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News Articles: historic preservation

An old log cabin is shown in this daytime photo.

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Black history project aims to tell 'Georgia's Full Story'

A new project aims to collect stories from Black history with the goal of preserving and recognizing that history as a state resource.

April 10, 2023
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  • Orlando Montoya
Squat one-story buildings surrounded by chain link fence comprise a former motel.

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Georgia's latest 'Places in Peril' include historic properties statewide

The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation has announced its annual list of threatened historic buildings.

November 18, 2022
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  • Orlando Montoya
A 1925 school building is shown.

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Judge gives Phoebe green light for historic building demolition

The health care system, city commissioners and the city's historic review board have been at odds for weeks.

September 19, 2022
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  • Orlando Montoya
The Houlihan Bridge in Port Wentworth, built in 1922 and slated for replacement, is Georgia’s last remaining swing-style bridge.

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Wanted: New homes for historic bridges

The Georgia Department of Transportation is trying to find homes for historic bridges that have outlived their usefulness and need to be replaced.

September 08, 2022
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  • Dave Williams
"This Old House" host Kevin O'Connor records the home improvement show in Atlanta on Aug. 10, 2022. An Atlanta couple is restoring the Victorian home of civil rights activist Luther Judson Price.

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This Old House: Restoration honors Black Atlanta postmaster

A five-bedroom Victorian house south of Georgia's capitol was in severe disrepair until an Atlanta couple saw its potential. Then they learned it was built around 1900 by South Atlanta postmaster and civil rights activist Luther Judson Price.

September 07, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Historic Home in Macon

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The Waterworks: A weird and wonderful house in Macon

The structure was built in the mid-19th century as the waterworks for the city of Macon. In a news article from 1874, the building was mentioned as “an old moss-covered building." By the early 20th century, it was abandoned until it became an antique shop in 1934 where people would buy wedding presents and birthday gifts. 

September 02, 2022
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  • Evey Wilson Wetherbee
The original Atlanta State Savings Bank building in 2022

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229 Auburn Ave: A piece of Atlanta’s history

Located at the corner of Jesse Hill Jr. Drive and Auburn Avenue, in the heart of the Sweet Auburn District, once known as the richest stretch of Black real estate in America, the three-story Atlanta State Savings Bank building still stands. But it has been boarded up for decades. Some want to preserve the historic building.

August 26, 2022
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  • Donnell Suggs
A 1925 school building is shown.

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Historic preservation, health care clash over Albany building

The city's historic preservation board is fighting a health system's plans for an old school building.

August 22, 2022
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  • Orlando Montoya
The former home of Emmett and Mamie Till is pictured in the West Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago on Aug. 26, 2020. It is one of more than two dozen historically significant sites that will share in $3 million grant money from a preservation organization.

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Emmett Till's Chicago home will get money designated for preserving Black history

A preservation organization said the home will get a share of $3 million in grants being distributed to 33 sites and organizations nationwide that are important pieces of African American history.

July 19, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Rendering of historic homes

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A $2M project could bring 5 historic homes to downtown Columbus

The five homes were donated to Historic Columbus, and three of them previously belonged to Historic Westville, a living history museum that relocated from Lumpkin to Columbus a few years ago.

June 21, 2022
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  • Nick Wooten
This house in the Cuyler-Brownville neighborhood of Savannah is undergoing extensive renovation, as part of a new effort to combat rising home prices through the use of historic preservation.

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In Georgia's oldest city, historic preservation meets affordable housing

Amid rising home prices across Georgia, a new pilot project in Savannah turns to the city's past to help address the housing crisis of the present.

March 30, 2022
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  • Benjamin Payne
The Imperial Hotel, featured in The Green Book, has placed on the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation's annual "Places in Peril" list.

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Thomasville hotel once featured in 'Green Book' makes Georgia Trust Places in Peril list

The Imperial Hotel was built in 1949 and operated as an exclusive rest place for African American travelers. It was also one out of 10 hotels listed in an African American Tourist Guide known as the Green Book.

November 26, 2021
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  • Associated Press
Fire damage at the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House.

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Officials Are Investigating A Fire At The National Susan B. Anthony Museum And House

The damage was limited to the back porch of the historic house, where suffragist Susan B. Anthony lived in the 19th century. The Rochester Fire Department is investigating the source of the blaze.

September 27, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
The Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home in Camilla, Georgia, was just named one of the country’s “most endangered historic places.” Photo courtesy of the National Trust for Historic Preservation

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Camilla Home Where Black Midwife Delivered 6,000 Babies Endangered

Thousands of babies were born in a red bungalow that is still standing, though battered, in an African American neighborhood in Camilla, Ga., called the Hill. The historic building’s significance as a place of refuge for Black mothers and babies during a time of segregation and its current fragile state have landed the center on the list of the country’s most endangered places.

 

 

June 07, 2021
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  • Jill Nolin
Roxy Theatre in Macon

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Roxy Theatre's History Brings New Life To Macon Black Business District

The old and rusted Roxy Theatre has been hiding in plain sight for decades near downtown Macon, but those who know its past are building a new future around it.

December 03, 2020
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  • Liz Fabian
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