Word: preservationism
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This week St. Louisans will celebrate the opening of the most ambitious of all their proliferating preservation projects. The ornate Union Station and its glorious steel train shed, abandoned by Amtrak seven years ago, have been restored and turned into a complex of restaurants, promenades, 80 shops and a 550...
In fact, more than just upscale retail sales and rents are funding the nationwide preservation boom. Since 1982, the Federal Government has granted owners of certified historic buildings a 25% tax credit on renovation costs. For every $4 put into qualified rehabilitation, the developer pays $1 less to the IRS...
The White House privately set about "clarifying" Reagan's remarks, but by late Saturday night an official statement was deemed necessary. The State Department at 10 p.m. released a Delphic sentence presumably designed to allay the sensitivities of the Shi'ites. It stated, "The U.S. reaffirms its long- standing support...
Most of the crumbling monuments are victims of a troublesome combination: salt in the building stone and moisture from the ground and air. Says Salah Ahmed Salah, an expert on the preservation of stone at Cairo University: "Salt crystals are like a sleeping devil. Only when you add moisture do...
Porch is a professor at a The Citadel, the famous South Carolina military college, and his occasional digressions on tactics can get boring for those who aren't hardcore war nuts. Another annoying Porch tendency is to criticize the actors for making mistakes. "Any man with a sense of self...