Hackensack Water Works
New Jersey
(Dave Frieder)

Conservatory of Flowers
San Francisco (Kevin J. Frest/The Conservatory of Flowers/Friends of Recreation and Parks)

TRANSITIONS

SAVED
1869-74 Old Mint, San Francisco: transferred from U.S. General Services Administra-tion to city, which will spend $50 million making Greek revival building into museum

Hackensack Water Works, Oradell, N.J.: future of 19th- and 20th-c. industrial buildings and equip-ment improved by reversal of Bergen County's long-standing demolition decision

Borough of Chalfont Historic District, Pa.: warded off advances of chain druggist Eckerd to locate drive-through store in 18th-c. village

LOST
c. 1840 Federal house, Jeffersonville, Ind.: torn down by Seventh-Day Adventist Church to clear way for parking lot

RESTORED
19th-c. Conservatory of Flowers, San Francisco: found in 1876 unassembled among effects of San Jose businessman, built in Golden Gate Park, closed because of damage from 1995 windstorm, reopened after $25 million repair

1890 Sandusky County Jail, Fremont, Ohio: converted into headquarters for county commissioners

THREATENED
1917 Vinton Building, Detroit: designed by industrial architect Albert Kahn, included on list of historic buildings to be rehabilitated or destroyed to prepare downtown for 2006 Super Bowl

1880 Hawaiian House, Salt Lake City: built by one of first Hawaiian Mormons, targeted by city for redevelopment

FOUND
Centuries' worth of shipwrecks, Hudson River, N.Y.: discovered during state's four-year survey of river bottom between Verrazano Narrows Bridge and Troy