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How using Google Sketch up can help Preserve Sioux City PDF Print E-mail

 

The Sioux City Historic Preservation Commission would like to invite the Siouxland community in helping us in the 3D mapping of Sioux City. This will help us communicate to visitors the unique architecture that is in Sioux City, and add a valuable resource to our community. Here are two great articles that tell more about the concept of this project and how it can be utilized best for preservation.

 

Seeing in 3D: Free Google Tools Can Transform Your Community

They say hindsight is 20-20. What if our crystal ball was as reliable? Thanks to Google SketchUpTM and Google EarthTM, preservationists, planners, revitalization professionals, and citizens like you and me now have the tools to achieve pretty close to perfect foresight ...

ByErica Stewart

Visualizing your Community with Google Earth and Google Sketchup

By Kent Morrison

Google Earth

Google Sketchup

Google Building Maker

 

 

 
An Architect to be Remembered: Knute Enoch Westerlind PDF Print E-mail

Article by Jim Jung, Siouxland Community Magazine

The idea for this article came in the form of a message. As I grow older, I seem to be receiving more of them, which some of my friends say is a religious happening, while others look at me strangely and shake their heads. My solution is to attribute it to the brain acting like a computer, sorting all the information received, and every so often sending out an alert.


 

 
Honoring Sioux City’s Fire Station Number 3 PDF Print E-mail

Article by Jim Jung, Siouxland Community Magazine

Retired Fire Station Number 3, located at 12115th Street in Sioux City, has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. This is an honor for the property, the owner, and the author of the nomination. For a property to be considered, there must be a significant event, person, design/construction, or information potential related to the site.


 

 
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