Preservation in the News - October 14, 2009
Posted October 20, 2009 | Contact pr@nthp.org or 202-588-6141
Va. county seeks dismissal of Walmart challenge
Szkotak, Stephen 10/14/09
Outlet: Associated Press (AP) - Richmond Bureau
Orange County officials asked a judge Tuesday to dismiss an attempt to block Wal-Mart Stores Inc. from building a Supercenter near an endangered Civil War battlefield... filed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Friends of Wilderness Bat...
Laura Bush To Speak At Nashville Event
Laura Bush 10/14/09
Outlet: WSMV-TV
Former first lady Laura Bush is scheduled to speak at the Advocacy Luncheon during the National Trust for Historic Preservation's National Preservation Conference. Bush's speech at the weeklong conference will be Oct. 15 at noon in Renaissance Nas...
Illinois's Kiddieland park closes after 80 years
Pierog, Karen 10/14/09
Outlet: USA Today
"...it's something you can count on," Vickie Perkins, who grew up nearby and brought her daughter to visit on the park's last day, told Preservation magazine in an article that appeared on the PreservationNation.org website. The family-owned Kiddi...
Being an attendee…from home
10/14/09
Outlet: Urban Conversations Blog
I'd really wanted to attend this year's National Preservation Conference in Nashville, TN. It is the annual gathering for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. I should really say that I was looking forward to taking advantage of some of...
Columbus memorials to, protests against
Christopher Shea 10/14/09
Outlet: Boston Globe
The rather bleak Columbus Lighthouse, in Santo Domingo. PreservationNation, the blog of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, takes stock of the famously "conflicted legacy" of Christopher Columbus. In Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominic...
Portland or-Governor Hotel for 100
10/14/09
Outlet: Travel + Leisure
Portland, OR: Governor Hotel for $100, Sundays through Thursdays. For more information or to book, please visit Historic Hotels of America. Why Go: Portland is a perennial favorite among travelers who responded to our recently announced America's...
Little Liberia homes built to last
Swiliing, Nita 10/14/09
Outlet: Connecticut Post
A letter from the National Trust for Historic Preservation to Mayor Bill Finch says that the Freeman Houses are "rare and irreplaceable evidence of African-American life prior to Emancipation, and should be considered a site of national significance...
My Word Oil drilling threatens tourism
Will Graves 10/14/09
Outlet: Orlando Sentinel - Online
Friends of Florida's Coasts has nominated the state's coasts for a "threatened" listing from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Efforts are under way to enlist the help of internationally-respected celebrities interested in donating a publ...
NHTP's "2009 11 Most Endangered List" Includes the Infamous Manhattan Project's Enola Gay Hanger
Thorpe, Betsy 10/14/09
Outlet: Nashville Past and Present
This year marks the 22nd annual list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. Since 1988, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has used this list as a powerful alarm to raise awareness of the serious threats facing the nation's greate...
A Wrecking Ball Swings at the '60s
Hawthorne, Christopher 10/14/09
Outlet: Architectural Record
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is leading a similar nationwide effort, but its reach is broader, covering not just the 1960s but "Modernism and the recent past." That wider focus makes sense: For the most part, the public is sold on 196...
Jacqueline Kennedy's Historic Preservation Legacy - 40 Years Later
10/14/09
Outlet: Home News Tribune
Kathleen P Galop's... resulting research on "Jacqueline Kennedy's Historic Preservation Legacy" was published in the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Forum Journal in May 2006. The Bridgewater Library will present the program "Jacqueli...
Family fun in Chicago
LANCE HORNBY 10/14/09
Outlet: Ottawa Sun
They can put themselves in the sneakers of the famous tween sleuths, trying to solve an art mystery in and around Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Prairie-style residence. Wright's own studio is nearby and both locales have lots for adults to see, too....
NYC Landmarks Commission Considers Lower East Side Buildings
10/14/09
Outlet: Samuel Gruber's Jewish Art & Monuments Blog
In July 2008 I wrote about the National Trust for Historic Preservation raising the alarm about destruction in the Lower East Side. The New York Landmarks Preservation Commission has been taking a closer look at several individual LES buildings...
Interactive Easement Workshop, October 28, Princeton, Central Jersey
10/14/09
Outlet: Best of NJ blog
Five-person panel of experts joins Paul Edmondson, Esq., Vice-President, Law and General Counsel for National Trust for Historic Preservation, sharing ways in which historic preservation easements protect significant historic features of buildings,,...
Fed Report Confirms Problems with Bush-Era Lease Sale
10/13/09
Outlet: Sustainable Business.com
The report found that public lands located in the wild canyon country near Arches and Canyonlands National Parks shouldn't be drilled and that other undeveloped wild lands should be deferred from leasing pending further review...Earthjustice represen...
Golden Deeds Award honors Sue Turner
10/13/09
Outlet: WBRZ-TV
Turner has received national recognition for her preservation and advisory work with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She said she will be catching a plane today to attend the Trust's national conference in Nashville. A woman who wa...
The Basilica Centennial and Rafael Guastavino
William E. Wescott 10/13/09
Outlet: Mountain Xpress
This masonry liturgical gem was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 24, 1978. It is presently a prime candidate for the National Park Service's grant program, "Save America's Treasures." Architect Rafael Guastavino lived...
Weekend event will relive pivotal battle
Alex Bridges 10/13/09
Outlet: Northern Virginia Daily
The nearby Belle Grove Plantation will be hosting a living history event with military and civilian interpreters. Spectators can relive a pivotal Civil War battle and see the action taken by both sides this weekend. This year marks a return to...
Roanoke seeks to preserve key landmarks
10/13/09
Outlet: Keller Citizen
Wiechman shared plans to photograph 21 Roanoke businesses and their owners as part of the Places That Matter campaign sponsored by the National Trust For Historic Preservation. The idea is to promote landmarks considered valuable by residents of thos...
A Case for Preserving 1960's Architecture in LA
Temple, Emily 10/13/09
Outlet: Flavorwire
However, the preservationists - like the Los Angeles Conservancy and the National Trust for Historic Preservation - maintain that, besides being landmarks, the energy required to tear down the old buildings and start from scratch with the new is just...
Beautiful Orchids and Flowers
10/13/09
Outlet: Les Violettes Blog
Thanks to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the conservatory was repaired and reopened to the public in 2003. Many of the plants on view no longer exist in their natural habitat. If you love flowers and you have a chance to visit San Fran...
DAR meeting hosted at George residence
10/12/09
Outlet: Wharton Journal-Spectator, The
Posters for This Place Matters contest was discussed. It is sponsored by the National Trust for Historic preservation. The Comfort Wood Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, held its Oct. 8 meeting in the home of Lila Gene George in Whar...
Restaurant Week Portsmouth Returns to the Seacoast
10/12/09
Outlet: Seacoast Newspapers
The city was also designated one of the 2008 Dozen Distinctive Destinations by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Attention dining deal-seekers: Restaurant Week Portsmouth is coming up November 8-15th. The event, which is organized and...
We're Loving, Erica Weiner, Lower East Side
Erica Weiner 10/12/09
Outlet: WNBC-TV
Erica Weiner Jewelry is available online here and at several shops in New York including: The Lower East Side Tenement Museum Shop at 108 Orchard St. Erica Weiner's line of brass, silver and gold vermeil jewelry goes beyond lovely, vintage-inspi...
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