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Preserving Pennsylvania: A Journey Through the Last 20 Years, Part 3

Community Preservation, Historic Preservation, Historic Rehabilitation, Historic Restoration, Historical Architectural Styles, Historical Architecture, Local Preservation, Preservation in the News, State Preservation, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

Preservation Pennsylvania has released their “Pennsylvania At-Risk: Twenty-Year Retrospective of Pennsylvania’s Endangered Historic Properties, Where Are They Now” edition. It’s a fascinating look at preservation in action and we’ll be posting a look at each property in a series of posts over the next several months. INTRODUCTION Preservation Pennsylvania established the annual Pennsylvania At Risk …

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Preserving Pennsylania: A Journey Through the Last 20 Years, Part 2

Colonial Architecture, Community Preservation, Historic Preservation, Preservation in Progress, State Preservation, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

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How Complete Restorations Happen: A Case Study of the John Maddox Denn House

Colonial Architecture, Historic Preservation, Historic Restoration, Historical Architectural Styles, Maintaining Historic Buildings, Preservation and Economics, Products Materials and Methods, Resources for Historic Restorations / By Danielle Keperling

A number of years ago, we had the very fortunate luck to be given the opportunity to completely restore the Denn House in southern New Jersey. Below is the story of how that restoration happened, excerpted from Lois Groshong’s book, “2001 Restoration of a Southern New Jersey Colonial”. Be sure to check out the …

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Resources for Restorations: Book Recommendations

Book Reviews, Historic Preservation, Historic Reconstruction, Historic Rehabilitation, Historic Restoration, Preservation Education, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

Our recent blog post from Ken Roginski about the mistakes and and “no-no’s” that are so often made by well-meaning historic building owners as they attempt to preserve a house through the years reminded us very much about a project we did a few years ago. The John Maddox Denn House project was built in 1725 and …

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The Financial Benefits of Preservation vs. New Development

Community Preservation, Historic Preservation, Historic Rehabilitation, Local Preservation, Preservation Conversations & Controversies, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

Last Wednesday, the Lancaster County Planning Commission hosted strongtowns.org’s “Curbside Chat” presented by Charles Marohn at the Manheim Township Public Library. “Curbside Chat” is strongtowns.org’s program to discuss the financial realities facing our cities, towns, boroughs, and townships. The Chat started with the history of what Marohn called the “Suburban Experiment” of new development that shifted homes …

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2013 Historic Preservation Grant Opportunities

Community Preservation, Federal Preservation, Historic Preservation, State Preservation / By Danielle Keperling

Preservation Pennsylvania’s latest newsletter edition noted the following historic preservation grant opportunities for 2013: Historic Preservation Grant Opportunities America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations. The NEH is offering both planning and implementation grant opportunities to museums, libraries, historic places and other organizations that provide public programming in the humanities. Closing date: January 9, 2013. FY2013 …

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Historic Preservation in Progress at the Wilmington Library

Architectural & Building Character, Community Preservation, Historic Preservation, Historic Restoration, Historical Architecture, Local Preservation, Preservation Education, Preservation in Progress, Uncategorized, Wood Restoration / By Danielle Keperling

Historic Preservation in Progress is a series of our posts where we show you how historic preservation happens, as it’s happening. Historic Preservation in Progress The Wilmington Public Library The Wilmington Library was built in 1922 and has remained a landmark on Rodney Square for ninety years. Especially in recent years, due to heavy use by …

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Historic Architecture in PA: Log Buildings

Colonial Architecture, Community Preservation, Historic Preservation, Historical Architecture, Preservation Education, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

This article is a part of a series from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission’s excellent field guide on the historic architecture found in Pennsylvania. In it, they’ve assigned key periods of development – from the Colonial period in the 18th Century to the Modern Movements of the 29th Century. This article focuses on an overview of the …

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And the Survey Says… Preservation Trust Enlists Volunteers to Update Historic Resource Survey

Community Preservation, Historic Preservation, Local Preservation, Preservation in Progress, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

The Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County is currently working to complete a comprehensive historic resource survey in Lancaster County. They are currently working on West Hempfield Township, but have plans to survey the historic resources in all sixty municipalities. If you are available during the day, have a valid driver’s license and a willingness …

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Historical Architectural Styles: Which one is your favorite?

Historic Preservation, Historical Architecture, Preservation Education, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

Historical architectural styles range from quaint and inviting to intimidating and forbearing, delicate and refined to stately and prominent, traditional and elegant to funky and modern. Which one is your favorite? After you answer our poll, you can go take this very fun quiz that determines which architectural style reflects your personality. [polldaddy poll=6646588] …

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