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Why It’s Important to Landmark the First Christian Church and Other Metro Buildings

by Lynne Rostochil. On February 4th, we created a Change.org petition requesting the City Council to landmark the First Christian Church, which is for sale and is endangered.  Since then, a lot of people have asked why it’s important to do this or they think that because it’s on the National Register, the church is […]

Buildings on the Chopping Block for 2016?

text and photos by Lynne Rostochil.  Vintage photo of Herman’s from the History Center collection, vintage photo of the Medical Tower by Bob Bowlby. If you think that 2015 was a bad year our our city’s architectural icons, 2016 might be even worse.  The dreaded “MW” (Midwest Wrecking) has been spray painted on several buildings […]