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• How Montgomery County is dissing Baltimore on state historic tax credits

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 520
  Baltimore City is one of the oldest major cities in the U.S. and as a (still) major port and onetime hotbed of manufacturing, it has both many old buildings and many large buildings. Large buildings and manufacturing complexes are perfect opportunities for what is called adaptive reuse. And it is adaptive reuse of ...
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• Legal Standing and Preservation in Pennsylvania

  
  Ecology of Absence — Authority: 127
  Todays Preservation Online includes and article that illustrates the importance of legal standing to historic preservation advocacy: A last-ditch effort to save Americas first Lithuanian Catholic church, located in Shenandoah, Pa., failed this week. Schuylkill County Judge Cyrus Palmer Dolbin ruled Dec. 1 that ...
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• Two years later, Iowa fire site may finally get cleaned up

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 136
  Fire ravaged several businesses in Maquoketa, Iowa in January 2008. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has provided funding for the cleanup of the asbestos-contaminated rubble left behind by the fire, but the city has to meet some requirements first. There must be a period open for public comments as to whether ...
  23 hours ago

• Medical Mart news roundup

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 480
  Cleveland Councilman Joe Cimperman helped to organize four public meetings about the Medical Mart for early 2010. Roldo Bartimole interpreted them as a political maneuver . Mayor Jackson spoke about the Medical Mart on Channel 3s Between the Lines and defended Public Auditorium on Channel 5. Commissioner ...
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• Landmark This!: Not Everyone Thrilled About Preserving Carroll Gardens

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 677
  The city is thinking about enlarging the relatively meager Carroll Gardens Historic District , a move celebrated by many in the increasingly yuppified old-school Italian neighborhood that has been on a preservation kick of late. But not everyone is on board! Buildings within historic districts obviously face ...
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• Cincinnati Preservation Bargains

  
  Victorian Antiquities and Design — Authority: 421
  A s part of our ongoing series of Cincinnati Preservation Bargains, I thought I would show a house that wont take much to bring back to its original glory. Some times a bargain isnt necessarily the cheapest house but the one with great details that would be very expensive to recreate! Todays house is a classic ...
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• Innerbelt Bridge plans advancing

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 480
  The Ohio Department of Transportation is proceeding with property acquisition for its planned new Innerbelt Bridge , including the purchase of three historic buildings that it intends to demolish. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2011, and will cause traffic disruptions until work in completed in 2017 . ...
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• Facebook – A Preservation Tool

  
  Preservation Alliance of Minnesota — Authority: 410
  by Erin Hanafin Berg, Field Representative December 2, 2009 Note: You need to be a member of Facebook to view some of these links! As someone who is solidly in the “35-44” age bracket, I will admit to a certain fascination with Facebook. (Have you read “ Why Facebook is for Old Fogies ?” The author ...
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• A Life in the Trades: December 2009

  
  Preservation in Pink — Authority: 122
  Series introduction . October 2009 . November 2009 . By Nicholas Bogosian When did manual competence become inferior to informational and technological competence? When did blue-collar become blue-collar? When did the college degree become superior to vocational training? In recent years, this dichotomy has been ...
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• Victorian Parlor : The Tete a Tete

  
  Victorian Antiquities and Design — Authority: 421
  N othing finishes off" a Victorian Parlor like a Tete a Tete settee. These pieces are increasingly hard to find and highly desired by those recreating a Period perfect formal parlor. The tete a tete was designed to physically separate its two occupants. People faced in opposite directions but could easily ...
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• Remembering Pearl Street: The strip of historic buildings on...

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 677
  The strip of historic buildings on Pearl Street were demolished despite much outcry (except for the facade of 211 Pearl, now the entrance to a parking garage), but that doesnt mean theyre forgotten . The addition to the 2 Gold Street luxury rental tower took the place of some of the old warehouses, and a ...
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• Neighborhood Group prepares study on VBML impact on redevelopment and restoration

  
  Victorian Antiquities and Design — Authority: 421
  T he Knox Hill Neighborhood Association is preparing a report they hope to present to the council on the negative impact of the VBML (Vacant Building Maintenance License) on redevelopment and restoration efforts not only in their neighborhood but city wide. The report is expected to be complete in late January/early ...
  4 days ago

• Radical Women and Unexpected Places

  
  Bay Ridge Journal — Authority: 429
  On Thursday, December 3 at 6:30 PM, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation will present The Immigrant, Radical, and Notorious Women of Washington Square, an illustrated lecture by Joyce Gold, at the 3rd Street Music Settlement, 235 East 11th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues). Perhaps in no other ...
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• Thoughts on making preservation and sustainability matter.

  
  NA Confidential — Authority: 431
  Tomorrow evening, a group of community leaders will officially meet for the first time to discuss the possibility of forming a new nonprofit aimed specifically at achieving historic preservation goals in Floyd County. For those interested, the meeting is at 7:30 pm at the Cardinal Ritter House, 1218 E. Oak Street, in ...
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• Knox Hill Project: Weekly Update

  
  Victorian Antiquities and Design — Authority: 421
  S TAIRS!!!! Well actually "temporary" stairs. When we took out the old basement stairs they were in pretty good shape and we needed some front steps to the front door so we are using them temporally until I can build some new proper stairs with side panels and period rails. They are treated but I threw a quick coat ...
  5 days ago

• "Those who say it cannot be done shouldnt interrupt the people doing it."

  
  NA Confidential — Authority: 431
  (See photos in this separate post) As Ive noted in the past, one obvious flaw with the blogger.com scheme is the absence of search capability for comments. Think of the many rewarding comment threads over the years, and ask yourself: How do I locate them again? In reality, you dont easily do so, unless you can ...
  6 days ago

• Photo essay: An historic downtown property, and its stewardship.

  
  NA Confidential — Authority: 431
  All photos except the second (yellow) are from the summer of 2008. I couldnt find the photo showing the fallen bricks in the alley behind the building, although theyre probably still there.
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• "We will demand that our leaders take us and this property serious and FIX IT" - "Citizen" Ed Hauser, May 26, 2006

  
  REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio — Authority: 448
  In reviewing REALNEO for material on the historic Cleveland U.S. Coast Guard Station, to accompany these November 25, 2009, photographs and Thanksgiving Day Pans of the Coast Guard site, I came across the May, 2006, REALNEO discussion "COAST GUARD IDEAS" about what should be done with the site... with a lengthy ...
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• Happy Thanksgiving REALNEO

  
  REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio — Authority: 448
  Exquisite decay. On Thanksgiving eve, a little over a year following the death of Ed Hauser - the primary community activist for preservation of the National Historic Landmark Dyer Coast Guard Station, on Whiskey Island - I went Hauser Way to photograph this best location in the nation, to share with you on ...
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• A New Perspective on Urban Settlements in America: Veronica Moss Visits Times Square

  
  REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio — Authority: 448
  Start Thanksgiving with a smile, and a new perspective on urban settlements in America - enjoy "Veronica Moss Visits Times Square". I found this video at Rob Pitingolos very cool NEO-based blog - Extraordinary Observations (since September, 2004)... originally from StreetFilms.org .   Definitely check out ...
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