Robert J. "Bob" Vila (born June 20, 1946) is an American home improvement television show host known for This Old House (1979–1989), Bob Vila's Home Again (1990–2005) and Bob Vila (2005–2007). is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the television series. ... This Old House is a magazine and television program which is aired on the American public broadcast network PBS that follows remodeling projects of houses over a number of weeks. ...

Biography

Early life

Vila, a Cuban American native of Miami, Florida, received a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from the University of Florida in 1969. After graduating, he served as a volunteer in the United States Peace Corps, working in Panama from 1971 to 1973. A Cuban-American is an immigrant to the United States from Cuba. ... Nickname: Location in Miami-Dade County and the state of Florida Coordinates: , Country State County Miami-Dade Incorporated July 28, 1896 Government  - Type Mayor-Commissioner Plan  - Mayor Manny Diaz (I)  - City Manager Pedro G. Hernandez  - City Attorney Jorge L. Fernandez  - City Clerk Priscilla Thompson Area  - City  55. ... Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Largest metro area Miami metropolitan area Area  Ranked 22nd  - Total 65,795[1] sq mi (170,304[1] km²)  - Width 361 miles (582 km)  - Length 447 miles (721 km)  - % water 17. ... “B.S.” redirects here. ... Journalism is a discipline of gathering, writing and reporting news, and more broadly it includes the process of editing and presenting the news articles. ... The University of Florida (Florida, UFL, or UF) is a public land-grant, space-grant, research university located in Gainesville, Florida. ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... It has been suggested that Crisis corps be merged into this article or section. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ...

Career

Vila was hired as the host of This Old House after receiving the "Heritage House of 1978" award by Better Homes and Gardens for his restoration of a Victorian Italianate house in Newton, Massachusetts. On This Old House, Vila appeared with master carpenter Norm Abram as they, and others, renovated houses. In 1989 he left the show, apparently due to a series of conflicts with This Old House executive producer Russell Morash arising from his involvement with outside commercial endorsements. He was replaced by Steve Thomas. This Old House is a magazine and television program which is aired on the American public broadcast network PBS that follows remodeling projects of houses over a number of weeks. ... Better Homes and Gardens For the Australian television show, see Better Homes and Gardens (TV series) Better Homes and Gardens is one of the most widely circulated magazines in the United States. ... Nickname: Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts Coordinates: , Country State County Middlesex County Settled 1630 Incorporated 1688 Government  - Type Mayor-council city  - Mayor David B. Cohen (Dem) Area  - City  18. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Carpenter at work in Tennessee, June 1942. ... Norm Abram (born 1950) is an American carpenter known from the PBS television programs This Old House and The New Yankee Workshop. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Russell Morash is a producer and director of many television programs produced thorugh WGBH and airing on PBS. His shows include This Old House, The Victory Garden, and The New Yankee Workshop. ... Steve Thomas is the former host of This Old House on PBS. Thomas hosted the show from 1989 until 2003 (seasons 9-24). ...

After leaving This Old House, Vila became a commercial spokesman for Sears and hosted the television program Bob Vila's Home Again which was renamed Bob Vila in 2005. He has written ten books, including a five-book series titled Bob Vila's Guide to Historic Homes of America. As of 2006, he still appears regularly on television. Vila has also appeared on various episodes of Tool Time, the fictional handyman cable TV show within the situation comedy, Home Improvement. Tool Time's host Tim Taylor (played by Tim Allen) sees him as a rival and periodically tries to best him in various activities, never succeeding in doing so. Vila also made a cameo in the 1993 comedy spoof Hot Shots! Part Deux. Sears, Roebuck and Company is an American mid-range chain of international department stores, founded by Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck in the late 19th century. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tool Time was the fictitious handyman show-within-a-show in the television situation comedy, Home Improvement. ... This article is about a genre of comedy. ... This article is about the television series. ... Tim The Tool Man Taylor is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Home Improvement, played by Tim Allen. ... Tim Allen (born June 13, 1953) is an American comedian, character actor, voice-over artist, and entertainer perhaps best known for his role in the sitcom Home Improvement and his roles in Disney films, such as The Santa Clause and Toy Story. ... Hot Shots! Part Deux is a 1993 comedy spoof film, and a sequel to the 1991 comedy Hot Shots! Directed again by Jim Abrahams, the film again stars Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna, Brenda Bakke, Miguel Ferrer, Ryan Stiles, Rowan Atkinson, and Jerry Haleva. ...

Vila can also be seen on the Home Shopping Network, selling a range of tools under his own brand. The Home Shopping Network (HSN) is a mostly 24-hour shopping network that is seen on cable, satellite, and some terrestrial channels in the United States. ...

Other productions

Bob Vila's less widely known productions include Guide to Historic Homes of America and In Search of Palladio, for A&E, and Restore America for HGTV. Biography is one of A&Es longest-running and most popular programs. ... Home & Garden Television is a cable TV network in the US and Canada, that carries a variety of home and garden improvement, maintenance, renovation, craft and remodeling shows. ...

Historic Homes of America

Guide to Historic Homes of America^[1] included two-hour segments on each of four major regions of the United States: the Northeast, including New England and the Mid-Atlantic States,^[2] the South, the Midwest and the West. Regional definitions vary The Northeastern United States is a region of the United States. ... This article is about the region in the United States of America. ... It has been suggested that Middle Atlantic States be merged into this article or section. ... Historic Southern United States. ... This article is about the Midwestern region in the United States. ... As defined by the Census Bureau, the western United States includes 13 states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington lincoln, and Wyoming. ...

The Northeast

• Morris-Jumel Mansion overlooking Yankee Stadium in Washington Heights, Manhattan
• Dyckman House on Broadway in Upper Manhattan
• Hancock Shaker Village in western Massachusetts.
• Strawbery Banke restoration in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
• Olana - "a palatial amalgam of Middle-Eastern and European influences."^[1]

The Mid-Atlantic States

• Chesapeake Bay and Annapolis, Maryland - William Paca House and Hammond-Harwood House
• New Castle, Delaware - George Read II House, built by the son of George Read
• Baltimore, Maryland - Homewood House on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus
• Washington, D.C. - Decatur House on President's Park and Tudor Place in Georgetown

The South

• Thomas Jefferson

• University of Virginia - ten residential pavilions surround the great, terraced Lawn.
• Ash Lawn-Highland
• Poplar Forest - octagonal house filmed while undergoing complete restoration
• Monticello - includes Dome Room at top of building (not open to the public) and Honeymoon Cottage.

• Natchez, Mississippi

• House on Endicott Hill - early trader's house
• Rosalie - Federal architecture mansion^[3] with John Henry Belter^[4] furniture and a panoramic view of Mississippi River.
• Stanton Hall - "perhaps the grandest Greek Revival house anywhere."^[1] Designed by Captain Thomas Rose.^[5]
• Longwood - begun in 1860 by Samuel Sloan. Never finished: construction halted in April 1861.^[6]

• Texarkana, Texas - the Ace of Clubs House.^[7]

The Midwest and West

• Ellwood House - built by barbed wire entrepreneur Isaac L. Ellwood in DeKalb, Illinois.
• Frank Lloyd Wright

• Dana-Thomas House in Springfield, Illinois. "It's richer in detail than any other Wright home."^[1]
• Fallingwater in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains.

• Cooper-Molera Adobe - early Spanish Colonial owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Monterey State Historic Park.
• Filoli - Woodside, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Designed by Willis Polk.
• Tor House^[8] - stone house and tower overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, built by Robinson Jeffers.

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In Search of Palladio

In Search of Palladio^[9] is a three-part six-hour study of the work and lasting influence^[10] of the great Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio, Rome, 1502, by Bramante. ... Andrea Palladio (November 30, 1508 – August 19, 1580), was an Italian architect, widely considered the most influential person in the history of Western architecture. ...

I. Villas of the Veneto

See also: Palladian Villas of the Veneto

• Villa Giustinian - "the context for Palladio's innovative thinking"^[9] - pre-Palladian gothic battlements, portcullis and stone walls concealing a Renaissance palace and farm buildings.
• Villa Pisani^[11] in Montagnana - Public not admitted: a descendent of the original owners served as Vila's guide.
• Villa Cornaro - A suburban villa on a town street, a palatial residence which was also an on-site place of business for running a large farming enterprise.
• Villa Barbaro.
• Villa Emo - "perhaps the most dramatic farmhouse ever built."^[9]
• La Rocca Pisana - spectacular hilltop belvedere by Palladio's pupil Vincenzo Scamozzi.

II. The Palladians in England and Ireland

• London: Chiswick House, Marble Hill House and Stourhead.
• Bath, Somerset: Queen Square,^[12] The Circus and the Royal Crescent.
• Eire: Casino at Marino - "the architectural equivalent of a Fabergé egg."^[9]
• Northern Ireland: Castle Ward - overlooking Strangford Lough with both Palladian and Gothic facades and interiors.

III. The Palladian Legacy in America

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Mount Pleasant, built in what was then the countryside outside of the city by a privateer.^[13] It is now an off-premise gallery of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Fairmount Park.^[14]
• Marblehead and Waltham, Massachusetts: Jeremiah Lee Mansion and Gore Place
• Hudson Valley, New York: Boscobel House Museum - purchased in 1955 for thirty-five dollars. Meticulously restored, situated on a bluff on the east bank of the Hudson River opposite the United States Military Academy at West Point.^[15]
• Hartford, Connecticut: Austin House - built for Wadsworth Atheneum director Arthur Everett Austin, Jr.
• South Bend, Indiana - University of Notre Dame architectural school "where Palladio and classical architecture are taken seriously indeed."^[9] Vitruvian House^[16] and Villa Indiana.^[17]

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Restore America

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Bibliography

Bob Vila has written two dozen or more books, which include:

• 1980: This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-31617-704-0.
• 1990: Bob Vila's Guide to Buying Your Dream House. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-31690-291-8.
• 1993-1994: Bob Vila's Guides to Historic Homes of America. New York: Quill (HarperCollins imprint).

• Historic Homes of New England. ISBN 0-68812-493-3.
• Historic Homes of the South. ISBN 0-68812-492-5.
• Historic Homes of the Midwest and Great Plains. ISBN 0-68812-495-X.
• Historic Homes of the West. ISBN 0-68812-496-8.
• Historic Homes of the Mid-Atlantic. ISBN 0-68812-494-1.

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See also

• List of Famous Cuban-Americans

This is a list of famous Cuban Americans. ...

External links

• Bob Vila's Official Website
• Bob Vila Biography at bobvila.com
• Bob Vila TV Show at bobvila.com
• Bob Vila's Home Again at bobvila.com
• Bob Vila at the Internet Movie Database