Apart from delivering the welcome news that Manhattan’s West-Park Presbyterian Church was recently awarded landmark status, ArchPaper’s review about how the building averted demolition also alludes to a interesting - but by no means unprecedented - strategy for generating public support to destroy (inconveniently) historic structures.
Back in 2003 (before being landmarked), the West-Park congregation proposed replacing the 1880s church [...]
American history is as much a story of real estate development as it is of cultural integration or political innovation - unfortunately, our history is by extension, one of corruption as well. While the American Dream was certainly enough motivation for the majority of Americans to create their own patch of heaven, there were others [...]
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