A Call to Save an Unusual Fairgrounds Building, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Link to full item:
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/A-Call-to-Save-an-Unusual/21468/

Text below is quoted from Scott Carlson at the Chonicle's Buildings &
Grounds Blog.

The University of Nebraska at Lincoln is giving people an opportunity
to propose uses for its Industrial Arts Building, a 97-year-old
structure on the old state fairgrounds that preservationist fear will
be demolished. The university says that if suitable plans for the
building are not submitted before July 1, the building will indeed be
razed. The university acquired the old fairgrounds last month to build
a research park.

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The preservationists have set up a Facebook page and a Web site, where
they go into detail: "The building is an exposition-type structure
with an impressive span of steel arches and beams. It was built with a
zero-carbon footprint and utilized natural light through skylights and
Palladian windows and natural heating and cooling through a series of
open windows and dormers. The interior structure of the building is
unique in Nebraska.

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