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Dover Development wins national preservation award for Alexander Inn

Posted at 11:26 am July 15, 2016
By John Huotari 1 Comment

Alexander Guest House Front Entrance Sept. 23, 2015

The front entrance is pictured above at the Alexander Guest House, which converted the historic but long-vacant Alexander Inn hotel into a beautifully restored assisted living center. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

 

Rick Dover and Dover Development of Knoxville have won a national preservation award for their work to convert the historic Alexander Inn, a dilapidated, vacant two-story hotel in Oak Ridge, into the Alexander Guest House, a beautifully restored assisted living center.

Knox Heritage, which played a key role in the project, announced the award on Friday. Also playing a key role was the East Tennessee Preservation Alliance.

Dover Development won the Chairman’s Award for Achievement in Historic Preservation from the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, or ACHP, a press release said. Members of the ACHP are appointed by the president of the United States.

It’s one of the highest awards given for historic preservation, the press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Business, Community, Federal, Front Page News, Government, Knoxville, Nonprofits, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge Office, Slider, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: ACHP, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Alexander Guest House, Alexander Inn, Chairman’s Award for Achievement in Historic Preservation, Dover Development, East Tennessee Preservation Alliance, Guest House, historic preservation, Kim Trent, Knox Heritage, Manhattan Project, Mick Wiest, Milford Wayne Donaldson, National Building Museum, national preservation award, National Register, Oak Ridge Heritage and Preservation Association, Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management, ORHPA, Preservationist of the Year, Rick Dover, Sue Cange, U.S. Department of Energy, Warren Gooch, World War II

DOE, UCOR demolish last piece of K-25, once the world’s largest building

Posted at 12:55 pm December 19, 2013
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

K-25 Building Demolition Final

The last section of the former K-25 Building in west Oak Ridge was demolished on Thursday.

It was once the world’s largest building under one roof, built by the U.S. government in less than two years as part of a top-secret race to build the world’s first atomic bombs during World War II.

Officials say it also helped win the Cold War.

But five years after demolition started, the K-25 Building is gone. Officials, workers, and invited guests watched the last section of the giant building crash to the ground on Thursday.

The mile-long, U-shaped K-25 Building enriched uranium through a process called gaseous diffusion. It was the largest facility in the U.S. Department of Energy complex. Debris shipments are expected to be completed in the spring of 2014.

The $1.1 billion project is under budget and ahead of schedule. [Read more…]

Filed Under: DOE, East Tennessee Technology Park, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Alexander Inn, Bechtel Jacobs Co. LLC, City of Oak Ridge, Daniel Poneman, demolition, DOE, East Tennessee Preservation Alliance, environmental cleanup, K-25 Building, K-25 History Center, Leo Sain, Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Office of Environmental Management, Tennessee State Historic Preservation, U.S. Department of Energy, UCOR, uranium, URS-CH2M Oak Ridge LLC

Community celebrates K-25 historic preservation agreement

Posted at 11:59 pm August 10, 2012
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

K-25 Building

The mile-long, U-shaped K-25 Building is pictured above. The North Tower, which historic preservationists had lobbied to save for years, is in the center background. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of Energy)

An agreement officially announced Friday morning clears the way for the historic K-25 North Tower to be demolished, calls for a replica equipment building and viewing tower, proposes a history center at a nearby city-owned fire station, and provides a $500,000 grant for the run-down Alexander Inn.

The agreement wraps up a decade of discussion over how to commemorate the historic contributions of K-25, which was built during World War II as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project, a federal program to make the world’s first atomic bombs.

Historic preservationists lobbied for years to save the North Tower, but concerns over safety, the deteriorated condition of the building, and cost appear to have made that impractical. Much of the rest of the K-25 Building has already been torn down.

Those who signed the agreement include the U.S. Department of Energy, the State Office of Historic Preservation, the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the City of Oak Ridge, and the East Tennessee Preservation Alliance.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Alexander Inn, City of Oak Ridge, East Tennessee Preservation Alliance, K-25, K-25 site, North Tower, State Office of Historic Preservation, Sue Cange, U.S. Department of Energy

Final signature clears way for demolition of K-25 North Tower

Posted at 12:01 pm August 8, 2012
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

K-25 Demolition

Demolition is almost complete on most of the K-25 Building’s East Wing, and work on the North Tower, pictured in the background at left, could start in September. (Photo submitted by UCOR)

Historic preservationists lobbied for years to save the North Tower of the mile-long, U-shaped K-25 Building in west Oak Ridge, but an agreement that received a final signature on Tuesday clears the way for demolition work to begin there in late September or early October.

“It allows us to proceed with our cleanup activities … without delay,” said Mike Koentop, U.S. Department of Energy spokesman in the Oak Ridge Office.

However, officials plan to pay homage to the site, built during World War II to enrich uranium for atomic bombs, with a replica equipment building, viewing tower, and nearby history center, as well as a Web-based virtual museum and a $500,000 grant to buy and stabilize the dilapidated, historic Alexander Inn in central Oak Ridge.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, East Tennessee Preservation Alliance, East Tennessee Technology Park, K-25 Building, North Tower, Oak Ridge, Tennessee Historical Commission, U.S. Department of Energy

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