Tag: historic preservation
Boulder City Correspondence – October 2017
What Makes Something Historic?
Why preserve an old building? Is it the architecture? Did something significant happen there? Is it attached to a historic event or a noted person in history? If it has a...
Art “Placemaking” or Art “Placekeeping” in Downtown Elko?
By David Roche
Executive Director, Western Folklife Center
When the Western Folklife Center was awarded an art “placemaking” grant from ArtPlace America in the fall of 2015, it initiated a creative process already stimulated by Elko’s...
