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2 months ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
savingplaces.org | Amy Bizzarri |Wanda Lau |Meghan Drueding
photo by: Ian MacLellan More: Preservation Magazine By: Amy Bizzarri, Wanda Lau, and Meghan Drueding For most of the National Trust’s existence, its grantsprograms have provided a crucial lifeline to America’s historic places. To markthe organization’s 75th anniversary year, we explore three sites where National Trust grants have made a difference and learn how they’re taking on thechallenges of the moment.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
savingplaces.org | Meghan Drueding
photo by: La Segunda Around the turn of the 19th century, Mario Isgro arrived in Philadelphia from Sicily with little to his name—except for his recipes. Classically trained in the pastry and culinary arts, he kept a tight hold on his methods for making traditional Italian desserts: cannoli, sfogliatelle, rum cake, torrone, and Italian cookies.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
savingplaces.org | Meghan Drueding
photo by: Lyndhurst, A National Trust Historic Site In honor of the National Trust’s 75th anniversary, the Preservation magazine team combed through the organization’s archives and other sources for images of its historic sites. Here are some of our favorite finds.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
savingplaces.org | Meghan Drueding
photo by: The Morton Arboretum When Frederick Law Olmsted was designing the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, he drew on a sentiment he’d expressed years earlier: “We want a ground to which people may easily go after their day’s work is done, and where they may stroll for an hour, seeing, hearing, and feeling nothing of the bustle and jar of the streets, where they shall, in effect, find the city put far away from them.”Olmsted’s sentiment, expressed in the late 1800s, rings true today.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Meghan Drueding
An Alaska Museum Spotlights the State's Indigenous and Filipino HeritageChilkat weaving is among the world’s most complex and admired textile arts techniques, entailing years of study and practice. Tlingit, Haida, …
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
savingplaces.org | Meghan Drueding
Chilkat weaving is among the world’s most complex and admired textile arts techniques, entailing years of study and practice. Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and other Native peoples of the Northwest Coast of Alaska and British Columbia have traditionally employed it to create ceremonial robes. Historically, they used fibers made of mountain-goat hair and yellow-cedar bark, often in a color scheme of black, yellow, blue-green, and white.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
savingplaces.org | Meghan Drueding |Malea Martin
photo by: Nicole Canegata Without skilled workers who know exactly how to reset a stone or repair a window, historic preservation can’t happen. The tradespeople on a project are the ones who translate a detailed plan into a finished product, using their hard-won know-how to maintain beauty and preserve history. The National Trust recognized this when it created HOPE (Hands-On Preservation Experience) Crew in 2014.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
savingplaces.org | Meghan Drueding
The National Trust’s PastForward Conference will take place October 28–30, 2024, in New Orleans, beginning a yearlong celebration of the organization’s 75th anniversary. The conference will focus on three key themes as they relate to historic preservation: climate resilience, wider representation, and community development. Below you’ll find a few highlights of PastForward’s history, programming, and host city.
