The built environment is in constant flux, whether from demolition and new construction, renovations and additions, or changing function and use. Social protest and cultural progress can also transform the built environment, as we have witnessed these past several years in efforts to remove monuments to the Confederacy from public spaces. (See “SAH Statement on The Removal of Monuments to the Confederacy from Public Spaces.”)
As a digital publication, SAH Archipedia strives to ensure that its content is up to date and that published texts accurately reflect physical conditions on the ground. To that end, our editors and authors are reviewing individual entries and essays to identify those that need to be updated.
While this work is ongoing and continuous, we want our readers to know that we are prioritizing updates to entries and essays (and illustrations and metadata) dealing with monuments to the Confederacy and memorials that otherwise symbolize oppression to indicate (1) the removal of statues and other forms of dismantling or transformation, (2) the renaming or retitling of buildings, parks, plazas, bridges, streets, and highways, (3) necessary contextualizing and interpretations in light of new historical research and scholarship.
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The Hills and Dales estate comprises a 35-acre site including Ferrell Gardens, whose history extends back to 1832, and the Classical Revival residence of Fuller E. Callaway, designed in 1913 and completed in 1916 by architects Neel Reid and Hal Hentz. With living room alterations in 1948 by Philip Shutze, the house brought together the talents of the leading architects of Georgia’s early-twentieth-century classical tradition. The estate also ... more
Founded in 1913, the Pine Mountain Settlement School in rural Harlan County is perhaps the best preserved of the settlement schools founded in Appalachia during the Progressive Era. Though its mission has changed over time, the school continues to operate today. The settlement school, ...more
The Rialto Theater is located on the courthouse square and has been in continuous operation since it replaced a theater torn down in 1923 to make way for this one. In 1940, the theater underwent an extensive remodeling at which time the present Art Deco neon-lit marquee and signage were added to the facade. more
St. Theodosius Russian Orthodox Cathedral is considered one of the finest examples of Russian church architecture in America, and it is the mother church of all Orthodox parishes in Ohio. Designed by Cleveland architect Frederick Baird, St. Theodosius is adapted from the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow (1883; 1931, destroyed; 2000, reconstruction completed). more
