Choctaw Freight
Building, Ark.

Sewage-treatment plant, top; park, above, Denver

TRANSITIONS

LOST
1899 Choctaw Freight Building, Little Rock, Ark.: wrapped within metal warehouse, torn down though counterpart passenger depot will be restored as part of 27-acre William J. Clinton Presidential Center.

1932 S.S. Grand View Point Hotel, Schellsburg, Pa.: built to resemble a ship on remote mountainside along Lincoln Highway, destroyed by fire

1940s Lustron house, Boston: torn down and replaced by much larger house, leaving city with one surviving specimen of post-World War II all-metal ranch houses

THREATENED
Late-19th-c. McKay Lodging, Bar Harbor, Maine: targeted for demolition by developer who wants to replace pair of cottages with 60-to-70-room inn

RECYCLED
1930s sewage-treatment plant, Denver: selectively demolished and landscaped into urban sculpture and park

SAVED
1916 Dream Garden, Philadelphia, Pa.: spared sale and relocation by $3.5 million donation that will leave glass mosaic collaboration between Maxfield Parrish and Louis Comfort Tiffany in protective hands

1928 Dudley High School, Greensboro, N.C.: rescued from demolition order when school board voted to renovate city’s first public high school for blacks

RESTORED
1928 Dymaxion House, Dearborn, Mich.: designed by R. Buckminster Fuller as aluminum hexagonal house for returning GIs, reassembled and displayed at Henry Ford Museum

1927 Sheboygan Theatre, Sheboygan, Wis.: reopens as home of local symphony orchestra after $10 million renovation ends decades of ruin and vacancy