Richardson House

Fillmore County Courthouse

TRANSITIONS

THREATENED
c. 1803 H.H. Richardson House, Brookline, Mass.: architect’s last home and office, which he didn’t design but renovated and added to, could be sold as teardown

1939 Ada County Courthouse, Boise, Idaho: could be restored or demolished and replaced with new facility, depending on appropriation by state legislature

DESIGNATED/UNDESIGNATED
1935 Sanitary Landfill, Fresno, Calif.: as breakthrough in urban sanitation methods, announced as National Historic Landmark on Aug. 27; as Superfund site, stripped of honor on Aug. 28

RESTORED
1908 District Building, Washington, D.C.: four-year, $68.5 million effort recaptures Beaux-Arts splendor of city hall

1894 Fillmore County Courthouse, Geneva, Neb.: restored/renovated after countians vote 3-1 in favor of it

LOST
1850s Greek-revival house, New Orleans: gutted by suspicious fire, third in 10 years to damage the Lower Garden Historic District building, center of property dispute

SAVED
View in Fowlers Mill, Ohio: Nextel agreement to dismantle 250-foot-high cell tower erected among historic buildings ends legal battle

SOLD ON eBAY
1926 Lucille’s Filling Station, Hydro, Okla.: Route 66 landmark, operated by Lucille Hamons from 1941 until she died last year, bought by California businessman for $35,600

Jimi Hendrix house, Seattle: 1-story, 2-bedroom house where rock guitarist lived as a teenager, bought by Michigan man for $33,853, must be moved