Rochester’s Heritage Preservation Commission will hold a special public hearing to review the 103-year-old building’s status as a potential landmark. The goal is to determine whether the building at 7 Second St. SW should be added to the city’s list of official landmarks, which carry added requirements for review when […]
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Bayonne Landmark Meets Wrecking Ball
BAYONNE, NJ – A Bayonne landmark for more than half a century was demolished in March to make way for a new development. Founded in 1948, Holiday Tree and Trim became a symbol of the holidays for many throughout Hudson County – and later in the early 1970s when it […]
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Emmett Till’s Chicago House Gets Landmark Status Amid Plans For Black Heritage Site
The former Chicago home of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black boy whose 1955 lynching in Mississippi helped ignite the nation’s civil rights movement, has been given official landmark status amid efforts to transform the building into a beacon for Black Americans and a living remembrance of their history. The two-story […]
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Indianapolis Opera launches campaign to preserve midtown landmark
CLOSE Indianapolis Opera general director David Craig Starkey explains how the livestream of the socially-distanced opera on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020, will work. Indianapolis Star The next chapter for a 60-year-old landmark former church in Meridian-Kessler looks bright. Its longtime musical tenant wants to buy the building and make the […]