Exciting news just in….from Preservation Pennsylvania: Historic Tax Credit Established in Pennsylvania On Saturday, June 30, Pennsylvania became the 30th state in the country to have a state historic tax credit when Governor Tom Corbett signed the FY 2013 Commonwealth Budget and established the Historic Preservation Incentive Act. (Click on the link to read an …
You hire Reserections. If you want to have any hope of actually moving the castle a thousand miles (without the post office, the moving company, and the airlines losing a few packages and offering you a complimentary Starbucks to say “Sorry!”). Based in Ohio, Reserections specializes in documenting, marketing, and disassembling architecturally unique historical homes. …
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Garden Spot Village is developing the Lancaster Press Building as a site for urban retirement units. As part of their repurposing plan to turn the former tobacco building into retirement units, Historic Restorations helped restore windows and doors in the model unit toured in this video.
Working on the restoration of a historic building is always awe-inspiring, but working to restore a historic building that once housed the laboratories and research of brilliant medical scientists who advanced our medical knowledge by leaps and bounds over the last 75 years inspires a particular awe. Cornice restoration work by Historic Restorations in progress …
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10 Common Mistakes People Make While Working on their Historic Building. 1. Repointing Bricks with Modern Mortar Masonry is one of the most durable historic building materials, however it is also very susceptible to damage as a result of improper maintenance or repair. Mortar is used to bond together masonry units. The interaction between mortar …
Your house is a money pit, you know it, I know it and there is no way to get around the fact. So what do you do, when you discover that your largest single investment requires you to constantly tend to it with your time and money. A quote from my childhood, “a stitch in …
May is preservation month the theme of this year is, “Old is the New Green!”. With most people looking for ways to minimize their impact on the environment in their corner of the world it is important to not do anything to a historic building that will damage the historic fabric of the structure. Historic …
While catching up on my newspaper reading the other evening I came across an article by Amy Hoak of Marketwatch, the title of her piece is “When It’s Best to Go With a Pro”, needless to say it caught my attention. Amy notes that our current economic “situation” has prompted more homeowners to DIY with …
This time of year people become a little more curious about supernatural happenings – going on in strange and normal places, looking for a sign or some kind of message , that to this point may have gone unnoticed as we live in our own worlds. It seems appropriate that on Monday of this week …
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