Officials in Los Angeles on Thursday recommended making the Art Deco former digs of the LA Times a cultural-historic landmark, putting a wrinkle into redevelopment plans by the building’s new owner.
Read moreContesting plans to build a new hotel in the East Village, the nonprofit responsible for the Old Merchants House says in court that the development deal threatens “a veritable time capsule” of 19th century New York City life.
Read moreNew plans for a $160 million renovation of the Frick triggered massive protests Monday, with preservationists claiming in court that the work would demolish the museum’s iconic music room and garden.
Read moreAnnouncing a new policy to protect religious groups from the biased application of municipal zoning and landmark laws, the Justice Department brought its first complaint under the initiative on behalf of a New Jersey congregation of Orthodox Jews.
Read moreFederal prosecutors have charged a 26-year-old man in connection to a small fire in Joshua Tree National Park that burned a historic California landmark this week.
Read moreA pair of historic preservation groups asked a judge Wednesday to block the demolition of a Victorian home in the St. Paul suburb Merriam Park that they say deserves landmark status.
Read moreNine of 12 members of the National Park Advisory Board, the group which selects historic and natural landmarks, resigned Monday amid claims Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke left them with little choice after a year of being ignored.
Read moreA federal judge seemed disinclined to order a trial in the U.S. Postal Service’s now four-year legal fight with the city of Berkeley over the planned sale of its historic downtown post office, wary of claims the city is intentionally trying to diminish the building’s value and discourage buyers.
Read moreIce sculptures of Moscow’s Red Square and Bangkok’s Temple of the Emerald Buddha are among landmarks featured in the world’s largest ice festival.
Read moreA New York appeals court ensured the safety Thursday of the largest clocktower in the world that is considered purely mechanical, a city landmark whose new owner wanted to electrify it and close it off to the public.
Read moreThe company that manages Chicago’s Navy Pier asked an Illinois judge Wednesday for a temporary restraining order to prevent picketing union members from physically blocking the streets leading to the tourism landmark.
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Teamsters Local 727 sued the company that manages Chicago landmark Navy Pier and its new security contractor, claiming they have refused to accept its union members’ job applications.
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