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The article focuses on the replacement of Hattie McDaniel's missing historic Oscar plaque, which she bequeathed to Howard University after becoming the first Black person to win an Academy Award in 1940.

Features Siena, Italy, as a tourist destination. Details of this medieval Tuscan city; How to get there; Author's strategy of avoiding tourists; Mention of Siena's back alleys; Author's experience visiting the city; Landmarks and historical sites; Historical information; Suggestions on where to stay and eat. INSET: A GLORIOUS PIAZZA, WINDING BACK ALLEYS AND FOUR-SHOT DUE DOPPIO...

The article discusses the U.S. 2016 presidential candidate and real estate developer Donald J. Trump's renovation to his golf club Trump National Golf Club on the Potomac River in Sterling Virginia, including his installation of a historical marker claiming that a U.S. Civil War battle was fought at the location. An overview of historians' claims that the historical marker is false is provided.

The article reports on the installation of a slave trade marker in New Jersey on November 27, 2017.

The article reports on the unveiling of three historical markers in Montgomery, Alabama by the organization Equal Justice Initiative. It states that the Alabama Historical Association refuses to sponsor the markers because of the probability of controversy to occur. Bryan Stevenson, director of the organization, says that Equal Justice is calling for the people in the city to reflect and think civil rights to reflect and think on the civil war.

The article reports on the sale of a building with the Citgo sign, which received a preliminary landmark status from the Boston Landmarks Commission, to real estate developer Related Beal by Boston University in Massachusetts to raise capital for teaching and research.

Focuses on the World Monuments Fund watch list of most endangered sites. Addition of cultural heritage sites in Iraq, Mexico City's historic center, and Edward Durell Stone's porthole-studded building a Columbus Circle in New York City; Protests of preservationists against plans to recreate the Columbus Circle building as the new home of the Museum of Arts and Design; How the 2006 watch list includes nine 20th-century sites, including the Cyclorama Center in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and Konstantin Melnikov's House Studio in Moscow, Russia; Comments of Bonnie Burnham, the fund's president; How the selections are made.

Discusses the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument on Interstate 80 on the outskirts of Kearney, Nebraska. Description of the building, which resembles a covered bridge that is suspended above the highway; Construction of the archway as a tourist attraction; Opening of the monument in 2000; Inclusion of the monument in the film "About Schmidt"; Features of the site, including teepees, displays about pioneers and the Oregon, California and Mormon Trails; Gift shop items.

The article reports on the concerns on the mysterious disappearance of a historical marker regarding the birthplace of famous photographer Mathew B. Brady in Johnsburg, New York.

The article discusses the mystery over the 2014 theft of a commemorative sign in Johnsburg, New York, that was located near the birthplace of Civil War photojournalist Mathew B. Brady.

The article provides an answer to a question regarding the stone marker near the George Washington Bridge in Washington Heights in Manhattan, New York with inscription "American Redout 1776."

COLUMBUS, N.M. -- An armed raid in the wee hours of the morning nearly a century ago has long defined this town. There is a Pancho Villa State Park here, a Pancho Villa Cafe and historical markers pointing out where Villa, a revolutionary leader from Mexico, crept across the border with a group of men and opened fire here. ''Grandpa died over there,'' said Richard R. Dean, the unofficial historian of Columbus and a descendant of one of the 18 Americans killed. Recounting that long-ago battle, based on family letters and conversations he had with a great-uncle who survived it, he speaks of bullets whizzing back and forth on Broadway and a panicked population huddling in their homes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Webster Hall, a 19th-century East Village assembly space where F. Scott Fitzgerald once reveled and Emma Goldman urged social change, was one of several buildings designated historic landmarks on Monday by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Designed by Charles Rentz and built in 1886, with an annex added in 1992, Webster Hall, a Renaissance Revival structure at 119-125 East 11th Street, is clad in red Philadelphia pressed brick with brownstone trim and red terra-cotta ornamentation. (A mansard roof was destroyed in the 1930s.) The hall, seen above in the 1910s, became famous for masquerade balls after a 1913 fund-raiser for the socialist magazine The Masses and became a hub not only for Village bohemians but also for gay men and lesbians. The artists Charles Demuth, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray used the hall, as did F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and political and labor leaders like Goldman, Samuel Gompers, Margaret Sanger and Dorothy Day. The Progressive Labor Party was established there in 1887, and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in 1914. In the 1950s and '60s, RCA Victor operated a studio there, where Arthur Rubinstein, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Marian Anderson and many others recorded. Webster Hall later became a rock club. Three other East Village structures also received landmark designation: the 11th Street Public Bath, at 539 East 11th Street, a Beaux-Arts structure designed by Arnold W. Brunner and completed in 1906; the Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Anshe Ungarn, at 242 East Seventh Street, a Beaux Arts synagogue built in 1908 for a congregation of Hungarian Jews; and the Elizabeth Home for Girls, at 307 East 12th Street, a High Victorian Gothic brick and sandstone structure built in 1892 for use by the Children's Aid Society. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article comments on the destruction of statues and other structures that resemble the Communist era in Berlin, Germany.

Reports that several modern American architectural landmarks are being honored by the U.S. Postal Service on a new sheet of stamps that will go on sale on May 20, 2005.

Reports on the plan of the Iranian government to erect historical markers in Tehran that accuse Germany of arming Iraq with chemical weapons that were eventually used on Iranians.

Reports that the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor will be partly opened to visitors in summer 2004, nearly three years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks forced it to shut for security concerns. Role of a private campaign reopening the statue's base; Views of U.S. and New York City officials; Contention that the statue could have been opened earlier; How millions of dollars held by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation went unspent; Overview of the nonprofit foundation's finances; Concept of using private donations to help maintain public spaces; Observation that the National Park Service, which is responsible for the landmark, did not turn to Congress for the money to reopen the statue. INSET: A Foundation's Finances.

Discusses how a Thomaston, Georgia, cemetery is one of thousands in the U.S. South being destroyed by development and neglect. Details of the destruction and disintegration of historic burial grounds; Actions by suburban developers, who take advantage of weak laws; Observation that disused cemeteries are ineligible for public money that might rehabilitate them; Views of preservationists; How the most imperiled burial grounds are those historically used by African-Americans; Efforts to raise restoration money; Outlook.

Reports on the construction of a historical marker in Alabama for nine young Afro-American men who were charged with raping two white women in 1931 in a case that symbolize racial injustice in Southern courts. Issues on racism; Details about the case; Sentences and convictions given to the young men.

Discusses the 2004 list of endangered sites from the World Monuments Fund. How the list is compiled; Surprises on the list, including Ernest Shackleton's expedition hut in Antarctica; Examples of sites that straddle national boundaries; Mention of the Ghazni minarets in Afghanistan, Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis Brown House in Los Angeles, California, and Battersea Power Station in London, England; Scope of the endangered list; Mission of the fund; Importance of the preservation movement; List of the 100 decaying sites.

Reports on the installation of a third marker which declare the exact point on the Colorado State Capitol steps in Denver, Colorado, that is at one mile above sea level in October 2003.

States that the Landmarks Preservation Commission in New York City permitted the removal of a public sculpture called 'The Wall,' which had been affixed to the side of 599 Broadway at Houston Street for 29 years. Discussion of a lawsuit by the building owner who wants to use the space for a billboard; Issue of returning the sculpture to the building and whether the sculpture is a landmark; Idea that the sculpture is public art and a symbol of the gateway to the SoHo district.

Reports on the imposition of temporary flight restrictions on major landmarks in the U.S., including the Statue of Liberty in New York City.

Reports on the possible demolition of only fieldstone bridge in Richmond Town, New York City. Historical significance; Overview of the traffic problem in the area.

Editorial. Ponders on the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act in the United States that could make it harder to use zoning laws to save landmarked churches and church property from wrecking. Memory regarding the conflict over the plans by Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church to build a tower on its historic site; Purpose of the bill; Need for Congressional hearings about the bill.

Focuses on the demolition of the Mapes Hotel in Reno, Nevada. Reaction of the citizens of Reno on the move; History of the hotel; Remarks from Mayor Jeff Griffin on the historical value of the hotel.

Focuses on the use of modern materials to maintain and repair rustic structures, such as bridges and roads. The example of a Clinton, New Jersey bridge restored; Reason for preservation in rural communities; Comments from Dan Marriott, director of the Historic Roads Task Force at the National Trust for Historic Preservation.