Clik here to view.
The Abyssinian Meeting House: Maine’s Untold African-American Heritage
The Abyssinian is the third-oldest standing African-American meetinghouse in the U.S. (The first two are in Boston and Nantucket, MA.) 150 years ago, ships anchored and runaway slaves hurriedly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
No School Left Behind: Saving Montana’s Rural Classrooms
The little school on the prairie. Rural schoolhouses, like this one in western Montana, may soon exist only in fiction. Sandy Hart’s grandmother rode her horse to school. Out in rural Montana, wooden...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Great Gatsby Mansions: Real-Life Homes That Inspired the Book and Film
Oheka Castle. “Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water...” You either love or hate Baz Luhrmann’s recent and unabashedly lavish film adaptation. But...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Great Gatsby Mansions, Part II: Long Island’s Lost Gilded Age Mansions
Beacon Towers. "And as the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby In the afterglow of Baz Luhrmann’s summer adaptation of The Great...
View ArticleClik here to view.
[Interview] Camilo Silva, Filmmaker: After 68 Stars the Ambassador Hotel —...
The Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, was demolished in 2006. After 68 tells the story to save it. It was the hangout for the rich, famous, and politically powerful -- but there’s more to this Hollywood...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Save Wigwam Village”: On the Road to Cross-Cultural Communication
Wigwam Village #2 in Cave City, Kentucky was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Seven of these roadside motels once stood in Kentucky, Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana, Florida,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Coming to Drayton Hall: Historic Preservation in 3D
Welcome to history's future. Drayton Hall, a National Trust site in Charleston, South Carolina, follows Colonial Williamsburg in going digital. Unpack your bag, because you won’t need one for this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Haight-Ashbury’s Hippie House: Preserving San Francisco’s 1960s Counterculture
San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood was site of the Summer of Love, center of the '60s counterculture movement. "Turn on, tune in, drop out." It was the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lustrons: Building an American Dream House
Lustrons were an ingenious 1940s invention: modern homes made of prefabricated steel sheets. Located in Chesterton, Indiana, this Lustron home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....
View ArticleClik here to view.
[Interview] Zach Schonfeld: “I Visit Presidential Birthplaces”
“I wanted to pursue something absurd before succumbing to adulthood,” says Zach Schonfeld of his project on historical tourism and presidential history. While in college, Zach Schonfeld had a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Columbus, Indiana: Different by Design
Welcome to Columbus, Indiana, brought to you by the world's most renowned architects. I.M. Pei, Richard Meier, Eero Saarinen, Harry Weese: the biggest names in modern architecture -- all in the middle...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Houston Astrodome: Iconic Stadium Awaits “New Dome Experience”
The Houston Astrodome: The world’s first dome stadium brought the future for professional sports to Houston, Texas. The Houston Astrodome opened in 1965 with an exhibition game: Houston Astros versus...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Marcus Books: Oldest African-American Bookstore Fights to Stay Open
Marcus Books: San Franciscans hope landmark designation and city resolution will save the oldest African-American-owned bookstore in the country. “The African-American experience has always been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Not Stopping That United Sound: Highway Threatens Detroit’s Motown Studio
The United Sound System Recording Studios and its long music history may be leveled or be forced to relocate to make way for the I-94. United Sound System: it's where Detroit got its Motown sound. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Farnsworth House Director Maurice Drue Parrish on Experiencing Modernism
Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois Maurice Drue Parrish recently joined as the new director of the Farnsworth House, a National Trust site in Plano, Illinois -- and one of the most iconic expressions...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Playing with Art: The Isamu Noguchi Playscape
The Isamu Noguchi Playscape: Is it a park? Is it art? Let’s call it visionary playground design. Don’t touch the art -- play with it! Kids can definitely get their hands and feet all over this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It Takes a Village: How Boise, Idaho is Celebrating its Sesquicentennial
The BOISE 150 SESQUI-PARTY on July 7, 2013 commemorated the 150th anniversary of the first platting of Boise. An estimated 16,000-20,000 people attended and were treated to performances at four...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Bittersweet Future for Hawaii’s Threatened Sugar Mills
Sugar cane fields stretch across the Hawaiian landscape. “Sugar formed the landscape in Hawaii,” Harrison Yamamoto says. “From the mountains to the beach, it was all fields.” Hawaii’s history -- and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lustrons: Building an American Dream House
Lustrons were an ingenious 1940s invention: modern homes made of prefabricated steel sheets. Located in Chesterton, Indiana, this Lustron home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....
View ArticleClik here to view.
[Interview] Zach Schonfeld: “I Visit Presidential Birthplaces”
“I wanted to pursue something absurd before succumbing to adulthood,” says Zach Schonfeld of his project on historical tourism and presidential history. While in college, Zach Schonfeld had a...
View Article