#historicdistrict — Public Fediverse posts

I loved spending vacations in Minneapolis during the 1980s. A comfortable mid-west city, rife with cultural events and entertainments. 1977. #minneapolis #minnesota #minneapolisminnesota #midwest #midweststates #midweststate #butlersquare #vintagearchitecture #warehousedistrict #historicdistrict #historicwarehousedistrict #rehabbed #rehabbedbuilding #rehabbedbuildings #1980s #vacation #vacations #holiday #holidays #travel #traveling #visitor #summer #summertime #summervisits

Working on sample sketches for an upcoming drawing class I'll be teaching in the historic district this spring

#Bethlehem #LehighValley #Moravian #HistoricDistrict #Artist #Teacher #PrepWork

#WIPWednesday #WIP #Chalk #Pastel #Drawing

Officials in Galveston, home of Juneteenth as well as Texas' first Black high school and first Black Baptist church, are taking steps to create an African-American Cultural Heritage District.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/local/galveston/2024/02/09/477129/galveston-to-create-heritage-district-to-celebrate-its-black-history-and-culture/

#ArtsCulture #Business #Galveston #Local #News #Texas #AfricanAmericanHistoryInTexas #BlackHistory #CulturalArtsDistrict #GalvestonCityCouncil #HeritageDistrict #HistoricDistrict

Governor of Hawaii Just Passed a LAW Suspending Historic Districts like Lahaina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Izol9HnxI

#lahaina #hawaii #wildfire #historicdistrict #Lahainastrong

Once a vibrant Nacotchtank trading village, 1 of America’s only #Antebellum suburbs & longtime home to overlooked founding father #FrederickDouglass, #Anacostia is jam-packed w layers of history, bureaucracy, neglect, hope. Anacostia Historic District, DC’s only residential #historicdistrict east of Anacostia River is stewarded by advocate-citizens determined to resist corrosive dev. BLDUS works to add housing w compromising dignity of delicate historic fabric https://bld.us/architecture/anacostia-neighborhood/?stream=top #housing

This is SUCH a revealing deep dive into the Upside Down that is historic preservation decision-making in the District.

It gives me mental hives, reminding me of cases that I’ve seen as an ANC. And those cases rarely have as good of an ending as this one. https://ggwash.org/view/87305/which-siding-are-you-on-through-the-historic-district-looking-glass

#urbanplanning #historicpreservation #historicdistrict #dc #washingtondc #housing