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Goodale-Fitzsimmons-
Hampton House
(Ross Snellings)

Massachusetts
State House
(Goody, Clancy & Associates)
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TRANSITIONS
THREATENED
1964 Strick House, Santa Monica, Calif.: designed by
modernist Oscar Niemeyer, chief architect of Brasilia,
bought as teardown
c. 1799 Goodale-Fitzsimmons-Hampton House, Augusta,
Ga.: looks like townhouse, but is former plantation
house in path of commercial development at I-520 interchange
RESTORED
1798 Massachusetts State House, Boston: designed by
architect Charles Bulfinch, expanded in 1889-95 and
1917, repaired by three-year, $42.5 million project
1913 Owl Drug Store Building, San Diego: developed
by U.S. Grant Jr., still owned by Grant heirs, converted
to street-level restaurant with loft apartments on
upper three floors
LOST
1890s Matthews House, Newberry, S.C.: demolished after
town resists efforts by Newberry College to move building
from site of new drugstore and use as student housin
RECOVERING
1818 Arlington, Natchez, Miss.: under reconstruction
by owner Thomas Vaughan with help from Historic Natchez
Foundation after fire severely damaged house
SAVED
Eight 1920-38 bungalows, Pasadena, Calif.: vacant
for 20 years, bought for restoration and neighborhood
redevelopment by partnership of architects and contractors
1925 Joseph Young House, Hollywood, Fla.: rescued
from neglect and abandonment by young family determined
to restore mansion built by towns developer
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