Tim O'Donnell

Jan 29, 2025 | savingplaces.org | Tim O'Donnell

In 2004, Devon Flesor Story and her older sister, Ann FlesorBeck, rebooted their family’s confectionery and restaurant in downtown Tuscola,Illinois. Founded in 1901 by the sisters’ grandfather Gus Flesor, who learnedcandy-making from fellow Greek immigrants in the Midwest, Flesor’s Candy Kitchen served delectable sweets and gloriously greasy hamburgers to Tuscola’stight-knit community for several decades.

Jan 29, 2025 | savingplaces.org | Tim O'Donnell

photo by: Aaron Ingram For decades, Kern’s Bakery would greet Knoxville, Tennessee, residents or road-trippers emerging from the Great Smoky Mountains with the scent of freshly baked bread as they drove past the historic building. Now, those olfactory senses are tingling once again thanks to Knoxville-based Johnson Architecture’s transformation of the 1931 National Register–listed industrial bakery into a bustling culinary destination.

Oct 31, 2023 | savingplaces.org | Tim O'Donnell

photo by: Yuzhu Zheng A major renovation is transforming 36 nearly century-old log cabins in western Virginia, while ensuring visitors are still fully immersed in their history. Built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, the cabins have long served overnight visitors to Douthat and Fairy Stone state parks. Though beloved, they required upgrades, so the state asked PMA Architecture of Newport News, Virginia, to do just that.

Oct 31, 2023 | savingplaces.org | Tim O'Donnell

In each Transitions section of Preservation magazine, we highlight places of local and national importance that have recently been restored, are currently threatened, have been saved from demolition or neglect, or have been lost. Here are five from Fall 2023. Brooklyn, New York’s Lefferts Historic House reopened to thepublic in August of 2023 after three years of pandemic- andconstruction-related closure.

Jul 26, 2023 | savingplaces.org | Tim O'Donnell

Denver’s Center on Colfax has served the city’s LGBTQ+ communities for nearly 50 years, offering services such as job training, organizing events like Denver PrideFest, and documenting and preserving history. As a community center that takes pride in hosting in-person events and workshops, the decision to close its doors to the public in March 2020 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic was difficult.