Stunning architecture—as well as no architecture at all—have earned slots on America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2014. Since 1988, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has been issuing this watch list of historically significant buildings and sites for which neglect, natural disaster, development pressure, and other phenomena put their continued existence at risk. This year’s newly released selections reveal the full breadth of preservationists’ interests. They are:
Among the buildings representing design excellence is the only Frank Lloyd Wright–designed residence in Florida. Spring House was completed in 1954, five years prior to Wright’s death. In addition to its one-of-a-kind location, the deteriorating building is one of few remaining examples of the hemicycle vocabulary, which Wright began developing a decade earlier as an offshoot of his Usonian houses.
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