Profile #2 in StoryBoard’s look at progress in historic preservation over the last decade HISTORIC PRESERVATION By Charlie Lambert Usually referred to as the Nineteenth…
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Category: Historic Preservation
News and Views on efforts to protect our city’s architectural heritage and unique sense of Place
Off the Endangered List: A Decade of Progress in Historic Preservation
As we close out 2019, we take a look back at the historic structures that have been saved and repurposed since the dire days, post-2008…
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Off the Endangered List: The Hotel Chisca
Profile #1 in StoryBoard’s look at progress in historic preservation over the last decade HISTORIC PRESERVATION By Gordon Alexander Located at the corner of Martin…
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Dulaney’s Districts: LeMoyne College Historic District
Dulaney’s Districts Putting neighborhoods on the National Register is an exhaustive, dedicated process. In this special series, the keeper of the Memphis Heritage Historic Properties…
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Idlewild Presbyterian: A Congregation’s Sense of Place
Cover photo by Fred Toma. NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD Idlewild’s Expansion Affirms Commitment to Community, Once Again By Margot Payne Midtown, Before Midtown When you think of…
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I. The Preservation Era Arrives, Finally, In Memphis
Memphis Historic Preservation Part I: The Slums & White Flight By Mark Fleischer “We’re late. There’s not much left to save. There has been a…
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The Universal Life Insurance Building: Designing a Better Memphis
“I can only surmise that the founders of Universal Life wanted to make a statement.” Juan Self, Self + Tucker Architects By Margot Payne “To…
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11 West Huling: A Renovation Worth Its Dough
A Renovation Worth Its Dough in Honoring a Former Use: 11 West Huling “A building of such pleasing architectural quality and dignity as would not…
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A Vision For Ellis & Sons and One Beale
Crossing Peabody, south on Front Street, past a vast and soulless parking lot, down the hill through the intersection at Beale, and across the street…
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A House And A City Council At Odds With History, Part II
“We’re completely outraged…” It was the summer of 1992. For Midtowners who had quietly filed out of council chambers after a July 28 meeting at…
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