Garden House,
Hamilton College

Loew’s Akron

Continental Life
Building

TRANSITIONS

LOST
1934 Garden House, Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.: designed by architect Ralph Adams Cram as professor’s guest residence, demolished for construction of science building

1930s The Trails Restaurant, Duarte, Calif.: waypoint on Route 66, cleared away for subdivision

C. 1910 Blue Anchor fruit-packing shed, Loomis, Calif.: planned as local-history museum and community center, destroyed, along with historical documents, by fire

RESTORED
929 Loew’s Akron, Ohio: designed to seat 2,600 vaudeville patrons in setting evoking courtyard of Moorish castle, improved for contemporary cultural events by $22.5 million expansion/restoration

1929 Continental Life Building, St. Louis: art deco skyscraper, empty for almost 30 years, renovated as 107 apartments

1914 Davenport Hotel, Spokane, Wash.: built for northwest waffle king Louis Davenport, closed for 17 years, updated and restored at cost of $30 million

SAVED
1908 Grace Community United Church of Christ, St. Paul, Minn.: encumbered with $1 million of deterioration, spared sale to developer bent on demolition, sold to charter school planning rehab

THREATENED
Pair of c. 1810 houses, Lisbon, Md.: built in pioneer stopover on National Road, now in path of undisclosed development in heart of still-small community

1928 Boyd Theater, Philadelphia: described as city’s last movie palace, denied historic designation by local historical commission, approved for razing by owner