Preservation in the News - Today's Stories

Fishers Give Up on Plans for Presidio Art Museum
07/02/09
Outlet: San Francisco Chronicle

The scale of changes proposed for the Main Post brought extensive criticism from nearby residents and agencies such as the National Park Service and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, because the Presidio is a National Historic Landmark. T...

Protecting New Canaan's Modernism
07/02/09
Outlet: New York Times

"Modern Homes Survey: New Canaan Connecticut," one of the most definitive local studies of Modernist houses in the United States, goes online this week. The site devotes a Web page to each of the 91 homes built in New Canaan between 1939 and 1979. "N...

Nashville is Aging Gracefully, Magazine Says
07/02/09
Outlet: The Tennessean

"There was a time when the preservation movement was old houses and ladies in hoop skirts," Schwartz said. "Those days are gone. It really is more than Mt. Vernon." It's now about restoring old places and reusing them for something else. Sustaining t...

Visiting Philip Johnson's Glass House
07/02/09
Outlet: Slate.com

From July 1 - In addition, the Glass House in New Canaan, Conn., probably Johnson's most durable architectural achievement, has been opened to the public under the auspices of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It's well worth a visit. Joh...

Local Officials want Army to Comply with Historic Preservation Rules
07/02/09
Outlet: La Junta Tribune-Democrat

Facts like that gave the National Trust for Historic Preservation reason in 2007 to name the Pinon Canyon Area as one of Americas 11 most endangered historic places. That same year, the Otero County Historical Preservation Advisory Board, which had b...

Metro Theater Compromise
07/01/09
Outlet: Examiner.com

Several years ago, the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington placed San Francisco at the top of the country's most endangered list for disappearing single screen neighborhood theaters. Today, only a dozen neighborhood movie theaters...

Club Honors a 'Place that Matters'
07/01/09
Outlet: Tampa Bay Newspapers

Immediately following the luncheon and installation club members gathered at the historic Belleview Biltmore Hotel for a photo shoot highlighting the General Federation of Woman's Club partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation's m...

Franklin Looks to Main Street Program to Improve Business
07/01/09
Outlet: The Oakland Press

Business owners, citizens and village officials met Wednesday evening to discuss the benefits of the Main Street Oakland County program at The Franklin Grill, off of Franklin Road. The program is part of a national initiative through the National Tru...

Friday is the new 'First Saturday'
07/01/09
Outlet: The Gazette

Downtown Frederick was honored in May of 2005 when the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Main Street Center named it one of five Great American Main Street Award winners. Frederick is the first and only of Maryland's Main Street communities...

From Meat Pies to Magnolias, Natchitoches Charms Everyone
07/01/09
Outlet: San Fernando Sun

Natchitoches, the oldest permanent settlement in the Louisiana Purchase, is even older than New Orleans and reportedly the third oldest town in the U.S. In 2005 the National Trust designated Natchitoches as one of the 'Dozen Distinctive Destinations'...

Inaction Plan
07/01/09
Outlet: Las Vegas CityLife

According to the West Las Vegas Plan, the city wants to bring the Main Street Program to Jackson Avenue, a deteriorating African-American commercial district that's plagued by vacancies. The program, which is run by the National Trust for Historic Pr...

Windows Help Preserve Historic Campuses
07/01/09
Outlet: Commercial Building Products

Constance E. Beaumont, of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, has said, "Too many schools are casually condemned by biases that favor new construction, by school facility assessments that reflect little expertise in the rehabili...

Edison & Ford Winter Estates Offers Lee Residents Free Admission on July 4
06/30/09
Outlet: News Press

The Estates is open daily from 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. The Estates was awarded the National Trust for Historic Preservation Award in 2008 and is an official project of "Save America's Treasures" at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a Florid...

Goodwood Receives Grant to Support Blended Lives
06/30/09
Outlet: Tallahassee Democrat

Goodwood Museum and Gardens was awarded a $1,166 grant by the National Trust for Historic Preservation from the Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation Preservation Fund. The seed grant funds will be used to support Blended Lives. The National Trust...

U.S. 15 Highway Through History
06/30/09
Outlet: Fairfax County Times

George Carter started construction of his Federal-style mansion at Oatlands Plantation in 1903. After the Civil War, many of Oatlands' former slaves established a community in nearby Gleedsville, and built the Gleedsville Church, now home of Loudoun'...