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Did you know
... that the
El Greco Apartments
(pictured)
, once home to
Casablanca
director
Michael Curtiz
, were saved from demolition with fund-raising help from
Star Trek
's
Leonard Nimoy
?
... that
Virginia City
,
Nevada
was the prototype for future urban/industrial
boomtowns
?
... that
Tarrytown
's
Foster Memorial AME Zion Church
is the oldest continuously-used
black church
in
Westchester County, New York
?
... that the
historic district
in
Warwick, New York
reflects the village's development from a stop on a
colonial
road to an early 20th-century summer
resort town
?
... that the
Vermont Square
,
Lincoln Heights
, and
Cahuenga Branches
are the only surviving
Carnegie libraries
in
Los Angeles
?