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Find New Life In Recycling A brewery in Texas is now a museum; a dairy barn in Missouri, a shopping center. A torpedo factory in Virginia is today a prosperous arts' center; an old slaughter house in Manhattan, a spacious studio-residence. Throughout the nation, new uses are being found for old buildings once threatened by the wrecker's ball. The trend which spread rapidly through cities and towns in the 1970's is firmly rooted in the American preservation tradition, but the development differs dramatically from the earlier emphasis on restoring buildings to show how they once looked and were used. "Preservation does not, and emphatically should not mean merely restoration," according to Barbaralee Diamonstein, creator of an exhibit about reborn buildings prepared by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition ser­ vice. "Probably the single most important aspect of the preservation movement is the recycling of old buildings-adapting them to uses different from the ones for which they were originally intended." T h e r e c y c l i n g phenomenon is viewed as an outgrowth of a number of factors: disenchantment with urban renewal programs that bulldozed entire neighborhoods and replaced them with housing projects lacking any sense of community, the march of social activists against in­ discriminate leveling of landmark buildings, a broad'-based interest in p r e s e r v a t i o n a n d displeasure with modern, architecture's often im­ personal, brutal new buildings. Despite the successes of the recycling movement, there are several dangers on the horizon spotted by Ms. Diamonstein and other critics. Some preservation projects, to their eyes, have become too chick or too cute, burdened by too many curio shops that quickly tarnish an area's historic appeal. Other projects are misdirected: "We have to fight constantly against the desire to make a lovely 1890's town look like a 17th century New England village," James Biddle, director of the National Trust for Historic Preser­ vation, says. And as property values and taxes rise in still other areas following restoration, the poor and elderly who have lived in the neighborhoods often are forced out. A third concern is the possibility of over- preserving, protecting a building no matter what its value. Related to this is the matter of preservation costs. According to the American Institute of Architects, renovation "can often be carried out at lower cost than tearing down existing structures." But it cannot be assumed, one planner for a l a r g e j ^ a s h i n g t o n , D C . developer cautions, that either new construction or rehabilitation is cheaper because .land values, materials and labor costs vary so widely. "Preservation by adaptive use is not always the an­ swer," this planner states, "although it always should be considered." Projects across the nation where preservation was chosen include these 'examples: Industrial - Commercial Structures Recycled. A pioneer in adapting old buildings for new uses, San Francisco is finding still additional ways to recycle aging structures, recently converting an antiquated ice factory to furniture show rooms, a utility generating station to commercial retail space and, perhaps most dramatically, a parking garage to high school classrooms. One of the nation's earliest redevelopment projects, San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square, a former chocolate factory converted over a decade ago to shops, offices and restaurants, has in­ spired new adaptations in other American cities. Ghirardelli's mix of small specialty' shops, for example, helped lead Boston planners to their decision to renovate Faneuil. Hall Marketplace, a complex of food services, retail space and offices. In Alexandria, Va., a dreary, wartime torpedo factory located in the heart of the town's historic district has been given new life as a successful arts center, where 200 painters, sculp­ tors, photographers and other artists maintain studios visited each year by 350,000 shoppers and tourists. In Brooklyn, N.Y., an ugly foundry was con­ verted to a 532-bed teaching hospital, believed to be the first hospital recycled from an industrial plant. Entire blocks of neglected commercial structures are being renovated in other cities. Corning, N.Y., and Galveston, Texas, are among those that have r e v i t a l i z e d d e c a y i n g business areas by reclaiming architecturally- valuable 19th century buildings. In the process, each has won historic district status, plus vital new business growth. New York City's Soho district, the largest con­ centration of 19th century cast-iron front buildings, also has taken on new life as the former factories, warehouses and showrooms are turned into con­ t e m p o r a r y s t u d i o s , residential lofts, apartments and businesses. This area, according to Diamonstein, has become a model of adaptive re-use for sturdy but under-used warehouses across the country. Just north of soho, if Greenwich village, artisft Lowell Nesbitt found me spaciousness of an old slaughterhouse ideal for his studio and home. In the West, the San Antonio Museum of Art is tran­ sforming the old Lone , Star Brewery into exhibition galleries and offices. A total of 93 seats on local community college boards of trustees will be filled in district elections this April, says David L. Viar, executive director of the Illinois Community College Trustees association. Thirty-seven of the 39 community college districts in the state are governed by locally elected boards of trustees consisting of seven voting members. Generally two seats on each board will be up for election this year, although in some districts there may be three or four vacancies. C o m m u n i t y c o l l e g e trustees are responsible for setting college policies, hiring and evaluating staff, approving budgets and setting tuition and local tax rates, among other responsibilities. Most, if not all, districts in the state will be holding their election Saturday, April 12. "Community colleges offer high-quality low-cost education within driving distances of every Illinois citizen", said Viar. "It is the involvement of local citizens on college boards which makes the community colleges responsive to the needs of the people in the district." C o m m u n i t y c o l l e g e trustees serve without pay. The term of office is three years. Generally all forms required for candidacy or absentee balloting in community college elections THE REVOU/riOUARy war, PIFFEKENr Tires. OP CiJJ?«E»JCy were V^EP BY AMERICAN^ - - IWCtVpiNO UOTfEBV TiC*6T$i I'AVMMsn.l jNfbttVyfc AftMV/ &ot.Pietd CAM vuAuiy or no % t4>, foo >N V ^ Cl/RRFMCV FcrR THE IK COtlCtiE OR VOCATIONAL ePlfATtOM / Churches to Restaurants, Homes. Converting churches to preservation headquar­ ters or private residences are unique adaptive uses for old structures. For sheer surprise there is the one­ time synagogue in Salt Lake City, now a restaurant specializing in food from six nations. These are the unique details: tables are located in the nave and the arched balcony, the latter once used as classrooms; a bar is found in the former choir loft; the altar back­ drop remains in place, but a 3-foot stage was built for nightly chamber music. Home , to Offices, Museums, Hotels. Large mansions once occupied by the wealthy are valued today by museums and other organizations for their u n i q u e c h a r a c t e r , a r ^ chitectural detail and adaptable space. The New York State Bar association, for example, is headquartered in a row of elegant 19th century town houses in Albany, N.Y.; the Smithsonisui's Cooper- Hewitt museum in the old Carnegie mansion on New York City's Fifth avenue, and the Fine Arts foundation of Fort Wayne, Ind.', in a stone house built in 1852. The 18th century Edward Mooney house in New York is now an Off-Track Betting office, an appropriate new use: the 4 first owner's avocation was breeding horses. Hotels to Banks; Banks to Apartments. First a fort, then a hotel, a 157-year-old New Mexico adobe is now the home of the Citizens Bank of Las Cruces. But the nation's third oldest sur­ viving bank building, vacant for years in Alexandria, Va., is being turned into apart­ ments as well as space for a new branch bank. And in Jersey City, N.J., a former Romanesque-style bank will house luxury condominiums, complete with a sauna located in the old vault. What Just One Person Can Do Mother To 84 Kids Letters come to the Christopher office, at 12 East 48th street, in New York City, by the hundreds every day. One in particular I have to share with you. It came from Dorathea M. Koons, 68, of Troy, Ohio. She writes: "I am an ordinary person doing what God has called me to do. To care for little ones who need someone to love them. So far the county has given me 84." I called Mrs. Koons to find out more. It was a delightful conversation. She explained that she has been a foster mother for Miami county in Ohio since 1966. When her second husband died of cancer in 1974, she thought they would declare her ineligible for foster care, but her fears were un­ warranted. They gave her another child right away. "I was a widow, but that wasn't going to stop me from PAGE 15 - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 20, IIM doing what I wanted to do," were the Depression days she said. I asked her about the finances involved. "The county gives clothes, medicine and $3 a day for each child," she told me, "but I supply everything else." And everything else in­ cludes a lot of tender loving. In fact, county authorities bring her the sick children because of her special gift. Pam Severs, supervisor of foster care for Miami County Children's Services, ^said, "Dorathea has the amazing capacity to. deal with sick children, and she's par­ ticularly good with infants." "How did you come by this gift," I asked Mrs. Koons. "I do it out of love. I could never have children of my own," she said. "After a miscarriage in 1933 I was told I would never have a child, but since then I have been a mother to over 150 children of all ages." She began in 1933 taking care of neighborhood children whose parents couldn't manage for the time being. "I just did it for love of the children," she said. "Those and people were suffering terribly. It was the joy of that ex­ perience that led me to, begin serving the county program. God has been good to me." She added: "I just love children. I just love them - what can I say!" . Dorathea Koons doesn't have to say anything. Her actions say it . all, and she toucnes more than the lives of her ltttle children. She is showing all of us what one person can do in the lives of others. We're never too old or too young to give love. Dear Lord, teach me the secret that love isn't love until it is given away. Secrets A secret is something which you find out by reading the gossip columns. -Democrat. Paducah, Ky. True Stupid Steve Says: "Minds are like para­ chutes; they won't work unless they're open." -U.S.S. Minute Man. KiwWjf (>$ - [ /W Can you tell by the nature of winter rainfall whether a cold or warm front is passing in above you? 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