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Can Hope REALLY Rise from the Ashes in Ocean Grove?

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Beautiful Historic Ocean Grove NJ, is a seaside resort town boasting street after street of beautiful, highly ornate Victorian buildings. This is the town that gives gingerbread ornamentation its name. Sadly on March 13, 2010 a devastating 4-alarm fire struck Ocean Grove NJ. The fire burned through nine structures, six were destroyed including the Manchester [...]

The New York Public Library–The End of a Landmark

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In 1963, the 1910 Pennsylvania Station, an architectural landmark designed by McKim, Mead & White, was demolished.  The New York Times called it: “a monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance.”  The loss of Penn Station eventually led to the formation of a Landmarks [...]

A Sad Story of America

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Did you ever wonder what that busy intersection in your town looked like 50 years ago?  200 years ago?   What will it look like in the future? Artist Robert Crumb shows us how a beautiful countryside slowly fades away as population increases and consumerism stamps out the living nature. What have we done to our […]

The Taliban of Architecture

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Cooper Union Building stands out like a sore infected thumb. There are Traditionalists in architecture and Modernists. Unfortunately when it comes to Modernists, it is not a matter of live and let live or everyone just getting along. The Modernists seem to be on a mission to stamp out traditional architecture.  There are some really [...]

Freehold History Destroyed by Preservation Commission & Architect

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Preserve Freehold History - Outcry by Residents News reports: The messages from residents were: "Once it's gone it's gone" and "Do the job you were entrusted to do - protect the town's historic resources and preserving the building is the only environmentally responsible approach”. This was the plea to the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) of [...]