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The historic Greenbelt Theatre is a rare gem in the Washington D.C. area, a Bauhaus-inspired, single screen movie theatre still showing 35mm film. The theatre was built as a part of the New-Deal-era planned community of Greenbelt, Maryland, and opened

After graduating from The College of Idaho, I was faced with that wonderfully terrible question of What Now? Knowing that I wanted to somehow combine my love of history and of beautiful buildings, I set out to find the perfect

We are extremely concerned with saving our shared cultural heritage, whose study allows us to better understand both the past and who we are today. And having worked in extremely poor communities where so many archaeological sites are located, we

Over the last three decades, staff from The Preservation Trust of Vermont has traveled to every corner of Vermont providing encouragement as well as technical and financial support. We've gotten to know many communities that are successfully working hard to

“The reason we go into preservation or archaeology is because we don’t like people, right?  So we can go out, dig in the forest somewhere and not talk to anybody,” chuckled Dr. Jason LaBelle of Colorado State University when

In New England, where I live, the homes of old soldiers are everywhere, and many of them are venerated as historical relics. The Colonel Jeremiah Lee mansion in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The Major Reuben Colburn house in Pittston, Maine.

This piece by Jeremy C. Wells outlines the ten key take-aways from the first-of-its-kind conference on preservation education, "Preservation Education: Sharing Best Practices and Finding Common Ground," hosted by the School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation of Roger Williams

What Used to be Here?

This is the story of a little idea…that could. It started with a t-shirt and now is becoming a force for change. It starts with ideas from many different people coming together and finding common ground and building toward common

With your support, Histpres.com reached 339% of our fundraising goal! In fact, we met our original goal with in the first two weeks thanks to a challenge by Steph McDougal of McDoux Preservation, LLC in Texas that supplemented the nearly

Update Demolition of the handball court began on Tuesday, March 12, 2013. The ca. 1840s masonry structure could be the oldest in the United States and is a National Register-listed sturcute on the SEMO campus. The demo crew was

We said goodbye to Boston and the East Coast (Brooklyn, DC) and headed west for Chicago. In a way, it felt like we were truly starting the road trip once we got out of our comfort zones

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We are fundraising for website improvements to Histpres.com. If everyone who sees this post today, donates $1 we’d meet our goal today, too. But what’s the fun in that? Let’s exceed our goal because the donation period is open

The City of Moline and the Moline Preservation Society got word yesterday afternoon that Governor Pat Quinn is asking the Illinois DOT to cover the rest of the costs to move the Historic DRI and NW Depot in Moline!

Money is funny. We like to talk about it in broad terms - the deficit, the economy, our education system - but when it comes to discussion in real life, we get a little squirmy in our seats. But let's be

We asked our Histpres readers for a quick narrative of the building and places for which they are thankful; thankful that they're still standing, thankful for what we have and can learn from studying them, and even those places

In May of 2012, it was discovered that a historic building in the city of Lackawanna, NY was slated for demolition. This building is the Bethlehem Steel Administration Building.

The building is significant to Lackawanna and its surrounding

Now that we've thought more about the different ways to approach preservation, we can start exploring specific programs.  Start big – use National Council for Preservation Education's great resource for finding HP programs – and narrow it down. The most

Hurricane Sandy has brought immense damage to the Tri-State region and the homes in that community. The clean-up process will be painstaking and tedious. While doing so, keep in mind that while historic homes have aesthetic value, there may be

[caption id="attachment_20508" align="alignleft" width="285"] A direct view into Bertramka’s sala terrena, an intimate concert space adorned with original 18th Century murals. Photo by Sherry Davis.[/caption] Over the past eight years, I’ve had the unique experience of evolving personally and professionally alongside

Sometimes it may seem that preservationists are too few and far between, but we know that they come in many forms. There are of course activists and non-profit organizations dedicated to such a task, but this is only the beginning. Often

Why CONTINUUM?  Because that’s what the Recent Past Preservation Network (RPPN) is about at the core. It’s about recognizing that history is not stagnant and significance doesn’t stop at a certain point. It’s about recognizing that recent places of our heritage

Last time we talked romance and passion.  Great.  Wonderful.  We all love historic buildings.  But now it's time to talk real life.  Grad school is a beast of an endeavor, and the beginning of the pursuit is exciting, but

During the Five Mistakes of Historic Homeowners series, we’ve been talking about all the fun things that unknowing owners of historic homes can do to harm the investment they have made in their old home for a while now.

What could be better than spending nearly two months living in a sun-drenched medieval Umbrian town? Restoring a stone gateway while you’re there, of course! Stepping off the plane at Rome’s Fiumicino-Leonardo Da Vinci airport, I suddenly experienced a remarkable sense

The idea for this article came up while I was recently doing a survey in Pinal County, Arizona. As is common in July, it was already about 103 degrees out there at 12:30pm. My brain felt like it was 138

Historic architecture and I have a complicated relationship. When I first transferred to Mary Washington spring semester freshman year, I saw a real future together. It's true, I'd been dabbling in 20th-century American Social Politics for a few months, but

Self taught ceramic and wood artist Paul Charron of Building in the Past has been creating facade replicas of historic Western American architecture since 2003, inspired by his love of the west and the history of it’s settlement. These

As a graduate student in historic preservation at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, I was granted opportunities that exceeded the traditional bounds of a historic preservation program. An interdisciplinary approach allows students in the program to