Eyesore or Monument? Preservationists Fight to Save a Grain Elevator in Buffalo (The New York Times)

In early January, State Senator Sean Ryan, a Democrat who represents much of Buffalo, held a rally in support of the Great Northern, an event that drew a couple dozen supporters. Among them was Michael Di Pasquale, an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who drove six hours to the rally to safeguard what he called an “irreplaceable example” of late 19th-century architecture.