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Flat top house to move to Children’s Museum on Tuesday

Posted at 9:47 am October 16, 2018
By Kay Brookshire Leave a Comment

The historic flat top house that has been at the American Museum of Science and Energy for about a decade will be moved to the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, officials said Monday, Sept. 10. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

The historic flat top house that has been at the American Museum of Science and Energy for about a decade will be moved to the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

 

The flat top house move from the American Museum of Science and Energy to the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, October 16. The move was delayed earlier this month due to heavy rains.

The move is expected to begin at AMSE about 9:45 a.m. and continue along Illinois Avenue about 10 a.m. Tuesday. Residents along West Outer Drive from Illinois Avenue to the Children’s Museum at 461 West Outer Drive have been notified of the move date and are asked to move cars from the street on Tuesday, a press release said.

The Children’s Museum offered to give the flat top a new home when AMSE, which is re-opening in its new location in Main Street Oak Ridge, announced its move. AMSE’s new location doesn’t have space to keep the flat top as an exhibit, the press release said. The Children’s Museum does have room on its property southeast of the museum building. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Community, Front Page News, Museums, Nonprofits, Slider Tagged With: American Museum of Science and Energy, AMSE, AMSE Foundation, Children's Museum of Oak Ridge, flat top, flat top house

Historic flat top house moving from AMSE to Children’s Museum

Posted at 12:39 pm September 11, 2018
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

The historic flat top house that has been at the American Museum of Science and Energy for about a decade will be moved to the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, officials said Monday, Sept. 10. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

The historic flat top house that has been at the American Museum of Science and Energy for about a decade will be moved to the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, officials said Monday, Sept. 10. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

 

The historic flat top house that has been at the American Museum of Science and Energy for about a decade will be moved to the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge on October 2, project officials said Monday.

The Children’s Museum kicked off a Go Fund Me campaign for the project on Monday, inviting the community to help raise $25,000 to support the move and preserve and maintain the flat top.

The Children’s Museum said it offered to give the flat top a new home when AMSE announced that it is moving to Main Street Oak Ridge. The former AMSE location on South Tulane Avenue, which had been used for about four decades, closed in late July. The new AMSE location at Main Street Oak Ridge, the redevelopment of the former Oak Ridge Mall, is expected to open in October. There isn’t enough space to keep the flat top as an exhibit at the new AMSE, a press release said.

But the Children’s Museum does have room for the flat top on its property, the press release said. The flat top will be southeast of the museum building, which is at 461 West Outer Drive in north Oak Ridge. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Front Page News, History, History, Museums, Slider Tagged With: American Museum of Science and Energy, AMSE, AMSE Foundation, Beth Shea, Children's Museum of Oak Ridge, flat top, flat top house, Frances C. Fitzpatrick, Ken and Isabelle Smith, Kenneth and Isabelle Smith, Lee McGetrick, Main Street—Oak Ridge, Manhattan Project, Marian Phillips, National Park Service, prefabricated houses, Rachel Smith-Jones, Thad Fitzpatrick, Thaddeus Fitzpatrick, victory garden, World War II

Guest column: Housing strategy could include paint, marketing, tax breaks, plaques

Posted at 11:54 am December 29, 2012
By Martha de la Garza Fowler 3 Comments

E=mc2 (E Equals MC Squared), or Energy Equals Many Citizens Working Together

There’s no doubt that Oak Ridge could use a facelift. I applaud City Manager Mark Watson and our Oak Ridge City Council members for recognizing and attempting to address this need with their “Not In Our City” initiative.

I think, however, that “Not In Our City” has some problems:

  1. It’s a whole lot of stick and not much carrot.
  2. It creates an adversarial relationship between the city and its residents and potentially pits neighbor against neighbor.
  3. It is piecemeal in its approach and lacks an overarching vision.

How about this as an alternative? It even has a catchy slogan. In honor of Einstein, let’s call it E = mc2, or Energy Equals Many Citizens Working Together.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Guest Columns Tagged With: alphabet houses, bungalows, cemesto, cottages, flat top, historic neighborhoods, Mark Watson, marketing, Martha de la Garza Fowler, National Historic District, National Register of Historic Places, Not in Our City, Oak Ridge City Council, older housing, paint, plaques, tax breaks, World War II

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