Webinar: Landmarks We Love

This online tour by Preservation Pennsylvania Executive Director (and author of Historic Pennsylvania: A Tour of the State’s Top 100 National Historic Landmarks) is sure to add some new places to your “must visit” travel itinerary.

Amore for the Armory: the Uptown!Knauer Performing Arts Center

Roy Smith shares a love letter to the former National Guard Armory Building in West Chester (Chester County). The transformation offers a case study of creative financing used to develop what might have been a white elephant building into a lively community arts hub.

Paul Steinke: My Love Letter to Philadelphia’s Garden Court Neighborhood

Preservation Pennsylvania shares insights from Paul Steinke, Executive Director of the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, on one of his favorite places in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia’s Garden Court neighborhood.

A memory, a feeling, a view… pondering the love of a place

I wanted to write a love letter about a place that is meaningful to me for a myriad of reasons; the Cameron-Masland Mansion at Kings Gap State Park. This Italianate summer home was originally built in 1908 and now serves as a venue and bed and breakfast.

Pittsburgh Treasure: National Negro Opera Company House

In Pittsburgh, the former National Negro Opera Company mansion is located on Apple Street in the city’s Homewood neighborhood. The house has many stories to tell and owner Jonnet Solomon is pursuing restoration of the building and arts and music programming.

Apply for the Louis J. Appell, Jr., Preservation Fund for Central Pennsylvania

The Louis J. Appell, Jr., Preservation Fund for Central Pennsylvania, jointly administered by Preservation Pennsylvania and the National Trust for Historic Preservation is designed to encourage preservation at the local level and provides money for the maintenance and preservation of historic places in Central Pennsylvania.

The Relevancy Project: Keynote by Bonnie McDonald

Preservation Pennsylvania welcomed Bonnie McDonald, President & CEO of Landmarks Illinois, to give the keynote talk at our 2021 Honor Awards. The Relevancy Project is a forward-looking effort to catalogue the issues and challenges of the preservation field as it exists and to instigate change to help build a more relevant and just movement.

2021 Preservation Pennsylvania Honor Awards

Pennsylvania’s preservation community gathered [virtually] to present the 2021 Preservation Pennsylvania Honor Awards and celebrate the extraordinary efforts of two individuals: Sydelle Zove and Jeff Marshall.

Church Adaptive Reuse Opportunity in Centre County, Pennsylvania

First Presbyterian Church of Bellefonte in Centre County, PA, seeks adaptive reuse

Mod Betty’s Whirlwind Tour of Pennsylvania

Preservation Pennsylvania recently hosted Mod Betty of Retro Roadmap for a whirlwind tour of Pennsylvania. For the full-capacity free webinar, she divulged the niftiest spots to visit in each of the Commonwealth’s 67 counties. The event was sponsored by Lincoln Highway Legacy.