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• Green renovation is important component of green “building”

  
  Downtown Voices Coalition — Authority: 432
  In the 2004 report, “ Downtown Voices: Creating a Sustainable Downtown ,” adaptive reuse is recommended as a way to help maintain a diverse, lively urban center.  Today, with “sustainability” all the rage and with GreenBuild coming to town, adaptive reuse is touted as a tool for land conservation and ...
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• ‘Landmarks’ at 50 has become landmark in it own right

  
  The Platform — Authority: 560
  Paint being from the brick facade of a house in the 1800 block of Pestalozzi Street in Benton Park in 2003. (Andrew Cutraro/Post-Dispatch Landmarks Association of St. Louis — one of the premier historic preservation and advocacy groups in the nation — will…
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• Minnesota State Senator: Historic Tax Credit Needed to Create Jobs

  
  Ecology of Absence — Authority: 124
  Yesterdays issue of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune carried a commentary by State Senator Tom Bakk. Bakks commentary focused on ways to get Minnesotans back to work. Among his ideas is a state historic rehabilitation tax credit. Writes Senator Bakk: A historic building rehabilitation tax credit would create jobs ...
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• Hutchinson Memorial Chapel

  
  ClarenceGrad72 — Authority: 127
  In honor of Extreme Makeover choosing a home on Massachusetts Avenue to rebuild for a very worthy family, todays church will be from the same street, in a stretching it kind of way. The Episcopal Home pretty much takes up a full block and located at 1 Massachusetts and extends down Busti to Rhode Island and over to ...
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• Transformation on Forest Park Avenue

  
  Ecology of Absence — Authority: 124
  Step one: Take one leap of faith to believe that underneath an ugly slipcover is a building that can be rehabilitated. Take a peak under that cover. Step two: Utilize historic rehabilitation tax credits, get your drawings and permits in hand, find financing and start the recovery of a badly-remuddled building. ...
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• T&P Tavern Closes For Remodeling

  
  Fort Worthology — Authority: 125
  We’ve just heard that the T&P Tavern (in the T&P station in Downtown, natch) is closed for now due to remodeling. They’re commencing restoration of the classic 1930s diner inside the building (hooray!) and can’t run the outside kiosk while that’s going. We’ll make sure to keep an eye on the project ...
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• Reconfiguration of Medical Mart plans

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 433
  Citing higher than anticipated costs , MMPI dropped its plans to renovate Public Auditorium and to use it and neighboring properties as the site of the planned Medical Mart . MMPI officials say they are considering multiple alternatives, but are focusing on building it on Mall C , also known as Strawbridge ...
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• Tinkers Creek Aqueduct environment assessment

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 433
  The National Park Service completed (PDF) its environmental assessment for the proposed replacement of the Tinkers Creek Aqueduct in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. It recommends the construction of a replacement aqueduct. The assessments public comment period ends on November 29.
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• Gut it? No Way.

  
  Preservation in Pink — Authority: 420
  Do you ever browse the New York Times real estate section slide shows? I find them endlessly entertaining, whether it’s for the purpose of gazing at beautiful houses I’ll never afford, gawking at monstrosities that I would never want to afford or own, loving historic, rehabilitated or renovated houses in ...
  4 days ago

• Preservation Day Trips: Piatte Castles

  
  Victorian Antiquities and Design — Authority: 122
  This will be an occasional series on Historic places of note that will make a good day trip for Old House lovers or Historic Preservationists. O hio has its own Biltmore! Well, while not as big as Vanderbilts Biltmore, the Piatte Castles are certainly two of the finest examples of the grand elegance of the ...
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• Reconnecting a Washington State Park to the Local Community

  
  The Dirt — Authority: 512
  Gustafson Guthrie Nichols and Allied Works won a design competition to create a park that will span an Interstate and connect a two-block section of Washington State’s Fort Vancouver national historic site with the City of Vancouver’s downtown. The design will include a ”landscape cap” that will ...
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• NYUs Dog-Curbing Demands Rile Village Preservationists

  
  Curbed — Authority: 671
  NYU is not the most delicate when it comes to sensitive matters of historic preservation, and now the Purple Village Eaters have really gone and done it, by putting up new signs! (The bastards.) Were talking about architect I.M. Peis modernist—and fugly, some would say— Silver Towers superblock near Washington ...
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• Trouble with the Herndon Home on WABE

  
  The Wren's Nest Blog — Authority: 117
  This morning Atlanta’s NPR affiliate WABE covered the recent plight of the Herndon Home . The Herndon Home is the historic home of Alonzo Herndon , the one-time slave who became the first African-American millionaire in Atlanta.  The house doesn’t have much funding, doesn’t offer many tours, and doesn’t ...
  5 days ago

• Two Interesting Downtown Design Review Board Items

  
  Fort Worthology — Authority: 125
  We were perusing the agenda for today’s meeting of the city’s Downtown Design Review Board, and a couple of items under “New Cases” caught our eye. Here they are, as written on the agenda:DG09-053401 West Lancaster Avenue; Texas & Pacific WarehouseOwner / Applicant: Cleopatra Investments, Ltd./Gromatzky, ...
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• HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! To our house!

  
  Victorian Antiquities and Design — Authority: 122
  O ne year ago TODAY, we officially began the Odyssey of the Knox Hill Cottage. We closed on the house in what I can describe as a "grueling process". Freddie Mac wanted every piece of paper faxed on legal sized paper! W e began looking early in 2008 for a house in Cincinnati. along the way we had three ...
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• Julia Baum captures the “vibrant display of personality” in cookie-cutter tract houses — 50 years later

  
  Retro Renovation — Authority: 478
  Take a neighborhood full of cookie-cutter tract houses …  let their owners fuss with them … and 50 years later photographer Julia Baum finds that they have been “transformed from modest white cubes into a vibrant display of personality and present a rebellion against conformity….human individuality cannot be ...
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• Marcel Breuer + Atlanta

  
  Discover: Interior Design — Authority: 474
  My friend, Claire , recently wrote an excellent post about the Atlanta – Fulton Public Library which just so happens to be Marcel Breuer’s last project.  It also happens to be on the chopping block. Claire writes, “The library exists as a prime example of the Brutalist style. The building can also ...
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• The Population Of Britain Falls To 2 Milllion After Spectacular And Blody Die Off

  
  Energy Tough Love Blog — Authority: 123
  That is that there will be a massive die off when the cheap oil runs out. He also believes in euthanasia for the less fortunate. http://timesonline.typepad.com/environment/2009/11/peak-oil-and-population-control.html November 04, 2009 Peak oil and population control Last week I had the miserable experience ...
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• Historic Demolitions: City Preservation Planning "rubber stamping" demos, under section 106?

  
  Victorian Antiquities and Design — Authority: 122
  Two VERY IMPORTNANT things you should know. The City of Cincinnati has thousands of properties ( 91 pages of properties) on its keep vacant or condemn list: http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/bldginsp/downloads/bldginsp_eps38187.pdf The city in its 2010 budget wants to spend $1,149,000. in CDBG to DEMOLISH ...
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• ASM International HQ in the National Register

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 433
  The ASM Headquarters and Geodesic Dome in Russell Township was added to the National Register of Historic Places . It is the 16th site in Geauga County to be listed in the National Register .
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