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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

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

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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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

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

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

We caught wind of David Patterson's project to bring Frank Lloyd Wright's father's original compositions to life and had to be a part of making it happen. William Cary Wright was a renaissance man with a great passion for music

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

Recently I was talking with a colleague about how often landscape preservation is frequently an afterthought within our field.  He shared an anecdote about an interview he had given to a graduate student of historic preservation who

"I rescue horses, and rescue dogs...and now I'm rescuing a building," says Heidi Nelson Brandariz, who purchased a ca. 1900 lodge in a small town outside of Denver with plans to turn it into a coffee house and meeting place