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Practical Preservation Podcast Featuring Kaitlin O’Shea of Preservation in Pink

Leave a Comment / Historic Preservation, Historic preservation and restoration education, Inclusivity, Philosophical Musings, Practical Preservation Podcast, Preservation Education, Women in Preservation / By Danielle Keperling

Kaitlin O’Shea of Preservation in Pink, joined the Practical Preservation Podcast to discuss her blog and how preservation is a part of so much of everyday life. We covered multiple topics, including: Kaitlin’s desire growing up to live in a walkable neighborhood, and how she eventually connected that to preservation Kaitlin’s varied experiences as a …

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Zoning, Planning, Historic Preservation, and Structural Racism?

Leave a Comment / adaptive reuse, Architectural & Building Character, Community Preservation, Historic streetscape, Philosophical Musings, Preservation Conversations & Controversies / By Danielle Keperling

A few weeks ago an article was posted to the Preservation Professionals group on Facebook. You can read the article here: https://www.rewire.org/how-discussions-of-neighborhood-character-reinforce-structural-racism/. The article is an interesting discussion of how redevelopment can impact the the neighborhood qualities and characteristics especially in relation to affordable housing. The example used in the article is from St. Paul, …

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What Preservationists Can Learn From Martin Luther King, Jr.

Philosophical Musings, Preservation Conversations & Controversies, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

Today I am working from home, in my living room, with inaugural coverage running on the TV, a feverish 5yr-old brewing an ear infection snuggled on my lap, and three other children who all have the day off school, one of whom mercilessly and relentlessly practices his basketball dribbling skills despite my pleas for …

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Victorian House Restoration and Adaptive Reuse

Architectural & Building Character, Colonial Architecture, Philosophical Musings / By Danielle Keperling

Our friends at limeworks.us put together this video about their work on a Victorian house restoration for Alfred’s Victorian Restaurant in Middletown, PA. httpv://youtu.be/nf7F3B1QQT4 History of the House Middletown is Dauphin County’s oldest community. Located halfway between Lancaster and Carlisle. Quaker George Fisher, on the site of an earlier Native-American village, laid out the town …

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