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American Express has partnered with the National Trust for Historic Preservation to announce a more than $1 million grant program to preserve small, historic restaurants.
Under the program, small, historic restaurants will have the opportunity to improve, upgrade, and preserve their physical spaces and online businesses.
As part of the program, partners of the credit card giant will support the initiative. AT&T Business and Dell Technologies will offer up to $5,000 in products and digital upgrades to each grant recipient. Resy, a hospitality technology platform will offer complimentary use of its restaurant management platform for one year.
The National Restaurant Association will also offer access to its virtual educational tools and training to support 25 grant winners and up to 75 nominees.
Stacker explored 25 different historic sites maintained by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States and ranked them by year of construction. Learn about the history behind these important landmarks and what makes them so special.
The Freedmen s Towns That Built DFW Black History
Free Black Americans living in North Texas after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation relied on a series of communities known as Freedmen s towns to congregate, shop, sell goods and services, and build businesses. They were crucial not just to the culture but to the very survival of Blacks in the antebellum period.
Time has paved over these towns, literally and figuratively, as highways, developments and new generations put their stamps on these landmark neighborhoods.
Dallas is in danger of losing this important history as cities and residents don t prioritize preservation, according to George Keaton Jr., CEO of Remembering Black Dallas Inc.
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Henry H. Gutterson, Supervising Architect of St. Francis Wood Truthful to the many styles and variation of styles as reflects the people of California.
by Richard Brandi, Copyright 2007 Henry H. Gutterson, Supervising Architect of St. Francis Wood -
The career of San Francisco architect Henry Gutterson spans the first half of the 20th Century. Beginning in 1905, when he graduated from the School of Architecture at the University of California Berkeley to his death in 1954, Gutterson s 50-year career most closely relates to the Beaux-Arts, Bay Area Arts and Crafts, and Academic Eclecticism periods. He attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts but was also influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement and he became one of the acknowledged practitioners of the early Bay Area Style. What set Gutterson and other young architects in the Bay Area style apart from others in the U.S. was, the peculiar way of using historical forms and details, the complexity of forms and spaces, miniaturizati