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Also, solid advice for homeowners on alternatives to painting brick when that newer brick doesn’t quite match the older Updated in February, 2022, this article…
View More Painted & Tainted: A primer on why painting exposed brick is usually a Big No-No
Feature image from the Memphis Press-Scimitar editorial page on March 7, 1968, three years before the Supreme Court decision (Memphis Public Library) The focal point…
View More Your Memphis Memories: ‘It’s Too Late To Tinker’ With Expressway Route
Clayborn Reborn From the Archives: Originally published in May, 2019 By Margot Payne Sometimes it takes decay, or the near total loss of a tangible…
View More The Sacred and the Vulnerable in the Clayborn Temple
Free Limited Capacity Homecoming Event on November 19 MEMPHIS, TN – After over a year of undergoing a complete restoration by JL Weiler Inc. in…
View More The Orpheum Welcomes Back the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ
UPDATED 11/10: With a demolition permit now filed, StoryBoard joins the building’s former owner to discuss the building and imagines possible re-uses for it UPDATED:…
View More A Vision for the Nylon Net Building, #7 Vance
Just one more demolition threatens the entire district – and the investments of developers eligible for tax credits waiting to improve or stabilize their properties.…
View More De-Listed = De-Struction: Investment in the Pinch Must Utilize What’s Left of Its Past
A long-overdue update to the National Historic Register for the Central Gardens Historic District to begin in 2020 HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION By Mark Fleischer “I…
View More Central Gardens’ Historic Inventory to be Updated for a New Decade
Profile #4 in StoryBoard’s look at progress in historic preservation over the last decade HISTORIC PRESERVATION By Charlie Lambert In 2015, the historic and deteriorating…
View More Off the Endangered List: The Clayborn Temple
Profile #3 in StoryBoard’s look at progress in historic preservation over the last decade HISTORIC PRESERVATION By Gordon Alexander It could be said that it…
View More Off the Endangered List: The Tennessee Brewery, Saved by Suds
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…
View More Off the Endangered List: The Nineteenth Century Club