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8 Sites Illuminating African American History Show the Need for Preservation

<p>The National Trust for Historic Preservation is working against time and redevelopment to prevent the loss of key sites of African American history across the nation. So far the project has helped protect a museum of the Buffalo Soldiers, Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, and Louis Armstrong's house in Queens, among other sites. </p>

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8 Places Across the U S to Learn About African American History

Over the years, many important African American landmarks have disappeared or fallen into disrepair. An effort to restore them promises a fuller understanding of American history as a whole.

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8 Places Across the U S to Learn About African American History

Over the years, many important African American landmarks have disappeared or fallen into disrepair. An effort to restore them promises a fuller understanding of American history as a whole.

United statesNew yorkCity of new yorkPromised landAnne spencerZora neale hurstonGwendolyn brooksVilla rosaMackenzie scottKu klux klanLucille armstrongAdam clayton powell jrJacob lawrenceElizabeth catlettMartin luther king jrWilliamr pettiford

The Little-Known Story Behind Cincinnati s Terrace Plaza Hotel

The Little-Known Story Behind Cincinnati’s Terrace Plaza Hotel Laura Itzkowitz © Ezra Stoller Inside the Gourmet Restaurant at the Terrace Plaza Hotel designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, featuring a mural by Joan Miro which has since been relocated to The Cincinnati Art Museum. (Photograph by Ezra Stoller. © National Trust for Historic Preservation) Have you ever heard of the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati? Built in 1948 by the then emerging architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it was America’s first hotel in the postwar era. Its sky lobby a revolutionary idea sat on the eighth floor, above a department store. It was the first hotel to have elevators without operators in them, the first to have rooms with individual temperature controls, and it even had sofas that would convert to beds at the push of a button.

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