Preservation New Jersey (PNJ) has submitted a nomination of the iconic Bell Labs building and its landscape to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2010 America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places list.
Washington Park, one of Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.’s great “country parks,” was recently threatened by a proposed 80,000-seat stadium that would have obliterated nearly half the park. While the threat has passed, it served as a warning about the fragility of parks, gardens, and open space.
One of the first botanic gardens in America to be planted solely with native plants, proposed changes to the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s historic corenow threaten to irreversibly destroy this design legacy.
Listed as a National Register Historic District in 1992, Riverside Cemetery, partly in the City and County of Denver and partly in Adams County, is in a state of rapid decline.
The Richardson Olmsted Complex, completed in 1895 as the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, ended operaations in the 1970s, however, supporters now hope to revitalize the site.
Considered the crown jewel of Memphis’ park system, Overton Park was designed in 1901 by George E. Kessler. Today the integrity of this National Register property is at risk due to ongoing expansion plans of institutions within the park.
The eminent Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church designed his family home, studio, and estate as an integrated environment embracing architecture, art, and landscape. Unfortunately, benign neglect has taken a major toll on the property's integrity.
In 1850, the City of Atlanta purchased six acres on the eastern edge of its city limits to serve as a public burial ground for a young, but fast-growing town of 2,500 citizens. While the still-active cemetery now serves as a public park and heritage tourism destination, much work remains to rejuvinate the property.
