For well over a century, the cultural landscape that comprises “the world’s most perfect town,” now the Pullman National Monument, has been slowly transformed by human and natural agents.

In some cases, it was the slow march of time and natural forces like fire, wind, and rain that claimed Pullman’s landmark buildings. In other cases, human hands wrought the destruction.

The drumbeat for “progress” that swept across the plains in the 1950s and 60s—and that nearly consumed Pullman—can still be heard today. Without the hue and cry of passionate residents and the public, Pullman may have been reduced to rubble and only exist today in dioramas and museum kiosks.

Learn about the past and future of Pullman’s historic preservation in a talk by Paul Petraitis and Mark Cassello of the Pullman National Monument Preservation Society and David Peterson of the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum.

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