September/October 1998
Modernism on Main Street
In Columbus, Ind., there are 60 buildings designed by
famous architects. So why are the sidewalks empty?
By Robert Campbell
M.F.K. Fisher's Last
House
The home where the celebrated writer spent her last
20 years shows how she satisfied her hunger for shelter.
By Shirley Streshinsky
The Pagan Tradition
Modern-day coliseums owe more than just architecture
to ancient Rome–they are temples to our baser
instincts.
By Mark Edmundson
One House at a Time
Long before Martha Stewart, designer Candace Wheeler
promoted a new model for the American home.
By Jean Dunbar
High-Wire Act
Amid intense debate, Sarasota loses a grand old hotel–and
an important reminder of the town's headier times.
By Beth Dunlop
Preservation News
Transitions • A storm
topples a 225-year-old oak onto Frank Lloyd Wright's
Taliesin • Tenants live rent-free
for life in publicly owned historic houses in
return for restoring them • Is
a survivor from the 1933 World's Fair a family's
dream house or a money pit? • 200-year-old
Lewis and Clark plant specimens need emergency
care • Massachusetts
weighs a one percent local-option tax to fund
community goals • Yikes! A pair of
enveloped row houses • Las
Vegas' first racially integrated hotel/casino
tries to revive as a historic money-maker
• A Sense of Cyberplace: Trailblazing•
Who's News
Place: On the Vermont farm where Robert Frost lived
out his final decades, the sources of his work remain
visible.
By Jay Parini
The Ideal City: The maze-like core of Cairo follows
no Western planning principles–and it's
just what an inner city should be.
By Jan Morris
Landscape: Atlanta environmentalists rediscover
their Olmstedian roots to spruce up Piedmont Park.
By Dennis Drabelle
The Back Page: In 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition
inspired civic beauty. Why can't that happen today?
By Dwight Young
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