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From: "NHSUVCW" <>
Subject: Re: [SUVCW] FW: [suvmass] G.A.R. Hall in Aurora, IL
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:32:26 -0400
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Hey thanks for passing it on
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel and Linda Murray" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: [SUVCW] FW: [suvmass] G.A.R. Hall in Aurora, IL


> Thank you, I will pass it on to the Dept of NH.
> Dan Murray
>
> wrote:
> Brothers,
>
> I thought you would be interested in this.
>
> FCL,
>
> Ed
>
> -------------- Forwarded Message: --------------
> From: Kevin Tucker
> Subject: [suvmass] G.A.R. Hall in Aurora, IL
> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 12:50:02 +0000
>> Brothers,
>>
>> We have a chance to help preserve the G.A.R. Hall in Aurora, IL. Please
>> read the
>> following article, then go to the Partners in Prevention web site to
>> register
>> and cast your vote for the G.A.R. Hall. Please pass the word on to as
>> many as
>> possible.
>>
>> http://blogs.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconblog/2007/09/local_landmarks_vying_for_big_1.html#more
>>
>> Local landmarks vying for big money
>>
>> Under a non-descript canopy, the Viking ship sits and waits
>> for funding to be restored at Good Templar Park in Geneva.
>>
>> BY DAVE PARRO
>>
>> American Express and the National Trust for Preservation announced an
>> online
>> voting competition Thursday called Partners in Preservation that will
>> determine
>> which of 25 historic sites in the Chicago area should get a share of $1
>> million
>> in rehab funds. The local contenders: Aurora's GAR Hall and Geneva's
>> Viking
>> ship.
>> The credit-card company launched the five-year program last year, and the
>> focus
>> in 2007 is on Chicago and the collar counties. The two Kane County sites
>> certainly could use the money; the city of Aurora has been trying to
>> renovate
>> the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall for years, and the Viking
>> ship was
>> named this year to Landmarks Illinois' top 10 list of endangered
>> historical
>> features that face extinction.
>> Some of the competitors include the Chicago Cultural Center, Great Lakes
>> Naval
>> Station's Hostess House and the Jane Addams Homes' Animal Court
>> Sculptures.
>> Aurora Historic Preservation officials plan to make an announcement at
>> the GAR
>> Hall tonight about the contest. The city has tried to renovate the late
>> 1880s
>> Downer Place Civil War hall before, but former Mayor David Stover pulled
>> the
>> plug on the project in 2003 because of a tight city budget and the loss
>> of
>> $700,000 in grant money because of delays. Last year, the city started
>> making it
>> a priority again and went out to bid for the first phase of renovation.
>> The Viking ship, called Raven, was built in 1892 by Capt. Mangus
>> Anderson. It is
>> a replica of a Viking ship built in 850 and sailed from Norway to Chicago
>> for
>> the 1893 World's Fair. It sits in Geneva's Good Templar Park awaiting
>> restoration; no one has cared for it because the park was supposed to be
>> a
>> temporary home when it landed there in 1996.
>> Are these local landmarks more worthy than two dozen other sites? See the
>> real-time voting results here:
>> (http://www.partnersinpreservation.com/index.php?sec=votres)
>>
>>
>> In F, C & L,
>> Kevin Tucker
>
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