July/August
2001
Doo
Wop Gets Its Due
Tacky? Gaudy? Who cares! Wildwood, N.J.,
proudly trades on its mid-century Doo Wop heritage.
By Thomas
Mallon
Divine Hodgepodge
Bernard Maybeck's medieval-modernist First Church
of Christ, Scientist, in Berkeley, Calif.
By Stanley Abercrombie
Corning's
Choice
The company that has given the city so much now wants
a new high school in a corn field. Can the people
say no?
By Brad Edmondson
Evolution
on Hold
Why the Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia
failed to adapt and yet survives
By Wayne Curtis
Kate Chopin's Creole Awakening
Louisiana provided her with material, but it was in
St. Louis that she became an artist.
By Dennis Drabelle
Preservation
News
Transitions
• An Amish barn reraising
in southern Maryland • Monuments of modernism
struggle to endure • America's
11 Most Endangered Historic Places 2001 •
Communities debate school renovation versus demolition
• Yikes! Aluminum wrapped
• Preservation Interview: Multimillionaire Thomas
E. Worrell Jr. creates urban villages • Stonington,
Conn., turned back the British. Can it handle an architect
from New Jersey? • Sense
of Cyberplace: Saving pioneer cemeteries •
Who's News
Place: An Indiana courthouse topped by a fish
has survived the threat of demolition and beheld
a downtown transformation.
By Scott Russell Sanders
Traveler:
A Bridge Too Far
Reopened 30 years ago in the Arizona desert, the
London Bridge doesn't look as lost as you might
expect.
By Reed Karaim
Books:
The Kennewick Man
Review by Jack Meinhardt
Interiors By M.G. Lord
Back
Page By Dwight Young
A little touch of the unexpected, not to say the
outrageous, makes the neighborhood brighter.
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