Medinah Temple (Courtesy James Harb Architects)

Dwight D. Eisenhower V. A. Medical Center
(Preservation Association of Leavenworth)

TRANSITIONS

RESTORED
1912 Medinah Temple, Chicago: built as Shriners hall for conventions, circuses, and concerts, turned into Bloomies for leather couches, cappuccino makers, and wide-screen TVs

Pickett's Charge battlefield, Gettysburg, Pa.: cleared of new-growth trees and 1950s Home Sweet Home Motel constructed in anticipation of 1963 centennial of Civil War battle

1932 Immaculate Heart of Mary Motherhouse, Monroe, Mich.: made over with geothermal heating/cooling system and water recycling system while retaining historic character

SAVED
39 historic buildings, Dwight D. Eisenhower VA Medical Center, Leavenworth, Kan.: considered surplus and designated for demolition when listed by National Trust as endangered, now planned for recycling as housing, support services, and other uses

Chancellorsville Battlefield, Spotsylvania County, Va.: county supervisors vote down construction of town on 790 acres near national military park

LOST
Late-19th-c. Maennerchor Hall, New Albany, Ind.: bought by city to be incorporated into new fire station and department headquarters, razed after roof collapsed

THREATENED
1969 Pirelli Tire Co. headquarters, New Haven, Conn.: designed by modernist architect Marcel Breuer, marked for partial demolition by new owner and purveyor of modernist wares, Ikea

1966 Honolulu Memorial Park pagoda, Honolulu: less expensive to demolish replica of Sanju Pagoda in Nara, Japan, than to restore it, says owner, a bankrupt cemetery