Statewide Conference on Heritage
Where Pennsylvania’s preservation community gathers to share insight and spark action
Where Pennsylvania’s preservation community gathers to share insight and spark action
Image: The Yorktowne Hotel, York County, 2023 Historic Preservation Award
Showcase your brand, engage with decision-makers, demonstrate your leadership in historic preservation, and support the future of Pennsylvania’s heritage.
Join preservation professionals, community leaders, advocates, volunteers, and anyone interested in Pennsylvania’s historic places for a dynamic lineup of educational sessions, walking and mobile tours, and networking opportunities.
A block of rooms has been reserved at The Yorktowne Hotel for conference attendees. Book your stay at the special rate.
Reservations default to two nights. Edit your stay as needed before booking.
Historic preservation is more than protecting buildings. It is about strengthening communities, telling fuller stories, finding new uses for meaningful places, and creating a future that values what came before.
Join Preservation Pennsylvania at the historic Yorktowne Hotel, September 15–17, for the 2026 Pennsylvania Statewide Conference on Heritage. Over three engaging days, preservationists, planners, architects, engineers, historians, public officials, nonprofit leaders, community advocates, students, and property owners will come together to learn from one another and explore the opportunities and challenges facing historic places across the Commonwealth.
The conference offers practical sessions, compelling case studies, mobile workshops, walking tours, emerging technologies, and candid conversations about what it takes to move preservation projects forward. Explore topics ranging from adaptive reuse, historic tax credits, archaeology, bridges, climate resilience, and local preservation ordinances to augmented reality, drones, workforce development, community partnerships, and the preservation of overlooked stories.
York itself will serve as our classroom. Experience successful rehabilitation and adaptive reuse projects, discover the stories embedded in the city’s neighborhoods, and gather at the Yorktowne Hotel – a once-threatened landmark that now demonstrates the transformative power of preservation.
The conference also includes opportunities to reconnect with colleagues, meet new partners, exchange ideas, and celebrate exemplary work through the 2026 Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards. Admission to the Awards is included with full conference registration.
Whether you work in preservation every day or are working to protect one place that matters deeply to your community, you will find useful information, new connections, and renewed inspiration in York.
Come ready to learn, share, explore, and help shape the future of preservation in Pennsylvania.
Join us for three empowering days at the historic Yorktowne Hotel in York as our Statewide Conference on Heritage and 2026 Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards unite to build connection, inspire forward momentum, and celebrate excellence.
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Image: Tom Mayes speaks at Pennsylvania Statewide Conference on Heritage