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Old Building, New Honors

Here are the 10 New York State Historic Preservation Award winners for 2022

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Whirlwind Year

Here are 14 historic preservation stories that defined 2022

Pass The Torch

National Trust for Historic Preservation President and CEO Paul W. Edmondson steps down

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Hands On History

Newport Restoration Foundation announces inaugural Preservation Trades Specialist Program to train cohort of preservationists

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Winners’ Circle

Daily digest: Houston’s Orange Show Monument bolstered by preservation grant, Taller Capital wins 2022 MCHAP.emerge Award, and more

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Incoming

Amber Wiley named director of the Weitzman School of Design’s Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites

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A New Lease on Life

Massachusetts announces Paul Rudolph’s Hurley Building will be “transformed” as part of mixed-use redevelopment

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Dive Right In

New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission launches free digital archive of designation photos

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Oh, the Humanities

Podcast profiling pioneering women of architecture is just one of 200-plus projects awarded in the latest round of NEH grants

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On the Wright Track

Major preservation work progresses at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin and Taliesin West

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New Legacies

The National Trust names 33 historic sites as 2022 African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund grantees

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1956–2022

Author and New York City preservation advocate Paul Gunther passes away at age 65

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Stories To Tell

The National Trust’s 11 Most Endangered list for 2022 includes murals, an internment camp, and a Neutra-designed school

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Riverfront Recharge

Dreyfuss + Blackford’s reimagining of a decrepit power station breathes new life into the Sacramento riverfront

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Cheers Mate

Daily digest: Cincinnati’s Terrace Plaza Hotel denied landmark status, historic NYC gay bar honored with plaque, and more

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The Jeopardized Five

A Brutalist courthouse and century-old Elks Lodge rank among 2022’s Most Endangered Historic Places in Illinois

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Out Of Frame

The remodel of Marcel Breuer’s Atlanta Central Library demonstrates the fault lines of preservation causes

Boston Government Service Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Cast In Concrete

A Boston Brutalist classic is threatened with demolition. Architects and preservationists should fight for its survival

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