179 Items Tagged

Preservation

Chicago, Illinois

Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

New York, New York

Carnegie Hall Archives

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

Washington, D.C.

Frederick Douglass's House, Cedar Hill

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

New York, New York

Hamilton Grange

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

Los Angeles, California

The Masque

The remains of LA's first punk club.

Ashland, Oregon

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory

A forensic lab dedicated to fighting crimes against wildlife.

Čičmany, Slovakia

Painted Village of Čičmany

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

Bolsover, England

Cundy House

This restored 17th century "conduit house," often mistaken for a watchtower, actually supplied water to nearby Bolsover Castle.

18th Century Britain's Great Culinary Breakthrough: Mushroom Ketchup

It's kind of gross! But not as gross as it sounds.

Sarah Laskow August 3, 2016

Restoration of Spanish Castle Goes Very Wrong

The Matrera Castle seems to have lost its thousand-year-old dignity.

Erik Shilling March 11, 2016

New Paltz, New York

Mohonk Testimonial Gateway

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

Beaufort, Luxembourg

Beaufort Castles

This noble mash-up in eastern Luxembourg is part Medieval, part Renaissance, all castle.

museums and collections

Help Save the World's Rarest Skeletons

oriana leckert December 11, 2014

Our World Heritage in Peril

Allison Meier June 24, 2014

The Plight of Preservation: Why Historic Listing Doesn't Mean a Place Is Saved

Allison Meier February 4, 2014

Staten Island, New York

Historic Richmond Town

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

Culpeper, Virginia

National Audio-Visual Conservation Center

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.