The places we live are filled with the stories of our lives, told room by room like chapters in a book. So how do you read a home?

That’s what Kendra Gaylord does on her podcast, Someone Lived Here. She explores historic houses to find the people who inhabited them, from poets and photographers to inventors and musicians.

Today she takes us on a tour of her podcast and introduces us to the people she’s met. Along the way we compare research techniques, editing practices, and historic house gift shops.

Further Research

• Someone Lived Here
• @kendragaylord
• Steepletop (Edna St. Vincent Millay’s House)
• Lewis Latimer House Museum
• Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center
• Alice Austen House
• Two Degrees of Peri Gilpin