Tag: #historicpreservationplanning
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Exploring Manhattan, Kansas’ Growth and Preservation Challenges
I discussed Manhattan, Kansas, briefly last year in a post about my travels in 2024. Now, almost a year later, after completing the community’s preservation plan, there’s more to share. At least some more pictures. And, an issue emerging in many communities these days: addressing the housing affordability crisis while balancing the preservation of historic…
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One City’s Castle – The Army and Navy General Hospital of Hot Springs, Arkansas
Just around the time of last Christmas, I wrote about my travels to Hot Springs, Arkansas, for a preservation planning assignment. I mentioned the Army and Navy General Hospital in that blog post – a prominent landmark building worthy of further discussion. After visiting Hot Springs again this past February, I had the opportunity to…
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Soulard, the “Little Apple,” and Bathhouse Row – A Year in Pictures 2024
Places change—that is a given. I am fascinated by how they change over time while continuing to tell an ongoing history story. These are places that are well cared for and curated. Fortunately, my travels in 2024 have taken me to incredible places that do just that. Before I get to the pictures, this past…
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Flaneuring – Main Street and Basketball Memories in Lebanon, Indiana
Once a Main Streeter, always a Main Streeter. Main Street is in my blood. I say that because I started my professional career as a Main Street manager years ago, in another life as they say. I served as a Main Street in Ottawa, Illinois, a small town of just under 19,000 in population located…
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Readings – Transforming Places with Adaptive Use
The discussion on adaptive use in the mainstream media has been gaining ground in recent years. There is not a week that goes by when there is a report on a signature building somewhere being resurrected from the doldrums of vacancy and neglect into something dramatically new and regenerative. A case in point – the…
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Flaneuring – MacArthur Park, Little Rock, Arkansas
I promised in my 2023 end-of-the-year post that I would write more about my recent travels to the MacArthur Park neighborhood in Little Rock, Arkansas. As with my recent post on Van Buren, Arkansas – where a well-worn but well-cared-for downtown exudes a high level of meaning and character – MacArthur Park is another example…
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A Year in Pictures and Travels – 2023
It has been a busy year indeed. Travels for work assignments in 2023 took me to many different communities and destinations.
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Van Buren, Arkansas, and the Crawford County Bank Building
A new assignment with a work colleague to prepare a set of design guidelines for a National Register-listed downtown district led me to Van Buren, Arkansas this past week. Van Buren, a community of just over 23,000 people, is the seat of Crawford County and features a linear but compact and walkable downtown lined with…
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Cumberland, Maryland, and a Curious Case of Morris Lapidus
Recently, I had the privilege of working in Cumberland, Maryland this past year. Cumberland is not just any place – it has a history extending to the French and Indian War, where a young George Washington made a name for himself as an officer in the British army. Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains in the…
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Readings – Killing Greektown
A month ago, or so, I missed out on participating in a work-related book club discussion session organized by one of my colleagues – as usual, I had a project deadline to meet. I hated to miss it since the subject of discussion was the book, How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the…
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