Welcome
to the Recent Past Preservation Network!
RPPN ("rippen") is a valuable resource
for building public education and awareness of an often
misunderstood and underappreciated era of design. We generally
define the recent past as a moving window of approximately
fifty years time. Specifically, we cover those buildings
that are not considered eligible for the National Register
of Historic Places because the structures are less than
fifty years old. These are the very buildings and landscapes
that need the most protection.
Membership
is only $15 and provides you with access to
our Recent Past listserve, our monthly E-News, discounts
at RPPN-sponsored events, and an invaluable connection to
others who have the same interests and experience.
Check out the details here!
Third
Church of Christ, Scientist and
Christian Science Monitor office building, by I.M. Pei &
Partners, 1968-1971. The complex of two buildings
is threatened with demolition. Prominently sited at Sixteenth
and I streets, N.W., two blocks north of the White House,
the complex is an exceptionally fine work of modernist religious
architecture. Constructed of exposed reinforced concrete,
the complex is an important example of the signature style
by which the Pei firm gained international prominence in
the 1960s and early 1970s. Many aspects of the design drew
inspiration from Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple in Oak
Park, Illinois. More
Information
New
for 2008! A
Historical Bibliography of Architecture, Landscape Architecture,
and Urbanism in the U.S. Since World War II. Compiled
by Richard Longstreth and updated annually, this 40-page
bibliography of recent past resources is available online
in html format or as a document download. Create your own
reading list for the coming year!
Historic
Buildings For Sale: RPPN
readers have submitted many requests to post information
about buildings for sale. So, we have started a new section
"Historic Buildings
for Sale or Salvage." If you have a structure
you would like to list on our website, please send a small
jpg and pertinent information to submit@recentpast.org.
We can post the information for you for FREE.
New
on our HB for Sale or Salvage: A Frank Lloyd Wright home
in Utah, a free gas station in Maryland, and the Paschal
House in North Carolina. See more
information.
Blogs:
SAVE
Riverview : Riverview High School in Sarasota,
FL was designed by Paul Rudolph, world renowned architect.
The building is threatened with demolition as the Sarasota
School Board looks at options for updating the Riverview
campus. It is hoped that by publicizing the potential destruction
of the significant building a way can be found to save it.
Lee
Gardens Shopping Center
2201
North Pershing Drive, Arlington, Virginia
ca. 1940, Originally planned by Mihran Mesrobian,
final design by Allen J. Dickey. Immediately endangered
by redevelopment plans. See
our comprehensive web page with support letters and photographs!
See
More Buildings on our National Windshield Survey!
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1958
Perpetual Building Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
ENDANGERED! Last
month marked the 49th anniversary of the opening of
downtown Silver Spring's most important example of Postwar
International-style architecture, the 1958 Perpetual
Building Association, located at 8700 Georgia Avenue.
But the recent posting of two development application
signs at that address that call for the razing of the
5-story, 28,848 sq. ft. structure for replacement by
a 14-story, 133,138 sq. ft. building does not bode well
for the landmark structure's pending "golden"
anniversary. See
the whole story of the building plus more great photos!
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The
Waffle Shop, Washington, D.C.
Will it survive the changing times? See in-depth photographs
of the interior at Charles
Badal Photography. 2.17.07
HOW
TO SAVE HISTORIC BUILDINGS Are
you faced with a difficult battle to save an important historic
structure in your community? While there is no single formula
or method that will guarantee that a historic building will
be saved, preservationists have several useful tools available
to help protect buildings and avoid demolitions. Published
by the Los
Angeles Conservancy.
2.17.07
See
hints on our Taking
Action to Save Historic Resources
page.
Coming
Soon - More details on:
Edward
D. Stone - Carlson Terrace
Drive-In
Theater NY
Breuer
Library in CT
Civic
Arena, Pittsburgh
RPPN Sues National Park Service
to Prevent Demolition of Richard Neutra's
1961 Cyclorama
Building at Gettysburg
More
details here
