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In southeastern Massachusetts, the Ames Shovel Shops complex, an intact 19th-century industrial village that resembles a picture-perfect New England college campus, is threatened by a plan to demolish several of the site's historic buildings and radically alter others to pave the way for new mixed-use development.
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Founded in 1868 as a school for freed slaves, Dorchester Academy started humbly in a one-room schoolhouse and later gained prominence as a center for voter registration drives during the civil rights movement. The academy's last remaining building, a handsome 1934 Greek Revival dormitory, is deteriorating and structurally compromised.
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One of Hawaii's eight main islands, L?na'i, known as the "Pineapple Isle," has lush tropical beaches, breathtaking natural beauty, lavish resorts and one attraction none of the other islands can claim: an intact plantation town. L?na'i City, built by pineapple baron James Dole in the 1920s, features luxury european river cruises plantation-style homes, a laundromat, jail, courthouse and police station, and is now threatened luxury european river cruises by a large-scale commercial development calling for the destruction luxury european river cruises or significant alteration of 15-20 historic buildings.
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