Tag: Historic Preservation

• If Walls Could Talk: Lake Chapala’s historic buildings and their former occupants

  

  Now one of the most popular retirement area for Americans and Canadians, the Lake Chapala Region, nestled in a valley almost a mile high in Mexico’s Volcanic Axis,  has long been a draw for ex-pats and vacationers, lured by its almost perfect climate and beauty. In his book If Walls Could Talk: Chapala’s historic buildings…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  January 23, 2023

  #books, #BookTok, Adventure, Culture, Food, Food History, Historic Architecture, History, Mexico, Mexico Travel, Recipes, Travel

  Cookbooks, Culture, Food, Historic Architecture, Historic Preservation, History, Lake Chapala, Literary, Mexico, Recipes, Road Trips, Tony Burton, Travel

• Pullman: The Man, the Company, the Historic Park by Kenneth Schoon

  

                 Kenneth Schoon, professor emeritus at Indiana University Northwest, has immersed himself in the history of the Greater Chicago/Northwest Indiana area for decades, writing books starting from the area’s earliest beginnings such as “Calumet Beginnings: Ancient Shorelines and Settlements at the South End of Lake Michigan” and “Swedish Settlements on the South Shore of Lake…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  September 6, 2021

  American History, Architecture, Barack Obama, Chicago, Historic Architecture, History, Photography

  Chicago, Florence Hotel, historic, Historic Architecture, Historic Preservation, Historic Pullman Foundation, History Press, Kenneth Schoon, Museum, Non-fiction, Pullman, Pullman National Monument

• Indiana Landmarks Rescued and Restored

  

  “These places are all about the people who made them,” says Marsh Davis, president of Indiana Landmarks,“and the people who worked at saving them.”

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  September 10, 2020

  American History, Architecture, Culture, Historic Architecture, History, Indiana, Northwest Indiana, West Baden Resort

  Architecture, DeRhodes House, Fowler Theatre, Historic Preservation, Indiana, Indiana Landmarks, Lyles Station, New Carlisle, Old buildings, Old Republic, Preservation Guild, Restoration, South Bend, Vurpillatt's Opera House, Washington Square Historic District, Winamac