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Ever wonder what the women of the Ephrata Cloister were like? What other local women of that era were like? The Ephrata Cloister can show you, with their program “Mothers, Sisters, Daughters” that explores the roles, duties, responsibilities, and influences of both the celibate women of the Cloister and married women of Colonial America. For …
On Tuesday A. Tamasin Sterner from Pure Energy Coach spoke on the topic of indoor air quality at the monthly breakfast meeting for the Central Pennsylvania Preservation Society (CPPS). A single hour in Tamasin’s presence, is easily one of the most informative hours you’ll ever experience in your life and Tuesday was no exception. The Historic Restorations family and other …
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It probably comes as no surprise to most of us that history is very important to us here in Lancaster County. So important, in fact, that Lancaster County’s Historical Society and President James Buchanan’s Wheatland are working together to recreate Wheatland into an entire campus dedicated to Central Pennsylvania history. Here is the press release …
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.
Seventy some years ago, carpenters working on the construction of the NIH campus in Bethesda made a mere $1.62 per hour. Carpenter apprentices made even less. Fast forward to 2011 and carpenters working on the restoration of Building #3 on the campus were paid a prevailing wage rate of $17.44 per hour. That’s a big difference …
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Lancaster County is not normally the place one thinks of when considering social experimentation. Yet that is exactly what The Drogaris Group and Garden Spot Village are doing with the Lancaster Press Building that sits on the corner of Prince and Lemon Streets. The 100-year-old, massive brick building was originally built as a cigar …
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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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Michael Bovie’s work on display at the 2011 Lancaster Historic Home Show Stained glass has been around for thousands of years. Stained glass, as most of us think of it, has been around for hundreds of years. Stained glass artist Michael Bovie has been around much less, but he is undoubtedly making his mark on this …
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