“Locals still mourn the loss of Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride at Disney, and love to ogle homeboy David Siegel’s imitation Versailles, a monstrosity of a house that isn’t even finished (though it has inspired a hit documentary, The Queen of Versailles). These icons of artifice pass for landmarks in the City Beautiful, while real landmarks, like Winter Park’s 128-year-old Capen House, fight for existence.” So begins Richard Reep’s recent article in the Orlando Weekly. Read the entire

The Albin Polasek Museum & Sculp­ture Gar­dens, in part­ner­ship with the Friends of Casa Feliz and the Win­ter Park His­tor­i­cal Asso­ci­a­tion, along with a lead­er­ship com­mit­tee com­prised of preservation-minded cit­i­zens, announce the offi­cial launch of a fundrais­ing cam­paign to pre­serve the his­toric Capen House of Win­ter Park. The offi­cial kick-off event for the fundrais­ing cam­paign has ten­ta­tively been slated for Thurs­day, August 8, at the Polasek Museu

If anyone can make history cool, it’s Matthew Weiner. The executive producer and architecture buff behind TV’s sleek 1960s-set megahit Mad Men talked with Preservation Magazine about his passion for places and how he celebrates historic design on and off screen. Read the whole article on the Preservation magazine website: http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2013/summer/mad-for-modern.html #california #modern #preservation #TV