The pergola at street level screens the park behind. A staircase leads up to an elevated platform. At the rear wall is a manmade waterfall. This creates atmosphere. The sound of falling water contributes to tranquility.
For the past 17 years community leaders and residents have maintained and sought to go about preserving the St. Paul’s School in a responsible manner. Various proposals for senior housing, high-end residential, and a community center have been proposed though have failed to elicit the necessary community support to proceed. Now up to $5 million … Read more
We started at the Starrett–Lehigh Building. This 19-story building at 601 West 26th Street, occupies the full block between Eleventh Avenue, 26th Street, Twelfth Avenue, and 27th Street, in the Chelsea neighborhood. Built between 1930 and 1931 by the Starrett Corporation and the Lehigh Valley Railroad (LV), who formed a joint venture to develop a … Read more
The Oyster Bay Farmers’ Market began inconspicuously enough, on just a few weeks notice during the Better Block event in 2010. There was no time to seriously recruit vendors. What we ended up doing is buying wholesale from a big box grocer and then selling out of a parking lot during a two-day community planning … Read more
Some time in the last two decades of the 20th century, the Flushing Freedom Trail was established to guide people to historic sites and attractions in the Flushing area. A red line was painted along the sidewalk and signs were placed along the route. This earlier route received an update in the 1990s when the … Read more
View Larger Map View towards the DUMBO neighborhood from underneath the Manhattan Bridge from which the neighborhood gets part of its name. DUMBO is an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. During the 1970s as many manufacturing operations closed, this area saw itself … Read more
View Larger Map Harpers Ferry is an area visited by founders and presidents including George Washington who surveyed the area at the age of 17, and Thomas Jefferson who also visited. Lewis and Clarke started their expedition from this spot. This was also site of the first crossing of the Potomac by railroad on the … Read more
At a time when Napa Valley is facing major challenges with limited consumer demand, and some wineries considering to sell their grapes outright, skipping a vintage, or simply leaving them on the vine, it is interesting to reflect on the preservation heritage of Napa Valley and the forces that brought this present-day situation about. A … Read more
Interpretive and wayfinding signage project in Ferndale, Michigan, funded by a Preserve America grant. Much discussion has surrounded the recent White House budget that provides zero funding for the Preserve America and Save America’s Treasures program, to keep State and Tribal Historic Preservation Officers funding level, and to cut the National Heritage Area program by … Read more
View Larger Map Kanab, Utah, was named “Little Hollywood” in the 1950’s by people in the movie industry who used this as a location for filming of television shows and movies. MGM built a makeshift studio outside of town in the 1940s. More Westerns were produced near Kanab than anywhere else outside of California. Clint … Read more