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Located in East Central Indiana, Muncie is home to Ball State University – a growing and innovative research and immersive learning institution. What most don’t know is that Muncie also contains a rich and dynamic architectural heritage. Much of

Study cultural landscape theory, documentation and design as you begin the physical work of rebuilding the medieval stone buildings of Ghesc. 

We are seeking interns to work in a variety of public history projects throughout the Summer and Fall of 2013. Intern projects will be hands-on, content rich, and challenging. All of your hard work and activities will help to make

National historic preservation lobbying organization, Preservation Action, seeks dynamic, motivated president with ability to promote sound policy and programs and influence Washington, D.C., decision makers. The right candidate will manage tight budgets while he or she informs and inspires

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

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

Thank you for reading Histpres, thanks for reading it every month, or week, or day. Thank you for having us as your homepage. Thank you for sharing our awesome bloggers' blogs. Thank you for saying you found a unique job

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

In 2002, I was a junior in high school in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC, when the sniper took out ten people from the vantage point of his white van. There was a once-famous photo from Newsweek of a

The Airstream is iconic, interesting, and unique. When you see one coming towards you on the open road, you can't take your eyes off the the silver bullet until it passes. For most of my teen years I knew I

[caption id="attachment_18753" align="alignleft" width="285"] Photo by Keri Pickett. Composite image, with respect, by Meagan Baco, HISTPRES.[/caption] Within the preservation and planning worlds there is a growing debate about preserving modern architecture. People on both sides of this debate, myself included, feel

Sisters Barbara Perry Bauer and Elizabeth Jacox never planned to work together at TAG Historical Research + Consulting in Boise, Idaho but now neither can imagine a better partner. We may have fought and ditched each other while we were

“What should we do now?” I asked my friend after we left our local watering hole on a hot September night in 2005.  “Let’s go for a drive” she said and that is where the beginnings of this restoration story

The walls of any pre-war house are most likely wood lath like in this picture covered with 3 coats of plaster. The work took a long time and was very labor intensive. Not to mention it required a skilled plasterer

We left New York feeling satisfied and excited to explore a lesser-known city to us: Boston. We would be staying at our cousin’s apartment in swanky Beacon Hill. She was unable to be at the house when we arrived so she

In order to fill a need I saw in the genealogy community, I created GeneaJobs.com. There, I collect and post job and volunteer positions related to genealogy research, data compilation, software development and many other specialties. I have been

In Alabama there is a small rural town named Brooklyn. During the first wave of the Great Migration, an African- American woman named Lucille decided to leave her hometown of Brooklyn, then the south, and travel with her husband eventually