Metropolis Magazine Ι Feb. 29, 2024 Throughout all of American history, the patch of city at 6th and Lombard in Philadelphia is the property that’s been continuously owned by Black people the longest. Not at all coincidentally, at that spot is a church—Mother Bethel AME—which has been there since 1794. This rare historical linage is… Continue reading The National Trust for Historic Preservation Helps Tell the Stories of Black Churches
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Preservation Chicago names The Warehouse, the birthplace of house music, as one of the most endangered buildings in Chicago
Architects’ Newspaper Ι March 21, 2023 Drawn in by the propulsive four-on-the-floor bass that could be heard blocks away through the then-derelict streets of Chicago’s West Loop, in the late 1970s and early ’80s young club-goers gathered at a modest but stylish three-story former industrial warehouse where the party raged from midnight until 8:00 a.m.… Continue reading Preservation Chicago names The Warehouse, the birthplace of house music, as one of the most endangered buildings in Chicago
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March 1, 2021 Ι Architect’s Newspaper Built in 1939, Willert Park Courts in Buffalo, New York, was among the first public housing projects in the country. These ten two- and three-story rectilinear buildings are arranged north to south on parallel tracks around a central courtyard. They were an American echo of German Zeilenbau modernist planning,… Continue reading Whose History?