Preservation

How You Could Live In A Historic Landmark Rent-Free

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Restoration, Rent Free, State Budgets, Video, Renovation, Preservation, City Budgets, Historic Buildings, Resident Curators, Business News

Now you can live in an historic building rent-free for decades. The catch? You'll need to use a whole lot of elbow grease. The states of Massachus...

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Making the Case for Historic Preservation: Online Competition Leverages Younger and Would Be Preservationists

Stephanie Meeks | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: National Historic Landmark, Historic Tax Credits, Preservation, Historic Preservation, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Historic Rehabilitation, Historic Buildings, Slidepollajax, Culture News

The spirit and direction of the nation are reflected in our historic heritage, and saving these treasures will enrich us and future generations.

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The Legacy of a Digital Generation

Jane Carlin and Barb Macke | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Digital, History, Preservation, Digital Generation, Ephemera, Libraries, College News

Most of us have trouble remembering a single instance where we produced a tangible remnant of ourselves -- solid, irrefutable evidence that we existed in this day, this month, this year.

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In Celebration Of National Park Week

Kate Kelly | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Preservation, National Parks, Adventure Travel, Historic Sites, National Parks Week, Active Travel, Travel Blogs, Travel News

Whether you are interested in preserving parklands, maintaining areas that depict geological changes or saving monuments and lands that tell our American story, the National Park Service provides an enormous service to the American people by safeguarding these lands as part of our national heritage.

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Celebrating Taos Pueblo On The International Day for Monuments and Sites

Bonnie Burnham | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Taos-New Mexico, Sustainability, Preservation, World Monuments Fund, Unesco World Heritage, Taos Pueblo, Heritage, Slidepollajax, Travel News

Celebrating the International Day of Monuments and Sites is a way of respecting the traditions that make up the fascinating mosaic of our common heritage.

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'Reuse' Ideas For Michigan Central Station From Other Cities

AP | CHRIS CAROLA | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Industrial Ruins, Central Terminal, Video, Abandoned Train Stations, Matty Moroun, Michigan Central Station Preservation Society, Buffalo Train Station, Abandoned Buildings, Michigan Central Station, Preservation, Detroit Architecture, Buffalo Central Terminal, Detroit Real Estate, Detroit Train Station, Detroit News

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- When Mary Lynne and Dan Kautz chose a place to hold their wedding reception, they didn't book a grand ballroom in some pricey hotel o...

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Shady Beijing Developers Demolish the Home of China's "Father of Modern Architecture"

ARTINFO | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Chinese Architecture, Preservation, Beijing, Landmarks, Replica, Liang Sicheng, Artinfo, Art, Arts News

Liang Sicheng (1901-1972) is known as China's "Father of Modern Architecture," but he expressed strong sentiments throughout his career when it came t...

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PHOTOS: 10 Icons Of Modern Architecture

Tom Mallory | Posted 09.05.2011

A few weeks ago ICOMOS' recommendation against the registering of 19 buildings designed by Le Corbusier in the World Heritage List provoked heated dis...

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PHOTOS: Raising Environmental Awareness Through Art

Annie Buckley | Posted 07.14.2011

Read More: John Grade, Buster Simpson, Environmental, Art, Galleries, Environment, Slidepollajax, Los Angeles, Sant Khalsa, Visual Art, Annie Buckley, Samantha Fields, Photography, Sculpture, Ecology, Sustainability, Preservation, Arts News

The four artists included in this edition of "On Seeing" each address ecology and our deepening environmental concerns. Their approaches vary from tem...

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Century-Old Irish Films Go From Time Capsule to YouTube (VIDEO)

John Lee | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Dublin, Digital Media, Video, Belfast, Ireland, Youtube, Preservation, Film, Irish, Media News

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Why Egyptians Preserve Their Cultural Heritage

Larry Coben | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Egypt Protests, Egypt, Tourism, Egypt Revolution, Egyptian Artifacts, Egyptian Archaeology, Economic Development, Cultural Heritage, Egypt News, Iraq-Archaeology, Conservation, Preservation, Heritage Preservation, Iraq, Iraq Archaeology, Archaeology, World News

Egyptians value and utilize their cultural history as an economic asset and not merely an intangible cultural one.

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From Alabama to the British Isles, People Rally to Save Trees

Wes Isley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: England, United Nations International Year of Forests, Spirit, Auburn Tree Poisoning, Nature, Conservation, Glastonbury Holy Thorn Tree, Federal Budget, Preservation, Ireland, Forests, Trees, Green News

Humans have long thought certain trees to be sacred or holy and worthy of protection and respect. But in our age when a tree is merely a resource to be effectively managed, well, that doesn't exactly nurture a sense of wonder.

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Nature in New York City

Marielle Anzelone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Water Lily, Nyc, Rare, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Conservation, Wildflowers, Native Plants, Blue Heron Park, New York City, Orchids, Salt Marshes, Open Space, Planyc, Soft Rush, Nature, Parks, Biodiversity, Wetlands, Preservation, Development, Staten Island, Forests, Cities, Meadows, New York News

It isn't easy being green in the Big Apple. Over the past century, 75% of the city's woodlands, wetlands and meadows have been destroyed.

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On 'Ruin Porn'

Ian Ference | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: Photography, History, Art, Urban Decay, Industrial Archaeology, Art History, Detroit, Ruins, Historic Preservation, Preservation, Art Theory, Ruin Porn, Richard Nickel, Urban Ruins, Modern Ruins, John Patrick Leary, Louis Sullivan, Detroitism, Arts News

John Patrick Leary's primary mistake in his essay on "Detroitism" is to assume that all photographers who concentrate on modern ruins are Larry Flynts.

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Out With the Old?

Ronda Carman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Historic Preservation, Preservation, The Ruins of Detroit, Historic Detroit, Architecture, Yves Marchand, Romain Meffre, Detroit Architecture, Arts News

Adaptive reuse of buildings not only preserves tangible links to the past, it allows us to take advantage of infrastructure that is already in place.

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What Now for Lathrop Homes?

Curtis Black | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cha, Chicago Housing Authority, Preservation, Lathrop Homes, Chicago Public Housing, CHA Plan for Transformation, Chicago News

The bottom line for many Lathrop supporters is that, given all the costs, market-rate housing just doesn't make sense for Lathrop Homes

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PHOTOS: Which Colorado Locales Were Named 'Best Wild Places' By Field And Stream?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alpine Triangle, Roan Plateau, San Juan Mountains, Gila Mountains, Pine Forest, Trout Unlimited, Cabinet Mountains, Green River, Yaak Mountains, Preservation, Gila Wilderness, Slidepollajax, Wilderness Protection, Field and Stream, Blue Lakes, Flaming Gorge, Best Wild Places, Denver News

Trout Unlimited and Field & Stream have teamed up to name the 'Best Wild Places' in America. All of these Western locations are unique in their beaut...

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Preserving Historic Preservation in New York City

Vin Cipolla | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Historic Preservation, Grand Central Station, Preservation, Mayor Bloomberg, Historic Districts, Grand Central Terminal, New York News

New York became a leader in historic preservation following the demolition of the original Penn Station. Nearly 50 years later, a debate has emerged around whether the city is taking landmarks preservation too far.

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Preservation of a 260-Year-Old Stove and Why It Matters

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adaptive Reuse, Green, Preservation, National Trust of Historic Preservation, Frederick County, Schifferstadt, Politics News

Earlier this month on my trip to Frederick, Maryland, the tourism board had organized wonderful days for me. Among the sites they planned for me to v...

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Historic Colorado Opera House Threatened With Demolition

Mike Rosso | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Opera House, Preservation, Unique Theater, Demolition, Historic, Salida, Denver News

A landmark building in historic downtown Salida is in imminent danger of demolition unless drastic steps are taken to save it.

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Mammoths And Mastadons: The Field Museum's New Exhibit Brings 42,000 Year Old Woolly Mammoth To Chicago

HuffPost Eyes&Ears Local | Laurie Koblesky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, The Ice Age, Mammoths and Mastadons, Museums, Field Museum, Preservation, Chicago Museums, Archeology, Chicago Field Museum, Chicago News

Produced by HuffPost's Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit Chicago, prepare to be smitten by the remarkably endearing Lyuba--the most well-preserved ...

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Angelenos Get Barreled With Kelly Slater in Tahiti, Without Flashing a Passport or Packing a Bikini

Stacie Krajchir | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Surf, Climate Science, Kelly Slater, Tahiti, Environment, Preservation, Oceans, Weather, Coral Reefs, Imax 3D, Stand Up Paddle, Los Angeles News

Don't tell anyone, but dreams do come true. I had a one-night stand Monday night with Tahiti and I didn't need to pack a bag. I dropped into the world premiere of The Ultimate Wave Tahiti.

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Flushing's Crown Needs Polishing

Kevin Walsh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Queens, Preservation, Theatres, Flushing, Thomas W. Lamb, Milton Berle, Historic New York, New York History, New York News

At the heart of downtown Flushing, Queens, an architectural masterpiece, the RKO Keith's Theatre, awaits a day when it will once again be a cultural beacon and its beauty will shine forth anew.

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Fighting Sprawl Through the Ballot Box

Ernest Cook | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Trust for Public Land, Environment, Conservation, Preservation, The Conservation Campaign, Environmental Policy, New York News

For all the environmental reasons to rein in sprawl and conserve land and water, there are very human ones, too.

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Renewable Energy on Public Lands Blocked by Conservation

Michael Hogan, CEO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Environmentalism, Federal Lands Plicy and Management Act, Preservation, Public Lands, Energy Policty Act, Green News

These closures of the nation's public land will jeopardize America's strategic security, put our economic recovery at risk, stop job growth and prevent wind and solar development.

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