Names on the Door
The archive now has a masthead, a corrections policy and an ownership disclosure. The editor on why a quiet catalogue chose to put names on the door — and an invitation to the writers and photographers who should join it.
Editor & Publisher
Luigi De Marchi
Luigi De Marchi, architect, is the editor and publisher of Cultural Heritage Online. He founded the archive in 1998 as beniculturalionline.it and has published it without interruption since.
Contributions: 4 articles · 1,209 heritage places · 8 itineraries · 2 road-books
101 articles on the Italian archive
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
- tourismA di Firenze u00e8 il Salone dell'Archeologia e del Turismo Culturale Italiano
- Venezia e il Portogallo in etu00e0 moderna | conferenze Museo di Palazzo Grimani
- Le performance di beniculturalionline.it
- Scrivania Nomos 1984 c.
- Carrello contenitore BOBY di Joe Colombo, 1970
- Washstand, 1904
- Sgabello Mezzadro, 1957
- Poltrona Joe, 1970
- Sedia a dondolo - UOVO modello Nu00b0 267
- Panchina, 1906-1914 c. in stile Art Nouveau
- Jaguar E-Type
- Poltrona Barcelona - Mies van der Rohe
Chatol (1940), Centralia, Missouri
A ballroom fitted with furnishings salvaged from the 1933-34 Chicago World’s Fair sits inside a 10,000-square-foot house built to look like an ocean liner…
David Park House (1936-1937), Bemidji, Minnesota
A creamery owner in northern Minnesota built himself a poured-concrete house shaped like a piano when viewed from above — one of the state’s few genuine…
Mihran Mesrobian House (1941), Chevy Chase, Maryland
After two decades designing Washington’s grandest apartment houses and hotels for other clients, architect Mihran Mesrobian finally built something for…
Coral Court Motel (1941-1995), Marlborough, Missouri
Listed on the National Register in 1989 and bulldozed anyway in 1995, the Coral Court was Route 66’s most notorious motor court — glazed yellow brick…
Al Mac’s Diner-Restaurant (1953), Fall River, Massachusetts
A horse-drawn lunch wagon serving mill workers in 1910 grew into this stainless-steel Art Deco diner car, still open on President Avenue and still a required…
Canute Service Station (1936-1939), Canute, Oklahoma
A castellated, tile-trimmed parapet over stucco walls greeted westbound Route 66 travelers with a style built specifically to sell the Southwest: Pueblo…
Whitesville School (1931), Whitesville, West Virginia
Blonde brick and tower-like entrance bays give this coalfield junior high a civic presence its Boone County setting rarely offered — Art Deco schoolhouse…
Center Theater (1936), Hartsville, South Carolina
A New Deal work crew built this 867-seat Art Deco movie house in 1936, and it later hosted Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn on the same stage where Hartsville…
Palmetto Theatre (1946), Hampton, South Carolina
A single stylized marquee still lights up Lee Avenue in a town of a few thousand people — the Palmetto Theatre’s Art Moderne front is Hampton’s one surviving…