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    Top: Arts: Architecture: Preservation: Projects:

• - Aims to save an historic landmark on Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
  
• - Believed to have been the Mormon Old Nauvoo University Library, this 1843 stone house in Nauvoo, Illinois was rescued from bulldozers just hours before destruction.
  
• - News of historic preservation efforts on Route 66, "the Main Street of America". John's Modern Cabins is an old tourist court just a few miles south of Rolla, Missouri.
  
• - A TV series which asks viewers to vote for which one of 30 historic British buildings should be restored. Information about the buildings and instructions on how to donate.
  
• - Restoration and reconstruction at Vina in California of the 12th century Spanish Cistercian chapter house of Santa Maria de Ovila. Includes a history by Margaret Burke, photographs, and reports in pdf format.
  
• - This Federal style house in Illinois, built in 1847, needs to be saved. Owners Wade and Tara Scharlau present its history and solicit donations towards its preservation.
  
• - The owners describe the restoration of one of the oldest houses in Fishers Indiana, built in 1861.
  
• - Project dedicated to the conservation and rebuilding of approximately 120 ancient field barns on Bonsall Moor, Derbyshire, England.
  
• - Karl H. Kleen records a historic landmark restoration in progress in St. Louis, Missouri. Photographs and map of these stone row houses built by German immigrants.
  
• - House in Alton, Illinois, built in 1869 to designs by Lucas Pfeiffenberger. History, restoration progress, paranormal claims, events, media mentions and visitor information.
  
• - Preserving a house built around 1904 and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Mission, biography of Wright, the history and restoration of the house, features and links.
  
• - Chronicles Johnathan and Beth Campbell's quest to renovate a house built around 1890 in North Dakota. History, photographs and news.
  
• - The major public areas of this magnificent structure have been restored to their 1917 grandeur by Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana and CFC Incorporated.
  
• - A late Federal style brick farmhouse, built in 1836 in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, now undergoing restoration. Illustrated history with references. Photographs of the setting.
  
• - General Engineering explains its restoration of this elegant historic bridge in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and offers free CD-ROMs of its plan for the restoration of the town of Mostar.
  
• - The China Exploration and Research Society and Kham Aid Foundation provide information on their project to repair Buddhist monasteries and their mural paintings.
  
• - A US program to preserve historic farm buildings sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Successful Farming magazine. Articles, awards, photo tour, bibliography.
  
• - Project to convert the Italianate former Olympia Brewhouse in Tumwater, Thurston County, Washington, USA into a regional arts and cultural center. Includes an explanatory drawing, photographs and proposal (in pdf format).
  
• - Dedicated to informing the public of Richmond, Virginia about the corruption surrounding the plan to destroy 6th Street Marketplace which opened in 1985.