Site Grants for the 2005-2006 Restore America: A Salute to Preservation Initiative

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Incardonia’s Restaurant—New Orleans
$50,000
Incardonia’s, a restaurant and bar run by Italian immigrant Joseph Incardonia was once a local landmark but has been a neighborhood eyesore for years. The Preservation Alliance of New Orleans plans to convert Incardonia’s into four residential units with loft-like layouts to appeal to young buyers and artists.
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Efroymson House—Indianapolis
$35,000
Built around 1905 by famed department store owner Gustave Efroymson, this once-prominent home had suffered significant structural defects and was in danger of demolition by the 1980s. The Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, Inc. plans to restore the home and turn it into five apartments.
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Pacific Electric Building—Los Angeles
$100,000
Los Angeles' first skyscraper was built in 1905 by famed industrialist Henry Huntington. The building is also home to Cole’s Restaurant, the oldest continuously operating eatery in Southern California and credited with the invention of the French dip sandwich. The Los Angeles Conservancy plans to revitalize the building with 314 loft apartments.
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Lucien Moore House—Detroit
$50,000
Built in 1885, the house has witnessed a dramatic shift in the last century; from stately mansions to apartment buildings in the early 20th century to the abandonment and decay that has plagued the neighborhood since the 1960s.
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Jefferson Davis Hospital—Houston
$50,000
The four-story hospital opened its doors in 1924, but has been vacant and vandalized for the past two decades. Local groups plan to use grant funds to turn it into a 34-unit multi-family residential building and artists' colony.
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Martha G. Ripley Maternity Hospital—Minneapolis
$60,000
Dr. Martha Ripley, one of the first female doctors in the United States, established a maternity hospital in 1886. The brick building was completed after her death in 1912 and operated until the late 1950s. The Central Community Housing Trust plans to convert the building into housing for low and moderate-income residents.
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Lincoln Street Neighborhood—Savannah, Ga.
$45,000
The Lincoln Street Neighborhood tells a compelling story of a historic neighborhood’s return from years of neglect and decay. The Historic Savannah Foundation plans to rehabilitate the neighborhood to provide a variety of mixed-income housing.
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MacGillivray’s—Baltimore
Grant Amount: $60,000
Baltimore’s Mt. Vernon neighborhood was home to many of the city's movers and shakers until the 1920s. But the turn of the century saw a number of its elegant mansions converted to medical offices and apartments, including MacGillivray’s Second Empire town house (circa 1860).
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Mellon Street Victorians—Pittsburgh
$60,000
Lt. James Parker, a naval war hero of the Mexican-American War and an expert woodcrafter, built the three Victorian turret houses on the 800 block of Mellon Street. East Liberty Development, Inc., plans to rehabilitate the abandoned turret houses into quality single-family homes.
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The Victorian Lady—Hartford, Conn.
$40,000
Facing demolition in 2004, the Victorian Lady was moved a mile away. The Northside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance, Inc., will use grant funds to restore the historic building back to a single-family home.
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Pilots’ Row—San Francisco
$50,000
Once headquarters for the Coastal Artillery Corps that guarded the entrance to the Golden Gate Bridge during World War I, Pilots’ Row embodies the dawn of the era of flight in the American West. The homes along the row have been abandoned for decades. The Presidio Trust plans to restore the homes for civilian use.
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