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Category Archives: Historic Preservation
Branding a Man, Branding a New Country: Abel Buell’s New and Correct Map of the United States of America, 1784
A guest post by Laura Macaluso Preservation comes in all shapes and sizes. Adventures in Preservation focuses their partnership projects on buildings and historic sites both in the United States and across the globe, but heritage preservation also encompasses other … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Heritage, Historic Preservation, Media
Tagged Abel Buell, Connecticut, Library of Congress, map, New Haven, United States
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Giving the Past a Future: Historical Preservation at Kulla Isuf Mazrekaj – Drenoc, Kosovo
Originally posted on The Runaway Bunny:
Like anything that’s been around for several centuries, the Isuf Mazrekaj kulla is finding that it needs to adapt in order to survive. These stone towers, potent symbols of traditional Islamic Kosovar culture, were particularly…
Rock Me, Amadeus: How Mozart Helped Me Become a Rock and Roll Preservationist
A guest post by Sheryl Davis Travel played a big part in my journey to become a historic preservationist specializing in rock ‘n’ roll landmarks. In May 2006, ten years ago this month, my twin sister Sherry and I decided … Continue reading
Heritage Travel Volunteers
If you are looking for a unique travel experience, you may enjoy being a historic building conservation volunteer with Adventures in Preservation. Even if you are cramped for time, there are options to fit every kind of time restraint from … Continue reading
For Preservationists, Every Day is Earth Day
Happy Earth Day! Preserving built heritage is a good thing for many reasons, not least among them the environmental benefits of keeping a building in use. Doing so is not only in keeping with the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle mantra, but … Continue reading
People Working to Save and Reopen Historic Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis
A guest post by Marvin Stockwell The Mid-South Coliseum, a mid-century modern, 11,200-seat venue built in 1964 and shuttered in 2007, is threatened with possible demolition. A City of Memphis plan proposes razing the building that once held concerts by … Continue reading
Spring Cleaning
Spring! Leaves, flowers, birds, cute baby animals, warm weather. And cleaning. Recently, I had the opportunity to participate in phase one of the architectural mothballing of a run-down apartment building. Early one Saturday morning a few weeks ago (though not as … Continue reading
The Three Rs of Preservation
Reduce, reuse, recycle. Reading, writing, ‘rithmetic. For some reason, Rs come in threes. In historic preservation, those three Rs are sometimes said to be renovation, restoration, and rehabilitation. So for this upcoming Earth Day, we thought we’d take a look … Continue reading
A Shotgun House Primer
The folks at the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans have put together a concise guide to shotgun houses. The primer touches on the origins of the vernacular form and descibes the variations found in the region and in New Orleans in particular. … Continue reading
Posted in Building Conservation, Cultural Heritage, Heritage Preservation, Historic Buildings, Historic Preservation, Vernacular Architecture
Tagged Adventures in Preservation, architectural history, buildings, historic preservation volunteer projects, New Orleans, shotgun house, Shreveport
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Monastery Makeovers
One challenge historic preservationists and architects face is that of adaptive reuse–taking a structure built for one specific purpose and giving it a new use. This process is an important part of historic preservation and of green building, but sometimes … Continue reading
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