Meghan Drueding

2 weeks ago | savingplaces.org | Meghan Drueding

More: Preservation Magazine By: Meghan Drueding Photography: Ken Gutmaker, except where noted From our interview with designer and homeowner Jennifer Ott. We were living in San Francisco. My husband, Russ Poldrack, is a professor at Stanford University, and he was commuting. I’m a designer and color consultant. I wanted to live in the city, but I told him that if he ever got sick of the commute, I would consider moving.

2 weeks ago | savingplaces.org | Meghan Drueding |Kim A. O'Connell

photo by: Jeffrey Totaro, 2023 Twenty-five years ago, the National Trust Community Investment Corporation (NTCIC) formed. It soon made its first investment in the rehabilitation of a long-vacant historic property—the Dalton Building in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Today, NTCIC, a subsidiary of the National Trust, has supported nearly 250 development projects, from housing to health-care facilities to schools.

2 weeks ago | savingplaces.org | Meghan Drueding

More: Preservation Magazine By: Meghan Drueding Photography: Ian MacLellan Since June of 2024, the streets of Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood have sported a subtle but important addition. Four wall-mounted markers created using lenticular photographic prints form the first phase of the interactive Immigrant History Trail, produced by the nonprofit Chinatown Community Land Trust (Chinatown CLT).

Jan 29, 2025 | savingplaces.org | Meghan Drueding

Abstract and figurative sculptures grace Kykuit’s walled inner garden, designed circa 1907–13 by Beaux-Arts architect William Welles Bosworth. Once the residence of the Rockefeller family and now a National Trust Historic Site preserved and operated by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Tarrytown, New York, property was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in the early 1990s. About 40 years earlier, Nelson A. Rockefeller purchased the Aristide Maillol sculpture shown in this photo.

Jan 29, 2025 | savingplaces.org | Meghan Drueding

photo by: Corey Watson To catch the latest new-release arthouse film in Missoula, Montana, you can head to the Roxy Theater, a nine-lives sort of place that almost burned down in 1994. But the Roxy also offers an international action-movie series called “Inferno of Danger,” in which stars like Bruce Willis, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Bruce Lee rule the screen.