Bob visits Cape Cod with Dick Wills, who is carrying on the work of his father, architect Royal Barry Wills. Beginning in the 1920s, the senior Wills popularized traditional New England-style architecture. According to his son, he was so impressed by the scale and proportion that our forefathers maintained that he dedicated his considerable energies to adapting those elements for modern families. Along with the traditional Colonial, Wills also appreciated the qualities of the New England Cape, a style that is simpler and generally smaller than the Colonial. Dick Wills takes Bob on a tour around his own Cape-style home, pointing unique architectural features that highlight the flexibility of the style.

Bob tours the Art Deco section of Miami Beach. His guide points out stops along the way including the Bow Hotel believed to be the oldest building in Miami Beach The guide explains the historic significance of many of the properties including the �Lord Balfour�, �Waldorf Towers�, �The Cardozo� and the �Ritz Plaza�. He points out the French influence on this eclectic city. Bob highlights the cars that seem to mimic the architecture.

The neighborhood of I'On is built around a myriad of architectural styles and designs. Bob shows us some of these variations throughout the neighborhood before returning to the site where the roof framing is underway.

We'll tour the coastal town of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, and meet the contractors, Betsy and Kevin Kalman, and the other I'On developers, to discuss building strategies and techniques.

Bob begins a brand new project in the heart of South Carolina's low country. Located in Mt. Pleasant, the neighborhood of I'On focuses on community living to re-create a more traditional small-town feeling.

Bob takes a tour of some of the grand old houses still left from Roxbury's heyday at the turn of the century. After a period of serious urban blight, this once-grand Boston community is making a dramatic comeback.

The last stop on Bob Vila�s Berkshire Hills cottage tours is the largest shingle style home in America, the Elm Court mansion built by William Douglas Sloane and Emily Vanderbilt Sloane in 1886. Elm Court will play host to the final three Bob Vila�s Home Again episodes this season. Over the years it has had some adaptive reuse but no outright conversions and remains a family home. It began as a 17,000 square foot home but is now 70,000 square feet in size. The house has been occupied by as many as 70 family members. Its current owner, the great-great grandson of the original owners, has started a painstaking restoration of the home to make it both livable and useful for the community.

Setting the stage for his 21st century Colonial project, Bob discusses the current trend toward exurban living and the renewed popularity of the Center Entry Colonial. The original Colonial-style homes where built by the colonists before the American Revolution. They regained favor in the 1870s at the time of the Centennial and again in the 1930s as people realized the importance of preserving the country's antique homes, and yet again during the Bicentennial. Salient characteristics include a pitched roof, central chimney, evenly placed windows right under the roofline, shutters, and, of course, a center entry.

Bob returns to Winterthur in Delaware's Brandywine Valley. Vila and Winterthur's Pauline Eversmann first visit the Tappahannock Room circa 1740. Highlights from the display include a chest thought to be the first deliberate acquisition in du Pont's American furniture collection. Also on display is a William & Mary-style high chest and an antique fireplace mantel painted in a green Henry du Pont described as "a perfectly swell color." The tour continues in the Flock Room, an early Baroque-influenced room featuring dramatic canvas wallcoverings, flocked to emulate costlier velvet wallpaper from France, and ornate door surrounds. Vila and Eversmann then continue on to the Fraktur room, decorated in a Pennsylvania German style that is punctuated with bright color, faux finishes, and elaborate architecture.

Bob returns to Winterthur, industrialist Henry Francis du Pont's country estate, which is now a museum, in Delaware's Brandywine Valley. The museum's Port Royal Parlor display was originally part of a country home in Philadelphia slated for demolition in the 1920's. A collector of American antiques and architecture, du Pont bought the entire home and moved it to Winterthur. Pauline Eversmann, Winterthur's program director, joins Bob for a tour and recounts the parlor's history. The entryway opens onto the gardens, and in Colonial times, the doors would remain open to provide a view of the garden before guests proceeded to the parlor. As an area of the home intended for formal entertaining, du Pont wanted this room to be functional, so he expanded the parlor from its original size. Among the period antiques on display is an antique high chest that du Pont purchased for $44,000 in 1929, setting a long-standing price record for early American furniture.