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Dec 22
2008
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Stabilization of Enola Gay Hangar begins in WendoverPosted by kirk in tours, news, cool stuff |
Due to federal funds being provided, all work must meet the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation. Utah Heritage Foundation began discussions with Tooele County, owner of the Wendover Airport (Wendover historic airfield) in 2000 about the great significance of the building, use and reuse options, as well as potential options for funding rehabilitation.
In secret training missions, the 509th Composite Group used the Wendover site in June 1945 before completing their August 6 assignment to fly their B-29 bomber to Hiroshima, Japan, and drop the first atomic bomb. The building housed the Enola Gay for a brief period of time in confidence
before flying to California and launching on the mission. In addition, airmen that were training for the mission used the surrounding desert for target practice and other buildings for practice in loading and unloading large, sensitive materials before knowing that they were going to carry the atom bomb.
Much of the story of the Enola Gay's history in Utah can be seen at the Historic Wendover Airfield Museum. The museum and the airfield is definitely a place worth seeing beyond the buffet! Believe it or not, the Enola Gay Hangar also played a significant role in the movie Con Air (1997). Look for it.

Visit Save America's Treasures for additional information on this year's grantees as well as the application process.
While visiting Wendover, Utah, you may want to also visit the Center for Land Use Interpretation. The Center produces public exhibits on land use themes and issues for galleries and museums, and for exhibition in CLUI spaces in Los Angeles and elsewhere. Regional exhibits focus on land use within a defined geographic area, such as a state or neighborhood. Thematic exhibits are usually national in scope, and examine a particular land use phenomena or issue.




These World Changer volunteers can replace roofs and siding, build wheelchair accessible ramps and porches, do yard cleanup, replace windows and insulation, etc., for at least 27 homes in our community at no cost to the homeowner.
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nearly a half-block of viable single-family historic houses (like the airplane-roof style bungalow seen at left), it also presents several other issues including reducing neighborhood residential use, ongoing design compatibility issues with the surrounding neighborhood, violating the
options to expand the facility within the existing footprint of the facility or rehabilitate existing buildings (like the original St. Joseph's Villa building, 1959, seen at right) should be explored more vigorously.





upper stories are currently being considered. This is one of the last few screens that block historic facades left in the city's central business district and the historic façade recalls the successful commercial Victorian era of downtown.

future for historic preservation in our country. Senator Obama has recognized that federal urban policy is fundamentally flawed and how it inadvertently undermines cities and regions by encouraging inefficient and costly patterns of development. For more on his strategies in his 




