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The Ben Moore Hotel in Montgomery was just named to the National Trust’s ‘America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2026’ list
above, from a 2009 visit
They say:
The building housed a wide set of iconic institutions, including the Majestic Café, the Malden Brothers Barber Shop, and the rooftop Afro Club, which hosted performers including Billie Holiday, B.B. King, Little Richard, and Tina Turner.
..Reuse ideas include a reopened Majestic Café and barber shop, community-serving office space, restored hotel rooms, and a revived Afro Club that would serve as a cultural venue. Rehabilitation of this scope will require a combination of public-private partnerships, historic tax credits, and philanthropic investment. Revitalization of the Ben Moore Hotel would illuminate the hotel as a symbol of African American perseverance and enterprise and allow for public interpretation focused on Black travel during Jim Crow, Green Book sites, African American entrepreneurship, and Montgomery’s broader Civil Rights landscape.
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On June 6 & 7, Crystal Bridges will celebrate the opening of an additional 114,000 square feet of artspace. The new space was also designed by Moshe Safdie. I’m SO looking forward to returning later this summer!
from a 2014 visit
This may be the last year of the 1919 Casamento’s in New Orleans
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I haven’t been out to see it yet, but Dezeen does a post on Trahan Architects, which completed the 4620 sqft Chapel of St Ignatius and the Gayle and Tom Benson Jesuit Center at Loyola University last year.
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