July/August
1999
Phillips Avenue Wants to Be
Your Friend
How the aging main street of Sioux Falls, S.D., found
a more personal way of doing business.
By Alan Ehrenhalt
Notes from Underground
The popularity of preparing time capsules means instant
archaeology for future generations.
By Diane Speare Triant
A Black Dream Dies Hard
Allensworth's loyalists return again and again to
an unfinished park in the San Joaquin Valley.
By Shirley Streshinsky
Barn Raising Photography
How designer Maya Lin got a sleek new library inside
a century-old barn in Tennessee.
By Timothy Hursley
World Without End
The National Cathedral seems the essence of permanence.
But the story of its care shows otherwise.
By James Conaway
Preservation News
Transitions • Hard times
for a Broadway patriot • A folk-punk record
company stirs up downtown Buffalo • A
Sense of Cyberplace: Radio days • Maui's
risky road to Hana protects the hinterland •
America's 11 Most Endangered
Historic Places 1999 • Rachel Carson's
home speaks to nature. Can it speak to Pittsburgh?
• Yikes! A Chia barn
• California vintners whine about a plan to renovate
a historic spa • Who's
News
Place: On winter days in the '50s, a Providence
girl sought refuge in the old Arcade and found a fascinating
world.
By Edith Pearlman
The Ideal City: An architect is asked to build a
real Virginia village from scratch. Can if be done?
Should it?
By Carl Elefante
Traveler: Ernest Hemingway never looked back at
the Chicago suburb where he was born 100 years ago.
By Reed Karaim
The Back Page: The march of modernization is sweeping
aside cityscapes of not so long ago.
By Dwight Young
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