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Archives: January/February 2003
 

 

 

 

 


Goodale-Fitzsimmons-
Hampton House
(Ross Snellings)


Massachusetts
State House
(Goody, Clancy & Associates)

 



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 town’s developer

 



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