The stove that is the hallowed centerpiece in the renovated Newport Beach, Calif., home of Deborah and John Jakubek is hardly one of the modern-day, gleaming trophy stoves with warrior names such as ...

Sam Armstrong says that when he moved his young family into the Liberty Square Housing Projects in the late 1940s, “I told myself … when I move from this project, I will have my own house.” But in ...

Tom Lawson showed off his latest masterpiece with the pride of a fine craftsman. “This is a real beauty,” he said of the gleaming 600-pound blue, white and silver cast-iron stove. “You should have ...