Historic Preservation

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• Merry Christmas Everyone - Good luck with work on Monday

  
  Energy Tough Love Blog — Authority: 124
  Yes Yes I know….if you look to the left you will see that it is the 27th and fully 2 days after Christmas. I have all kinds of excuses…My brother from Florida came in on Thursday and wanted to spend the day with me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn10FF-FQfs Then on Friday after wrapping presents all the ...
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• CurbedWire: Bryant Parks Fashionable Trash; Westbeth on Road to Landmarking

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 686
  Were off to celebrate, but well be back next week with our annual Curbed Awards ! MIDTOWN— The garbage cans in Bryant Park are being replaced this spring, and the Bryant Park Corporation is asking the public to vote on three designs to decide the new look. The contenders are above, and you can vote right ...
  3 days ago

• Heritagisation: A community will be as a community does.

  
  NA Confidential — Authority: 433
  From Cyril Isnart ; Investigador Auxiliar Convidado; Universidade de Évora; Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades; Évora, Portugal; to my friend and mentor Rory Turner to NAC : The notion of heritage is surely one of the best tools social scientists have at their disposal to analyse how ...
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• Happy Holidays Preservation Community,ResErection Inc Website Down!!!

  
  Victorian Antiquities and Design — Authority: 123
  The ResErection Website that had been marketing historic and landmark properties for sale for dis-assembly and relocation, is, for the moment, closed down. http://www.reserections.com/ All the ads are gone replaced with "ResErections, Inc. We are on a Strategic Retreat To Florida For the Season !!" so, for the ...
  4 days ago

• Landmarks Shaping Me

  
  Preservation in Pink — Authority: 122
  “We shape our buildings; thereafter, our buildings shape us.” -Winston Churchill How many places have played a part with defining moments that shape your life thereafter? It is possibly one that is significant to you, but not necessarily on the National Register of Historic Places (sounds like the National ...
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• New Website for New York City Landmarks

  
  New York History — Authority: 430
  There is a new website for New York City landmarks that is worth a look. The site, created by Jeff Heur, provides the Landmark Preservation Commissions information on thousands of landmark buildings and districts across the five boroughs. The site features a large database of historic photos, official landmark ...
  4 days ago

• Question of the day: does it make sense to build public-subsidized housing near pollution?

  
  REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio — Authority: 154
  The 2002 Canadian scientific report " Air pollution induces heritable DNA mutations " finds " Integrated steel production generates chemical pollution containing compounds that can induce genetic damage. " And, the 2009 German report " Long-term exposure to traffic-related particulate matter impairs cognitive function ...
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• Historic Preservation: A Bowery Building Cleans Up Amid Hopes of Downzoning

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 686
  Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Theres a big strip of the Bowery that was left out last year when the City Planning Commission ruled to rezone much of the Lower East Side, but now some local commandos are hoping to remedy that. The Bowery Alliance of Neighbors (BAN) met with CPC this ...
  5 days ago

• Lake Champlain Bridge Demolition

  
  Preservation in Pink — Authority: 122
  For those who haven’t heard, the Lake Champlain Bridge is scheduled to be demolished on Wednesday December 23, 2009 at 10am. (Talk about a terrible Christmas present for preservationists, huh?) See this NYSDOT Press Release . The public may view the demolition at specific areas, such as on Vermont 125 (read this ...
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• Historic Cuban Barrel Tile

  
  Miamism — Authority: 422
  A lot of you will be reading this thinking its a bit boring (at least Rick thinks so), but I wanted to address this because a lot of our Miami Beach Real Estate customers are constantly asking us about certain elements  of historic homes – so here it is …proceed with CAUTION. Historic Cuban Barrel Tile is one ...
  6 days ago

• Malin + Goetz

  
  Pretty Lovely — Authority: 117
  The other day {pre - snow} I was in an apothecary in DC that sold Malin + Goetz products and I was completely enamored by the typeface used on the product packaging. While doing a little internet search to find out what this typeface was {its Swiss 721 by the way} I realized that the Malin + Goetz flagship store in ...
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• Grad School Semester One

  
  Preservation in Pink — Authority: 122
  When I graduated college, I couldn’t imagine wanting to continue on to graduate school the following fall, mostly because I was tired of being graded on my life. I knew I would always go back to school so I decided that it would be best to take some time off, work in a preservation job, figure out what I wanted to ...
  6 days ago

• Holiday Posting Schedule

  
  Victorian Antiquities and Design — Authority: 123
  D ue to the Holidays , Blogposts will be intermittent or coming out at different times than our usual very early in the morning schedule. Once the hustle and bustle of the Holidays is over and sanity returns, we will be back to a more normal posting schedule.
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• Downtown Phoenix fixture, Circles Discs & Tapes, closing

  
  Downtown Voices Coalition — Authority: 126
  Circles Discs & Tapes (Photo: bridgeandtunnelclub.com) [Source: Tim Vetscher , ABC15 News] – A Valley landmark is going out of business after nearly four decades in downtown Phoenix.  The owners of Circles Discs and Tapes, at the corner of Central Avenue and McKinley, recently announced they’re calling ...
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• Winston Churchill Apartments

  
  Ecology of Absence — Authority: 125
  One of the best preservation stories to come out of north St. Louis this year was the rehabilitation of the Winston Churchill Apartments at 5435-75 Cabanne Avenue in Visitation Park. The apartment building had long been the scourge of a changing neighborhood -- and not because it was a vacant eyesore. The Winston ...
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• Good News from the Chatillon-DeMenil House: Roof Replacement on the Way

  
  Ecology of Absence — Authority: 125
  Tonight, the Chatillon-DeMenil House Foundation hosted its Holiday Party and Annual meeting. The customary good cheer and fellowship always accompanies a short business meeting during which members of the Board of Directors are elected and news is shared. I was overjoyed to hear Board President Ted Atwood announce ...
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• Central Viaduct 1895 - W. 14th / Jennings Rd

  
  REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio — Authority: 154
    Central Viaduct 1895 (W.14th-Jennings Rd) photo:cleveland memory or CPL RAG - Resident Advocacy Group Historic Cleveland Photographs http://clarkavenueresidents.weebly.com/historic-photos.html read more
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• Weatherization Guide for Older & Historic Buildings

  
  Victorian Antiquities and Design — Authority: 123
  I f you own and older of Historic home you have probably received that first "BIG" winter heating bill and you may be scrambling to find ways to better insulate your home. However historic homes present unique challenges. For example you DO NOT want to replace original windows with thermopane windows. Aside from ...
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• Low-Cost Courses on Collections Care Offered

  
  New York History — Authority: 430
  Upstate History Alliance (UHA) is offering a low-cost series of four-week online courses in collections care and preservation which provide basic, practical training. The courses are designed for staff, volunteers, board members, or interns at small to mid-sized museums. Each can be taken at the students own pace. ...
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• Cool Warrendale Thing: Kosciusko

  
  Warrendale (Detroit) Blog — Authority: 125
  I posted before about the efforts to renovate and reuse the long-shuttered Kosciusko Elementary School (20220 Tireman St.) as a community center. The Detroit Community Design Center, which is a part of the University of Michigans College of Architecture and Urban Planning, held a series of community meetings. All of ...
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