From the category archives:

Preservation

Preserving an Architecture of One Piece at a Time

by Tommy Manuel

I love preser­va­tion­ists. Grow­ing up in the deep south, I was exposed to a lot of sen­ti­men­tal argu­ments about peo­ple, places, and things. Some ele­gantly framed, most not so much. There’s a lot of look­ing back, or as Elvis pop­u­lar­ized, “look[ing] away.”  I must admit that deep down there’s still some of that nos­tal­gia buried in […]

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Enola Gay Hangar on Most Endangered Places List

by Tommy Manuel

I find preser­va­tion to be quite a slip­pery slope, a thorny topic, and a down-right dilemma. I’m also a pro­po­nent of preser­va­tion, which makes for some inter­est­ing debates with myself. The National Trust for His­toric Preser­va­tion (NTHP) just came out with their list of the most endan­gered places of national sig­nif­i­cance. There’s some good ones on […]

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