DETROIT — Remnants of the roof and walls creaked, groaned and then crumpled to the ground last week from what once was an industrial building that covered an entire city block, likely the last structure demolished this year under Detroit’s massive blight elimination program. Blows from an excavator methodically destroyed a portion of what had [...]
SAVANNAH, Ga. — As a girl in the mid-1950s, Amy Roberts would catch a ride each morning with her neighbors the Johnsons, the couple that ran the one-room schoolhouse where black children were taught on St. Simons Island. “Mrs. Johnson played the piano and she had the younger children,” Roberts said, recalling her years attending [...]
DANBURY, Conn. — This Connecticut city is planning to demolish the historic Hearthstone Castle, one of a dwindling number of stone fortresses built more than a century ago by industrial barons across the Northeast. The hilltop castle, built in 1899, has fallen into disrepair and become overgrown with weeds since the city acquired it in [...]