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Sign of Change

After 100 years, a visitor center is coming to the Hollywood Sign

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A New Calling

New York’s Guy Park Manor and surrounding park to become education and resiliency center following extensive renovation

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Riisian Revival

Historic beachfront bathhouse at Jacob Riis Park in Queens to undergo $50 million refresh

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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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Big Day for the Big Letters

Ahead of its centennial L.A.’s Hollywood Sign undergoes a refurbishment

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Octogenarian Refresh

The iconic UT Austin Tower is being treated to its first-ever major renovation at 85 years old

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Zen Restored

Restoration work completes on iconic pagoda at San Francisco’s Japanese Tea Garden

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Dome Denial

Task force rebuffs proposal to finance rehabilitation of Milwaukee’s Mitchell Park Domes with $19 million in ARPA funding

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Rise from the Ashes

Donald Judd’s Architecture Office in Marfa will be reconstructed following 2021 fire

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Back In Bloom

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House in L.A. set to resume public tours on August 18

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Making A Splash

Landscape and pool restoration project unveiled at historic Ford estate north of Detroit

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Monumental Work

World Monuments Fund responds to the war in Ukraine with preservation initiatives

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Back In Business

Buenos Aires’ Confitería del Molino reopens after years of abandonment and extensive restoration

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An Overdue Restoration

Morgan Library facade and garden are restored for the first time in 115 years

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Up From The Ashes

In St. Louis, the ruins of a fire-ravaged church are revived by the Pulitzer Arts Foundation as a community art space

Slide, Pivot, Rotate

Newly fabricated Judd doors are a key component in SCHAUM/SHIEH’s restoration of the Chamberlain Building in Marfa

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Spit, Polish, and Lasers

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial shines brighter after a GWWO-led restoration

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Polishing Stones

Deborah Berke Partners and Miller Boskus Lack will restore the Fine Arts Center at University of Arkansas

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