Preservation Magazine's Favorite Photos from 2018
Looking Back
The turning of a new year is a time for reflecting on the past while planning for the future, and for me it's become the season when I Iook back on all of the amazing places the National Trust has shared with our supporters through the pages of Preservation magazine. Historic preservation is something that can be described without images, but that only tells half the story. While the importance of a place to our shared history is easy to convey with words, the beauty and vitality of historic landscapes and architecture is best left to photography. Below, I've selected some of my favorite images that were published by Preservation in 2018.
The nature of historic buildings is that we never get to see most of them on the inside. Walk down any city street or drive down any country lane and you are bound to pass by places of beautiful simplicity or architectural mastery. My five favorite exteriors of 2018 include two modernist houses, two adaptive re-use hotel properties, and an early 20th-century one-room school house.
The owners of this residence designed in the early 1960s by William Kessler have transformed it into a home that also functions as gallery space for their collection of art.
photo by: Paul S. Bartholomew
The Glasbern Inn located in Fogelsville, Pennsylvania, is a Historic Hotel of America property adapted from what was once a 19th-century farm.
photo by: Cynthia Lynn
The Florida Tropical House is one of five "Century of Progress" houses owned by the National Park Service and located in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Originally built for the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair, the houses were transported to Indiana's Lake Michigan shoreline after the international exposition. Later when the national lakeshore was established, the homes were purchased by the park service.
photo by: Scott Gable Photography
Winner of a 2018 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Award, the Richardson Olmsted Campus in Buffalo, New York, was recently transformed from an abandoned asylum campus into the luxurious Hotel Henry Urban Resort Conference Center.
photo by: farmerted1971/Instagram
The Pioneer School in Park County, Wyoming, is one of nearly 100,000 places that have been tagged #ThisPlaceMatters on the social media platform Instagram.
Historic places also come in the form of vast landscapes, campuses of related structures, neighborhoods, and even entire cities where physical structures become part of their larger environments. Appreciating these places requires distance or elevation or both. Hills and mountains, lakes and rivers combined with the built heritage underscore the importance of protecting not only historic buildings but also viewsheds.
photo by: Audrey Hall
A $42 million renovation of Many Glacier Hotel (a Historic Hotel of America) was recently completed, preparing the 100-plus-year-old hotel for another century of service. Located on the shoreline of Swiftcurrent Lake in Glacier National Park, the hotel epitomizes a style of rustic architecture made famous by the National Park Service.
photo by: Daryl Byrd/Maryland Department of Natural Resources
In Mallows Bay of the Potomac River in Maryland, a Ghost Fleet of World War I wooden transport steamships awaits protection. A coalition of partners joined by the National Trust for Historic Preservation are hoping to enhance protections for the shipwrecks and surrounding underwater archaeological area with National Marine Sanctuary designation.
photo by: Paul S. Bartholomew
In 2011, the J.S. O'Connor American Rich Cut Glass Factory in Hawley, Pennsylvania, was transformed into a boutique hotel and restaurant. The Ledges Hotel buildings are perched along one side of a rocky gorge, a location that originally accommodated water wheels for powering the factory.
photo by: Matthew Gilson
Dubuque, Iowa, is a more than 200-year-old Midwestern city that saw its industrial heyday in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Today, historic preservation of the city's many architectural treasures is drawing new residents to town and helping spur an economic renaissance.
And finally, historic places can be as intimate as a single room or handcrafted architectural detail. When older buildings are rehabbed and transformed for contemporary use, it is often the evidence of hand crafted details and historic materials that makes each place unique. Handmade brick, carved stone, heavy timber, and plaster ornamentation bear the fingerprints of people who designed, built, and lived or worked in historic buildings whether they be simple farm structures or elaborate theaters.
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photo by: Samuel Markey
A sunburst ornament in the ceiling dome of the rehabilitated Parkway Theater. Reopened in 2017 after a $19 million renovation, the 1915 theater now contributes to the resurgence of Baltimore's Station North Arts and Entertainment District.
Like most of the building's interior rooms, studio spaces inside Omaha, Nebraska's Union for Contemporary Art feature exposed brick and timber.
photo by: Lauren Dillon
Lauren Dillon, executive designer at Master of Plaster in Columbia, South Carolina, recreates and restores historic plaster ornamentation such as that found on the ceiling of the Unitarian Church in Charleston.
photo by: Liz Nemeth
Artist Isabelle Bowen Henderson painted this 1770 map of the Carolina Colonies in her Raleigh, North Carolina, home. Today, Henderson's great-niece owns the home and maintains the house and surrounding gardens to keep the artist's spirit and legacy alive.
photo by: Keeneland Photo
The barns at Keeneland Racetrack in Lexington, Kentucky, are beautiful in their simplicity. The repetition of geometric shapes created by rows of horse stalls lends elegance to this vernacular structure.
