Preservation in the News - February 19, 2010
Posted February 22, 2010
Leading Berkeley Down the Primrose Pathway
O'Malley, Becky 02/19/10
Outlet: Berkeley Daily Planet
From February 18 - Here's Richard Moe on the topic on the excellent Planetizen website: "Buildings are vast repositories of energy. It takes energy to manufacture or extract building materials, more energy to transport them to a construction site,...
Environmentalists, preservationists face off in Parkmerced
Hawkes, Alison 02/19/10
Outlet: KALW-FM
From February 18 - Christine Madrid French, director of modernism at the trust's western regional office, said post-war buildings often get short shrift. "Parkmerced was started in 1941, which makes it now 69 years old. And if we were at 1941 a...
Historic Inspirations
Bushman, Tavaner 02/19/10
Outlet: Texas Home & Living
From February 18 - The National Trust for Historic Preservation has partnered with Lowe's EverTrue brand to create a moulding collection inspired by homes at National Trust Historic Sites. The most recent addition to the collection is the Itali...
New misery rank at odds with other recent ratings
Sommer, Mark 02/19/10
Outlet: Buffalo News
"In the past year, Buffalo appeared in the New York Times list of "44 places to Go" alongside places like Vienna, Berlin and Hawaii," Ed Healy said. "The National Trust for Historic Preservation listed Buffalo as one of its "Dozen Distinctive Destina...
Glass house revisited.
02/19/10
Outlet: DesignApplause Blog
On June 23, 2007, a few quiet groups began arriving in New Canaan, Conn., to tour Philip Johnson's modernist home, the Glass House--the first official tours of the property in more than 50 years. The house, the centerpiece of an estate that Johnson a...
Campaign to 'Save' Maravilla Handball Courts Kicked Off
Castillo, Gloria 02/18/10
Outlet: Eastern Group Publications Inc.
The Maravilla Handball Court is part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's "This Place Matters" campaign, which identifies important historic sites that they believe deserve national attention and protection. The Los Angeles Conservancy l...
Ambitious 'greening' of Slater Mill gets started
02/17/10
Outlet: Valley Breeze
From February 18 - With support from Save America's Treasures, the Champlin Foundation, and the Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust, the Francis water turbine, weighing more than one and one-half tons, is being transported to the Hydro Operations C...
Communities celebrate decade of growth
Byron, Shaun 02/17/10
Outlet: Oakland Press, The
From February 18 - The Main Street Center is under the umbrella of the National Trust for Historic Preservation...In the years since, the county has recorded $540 million in investment, more than 4,000 jobs that have been created, 407 new businesses...
Downtown Walnut Cove project honored
02/17/10
Outlet: Stokes News, The
From February 18 - The National Trust for Historic Preservation created the Main Street Program, a downtown revitalization strategy for smaller towns based on economic revitalization within the context of historic preservation. North Carolina was sel...
National Park Service awards $150,000 to Cherokee Nation
02/17/10
Outlet: Indian Country Today
From February 18 - National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis congratulated the recipients of the Save America's Treasures awards saying, "The recipients of these grants deserve great credit for their commitment to the preservation of our nation's his...
Study: Main St. does better than big stores during recession
02/17/10
Outlet: Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
From February 18 - The Mississippi Main Street Association (MMSA), a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA), generated numerous economic development success stories in communities throu...
Witness to History
Fleming, Thomas 02/17/10
Outlet: Smithsonian
From February 18 - Beth Taylor, a historian at Montpelier, Madison's Virginia estate, arranged for nearly two dozen descendants of Jennings to view the painting at the White House this past August. Jennings believed misperceptions had arisen over...
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