce itself like a cliff or a headland. It lies low and treacherous in Long Island Sound off…

On the Christiansted waterfront, where the sea moves with a blue calm that can seem almost theatrical beneath the Caribbean sun, Fort…

In Rawlins, Wyoming, where the wind comes down hard and clean across the high plains, the old prison stands with the patience…