PreservationNation

• Is Miami Marine Stadium the Next High Line?
  It seems like everyone's talking about "the next High Line." And why not? Who wouldn't want to see the same wild success that the redevelopment of New York City's abandoned elevated rail structure into the High Line has? The Miami Marine Stadium, one of our 11 Most Endangered Historic Places in 2009, is one of those "next cool place" contenders.
  
  
• Interview: Sam & Chris of Raleigh’s Videri Chocolate Factory
  Owners Sam Ratto and Chris Heavener inside the factory. (Photo: Chase Heavener) Preservation is often defined as an action with an end date: the act of saving – through advocacy; policy; or blood, sweat, and tears restoration – places for future use, memory, and appreciation. But regardless of how it’s typically regarded, a more holistic ”preservation” doesn’t end [...]
  
  
• Thompson Falls High Bridge: National Preservation Award Winner
  The rehabilitation of the century-old Parker-Pratt Deck Truss High Bridge over the Clark Fork River exemplifies 30 years of persistent vision, partnerships, and fundraising perseverance.
  
  
• Restoration Diary: Gutting and Exposing the Upstairs
  It's the first week of official construction at Lionel Lofts and interior demolition is well underway. See what's been ripped out and what the raw spaces are starting to look like.
  
  
• ‘Heart Bombs’ and Love Stories: How Buffalo’s Preservation Power Couple Celebrates Valentine’s Day
  Love stories start in the darnedest places. When the National Trust rolled into Buffalo this fall, Bernice Radle and Jason Wilson had never met, though both had long been preservation dynamos working overtime for the city they loved. It wasn’t until after the conference – and the individual preservation events they each planned for it – that their interest in all things old brought them together.
  
  
• Preservation Round-Up: How Boston City Hall Was Born Edition
  Today's Preservation Round-Up features stories on the origins of Boston City Hall, Trump's redevelopment of DC's Old Post Office, walkable neighborhoods, an Atlanta classical cover-up, preserving New England modernism, and Providence's Superman Building.
  
  
• Sustainability Round-Up: The Greenest Building Edition
  Brightleaf square in Durham, North Carolina. (Photo: reallyboring on Flickr) A couple of weeks ago, the National Trust’s Preservation Green Lab released a groundbreaking report, The Greenest Building: Quantifying the Environmental Value of Building Reuse. We’re pleased that the report was met with a good bit of media interest. Check it out: The Green Dividend from Reusing [...]
  
  
• The Byway to Gettysburg: A Vista that Inspires
  My earliest historical memories as a child involve a road trip up to Gettysburg National Military Park. At the time it felt like an epic journey (field trips rule!) with a group of friends. I must have been in elementary school at the time because my impressions of that first trip are mostly of being somewhere away from school, and not much about the battlefield itself.
  
  
• Senators Come Together to Support Preservation Legislation
  February 6, 2012 was a big day for fans of skilled jobs, green building and community revitalization through historic preservation. Yesterday, Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) announced that he, along with Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME), would introduce new Senate legislation that would encourage historic rehabilitation in Main Street communities, promote energy-efficiency in rehabilitation projects, and make the credit more accessible to nonprofit organizations.
  
  
• San Diego Illegally Pre-Approved Changes to Balboa Park Bridge
  On January 19, a Superior Court held that the City of San Diego violated California law by pre-approving material alterations to the iconic Cabrillo Bridge and Alcazar Garden in San Diego’s Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District.