The reopening arrives with a fitting sense of occasion. Grammy-winning singer and songwriter John Legend performed…
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In 2003, Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House went to auction as buyers considered moving it; preservation groups paid over $7.5 million to keep the Illinois landmark on its original site
The Farnsworth House was built for Dr. Edith Farnsworth as a weekend retreat (Image Credit: William…
In 2019, a Maryland family moved a 255-year-old mansion 50 miles by barge; the 4,000-square-foot house travelled across Chesapeake Bay so they could give the historic building a new waterfront home
A 255-year-old Georgian mansion made an extraordinary 50-mile journey across the Chesapeake Bay after a Maryland…
A Phoenix man owned a historic house for 51 years before Arizona State University tried to take it for a medical campus; after public opposition, the university dropped its case and let the home stay
Arizona State University has dropped an eminent domain lawsuit that sought to take a 124-year-old historic…
Guadalupe Mountains National Park: A Texas oil geologist first saw McKittrick Canyon in 1921, later bought the land for a private retreat; 38 years later he donated 4,942 acres and his home, helping create Guadalupe Mountains National Park
When petroleum geologist Wallace Pratt first visited McKittrick Canyon in 1921, he had been sent to…
In 2017, four artists paid $95,000 to save Nina Simone’s deteriorating childhood home in North Carolina; eight years later, the three-room house where she learned piano was fully restored
Photo credit: https://savingplaces.org A small three-room house in Tryon, North Carolina, once stood close to demolition.…
In 2017, four artists paid $95,000 to save Nina Simone’s childhood home from demolition; eight years later, a nearly $850,000 rehabilitation restored the three-room North Carolina house
Restorers used a family photo and research on early 20th-century Black homes to recreate the house.…
A 1762 Virginia house stood in Sussex County for 184 years, then was dismantled piece by piece in 1946 and rebuilt on land once part of George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate; listing now contingent at $3.799 million
A historic 1762 Virginia farmhouse that spent its first 184 years in Sussex County before being…
A Georgia city moved a pre-Civil War house out of the way of a hotel project instead of demolishing it; after a $500,000 relocation and restoration, it is becoming a coffee shop
The nearly $500,000 relocation and restoration effort has preserved the pre-Civil War structure, which is now…
A developer planned to bulldoze this 1910 Oregon bungalow and divide its 1.04-acre lot; a preservationist bought it for $610,000 with only days to act, restored it and it has now sold for $1.47 million
The Historic Emma Austin House A historic 1910 Arts and Crafts bungalow in Lake Oswego that…