tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159479.post789398926451630721..comments2023-10-10T03:39:50.342-05:00Comments on A Little Urbanity: What Is Historic Preservation?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159479.post-26788135487668937912006-12-18T12:51:00.000-05:002006-12-18T12:51:00.000-05:00Putting decorative elements in a museum setting li...Putting decorative elements in a museum setting like <a href="http://www.oldsalem.org/index.htm">Old Salem</a>'s seems ideal -- you preserve the pieces and inform people about their original contexts.<br /><br />The only thing that bugged me about the Figueroa article came at the end, where it said that when people mistook his house for an old one, he didn't tell them otherwise.David Whartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13251439852685796681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159479.post-88986980727703863702006-12-18T12:08:00.000-05:002006-12-18T12:08:00.000-05:00Figueroa's work reminds me a little of what Frank ...Figueroa's work reminds me a little of what Frank Horton and his cronies did for Old Salem and MESDA back in the 60s and 70s. The difference in the two scenarios being that Mr. Horton took the stories of the individual architectural and decorative pieces and preserved them as MESDA. Also, Mr. Horton didn't pretend to meld the disparate pieces together into one house -- he gave each piece its individual voice and turned an old Kroger's building into the mother of all niche museums.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159479.post-50712280061933050672006-12-17T19:22:00.000-05:002006-12-17T19:22:00.000-05:00Anyone can buy stuff there.
Good work on the PGI ...Anyone can buy stuff there.<br /><br />Good work on the PGI site. It's beautiful!David Whartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13251439852685796681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159479.post-3634289393551971532006-12-17T18:54:00.000-05:002006-12-17T18:54:00.000-05:00I learned about Architectural Salvage of GSO when ...I learned about <a href="http://www.blandwood.org/archsalvage.html">Architectural Salvage of GSO</a> when we did the <a href="http://blandwood.org">PGI Web site</a> a while back. Benjamin is one busy Web site updater (the kind who makes designers proud!). Can anyone buy parts there, or do you have to live historically?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com