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HIDDEN GEM: Olde Mill Lighting: An inside look at the handcrafted tinsmith process

Maintaining Historic Buildings / By Danielle Keperling

Our first “hidden gem” in our backyard for May’s National Historic Preservation Month is Olde Mill Lighting – and we were lucky enough to score an inside peek at their handcrafted smithery process. Located on an 18th century miller’s plantation on Strasburg Pike, Olde Mill Lighting is part of a family of home enhancement …

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OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION: May is National Preservation Month!

Other Stuff / By Danielle Keperling

One of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s programs to work towards their goal of “providing leadership, education, advocacy, and resources to save America’s diverse historic places” is the proclamation of May as National Preservation Month. As part of this program, the NTHP offers up a proclamation template that local governors and mayors can use …

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Preserving the Tower of Independence Hall

Federal Preservation, Historical Architecture, Wood Restoration / By Danielle Keperling

In the summer of 2011, the tower at Independence Hall was bared to the bones for the first time since it was added in 1828. In a restoration project for the National Park Service (NPS), contractors bared the face level of the tower down to the structural framing. The NPS has a detailed write-up of …

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BOOK REVIEW: Architecture of Democracy

Book Reviews, Colonial Architecture, Federal Preservation, Historic Preservation, Historical Architecture / By Danielle Keperling

Architecture of Democracy by Allan Greenberg Wrapping up our discussion on the founding of our country, we thought we recommend this book on the founding architecture of our country. You can read more information about author Allan Greenberg at his website, a detailed article on Allan Greenberg and this book that ran in a 2007 …

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Preservationist vs. revisionist history – is there a time and a place for both?

Architectural & Building Character, Community Preservation, Federal Preservation, Historic Preservation, Historic Restoration, Local Preservation, Preservation Musings / By Danielle Keperling

Since I put last month’s e-newsletter to bed (obligatory you can sign up here) yesterday morning (hey, that e-newsletter is one wild party animal on the weekends), I’ve started researching this month’s snail-mail newsletter (another obligatory you can sign up for that one here). We’re delving into the history at Independence National Park in Philadelphia since it’s fresh …

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Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial

Maintaining Historic Buildings, Projects / By Danielle Keperling

What the house looked like before theNational Park Service preserved itas a memorial to Thaddeus Kousciuszko We recently completed a restoration project at the Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial at Independence National Historic Park in Philadelphia. Kosciuszko was a Polish freedom fighter who played an integral role in our Revolutionary War by engineering forts and defense …

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Meet the Women of Historic Restorations

Women in Preservation / By Danielle Keperling

THE WOMEN OF HISTORIC RESTORATIONS, c. 2012 From the Left: Katie, Lois, Karri, and Danielle With all our posts, articles, education, and discussion on Women’s History month, would you have expected any less of us? Of course not! And we are always happy to meet (and then exceed!) expectations. So without further ado, let’s bring …

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Trekking through Women's History with Heritage Trails

Community Preservation, Federal Preservation, Feminist History, Historic Preservation, Local Preservation, State Preservation, Women in Preservation, Women's History / By Danielle Keperling

One of the more intriguing interpretative strategies we read about during our research into expanding historic preservation to include women’s history was the use of heritage trails. By now, we are all familiar with heritage trails – those walking and driving journeys around to different historic sites that historical commissions, museums, public agency, community organizations, …

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Liberating Women in the

Women in Preservation, Women's History / By Danielle Keperling

We may refer to the “Founding Fathers” of this country

Resources for Further Study into Preserving Women's History

Women in Preservation, Women's History / By Danielle Keperling

The following is an excellent list of resources for further reading and study into the effective inclusion of women’s history into historical preservation. It is by no means comprehensive, but we found great value in reading the following and hope you will too. Most of them require nothing more than a click (or a few) …

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