Grand architectural marvels (The Dakota, The Apthorp and The Belford) and hotels aside, porte-cochères virtually vanished with the horse and carriage in New York City. French for covered entrance or ...

The porte cochère, a covered entry, all but disappeared decades ago. High-end buildings catering to car owners are bringing it back. By James Barron Sean O’Connor drove his Jeep into the porte cochère ...

A new house has narrowly won the town’s approval for 830 S. County Road, a property familiar to drivers on the portion of the street that runs south of the Everglades Golf Course in Palm Beach.

Douglas Development is seeking to add a porte-cochère to the north entrance of the Hotel Henry on the Richardson Olmsted Campus. Douglas Jemal’s firm is taking over operations of the 88-room hotel ...

The fate of a proposed porte cochere at the Four Seasons' Naples Beach Club is back in the hands of City Manager Jay Boodheshwar after City Council couldn't agree on what to do. For the third time in ...

In a neighborhood of stately prewar apartments and brownstones, 1094 Park Place manages to stick out. There’s a three-story turret, a front porch the size of some one-bedrooms, and a private driveway ...

A large number of canopy and tarp carports have sprung up in Pico Rivera in recent years, apparently the result of the city’s strict rules restricting carports, according to a city staff report. Many ...

Whether Four Seasons' Naples Beach Club can have a covered drop off or porte cochere and how large it can be is now up to City Manager Jay Boodheshwar, who is expected to decide by mid-February. The ...

The main porte cochere of Disney’s Beach Club Resort is closed for a refurbishment of the resort’s exterior. There are blue construction walls and temporary barriers now placed around the porte ...

One of the least attractive elements of new home design - particularly in suburban developments - is the expanse of garage door at the front of a house. While there are reasons - lot size, building ...