November/December
2002
A
Burning Question
Fires continue to destroy historic buildings, often
during their restoration. But heightened vigilance
and new ways to prevent them offer hope.
By Jean Dunbar
Place of Infamy
Ghostly remains at the base of a Wyoming mountain
are all that's left of a World War II Japanese-American
internment camp.
By Shirley Streshinsky
Old Rough and
Ready
Opened when Zachary Taylor assumed the presidency,
the Winder Building, near the White House, draws its
power just from having lasted.
By Thomas Mallon
Discreet Retreat
Hollywood's Chateau Marmont hotel has a reputation
as a place to misbehave, and for guests who never
want to leave.
By A.M. Homes
Preservation
News
The company town
of Cheshire, Ohio, will be gone in a puff of blue
smoke • Transitions
• The Jane Addams Homes
are jeopardized by a massive overhaul of Chicago's
public housing •
Yikes! Jukebox chic in Richmond, Va. • Tax
credits and other preservation programs are being
reviewed as state budgets fall short •
Washington
Park in Bridgeport, Conn., the Inn on Ferry Street
in Detroit, and the rest of the 2002 National Preservation
Awards • Who's
News
Place: At a secluded historical
park in Alaska, a walker feels connected to those
who have traveled the same paths before him.
By Richard Nelson
Travel:
Tijuana bares its historic side.
By Reed Karaim
Weekend: Dropping out in Blue Hill/Deer Isle, Maine
By Anne Matthews
Books:
In praise of the old and crumbling structures that
have nourished painters and poets for ages
By Sudip Bose, short review by
Allen Freeman
Bricks & Mortar: A Washington State man makes
rare, historic carillons blossom again.
By Suzanne Richardson
Interiors: Bone up on a below-sea-level cemetery
and a first-edition tale of abduction. A library poses
tomes of granite and lead.
By M.G. Lord
Back
Page: The cities of tomorrow need the seasoned
places of today.
By Dwight Young
Your
Trust
Taking a Historic Hotels
of America Driving Journey near Charlottesville, Va.,
one of 517 itineraries nationwide
By Margaret Foster
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