A faded, white sign reading "West End Market" painted aside an empty building in Detroit's Delray neighborhood is all the remains of the thriving corridor once known as "The Avenue." The shuttered ...

Few things make local history buffs more giddy than when a construction project reveals a “ghost sign” — an old, hand painted advertisement from decades ago that has somehow been preserved. It just ...

Buildings on the Bowery, one of New York City’s oldest streets, have been reinvented again and again throughout the centuries, often leaving traces of their former lives still visible. From the first ...

Durango has been through many changes since its founding in 1880, but its colorful past lives on in pastel, sun-kissed markings on buildings along downtown Main Avenue. Ghost signs – hand-painted ...