Ten weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and amid widespread anti-Japanese hysteria, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, providing the legal basis for the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans at ten War Relocation Authority “Relocation Centers.”
Only weeks after completing the demolitions of Cole and Franklin elementary schools, the Boise School District (BSD) will decide the fate of yet another Boise landmark. In the latest of a series of seismic stabilization efforts at sites across the city, the BSD will soon decide how best to retrofit the historic auditorium at Boise High School.
Image courtesy of the
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Historic preservation emphasizes building reuse from a cultural perspective rather than an environmental one. Reusing buildings is natural for sustainable design, but building reuse is rarely emphasized in contemporary green building standards.
