The Park Inn Hotel and City National Bank opened in 1910 and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The hotel is the only remaining Frank Lloyd Wright-designed hotel in the world and the bank is one of…
#mypreservationis the future
I call myself a preservationist with futuristic tendencies. There is no point in preserving the past without thinking about the transformational impact it can have on the environment and generations to come. I’ve been posting snippets of #MyPreservationIs on other social media throughout May, but felt a need to draft something more formal…
preservation for the greater good
On April 26, 2017, President Trump signed Executive Order 13792, directing the Secretary of the Interior to review certain National Monuments designated or expanded under the Antiquities Act of 1906, including those designations and expansions made since January 1, 1996, those that cover more than 100,000 acres, and those made seemingly without adequate public outreach and…
red velvet ropes: the struggle is real
It’s hard to admit in a room of history nerds that you’ve always hated historic house museums. Before entering any historic house conversation, I feel I need to stand up, state my name, and declare my hatred for the museum type. Recently at the Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums annual meeting and…
minneapolis city hall: magnificent to monotonous (gallery)
Photos taken by Barbara A.M. Howard. All rights reserved.
#shepersisted
Today is International Women’s Day. According to its official website, the day is for “celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.” Marking this day as such has roots in women’s labor history, women’s suffrage, and women’s equality. Yes, it also has roots in two words considered taboo today: socialism and feminism.…
why must history always repeat itself?
Seventy-five years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 allowing for the creation of Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. The Executive Order would not be suspended until over two years later, in December 1944, when internees were released to rebuild their families, businesses, lives,…
minidoka: palimpsest of xenophobia (gallery)
Note: The internment camp at what is now known as the Minidoka National Historic Site operated from 1942 to 1945. It was one of ten internment camps created under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s executive order to protect America “against espionage and against sabotage to…
the bell: a last hurrah for a moderne museum (gallery)
Photos taken by Barbara A.M. Howard. All rights reserved.
period of significance, we have a problem
Note: this lengthy post is about the preservation questions related to Historic Mission Control. I posted additional MOCR images to a gallery in November 2016. The Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) on the third floor of Building 30 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston is instantly recognizable and utterly awe-inspiring. Nearly every…