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<br /> flagged buildings was in imminent danger laws . Their representatives worried about Trust, put up $ 10 ,000 each for seed money
<br /> of collapse, said a spokesman for the engi- damage not only to the city's 67 individual to kick things off. One of the city's most
<br /> neers . "Those old buildings held up better landmarks below Chambers Street but significant Revolutionary War-era monu-
<br /> than the new ones , " he said. "They were also to other significant buildings , old ments, the General Richard Montgomery
<br /> overbuilt . " All of the damaged buildings and new, that are more at risk of being Memorial Tablet, commissioned by Ben"
<br /> can be repaired, he said, `but that doesn't condemned and torn down . jam ' Franklin when he was living in
<br /> mean that their owner might not decide, "We've got to look at all the historic Paris , "will need immediate attention,"
<br /> for economic reasons , to tear them buildings down there," said Frank Sanchis, said Bonnie Burnham, president of the
<br /> down . " Even before the engineers executive director of the Municipal Art World Monuments Fund ,
<br /> reached their verdict, the Ford Foundation Society. "We've got to look at the interiors, After initially centering on damage
<br /> pledged $ 10 million to address the crisis , which are not covered by the city land- to the buildings , gravestones , and monu-
<br /> including an undetermined amount for marks law unless they' re publicly acces- ments , concern expanded to the debris ,
<br /> "the built environment . " sible . And although their structure may which contained an unknown amount
<br /> The World Monuments Fund con- not have been damaged, there are a lot of of asbestos and other harmful dust. "The
<br /> vened a meeting of preservation groups, buildings open to the weather ; a lot of preservation community is being called
<br /> including the National Trust, the Munic- roofs have been pierced. " upon to come up with a plan for removal
<br /> ipal Art Society, and the New York City On Sept. 26, preservationists met to set of the dust, concrete, and gypsum , which
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<br /> Landmarks Preservation Commission , up an international relief fund to assess, will not be washed away but only made
<br /> the city agency charged with designat- and possibly to help repair, damage to his- harder by the rain, " Burnham said. There
<br /> ing landmarks and enforcing landmark ton' cbuildings . Five groups , including the were reports of buildings being power
<br /> TRANSITIONS
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<br /> L0 S T 1850s Greel<-revival County Courthouse, Boise,
<br /> house New Orleans gutted b Idaho: could be restored or y rt "
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<br /> suspicious fire third in 10 years to demolished and replaced with
<br /> damage the Lower Garden new facility, depending de pendin on %%
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<br /> Historic District building, center of appropriation by state legislatureI If
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<br /> property dispute
<br /> S AVE D View in Fowlers Mill, ;:44 = :`; 'A_. _ ` % 11
<br /> THREATENED c. 1803 H.H. Ohio: Nextel agreement to : '
<br /> Richardson House, Brookline, dismantle 250-foot-high cell '` ► - 7.
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<br /> Mass. : architects last home and tower erected among historic
<br /> office, which he didn't design but buildings ends legal battle
<br /> renovated and added to, could be
<br /> sold as teardown ) ) 1939 Ada REST 0 RED 1908 District
<br /> Building, Washington, D.C.: four- Superfund site, stripped of honor
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<br /> ' year, $68.5 million effort on Aug . 28
<br /> recaptures Beaux-Arts splendor of
<br /> city hall ( ( 1894 Fillmore County SOLD ON e B AY 1926
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<br /> Courthouse g y Geneva Neb.: Lucille's Filling Station, Hydro, a: ttil�l j ` '=
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<br /> �rl restored/renovated after Okla.: Route 66 landmark, H ' ( '
<br /> countians vote 34 in favor of It operated by Lucille Hamons from = � :
<br /> 1941 until she died last year, i '' � ' C `
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<br /> DESIGNATED [ bought by California businessmanY 'r
<br /> U N D E S I G N AT E D 1935 San- for $35 ,600 ( ( Jim HendrixpI `{
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<br /> itary Landfill, Fresno, Calif. : as house, Seattle: l-story, 2-bedroom
<br /> breakthrough in urban sanitation house where rocl< guitarist lived as
<br /> methods, announced as National a teenager, bought by Michigan
<br /> 1V N.H. Richardson House, Brooklln6, IV,
<br /> Historic Landmark on Aug . 27; as man for $33, 853, must be moved
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