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Practical Preservation Podcast Featuring the Meyers of White Chimneys

Leave a Comment / adaptive reuse, Colonial Architecture, Community Preservation, cultural assets, Cultural landscape, Help for Historic Business Owners, Help for Historic Home Owners, Historic Preservation, Historic Reconstruction, Historic Rehabilitation, Historic Restoration, Indoor Air Quality, Local Preservation, Maintaining Historic Buildings, maintaining your historic home, Practical Preservation Podcast, Preservation and Restoration Case Studies, Products Materials and Methods, retrofitting / By Laura Kise

Jack and Jessica Meyer – father-daughter owners of White Chimneys in Gap (Lancaster County), PA – joined the Practical Preservation Podcast to discuss their property’s history and their business. We covered multiple topics, including: The Meyers’ realization of their historic preservation values through the purchase and renovation of White Chimneys over the past 15 years …

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Coffee Break RECAP: Rising Sea Levels and Historic Buildings

Leave a Comment / climate heritage, coastal heritage, Coffee Break Recap, Community Preservation, cultural assets, flood insurance, Help for Historic Business Owners, Help for Historic Home Owners, keeping history above water, Maintaining Historic Buildings, maintaining your historic home, resilience planning / By Danielle Keperling

COFFEE BREAK RECAPS – Periodically, we will be bringing you recapitulations of our live “coffee break” videos, where Danielle and Jonathan address questions related to preservation and provide answers or brainstorm solutions. These recap posts will include additional information and resources. This month’s recap focuses on rising sea levels’ impacts on historic buildings and possible solutions. …

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Practical Preservation Podcast Featuring Adam Zurn of Uncharted Lancaster

2 Comments / Community Preservation, cultural assets, Cultural landscape, History education, Local Preservation, Practical Preservation Podcast, State Preservation / By Laura Kise

Adam Zurn, founder of Uncharted Lancaster, joined the Practical Preservation Podcast to discuss his website’s dual function as an educational and adventure tool. We covered multiple topics, including: How his background as a child of the 1980s influenced his curious, adventurous side, and the inspiration for Uncharted Lancaster How Uncharted Lancaster includes “adventures” with directions …

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Practical Preservation Podcast Featuring Jeffrey Marshall of Heritage Conservancy

Leave a Comment / architectural style, Community Preservation, cultural assets, Cultural landscape, Help for Historic Home Owners, help for historic homeowners, Historic Preservation, Historic preservation and restoration education, Historical Architecture, History education, Inclusivity, Local Preservation, period architecture, planning, Practical Preservation Podcast, Preservation and Sustainability, Preservation Education, Preserving a building, Sustainability, Why Preservation Matters / By Laura Kise

Jeffrey Marshall, the president of Heritage Conservancy in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, joined the Practical Preservation Podcast to discuss the organization’s mission and work conserving and preserving a combination of natural and cultural heritage resources in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We covered multiple topics, including: Jeffrey’s background combining his lifelong loves of nature, history, and architecture with his graduate …

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Preservation and Inclusivity

Leave a Comment / cultural assets, Cultural landscape, Inclusivity, Slave History, Slave Houses, Slavery / By Danielle Keperling

Here at Keperling Preservation Services, we focus primarily on built history. But built history and places are relevant because of people. Examining architecture out of the human context lacks the same significance. People and their shared stories and history are the foundation upon which we build the house of preservation. We’re currently living through a …

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Practical Preservation Podcast Featuring Lisa Craig of The Craig Group

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Lisa Craig, principal of the Craig Group, joined the Practical Preservation podcast to discuss information about her work in historic preservation and specifically resilience planning. We covered a multitude of topics including: Her diverse background and 30+ years of experience in all aspects of historic preservation, and how “water being the enemy of any historic …

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