Oldham House, Lexington, Ky.

One of four buildings, Omaha

TRANSITIONS

THREATENED
Pre-Civil War Oldham House, Lexington, Ky.: rare survivor of houses built by members of early community of free blacks, condemned but for sale

1967 Public Safety Building and Exhibit Building, Columbia, Md.: designed by an unheralded Frank Gehry long before the Bilbao Guggenheim, considered dispensable for new construction

SAVED
Four turn-of-20th-c. buildings, Omaha: located on proposed site of performing arts center, caught in legal battle between owners and city, spared by change in project siting

Mid-19th-c. Kid Ory House, New Orleans: dilapidated cottage where jazz trombonist (1886-1973) once lived, donated to preservation group that has restoration funding in hand

LOST
1947 Ace Theater, Miami: early African-American brick movie house formerly known, along with adjacent Cozy Inn, as Millie’s Corner, demolished under city’s unsafe-structures program

RESTORED
Early-20th-c. Union Academy portable-classroom building, Largo, Fla.: built for military, relocated to all-white school in 1926 and to all-black school in 1942, preserved at historical village

1905 Tennessee Trust Bank, Memphis: renovated as boutique Madison Hotel with 110 rooms, restaurant, bar, and rooftop garden

1963 Cinerama Dome, Hollywood, Calif.: thoroughly renewed down to its three projection booths for super-wide-screen movies in $100 million revitalization project