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A room with a view of the campus of Lebanon Valley College on the second floor of Lorenz House. The Annville home, recently restored by owners Scott Eggert and Dan Massad, once housed the college's fourth president. (Barb West Lebanon Daily News)
ANNVILLE >> The Queen Anne-style house that sits at 112 N. College Ave. in this college town has a colorful history. But through the decades, time took its toll on the 19th century house. Its origins and grandeur were lost until Dan Massad, an Artist in Residence at Lebanon Valley College decided to restore the home, rediscovering its history in the process.
On Sunday, the new property owners, Dan Massad and Scott Eggert, gave a special tour of their new home to about 50 members of the Friends of Old Annville.
"We're celebrating this house because it's such a perfect example of what could be done to a property that looks like it needs to scrapped and turned into a parking lot," said Paul M. Fulmer, a local historian and FOOA member. "The potential that is exhibited today is really exceptional."
Several years ago, Massad was asked to write a history of the college's architecture. While doing the research, he discovered a file in the college archives on the "President's House." It turned out that 112 N. College Ave. was the home of LVC's fourth president, Edmund S. Lorenz, and was occupied by two subsequent presidents. It is one of two college buildings still existing that date to the institution's earliest days.
With the help of librarian Scott Conrad, Massad found an exterior view of the home. It sparked his interest in restoring the home. In 2010, he took his vision to then-President Stephen C. MacDonald, who agreed to the plan.
Lorenz, an amateur architect, designed his house around 1888, according to Fulmer.
"He had a large hand in the layout of it," he said.
Lorenz made a note in his memoirs that his new house was built "according to my plans," Fulmer said.
Lorenz was president between 1887 and 1889, a troublesome time for the college. Ultimately, he resigned his position after several bouts of illness.
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LAS CRUCES >> Some things were just built to last. The old Armijo House, the future home of the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce, is testament to that.
Today, scaffolding surrounds three sides of the two-story adobe house on Lohman Avenue, just off South Main Street. A crew with Pat Taylor Inc. a Mesilla company that specializes in historic preservation, is doing painstaking work to make the building's old adobe walls new again. Specialized carpenters are refurbishing the old wooden porch around the front and east side of the house. In simple terms, it's called stabilization work, but there are a lot of meticulous tasks now underway at the house that historians believe that Nestor Armijo originally built in the 1860s.
Robin Zielinski Sunj-News Marcos Talache, right, and Eric Calbert, Pat Taylor Inc. construction workers, continue restoration work at the Nestor Armijo House. More than 700,000 in renovations and restoration will be done to the building that is now owned by the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce. The building will become the chamber's new offices.
The Chamber of Commerce, which has been deeded the historic house, will spend more than $700,000 to bring the Las Cruces icon back to life.
"Without a doubt, there was a lot of craftsmanship that went into building this house," Taylor said.
Indeed, the Amador Hotel is a Las Cruces icon. It, too, was built about the same time as the Armijo House. Southern New Mexico historians agree both buildings are clearly links to the city's rich history.
"It's our sense of place," said Eric Liefeld, executive director of Mesilla Valley Preservation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the architectural legacy of buildings in Las Cruces and nearby Doa Ana County communities. "It's good to see some things have survived."
Liefeld has been directly,and indirectly involved in restoration of the Armijo House. Several years ago, when city employees were cleaning out a storage facility, they came across remnants of a window. Not knowing where the window came from, and impressed with its design, Liefeld quickly agreed to take pieces of the old window off the city's hands.
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HoneTuwhare's legacy arrives home today, with New Zealand's third Koha for the Crib in Dunedin tonight.
Hone Tuwhare's crib at South Otago coastal village Kaka Pt was a sanctuary for the famous Maori writer and former University of Otago Robert Burns Fellow.
Now the property is to be transformed in to lasting legacy for writers and artists around the country, Hone Tuwhare Charitable Trust chairman Noel Waite said.
The trust embarked on a series of Koha for the crib in 2011, the first events in Auckland and then in Wellington, to raise money for the crib's restoration and to build a new writers' residency and studio at the site.
Dunedin will host the third event tonight, Saturday, October 18 at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum.
"Hone considered Dunedin to be his intellectual home," Waite said, "and a hub for sharing his creative passion with fellow writers and artists."
Koha for the Crib will include performances by musicians Don McGlashan, Rio Hemopo, Graham Downes, Martin Phillipps, David Kilgour, and Ciaran McMeekin. Poets Emma Neale, Majella Cullinane, Sue Wooton and Peter Olds will also give readings of poetry.
"Hone's love of food will be celebrated through chef Scott Murray who has designed the menu based on local kai that will knock the socks of guests," Waite said.
One of the highlights of the night, however, would be a charity art auction.Among items going under the hammer are especially-designed limited edition printsfeaturing Tuwharepoemsin the writer's own handwriting as well as a limited edition box set of The Chills featuring art work by Shane Cotton. Well-known Dunedin art connoisseur Marshall Siefert is auctioneer.
The specially-designed limited edition posters of Hone Tuwhare's poems are among items going under the hammer.
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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Muhammad Ali's boyhood home will soon undergo a quarter million dollar restoration.
The Louisville legend and humanitarian continues to leave a lasting legacy, yet the place where it all started is falling apart.
Lawrence Montgomery still lives on the 3300 block of Grand Ave. where he was one of the first to feel the sting of the young boxer's jab.
"I'd come in, in the mornings. And he'd be jogging up and down the street, down to Chickasaw Park. Back then, he had me hold my hands up so he could spar into them " Montgomery said.
[SLIDESHOW: Muhammad Ali through the years]
Cassius Clay or as Montgomery remembers him, Cash Jr., grew up at 3302 Grand Avenue - where a sagging front porch overhang and shifting foundation will soon be restored.
Jared Weiss, the Nevada real estate investor who bought the vacant house two years ago, formed a joint venture on the makeover with 19th Century Restorations of Lawrence, Kansas. Work is scheduled to begin at the end of October and 19th Century Restorations plans to have the restoration finished by Jan. 17, which is Ali's 73rd birthday.
Montgomery lived in the house next door and still owns the neighboring home as well as his current home across the street.
"I think it's behind times. It should've happened long ago," Montgomery said.
Montgomery said he's now in negotiations to sell his own childhood home.
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This 2012. file photo shows for sale signs in the front yard of Muhammad Alis boyhood home in Louisville, Ky.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. The owner of Muhammad Ali's boyhood home has partnered with a restoration specialist in a venture to completely restore the Louisville, Kentucky, residence to its original condition.
The Courier-Journal reports Nevada-based real estate investor Jared Weiss, who brought the property two years ago, has joined with Lawrence, Kansas-based 19th Century Restorations to restore the home.
Dan Reidemann, who is CEO and founder of the restoration company, told the newspaper that the effort would cost about $250,000 and the hope is to finish it in enough time to hand over the keys to the boxing great on his 73rd birthday in January.
Work is set to begin on the small white house with a sagging front porch overhang in western Louisville by the end of October.
When the work is finished, Reidemann said it should look as it did in 1954 when a young man then known as Cassius Clay lived there with his family.
"We are happy that it will be fixed up and kept up. It will help preserve the legacy of Muhammad as a famous Louisvillian who grew up there," said Jeanie Kahnke, spokeswoman for the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville.
Reidemann said the restoration will include removing rotting wood and rebuilding much of the structure, as well as replacing windows, doors and possibly the roof.
"We want to restore it, so when you walk through it, it looks like it did when Muhammad lived there when he was 12 or 13 years old," Reidemann said.
He said that he and Weiss will begin the effort with their own funds, but will hold a "crowd-funding" campaign in an effort to raise $250,000.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The owner of Muhammad Alis boyhood home has partnered with a restoration specialist in a venture to completely restore the Louisville, Kentucky, residence to its original condition.
The Courier-Journal (http://cjky.it/1wgV9e7) reports Nevada-based real estate investor Jared Weiss, who brought the property two years ago, has joined with Lawrence, Kansas-based 19th Century Restorations to restore the home.
Dan Reidemann, who is CEO and founder of the restoration company, told the newspaper that the effort would cost about $250,000 and the hope is to finish it in enough time to hand over the keys to the boxing great on his 73rd birthday in January.
Work is set to begin on the small white house with a sagging front porch overhang in western Louisville by the end of October.
When the work is finished, Reidemann said it should look as it did in 1954 when a young man then known as Cassius Clay lived there with his family.
We are happy that it will be fixed up and kept up. It will help preserve the legacy of Muhammad as a famous Louisvillian who grew up there, said Jeanie Kahnke, spokeswoman for the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville.
Reidemann said the restoration will include removing rotting wood and rebuilding much of the structure, as well as replacing windows, doors and possibly the roof.
We want to restore it, so when you walk through it, it looks like it did when Muhammad lived there when he was 12 or 13 years old, Reidemann said.
He said that he and Weiss will begin the effort with their own funds, but will hold a crowd-funding campaign in an effort to raise $250,000.
Lawrence Montgomery, who has lived for 35 years across from the Ali home, says it will be really great to have the deteriorating home restored. He says onlookers and tour buses drive by all the time to look at the residence, which has a historic marker out front to identify its significance.
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HODGENVILLE, Ky. (AP) The National Park Service is breaking ground this month on restoration and improvements on the central Kentucky parkland where Abraham Lincoln lived as a young boy.
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park Superintendent Bill Justice says the idea is to protect and preserve the structures at Knob Creek. He says the project has been in the works for years.
The groundbreaking is at 1:30 p.m. EDT Oct. 25 at the Boyhood Home Unit at Knob Creek. There will be no parking at the site, but shuttle service to Knob Creek from LaRue County High School will be available beginning at 11 a.m.
For more information, visit http://www.nps.gov/abli or the park's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/LincolnBirthplaceNPS .
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The historic 1886-era homestead Glen Alpine near Tamworth has burnt down in suspicious circumstances.
The historic 1886 homestead Glen Alpine near Tamworth has burnt down, two days before its sale for $4.5 million was due to settle.
All that remains of the heritage-listed homestead that was designed by architect John Horbury Hunt are five chimney pots and the original cellar.
"We are absolutely devastated by this," said Cremorne-based buyer, landscaper-builder Antony Tisch, who with his wife Wendy exchanged on the 1335 hectare property in June and was expected to take possession of it late last week.
A passer-by took a photo of the blaze.
"Restoring this old house to its former glory was part of our retirement plan. Now it's just a nice block of land."
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Rural crime investigator Detective Senior Constable Scott Kellahan said police at Werris Creek noticed the blaze just after midnight on Wednesday October 8. It took fire crews several hours to bring the fire under control and no-one was in the property at the time.
Mr Tisch said they still plan to proceed on the settlement of the property, but that is not expected to take place until after court proceedings to determine what insurance on the residence is payable to either party.
The buyer who paid $4.5 million for the property is "devastated".
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