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| Delta Queen's Crew Plea to Congress |
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Please help us, the crew of the Delta Queen,
save both our jobs and a national treasure!
The Delta Queen is the last traditional
steamboat carrying overnight passengers on
our inland waterways, an example of a time
when the rivers were our highways. Her wooden
superstructure requires an exemption from the
Safety at Sea Act to operate past this
October.
Please, help us convincing the US Congress to
act in favor of the Delta Queen, to save this
unique piece of American history, fur us and
the generations to come!
Tags : Delta Queen crew steamboat riverboat river history preservationnation thisplacematters |
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Affichage : 14810
Durée : 180 s |
| Oviedo Street "IVANHOE" house |
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This house and six others are threatened with
mass demolition. The property owner claims
"economic hardship" justifies the demolitions
and desires to build a hotel and restaurant.
The seven structures are within the National
Register Model Land District, St. Augustine,
Florida. Citizens for the Preservation of St.
Augustine (CPSA) and local historian David
Nolan produced this video to explain one of
house's historical significance.
Tags : preservationnation "this place matters" staugustine sears&roebuckhouse |
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Affichage : 35352
Durée : 137 s |
| Buffalo's Architectural Treasures |
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Buffalo's Architectural Treasures explores
the city The New York Times has called "a
textbook for a course in modern American
buildings" and The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution "a vast outdoor museum."
Hosted by Tim Tielman, Executive Director of
the Campaign for Greater Buffalo History,
Architecture and Culture, the video documents
Buffalo's history as the quintessential 19th
century boomtown. This frenzy of economic
activity produced great wealth and a
subsequent "will to greatness" in its leading
citizens that brought the best and brightest
talents of the Gilded Age to Buffalo.
In the course of this ten-minute tour, you'll
visit the tree-filled parks and mansion-lined
parkways designed by Frederick Law Olmsted,
as well as the masterworks left in Buffalo by
such legendary architects as Frank Lloyd
Wright, Louis Sullivan, H.H. Richardson,
Stanford White, Richard Upjohn, Daniel
Burnham and Eliel and Eero Saarinen. Visit
our website at
http://www.visitbuffaloniagara.com
Tags : Buffalo New York tourism preservationnation thisplacematters architecture Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Sullivan |
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Affichage : 2018
Durée : 544 s |
| Triumph And Tragedy - Lake Norconian Club |
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In the mid 1920's, Rex B. Clark, an unmatched
visionary of his time, accomplished the near
impossible by constructing the world-class
Norconian Resort in a remote area of Southern
California.
The Norconian was an immediate success and
frequented by the rich elite and Hollywood's
finest. Unfortunately, the Club never made a
nickel as the Stock Market crash and
subsequent economic depression forced Clark
to give up his dream after a ten year fight.
The story didn't end there. The fabulous
resort was converted into one of the
pre-eminent Naval Hospitals in the United
States; a facility that treated survivors of
Pearl Harbor and pioneered the use of
Penicillin, the polio vaccine and state of
the art rehabilitation techniques.
Subsequently, one of the finest Naval Weapons
Testing sites in the Nation and the
California Rehabilitation Center, the first
state funded addict treatment center in the
country, called the old resort home; adding
to the Norconian's rich and fabulous history.
Our newly formed foundation is dedicated to
preserving the rich architecture and the
almost 80 years of history represented by
some of the finest buildings ever constructed
on the West Coast.
For more information on preserving this
historic place, please stop by
http://lakenorconianclub.org
Tags : preservationnation thisplacematters norco lake norconian club Rex Clark 1920's 1930's architecture navy Hollywood |
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Affichage : 442
Durée : 611 s |
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