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Inside Downtown Tour coming to a neighborhood near you!
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Photo by David Boyer
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Ok, so maybe it isn't necessarily a neighborhood near you but The Landmark Society's 2011 Inside Downtown Tour is coming to Rochester's East End neighborhood on September 23 and 24. Explore some of the finest living, dining, drinking and recreating that downtown Rochester has to offer.
New benefits this year for ticket holders will include discounts at select East End businesses and a sneak preview tour of a future event--Loftarama!
Stay tuned to your Landmark Alerts, our Facebook page, and our website for more information. We'll let you know when tickets go on sale!
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Mid-century modern homes in the news
Major news outlets have, of late, been picking up on something that we've known for years--modern architecture (think ranch houses, pink tiled bathrooms, Donuts Delite) is cool! More importantly, a lot of these "Recent Past" resources are now historic, meaning they are 50 years old or more. Check out some of these recent articles and resources:
- NY Times - Restoring the Retro House
- Wall Street Journal - Fans Seek to Preserve Ranch Houses Note: this article has one major error in it--listing a property in the National Register does not restrict what private property owners can do with their properties.
- Retro Renovation - a great blog resource for everything related to mid-century interiors
- Save the Pink Bathrooms - Brought to you by the same folks who run Retro Renovation, this is a fun website devoted to celebrating and advocating for the retention of the often-maligned 1940s-60s pink bathroom.
- Atomic Ranch - a gorgeous magazine for the ranch house enthusiast
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Historic Preservation news from the Town of Greece
Click here and scroll down to page 3 of Greece's newsletter, Greece Reports, to read an update from the Town of Greece Historic Preservation Commission. Does your town, village, or city preservation board/commission have updates or news to share? Email us, we'd love to hear from you!
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