Planning begins each July for the gingerbread house, with crews baking 4-by-12-inch gingerbread bricks to cover the home’s wooden frame. As the holidays near, builders frame the rooms, install ...

This is real gingerbread, real icing and real candy. There are close to 700 homemade gingerbread houses. I have it set up in five sections,” said Jon Lovitch, creator, artist and chef of ...

When Mitchell Kass tells people where he lives based on his street address, they give him a puzzled look. But when he says, “it’s the Gingerbread House,” they know just what he means.