Joe Sugarman

Apr 3, 2024 | savingplaces.org | Joe Sugarman |Joe Sugarman lives

photo by: EE Berger Ray Lozano and I pile into his white 2016 Jeep Cherokee as we set out on a tour of Mexicantown, a historically Mexican and Mexican American enclave in the city of Detroit. “Pardon the mess,” he says. “We spilled some salsa on the passenger seat.” Given the setting, it seems perfectly appropriate for our drive.

Jan 30, 2024 | savingplaces.org | Joe Sugarman |Joe Sugarman lives

Architect Eddie Belk, 74 years old and dressed in a well-worn green T-shirt, khaki pants, and a red-and-white North Carolina State University ball cap, looks over what was once an enormous cotton-spinning room at Revolution Mill in Greensboro, North Carolina. It’s an impressive scene: two rows of 14-foot-tall heart-pine columns run down the middle of the expanse, longer than two football fields. Sunlight from the clerestory windows above creates patterns on the polished maple floors.

Jul 29, 2023 | savingplaces.org | Joe Sugarman |Joe Sugarman lives

photo by: Visit Maine "It doesn’t matter where you go, people are drawn by lighthouses,” says Jeff Gales, executive director of the United States Lighthouse Society, a nonprofit clearinghouse for lighthouse education and preservation efforts. Part of the appeal, of course, is that lighthouses can often be found in the most dramatic settings on Earth—at the tip of narrow peninsulas, on rocky promontories, on remote islands.

Jul 3, 2023 | msn.com | Joe Sugarman

A version of this story originally appeared in Preservation magazine. Reprinted with permission of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States. In the late 1930s, when Emily Hutchinson Meggett was a young girl growing up on South Carolina’s Edisto Island, she would often walk the three-quarters of a mile from her family’s house to her granduncle Henry Hutchinson’s property. There, she and her siblings and cousins would play hopscotch or hide-and-seek.

Jul 3, 2023 | msn.com | Joe Sugarman