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  • Recent stories (Feb. 29, 2008 - present) >>
  • Detroit's Tiger Stadium to be partially demolished this spring - Feb. 15, 2008
  • L.A.'s first architectural survey - Feb. 8, 2008
  • More preservation groups offer courses to real-estate agents - Feb. 1, 2008
  • Navy wants to raze Skidmore, Owings & Merrill building - Jan. 25, 2008
  • Suburban Boston's H.H. Richardson House has a new owner - Jan. 18, 2008
  • Looted for copper, empty historic buildings become even harder to rehab - Jan. 11, 2008
  • The trend to restore old hotels as extended-stay inns - Jan. 4, 2008
  • Best & Worst of 2007 - Dec. 28, 2007
  • The making of an offbeat Baltimore museum - Dec. 21, 2007
  • Chicago's green bungalows - Dec. 14, 2007
  • Oregon railroad struggles to get back on track after flood - Dec. 7, 2007
  • Philip Johnson house in jeopardy - Nov. 30, 2007
  • Chicago puts its historic water tanks on a pedestal - Nov. 16, 2007
  • New Hampshire can't afford to care for its landmarks - Nov. 9, 2007
  • Baltimore's arabbers are fading away - Nov. 2, 2007
  • Gravely endangered cemeteries in New Orleans, Savannah, and Atlanta - Oct. 26, 2007
  • Museum of the Confederacy's new battle plan - Oct. 19, 2007
  • Hip Hop history in the Bronx - Oct. 12, 2007
  • Wright's Ennis House stabilized - Oct. 5, 2007
  • Should power lines bisect historic places? - Sept. 28, 2007
  • Back to school for green preservationists - Sept. 21, 2007
  • On Brooklyn's waterfront, condo towers are replacing historic dockyards and factories. - Sept. 14, 2007
  • Buffalo unveils a plan to take down its white elephants - Sept. 7, 2007
  • Inside New York's oldest and most ornate subway station, closed since 1945 - Aug. 31, 2007
  • Scenes from the past and present - Aug. 24, 2007
  • Colorado opposes the Army's plans to expand a base - Aug. 17, 2007
  • New Orleans is using FEMA money to clearcut houses against homeowners' wishes - Aug. 10, 2007
  • High property taxes are forcing historic oceanfront amusement parks out of business - Aug. 3, 2007
  • Branson's Spaceport will bring changes to an ancient New Mexico road - July 27, 2007
  • By blending new urbanism and historic preservation, developers create hip places to live. - July 20, 2007
  • How the 76 ball was saved - July 13, 2007
  • Santa Monica landmarks the birthplace of modern skateboarding - July 6, 2007
  • Poems and buildings are being resurrected at Angel Island Immigration Station - June 29, 2007
  • Charleston hopes to save its beloved blacksmith's home and workshop - June 22, 2007
  • The National Park Service vows to restore Idaho's Minidoka Internment Camp - June 15, 2007
  • McMansions on hold: Some towns fight back with moratoriums - June 8, 2007
  • Pa. town debates a subdivision on its golf course - June 1, 2007
  • A Hollywood star's estate becomes a public beach club - May 25, 2007
  • How Sanborn fire maps can guide restorations - May 18, 2007
  • A Nashville poster company keeps its letterpress going - May 11, 2007
  • Beyond Graceland: Where the music lives - May 4, 2007
  • What to do when historic houses flood - Apr. 27, 2007
  • Painted wall signs are fading, but is restoration the answer? - Apr. 20, 2007
  • How TDRs can help and hurt historic buildings - Apr. 13, 2007
  • How Lancaster County preserves its farmland - Apr. 6, 2007
  • A California playground gets a second chance - Mar. 30, 2007
  • Searching for Japantown - Mar. 23, 2007
  • Baseball's victims of progress - Mar. 16, 2007
  • Before & After - Mar. 9, 2007
  • Saving the gardens of Alcatraz - Mar. 2, 2007
  • More preservation groups offer classes to real-estate agents - Feb. 23, 2007
  • One man's dream to restore a Little Rock neighborhood - Feb. 16, 2007
  • What one city did with its historic farm on Chicago's North Shore - Feb. 9, 2007
  • What will happen to historic military bases set to close in four years? - Feb. 2, 2007
  • Lost in L.A. - Jan. 26, 2007
  • Surfers, erosion, and New York's oldest lighthouse - Jan. 19, 2007
  • The automats, once a New York institution, are dying out - Jan. 12, 2007
  • New Orleans activists blog against unwarranted demolitions - Jan. 5, 2007
  • Best & Worst of 2006 - Dec. 29, 2006
  • At Jack London's California ranch, curators dismantled one museum to create another - Dec. 22, 2006
  • Hidden for decades, L.A.'s most controversial mural is being restored - Dec. 15, 2006
  • Chicago puts its rooftop water tanks on a pedestal - Dec. 8, 2006
  • Forty years after the National Historic Preservation Act - Dec. 1, 2006
  • A Florida man's crusade has saved seven old houses - Nov. 17, 2006
  • New Hampshire can't afford to care for its neglected landmarks - Nov. 10, 2006
  • Baltimore's horse-and-cart vendors, the arabbers, are fading away - Nov. 3, 2006
  • A day in the life of a New England "ghostbuster" - Oct. 27, 2006
  • Stadiums and superdomes are being replaced by bigger ballparks - Oct. 20, 2006
  • Will a supermarket replace the Brooklyn Navy Yard's once-grand mansions? - Oct. 13, 2006
  • Philadelphia renews three historic play spaces - Oct. 6, 2006
  • Inside New York City's first and most ornate subway station, closed since 1945 - Sept. 29, 2006
  • Garden apartments are losing ground - Sept. 22, 2006
  • An almost-famous music studio is now open for tours - Sept. 15, 2006
  • How Kentucky paved a better way to fix covered bridges - Sept. 8, 2006
  • The ones who returned to New Orleans are giving the city its second chance - Sept. 1, 2006
  • Conn. tribe will demolish temple and restore burial grounds - Aug. 25, 2006
  • Ellis Island's ruins are being stabilized - Aug. 18, 2006
  • The second lives of decommissioned battleships - Aug. 11, 2006
  • New Jersey's Doo Wop motels turn off the lights - Aug. 4, 2006
  • Hollywood and history square off in Tombstone, Arizona - July 28, 2006
  • The owners of Florida's Belleview Biltmore Hotel want to tear it down for condos - July 21, 2006
  • St. Paul, Minn., searches for a use for its empty 150-year-old brewery - July 14, 2006
  • Some chain stores break free from their typical design to fit into historic neighborhoods - July 7, 2006
  • Coney Island's parachute jump rebounds with a $5 million restoration - June 30, 2006
  • Can a new visitors center in Iowa put the house from "American Gothic" back on the map? - June 23, 2006
  • National parks work on restoring their historic assets one season at a time - June 16, 2006
  • A developer has plans for a former asylum beside Manhattan - June 9, 2006
  • Questioning the appropriateness of executing Frank Lloyd Wright's unbuilt plans - June 2, 2006
  • Hundreds of octagon houses have outlasted the 1850s trend - May 26, 2006
  • Preserving Japanese culture amid rampant development - May 19, 2006
  • Saving the gardens of Alcatraz, one plant at a time - May 12, 2006
  • In the American West, traces of the Spanish Basques are disappearing - Apr. 28, 2006
  • When Wal-Mart moves out, churches move in - Apr. 21, 2006
  • Betting on heritage tourism, Atlantic City rolls out a boardwalk restoration - Apr. 14, 2006
  • How transferring development rights can help and hurt historic landmarks - Apr. 7, 2006
  • The Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Building sits empty, with no plans for restoration - Mar. 31, 2006
  • As Portland revitalizes Old Town, some say there's such a thing as standing too tall - Mar. 24, 2006
  • The Shakers strike a deal to preserve their only farm - Mar. 17, 2006
  • The 1,000-year-old pieces of a Spanish monastery are being reconstructed in California - Mar. 10, 2006
  • Painted advertisements are disappearing, but is restoration the answer? - Mar. 3, 2006
  • Back to school means work for Tulane University freshmen - Feb. 24, 2006
  • Palauan meeting houses, abandoned and obliterated, make a comeback - Feb. 17, 2006
  • Many old gas stations are gone, but others have been renovated as beauty salons, offices, or restaurants - Feb. 10, 2006
  • Will stricter excavation rules help or hurt shipwrecks? - Feb. 3, 2006
  • What it takes to save one of Quantico's Lustrons - Jan. 27, 2006
  • Boston considers natural gas and wind turbine projects for its Harbor Islands - Jan. 20, 2006
  • Months after the Kelo decision, New London, Conn., is at a standstill - Jan. 13, 2006
  • Our annual list of Preservation dreams and nightmares - Jan. 6, 2005
  • In Connecticut, a tribe may demolish a 1928 building to restore its burial ground - Dec. 16, 2005
  • An Underground Railroad site is on track to becoming a museum - Dec. 9, 2005
  • Beyond the museum, dozens of ruins are slowly being stabilized - Dec. 2, 2005
  • New Jersey's Doo Wop motels turn out the lights - Nov. 18, 2005
  • A Colorado town discovers a log cabin hidden inside a house - Nov. 4, 2005
  • Pennsylvanians object to a housing development on a Revolutionary War camp - Oct. 28, 2005
  • Some cities convert their historic parking garages to lofts or lots - Oct. 21, 2005
  • Who was Andrew Haswell Green? A park could refresh the city's memory - Oct. 14, 2005
  • The second lives of decommissioned battleships - Oct. 7, 2005
  • After a botched renovation, Gordon Bunshaft's modern home was demolished - Sept. 30, 2005
  • Hollywood and history square off in Tombstone, Arizona - Sept. 23, 2005
  • Hurricane Katrina shattered Mississippi's historic districts - Sept. 16, 2005
  • Downeasters celebrate the Pentagon's decision to spare a 19th-century shipyard - Sept. 9, 2005
  • Inside the nation's only high school with a preservation-based curriculum - Sept. 2, 2005
  • A developer keeps plans for Coney Island under wraps - Aug. 26, 2005
  • Few brave the trip to the Walt Whitman House in Camden, N.J., but the city hopes to change that - Aug. 19, 2005
  • Vertical Access goes to extremes for a close-up view of history - Aug. 12, 2005
  • When Wal-Mart moves out, churches move in - Aug. 5, 2005
  • Americans are using their vacations to do preservation work - July 29, 2005
  • The rebirth of a Beaux-Arts landmark in Cleveland - July 22, 2005
  • Some chain stores break free from their typical design to fit into historic neighborhoods - July 15, 2005
  • New York State is selling its defunct hospitals, but one city objects to a sale - July 8, 2005
  • The Queen of the St. Lawrence River opens as a museum - July 1, 2005
  • Historic horse-racing tracks struggle to stay in the race - June 24, 2005
  • Can a new visitors center in Eldon, Iowa, put the house from Grant Wood's "American Gothic" back on the map? - June 17, 2005
  • In the American West, traces of the Spanish Basques are disappearing - June 10, 2005
  • The owners of Florida's Belleview Biltmore Hotel want to tear it down for condos - June 3, 2005
  • How Baltimore residents pooled their money to save a local landmark - May 27, 2005
  • New Orleans dusts off houses with ties to its musical history - May 20, 2005
  • Why some homeowners are having trouble selling their Wright houses - May 13, 2005
  • Thomas Wolfe's house finally reopens after a devastating fire - May 6, 2005
  • Louis Kahn's Trenton bathhouse isn't the only one at risk - Apr. 29, 2005
  • The Red Sox will stay in Fenway, baseball's oldest ballpark - Apr. 22, 2005
  • St. Paul, Minn., searches for a use for its 150-year-old brewery - Apr. 15, 2005
  • National Parks work on restoring their historic assets one season at a time - Apr. 8, 2005
  • How Carnegie libraries adapt to survive - Apr. 1, 2005
  • Many old gas stations are gone, but others have been renovated - Mar. 25, 2005
  • The Plaza Hotel's new owner plans to rearrange its famous interior - Mar. 18, 2005
  • Architectural conservators work as gumshoes to solve mysteries of old buildings - Mar. 11, 2005
  • This month, the IRS will auction a seized 104-year-old mountain mansion - Mar. 4, 2005
  • An African American family's 145-year-old neighborhood is Fort Worth's newest historic district - Feb. 25, 2005
  • At Jack London's California ranch, curators are dismantling a museum to create another - Feb. 18, 2005
  • A new school plans to build classrooms on a South Carolina plantation - Feb. 11, 2005
  • Stiltsville, an aquatic neighborhood of seven houses in a National Park, will survive - Feb. 4, 2005
  • Hundreds of octagon houses have outlasted the 1850s trend - Jan. 28, 2005
  • Maine's one-room schoolhouses represent a lost way of life - Jan. 21, 2005
  • Finding a new raison d'etre for the old cellblock - Jan. 14, 2005
  • Palauan meeting houses, abandoned or obliterated by typhoons, are making a comeback - Jan. 7, 2005
  • Best & Worst 2004: Making and destroying history this year - Dec. 31, 2004
  • On a New York City beach, high-rises are replacing historic oceanside bungalows - Dec. 17, 2004
  • The city of Carmel-by-the-Sea vows to protect its historic cottages - Dec. 10, 2004
  • Few visit the Walt Whitman House in Camden, N.J., but the city hopes to change that - Dec. 3, 2004
  • More and more, Americans are taking vacations to do preservation work - Nov. 19, 2004
  • Three endangered churches in Harlem illuminate a nationwide dilemma - Nov. 12, 2004
  • Inside the nation's only high school with a preservation-based curriculum - Nov. 5, 2004
  • A Pacific Island's tribute to the atomic bomb - Oct. 29, 2004
  • New Orleans dusts off houses with ties to its musical history - Oct. 22, 2004
  • A New Yorker's quest to find and preserve Grand Central Station's lost iron statues - Oct. 15, 2004
  • Some cities convert their historic parking garages to lofts or lots - Oct. 8, 2004
  • Virginia's wineries are rooted in history - Oct. 1, 2004
  • Who was Andrew Haswell Green? - Sept. 24, 2004
  • Restored teahouse reminds Seattle of Japanese-American history during WWII - Sept. 17, 2004
  • Plans for a path beside Connecticut's 1938 Merritt Parkway - Sept. 10, 2004
  • Richmond considers a ballpark - Sept. 3, 2004
  • Palm Springs refuels a gas station as a tribute to its modern architecture - Aug. 27, 2004
  • Across the country, former airports like Denver's 1929 Stapleton Airport are becoming neighborhoods - Aug. 20, 2004
  • Swan Island is undeveloped and protected as a wildlife refuge, but its 300-year-old history is under attack - Aug. 13, 2004
  • A company called Vertical Access goes to extremes for a close-up view of history - Aug. 6, 2004
  • Most state universities still have a Morrill Hall, built after an 1862 act of Congress - July 30, 2004
  • One of Kentucky's "Moonlight Schools" will remain a museum to literacy - July 23, 2004
  • Can Buffalo, N.Y., woo tourists with its grain elevators? - July 16, 2004
  • Surrounded by strip malls, a Tempe fortune teller refuses to sell her house to developers - July 9, 2004
  • In Alabama, a postwar neighborhood built from bomb crates - July 2, 2004
  • Reno struggles to protect divorce-era architecture - June 25, 2004
  • Restoring and renovating the country's neighborhood icons - June 18, 2004
  • The Thomas Wolfe House finally reemerges after a devastating fire - June 4. 2004
  • Three post office renovations deliver three very different preservation messages - May 28, 2004
  • Are Quonsets, steel hangar-like huts left over from WW II, worth preserving? - May 21, 2004
  • Louis Kahn's Trenton Bathhouse isn't the only such building at risk - May 14, 2004
  • Only a few of landscape architect Jens Jensen's Midwestern designs survive - May 7, 2004
  • Historic horse-racing tracks struggle to stay in the race - Apr. 30, 2004
  • A preservation debate develops in Yonkers, N.Y. - Apr. 23, 2004
  • What does a listing on the National Register of Historic Places really mean? - Apr. 16, 2004
  • Finding a new raison d'etre for the old cell block - Apr. 9, 2004
  • Closed 24 years ago, a Silicon Valley amusement park now exists only in cyberspace - Apr. 2, 2004
  • What happens after city workers accidentally pave over historic marble cobblestones? - Mar. 26, 2004
  • New Orleans faces off with Wal-Mart - Mar. 19, 2004
  • Baseball players still hit homers in Cardines Field, one America's oldest ballparks - Mar. 12, 2004
  • How America's Carnegie libraries adapt to survive - Mar. 5, 2004
  • Stiltsville, an aquatic neighborhood of seven houses in a National Park, will live on - Feb. 27, 2004
  • After more than 60 years, Italy will return a looted obelisk to Ethiopia - Feb. 20, 2004
  • Is water ruining Tucson's historic adobe? - Feb. 13, 2004
  • Architectural conservators solve mysteries of old buildings - Feb. 6, 2004
  • Coney Island's parachute jump rebounds with a $5 million renovation - Jan. 30, 2004
  • Preservationists hop on board to save Harvey Houses - Jan. 23, 2004
  • What will happen to vacant big-box stores? - Jan. 16, 2004
  • Theme parks struggle to make a comeback - Jan. 9, 2004
  • A deadly Civil War clash off the coast of Normandy left behind artifacts and art - Jan. 2, 2004
  • A compromise reveals how IKEA is furnishing—and changing—the world - Dec. 19, 2003
  • Best & Worst of 2003 - Dec. 12, 2003
  • One national park removed a highway and restored a historic trail - Dec. 5, 2003
  • East Harlem's history is unprotected by landmark status - Nov. 21, 2003
  • Oct. 17, 2003
  • On a New York City beach, high-rises are replacing historic waterfront bungalows—despite laws that protect them - Oct. 10, 2003
  • Finding a new raison d'etre for the old cellblock - Oct. 3, 2003
  • What does a listing on the National Register of Historic Places really mean? - Sept. 26, 2003
  • Paving the road to ruin? - Sept. 12, 2003
  • Less than a century old, American mosques are undergoing growth and change - Sept. 5, 2003
  • La Jolla's oldest cottages escape demolition by neglect - Aug. 29, 2003
  • Finding a balance between preservation and recreation - Aug. 22, 2003
  • Maine's Swan Island, protected as a wildlife refuge, is under attack - Aug. 15, 2003
  • A New Yorker's quest to find and preserve Grand Central Station's iron eagles - Aug. 8, 2003
  • Manhattan preservationists object to the renovation of Two Columbus Circle - Aug. 1, 2003
  • Navy transfers winery to Bay Area city, but oil refinery could block public access - July 25, 2003
  • Chicago hospital flatlines - July 18, 2003
  • Hawaii's former agricultural region harvests its history - July 11, 2003
  • Is preservation of facades really preservation? - June 27, 2003
  • Can Buffalo, N.Y., woo tourists with its grain elevators? - June 20, 2003
  • Who will pay to repair Savannah's historic cobblestones? - June 13, 2003
  • National and state registers include America's quirkiest historic objets d'art - June 6, 2003
  • Reno struggles to protect divorce-era icons like the 1927 Silver State Lodge - May 30, 2003
  • Naming Seattle's monorail a landmark could derail the city's new monorail - May 23, 2003
  • Only a few of landscape architect Jens Jensen's Midwestern designs survive - May 16, 2003
  • Chicago and the Cubs compromise on landmark status for 1914 ballpark - May 9, 2003
  • Virginia wineries lure tourists with history - May 2, 2003
  • Restoring Roosevelt Island's ruins - Apr. 25, 2003
  • War Imperils an Iraqi trove of antiquities and monuments - Apr. 18, 2003
  • Former airports like Denver's 1929 Stapleton Airport are becoming neighborhoods - Apr. 11, 2003
  • Tempe fortune teller refuses to sell her house to developers - Apr. 4, 2003
  • Carmel-by-the-Sea vows to protect its historic cottages - Mar. 28, 2003
  • Fans of the world's largest musical instrument say its owners silenced it - Mar. 21, 2003
  • Seattle teahouse stirs interest in the relocation of Japanese-Americans during World War II - Mar. 14, 2003
  • One of Kentucky's "Moonlight Schools" will remain a museum to literacy - Mar. 7, 2003
  • A developer steps forward to rejuvenate Hartford's historic Colt Armory - Feb. 28, 2003
  • The mansion that inspired the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" is for sale as a teardown - Feb. 21, 2003
  • A landowner drops historic properties in a high-stakes gamble - Feb. 14, 2003
  • Little oprys keep old buildings alive - Feb. 7, 2003
  • Saving Harvey Houses - Jan. 31, 2003
  • If Max Yasgur's field turns into a performing arts center, can Woodstock fans get back to the garden? - Jan. 24, 2003
  • Fans of Joseph Eichler's mid-century modern tract houses - Jan. 17, 2003
  • Does rescuing England's Brighton Pier justify compromising a seaside view? - Jan. 10, 2003
  • Chicago restores four vacant houses as "green bungalows" - Jan. 3, 2003
  • Best & Worst of 2002: What made—or destroyed—history this year - Dec. 27, 2002
  • Two hotels combine as Miami Beach's first African-American-owned resort - Dec. 20, 2002
  • Eminem movie ignites debate in Detroit - Dec. 13, 2002
  • Rocky Mount, N.C., returns to its mill-town roots - Dec. 6, 2002
  • At Denver's oldest cemetery, orphans at last gain recognition - Nov. 22, 2002
  • Coney Island's parachute jump rebounds - Nov. 15, 2002
  • Gloucester, Mass., revives its last schooner - Nov. 8, 2002
  • Two blighted neighborhoods settle on distinct solutions to the same problem - Nov. 1, 2002
  • Is water ruining Tucson's historic adobe? - Oct. 25, 2002
  • Baseball players still hit homers in Cardines Field, one of the oldest ballparks - Oct. 18, 2002
  • Downtown Chicago may lose another historic building this month - Oct. 11, 2002
  • Auschwitz repairs force tough debate over preservation - Oct. 4, 2002
  • Alabama's "Pittsburgh of the South" rejuvenates its giant iron icon - Sept. 27, 2002
  • Virtual Main Street: Communities use software to plan the future - Sept. 20, 2002
  • Staving off lawsuits developers use to intimidate critics - Sept. 13, 2002
  • The first Appalachian Trail Museum - Sept. 6, 2002
  • N.Y. Courts muzzle Catskill's dissent - Aug. 30, 2002
  • San Francisco's cherished antique arcade moves - Aug. 23, 2002
  • Silicon Valley amusement park now exists only in cyberspace - Aug. 16, 2002
  • Historic N.Y. town braces itself for the arrival of a windfarm - Aug. 9, 2002
  • White elephants are never forgotten - Aug. 2, 2002
  • A New Mexico town dreams of saving its hotel - July 26, 2002
  • Art flowers in former British Mill - July 19, 2002
  • Entrepreneurism with social values - July 12, 2002
  • Maine restorer has learned the intricacies of traditional New England wood crafts - June 28, 2002
  • Tiny Connecticut museum chronicles local Indian history - June 21, 2002
  • In Virginia, developers excavate an unmarked burial ground - June 14, 2002
  • New look for America's only monument to WWI - June 7, 2002
  • Without the Utah Jazz, Westminster College's Payne Gymnasium is losing ground - May 31, 2002
  • Does your home have any secrets? House genealogists can dig them up - May 24, 2002
  • An artist colony flourishes in Kentucky - May 17, 2002
  • A Postwar neighborhood built from bomb boxes - May 10, 2002
  • California city longs for its small-town past - May 3, 2002
  • Is the preservation of historic buildings' facades really preservation? - Apr. 26, 2002
  • Eleanor Roosevelt on her own at Val-Kill - Apr. 19, 2002
  • Less than a century old, American mosques are undergoing growth and change - Apr. 12, 2002
  • Neglected for decades, a Maryland school may finally get a new owner - Apr. 5, 2002
  • A sunken fleet of prehistoric canoes emerges in a dry Florida lakebed - Mar. 29, 2002
  • Fraternity house cleans up - Mar. 22, 2002
  • What will happen to vacant big-box stores? - Mar. 15, 2002
  • Maine's one-room schoolhouses represent a lost way of life - Mar. 8, 2002
  • A Los Angeles icon since 1935, the legendary Griffith Observatory closes for its first-ever renovation - Mar. 1, 2002
  • National park removes a modern highway and restores a historic trail - Feb. 22, 2002
  • On the Big Island of Hawaii, a remote region discovers its wooden wealth - Feb. 15, 2002
  • Final Act: Curtains for historic theaters - Feb. 8, 2002
  • Suburban Harvest in Montgomery County, Maryland - Feb. 1, 2002
  • Vermont's Secret - Jan. 25, 2002
  • Going Bust: Colorado gambling town's woes - Jan. 18, 2002
  • Public Lands, Private Endeavors - Jan. 11, 2002
  • There Goes the Neighborhood: Some towns use dynamite to spark urban renewal - Jan. 4, 2002
  • Best and Worst of 2001 - Dec. 28, 2001
  • When trains stop coming, should tracks be pulled up for bike paths? - Dec. 21, 2001
  • When a town becomes a National Historic Site - Dec. 12, 2001
  • A relic of Jackson Hole's frontier past could be subdivided for private retreats - Dec. 5, 2001
  • Soybean countertops, solar panels, and skylights save energy—and aging buildings - Nov. 27, 2001
  • Fun to stay at the YMCA: Restoring the country's neighborhood icons - Nov. 21, 2001
  • A battle over a Beverly Hills apartment complex signals growing regard for the old - Nov. 14, 2001
  • In a Maine mill town, windows shed light on a once-prominent Victorian artist - Nov. 7, 2001
  • The candy industry of Cambridge, Mass., has dissolved, but giant factories remain - Oct. 31, 2001
  • Two states protect their quiet byways from progress - Oct. 24, 2001
  • Are Cold War sites worth preserving? Empty symbols of fear become museums - Oct. 17, 2001
  • A lofty Lewis & Clark site may have to share its Montana view with four tall silos- Oct. 10, 2001
  • National and state registers list some of America's quirkiest historic objets d'art - Oct. 3, 2001
  • An 1890 Albany school becomes a school again - Sept. 26, 2001
  • George Washington, the farmer: Mount Vernon clones its trees to save the past - Sept. 19, 2001
  • Historic asylums at rest - Sept. 12, 2001
  • German mason brings ancient techniques to a cathedral in Albany, N. Y. - Sept. 4, 2001
  • All along the Watts Towers - Aug. 29, 2001
  • To make way for the lawn of a new presidential library, Springfield, Ill., may demolish a Lincoln-era block - Aug. 22, 2001
  • After decades of neglect, open-air theaters are making a comeback - Aug. 15, 2001
  • Developers eye New York City's meatpacking district with lean and hungry looks - Aug. 8, 2001
  • What can towns do when their fire engines can't fit in the historic station? - Aug. 1, 2001
  • Stonington, Conn., turned back the British. Can it handle an architect from N.J.? - July 25, 2001
  • A plan to save relics of the atomic age - July 18, 2001
  • The ghost town of Lake Valley, N.M., is reborn as a tourist attraction - July 11, 2001
  • Protecting the Right Stuff - July 5, 2001
  • Do towns have a say when the Post Office declares its historic building an insufficient address? - June 27, 2001
  • Phoenix guards its castle - June 20, 2001



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    ink">Vertical Access goes to extremes for a close-up view of history - Aug. 12, 2005
  • When Wal-Mart moves out, churches move in - Aug. 5, 2005
  • Americans are using their vacations to do preservation work - July 29, 2005
  • The rebirth of a Beaux-Arts landmark in Cleveland - July 22, 2005
  • Some chain stores break free from their typical design to fit into historic neighborhoods - July 15, 2005