Nominations OPEN for the 2025 Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards!

Preservation Pennsylvania is happy to announce that nominations for the 2025 Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards open Friday, April 4! The nominations period closes Monday, May…
We Celebrated! 2024 PA Historic Preservation Award Wrap-Up

The PA Historic Preservation Awards celebrate outstanding people and projects from across the state.
“Groundbreaking” Preservation Success Story!

Added to Pennsylvania At Risk in 2017, a milestone was reached as Mifflin Farm held a Preservation Celebration and Groundbreaking ceremony. The event marked the culmination of the seven-year effort to protect this invaluable site from development and set the stage for its transformation into the Susquehanna Discovery Center & Heritage Park
Places we love: Lincoln Motor Court

This is a love letter – and an alert. The Lincoln Motor Court (Mann’s Choice, Bedford County) is for sale – the last of its kind along the fabled Lincoln Highway.
The Columbia–Wrightsville Bridge

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) proposed a comprehensive rehabilitation project for the historic Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge. Studies began in 2016. Work is anticipated to take place between the 2027 and 2031.

Ode to a Barn with Nine (Four) Lives: Updated

“Of all the hundreds of barns I have been in, one is near and dear to my heart. My barn! While it is not the most dramatic barn I have studied, it still stands out because it is a survivor, even though it has become a barn in the ‘burbs.”

The Wissahickon Inn

Preservation Pennsylvania’s board chairperson Margaret Wallis shares a valentine to the Wissahickon Inn (Philadelphia County)

We love Pennsylvania!

It’s time to share the love! In the past, we’ve urged people to wear their hearts on their sleeves for the places they love in…

Celebrate Barns!

We celebrated barn preservation and a new issue of USPS postcard stamps with a webinar. Here’s a link to the replay, the Pennsylvania breakout room and a round-up of barn preservation-related resources.

How Hallmark Christmas Movies May Help You Feel Better About Saving Historic Places

Hallmark Christmas movies save the landmark from demolition in just two hours, with cocoa. Five movie recommendations for preservationists.

Celebrating the 2020 PA Historic Preservation Awards

The 2020 Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards look a little different this year as we take them virtual for the first time. We’re all learning how…

Get set! Conference BINGO

Download your BINGO card now and see how you do during the 2020 virtual Pennsylvania Statewide Conference on Heritage, Oct 13-16, 2020

Anticipation: PA Conference on Heritage

We’re counting down until the start of the virtual edition of the Pennsylvania Statewide Conference on Heritage, Tuesday, October 13 – Friday, October 16! Let’s…

PA AT RISK: Camp Archbald, SAVED

On July 29th, 2020 Supporters of Camp Archbald (Susquehanna County) rejoiced when Girl Scouts in the Heart of PA (GSHPA) announced that Camp Archbald reached its benchmarks and would no longer be sold or drilled for oil.

Abolition Hall Developer Withdraws!

Developer K. Hovnanian no longer has the historic Corson/Hovenden homestead in Plymouth Meeting (Montgomery County) under agreement of sale and has ended that agreement. The site includes Abolition Hall, built by George Corson to encourage conversation and understanding about anti-slavery efforts. The Corsons hosted Frederick Douglass, Letitia Mott and others in their efforts to gain support for the cause.

Mark your calendar: Virtual Conference Oct 13-16

Registration for the 2020 PA Statewide Conference on Heritage (10/13-16) opens August 17

York County’s Hanover Theater, once “At Risk,” now slated for redevelopment

The Hanover Theater (originally State Theater) at 37-41 Frederick Street in downtown Hanover will be sold to a redevelopment group. The historic theater was named to Preservation Pennsylvania’s list of threatened and endangered historic properties in 2011.

2020 Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards

Preservation Pennsylvania is honoring excellence and innovation in preservation practice with the announcement of the recipients of the annual Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards.

2020 Pennsylvania At Risk

The 2020 sites range from a National Historic Landmark in Philadelphia to an ancient farmhouse in York County. Find out how you can join us in saving these special places.

2019 PA Historic Preservation Awards

Presentation of the 2019 Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards honored exceptional work in the field of historic preservation and took place at Wilson College in Chambersburg.

Carlisle Indian School Farmhouse Coalition

A simple farmhouse at the former Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle (Cumberland County) has the potential to become an interpretive site and place of healing.

2019 Pennsylvania At Risk

A farmhouse. A mill. A mansion. A mid-century masterpiece. And a landscape that once challenged girls to muster confidence and courage. While each of the places on this year’s At Risk has seemingly outlasted the era in which it was relevant, why should its time be up?

Congratulations to our 2018 Award Honorees!

We celebrate the best of preservation in Pennsylvania at the 2018 PA Historic Preservation Awards!

2018 Pennsylvania At Risk

Nominated by the public, four sites have been added to the Pennsylvania At Risk list in 2018.

Nominations OPEN for the 2025 Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards!

We Celebrated! 2024 PA Historic Preservation Award Wrap-Up

“Groundbreaking” Preservation Success Story!

Places we love: Lincoln Motor Court

The Columbia–Wrightsville Bridge