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National Preservation Month: Saving Pennsylvania’s Historic Architecture

Architectural & Building Character, Central Pennsylvania Preservation Society / By Danielle Keperling

Every May, the National Trust for Historic Preservation picks a new theme for their National Preservation Month. This year, they’ve built it around: “See! Save! Celebrate!” to encourage us to see our historic places, save the threatened ones, and celebrate the vital role they play in our communities. To support that goal, we’re going to do a three-part blog series with each …

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Moving a 100yr old Church from Ohio to Texas, Part 1

Architectural & Building Character / By Danielle Keperling

We’ve posted before about the preservation projects that the good folks at reserections.com do – preservation projects unlike what most of us think of when we hear “preservation project”. They specialize in documenting, marketing, selling, and disassembling architecturally unique and historical homes and then moving them to new sites – often several states away from their …

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Maintenance

Maintenance plans are not just important to your historical building, they are absolutely essential if you want to preserve its architectural integrity for future generations to experience and appreciate. The first step in developing a maintenance plan is having a thorough maintenance appraisal done to evaluate your building beyond the usual brief inspection of a …

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What to Avoid When Replacements on a Historical Building are Unavoidable

Help for Historic Home Owners, Historic Preservation Projects, Maintaining Historic Buildings, Preservation Education, Resources for Historic Restorations / By Danielle Keperling

It is easy to think that if the look of a historical building is maintained, as well as the types of materials used, then the building has been successfully preserved. But preservation is not just about preserving how something looks, it is primarily focused on preserving how something is so that it remains as …

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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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Haunted Historic Buildings: Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital, c.1851

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

In honor of the ever-approaching spooooooooky Halloween holiday, we’ve been highlighting haunted historic buildings (or historic buildings that by all rights should be haunted) for you to virtually explore so you don’t have to meet the ghosties face-to-face. One of our recent blog posts was about the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia – the state’s first …

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Free Webinar: "Credits Where Credits Are Due: Tax Credits for Historic Preservation Projects"

Central Pennsylvania Preservation Society, Community Preservation, Historic Preservation, Historic Restoration, Local Preservation, State Preservation, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

Produced by Restore Media: Clem Labine’s Traditional Building, Clem Labine’s Period Homes, and the Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference, the following free webinar is being offered on September 19th: Click here to register for this webinar. Credits Where Credits Are Due: Tax Credits for Historic Preservation Projects September 18, 2012, 2:00 p.m., 90 minutes, 1.5 AIA HSW LUs …

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Resource Center

Resources The past is not the property of historians; it is a public possession. It belongs to anyone who is aware of it, and it grows by being shared. It sustains the whole society, which always needs the identity that only the past can give.” William J. Murtagh You might have guessed by now, but …

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What People Say About Us

You have seen what we say about ourselves. Here is what other people have to say about us: In the Fall of 2013, the Franklin Street Train Station project won the Architectural Woodwork Institute’s “Award of Excellence” and was featured in an article in the Fall 2013 edition of their Design Solutions magazine. Click here to read the …

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