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Welcome to the Recent Past Preservation Network!
RPPN ("rippen") is a valuable resource for building public education and awareness of an often misunderstood and underappreciated era of design. We generally define the recent past as a moving window of approximately fifty years time. Specifically, we cover those buildings that are not considered eligible for the National Register of Historic Places because the structures are less than fifty years old. These are the very buildings and landscapes that need the most protection.

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our Recent Past listserve, our monthly E-News, discounts at RPPN-sponsored events, and an invaluable connection to others who have the same interests and experience.
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Comments Needed Now! Richard Neutra's 1963 Mariners' Medical Arts Center in Newport Beach, CA, is not yet protected. New development on the site may endanger this historic structure.

Interested members of the public are encouraged to attend the next scheduled Arts Commission meeting for the City of Newport Beach and speak on behalf of preserving this important Neutra building.

Each member of the public will have three minutes to comment on non-agenda items of public interest. The Arts Commission advises the Newport Beach City Council on all matters pertaining to historical and cultural aspects of the community and participates in the designation of historical landmarks.

Next meeting: July 10, 2008, at 5:00 p.m.
Location: Newport Beach Central Library, 1000 Avocado Avenue, Conference Room

Letters of support can be mailed to:
Newport Beach City Arts Commission
City of Newport Beach
3300 Newport Boulevard
Newport Beach, CA 92663

Download the letter of support from RPPN President Christine Madrid French

If you are interested in participating further,
please contact RPPN at submit@recentpast.org


New for 2008! A Historical Bibliography of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urbanism in the U.S. Since World War II. Compiled by Richard Longstreth and updated annually, this 40-page bibliography of recent past resources is available online in html format or as a document download. Create your own reading list for the coming year!


Historic Buildings For Sale: RPPN readers have submitted many requests to post information about buildings for sale. So, we have started a new section "Historic Buildings for Sale or Salvage." If you have a structure you would like to list on our website, please send a small jpg and pertinent information to submit@recentpast.org. We can post the information for you for FREE.

New on our HB for Sale or Salvage: A Frank Lloyd Wright home in Utah, a free gas station in Maryland, and the Paschal House in North Carolina. See more information.


Blogs:

SAVE Riverview : Riverview High School in Sarasota, FL was designed by Paul Rudolph, world renowned architect. The building is threatened with demolition as the Sarasota School Board looks at options for updating the Riverview campus. It is hoped that by publicizing the potential destruction of the significant building a way can be found to save it.


Lee Gardens Shopping Center
2201 North Pershing Drive, Arlington, Virginia
ca. 1940, Originally planned by Mihran Mesrobian,
final design by Allen J. Dickey. Immediately endangered by redevelopment plans. See our comprehensive web page with support letters and photographs!


See More Buildings on our National Windshield Survey!

Marcel Breuer's Cleveland Trust Tower, 1971, Cleveland, Ohio. SAVED!

Learn more about the preservation effort to save this skyscraper from demolition, designed by famed architect Marcel Breuer.


Photo courtesy Mark Satola.



1958 Perpetual Building Association, Silver Spring, Maryland. ENDANGERED! Last month marked the 49th anniversary of the opening of downtown Silver Spring's most important example of Postwar International-style architecture, the 1958 Perpetual Building Association, located at 8700 Georgia Avenue. But the recent posting of two development application signs at that address that call for the razing of the 5-story, 28,848 sq. ft. structure for replacement by a 14-story, 133,138 sq. ft. building does not bode well for the landmark structure's pending "golden" anniversary. See the whole story of the building plus more great photos!

The Waffle Shop, Washington, D.C. Will it survive the changing times? See in-depth photographs of the interior at Charles Badal Photography. 2.17.07

HOW TO SAVE HISTORIC BUILDINGS Are you faced with a difficult battle to save an important historic structure in your community? While there is no single formula or method that will guarantee that a historic building will be saved, preservationists have several useful tools available to help protect buildings and avoid demolitions. Published by the Los Angeles Conservancy. 2.17.07

See hints on our Taking Action to Save Historic Resources page.

Coming Soon - More details on:
Edward D. Stone - Carlson Terrace

Drive-In Theater NY

Breuer Library in CT

Civic Arena, Pittsburgh




RPPN Sues National Park Service
to Prevent Demolition of Richard Neutra's
1961 C
yclorama Building at Gettysburg
More details here


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