Calendar of Events

National Preservation Institute: Historic Preservation Seminars, February – May 2013. The National Preservation Institute will conduct a series of training seminars for professionals in management, development and historic, cultural and environmental preservation in many cities across the country.. For more information, visit www.npi.org or email info@npi.org  

Traditional Building Conference Program, May 21-22, 2013. Learn about windows and earn valuable learning units at the second Traditional Building conference of 2013 in Washington, DC. For more information, call Carolyn Walsh, 718-779-1560, or go to www.traditionalbuildingshow.com.

Wood Window Workshop, May 29, 2013. Harrisburg, PA. Duffy Hoffman is leading a workshop on restoring and weatherizing hisotoric wood windows. For more information, Cindy@HistoricHarrisburg.com or call 717-233-4646.

CNU 21 Conference, May 29-June 1, 2013. The Congress for the New Urbanism will host its 21st annual conference in Salt Lake City, UT. For more information, visit www.cnu21.org.

National Covered Bridge Conference, June 5-8, 2013. Sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration's National Historic Covered Bridge Preservation Program and others, the conference will be held in Dayton, OH. For more information, http://ncptt.nps.gov/second-national-covered-bridges-conference/

SGAA Annual Summer Conference, June 10-12, 2013. Next year’s Stained Glass Association of America’s summer conference will be hosted in Indianapolis, IN. For registration and conference updates, visit www.stainedglass.org

AIA 2013 National Convention And Design Exposition, June 20-22, 2013. The AIA 2013 National Convention & Design Exposition will be held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO. For more information, visit www.aia.org.

Wood Window Workshop, June 21-23, 2013. Duffy Hoffman and David Gibney are teaching a three-day workshop on restoring and weatherizing historic wood windows in Elizabethville, PA. For more information, 215-262-0729 or prepit@netzero.net.

Traditional Building Conference Program, Sept. 19-20, 2013. The third Traditional Building conference of 2013 will be held in Chicago. For more information, call Carolyn Walsh, 781-779-1560, or email Judy Hayward at jhayward@restoremedia.com.

APT Conference, October 11-16, 2013. The Association for Preservation Technology International will host its annual conference at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City. For conference updates, visit www.apti.org.

Traditional Building Conference Program, November 6-7, 2013. The fourth Traditional Building conference of 2013 will be held in Los Angeles. For more information, call Carolyn Walsh, 781-779-1560.

ASLA Annual Meeting & Expo, November 15-18, 2013. The American Society of Landscape Architects will hold its annual meeting and expo at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston, MA.For more information visit, www.asla.org.

Wood-Carving Workshops. Classically trained master wood-carver Dimitrios Klitsas conducts classes in wood carving at his studio in Hampden, MA, for novices as well as professionals looking to take their skills to the highest level. For more details, go to www.klitsas.com or call 413-566-5301.

Workshops on Historical Lime Mortars. A comprehensive two-day course details the hows and whys of using lime putty mortars for re-pointing historic masonry. Call 773-286-2100 or go to www.usheritage.com/events.htm.

Woodworking Classes. The North Bennet Street School holds woodworking classes, including fine woodworking and preservation carpentry, year-round in Boston, MA. Visit www.nbss.org or contact program director Janet A. Collins at workshop@nbss.org or call 617-227-9292.

National Building Museum Programs & Exhibits. The National Building Museum in Washington, DC, offers a series of exhibits and programs throughout the year on topics dealing with architectural design and building. The building itself is worth the visit, and 45-minute walk-in tours are offered daily. www.nbm.org.

National Preservation Institute: Historic Preservation Seminars, September-December 2012. The National Preservation Institute will conduct a series of training seminars for professionals in management, development, and historic, cultural and environmental preservation in many cities across the country. ww.npi.org or email info@npi.org.

 

News

MAY 2013

5-16-13
WSJ: "Where the Rubber Meets the Headquarters"

5-14-13
This Summer, the Restored Birthplace of Abigail Adams, a Sturdy Early American House, Will Reopen

5-10-13
WTTW (PBS): "10 Buildings That Changed America"

National Building Museum Design Show Accepting Applications through May 15

NYT: "New Bells and Whistles at the Old Firehouse"

5-8-13
WSJ: "A Stage for Women's Rights in Illinois"

WSJ: "Where the Rubber Meets the Headquarters"

5-6-13
BD&C: New Group on the Web Wants to Revitalize Abandoned Buildings Worldwide

MAY 2013

5-3-13
NYT: Henry Hope Reed, Historian, is Dead at 97

NBM: The National Building Museum Is Now Accepting Apps for Its First-Ever Design Show

Changes to LEED Benefit Existing Buildings

5-1-13
Curbed: In New York City, Beaux Arts Beauty Headed for a $10 Million Facelift


APRIL 2013

4-30-13
NYT: "With Taller Buildings Coming, Knee-High Relics Endure"

NPR: "How One Family Built America's Public Places"

Indiana Landmarks: Mansion-Turned-Library Gets a Magnificent Restoration

Atlantic Cities: "How Historic Architecture Can Anchor Economic Development"

4-25-13
Architect: TCU's Adaptively Re-Used Neo-Georgian Dance Hall Goes LEED Gold

4-24-13
Atlantic Cities: Laser Beams Yield Beautiful Images of Old Buildings

4-19-13
NYT: "Buildings That Lie About Their Age"

Boston Globe: Buildings in Buffalo, N.Y., Enjoy an Elegant Revival

4-18-13
WSJ: In El Paso, Texas, Development Beats Preservation

4-12-13
Atlantic Cities: The Balancing Act Behind the Renovation of St. Louis's Central Library

Henri Labrouste at the Museum of Modern Art

NYT: "Damaged by Hurricane Sandy, Verizon's Jazz-Age Frescoes Glow Again"

EcoBuilding: "From Derelict to Dynamic"

NYT: The Ceiling at Grand Central Station Is "Lost in Space"

4-5-13
Mark Your Calendars: APT Conference Oct. 11-15 in NYC

4-1-13
Atlantic Cities: "The Case Against Saving Midcentury Office Buildings"


MARCH 2013

3-25-13
WSJ: "A Conductor's Colorful Chapel"

NYT: "Before Reopening, a Dispensary Must Untangle Restrictions"

WashPo: "In Gorlitz, Germany, a Walk Through History"

BuildingGreen: How the Federal Government Builds Green--and Why That's Important

3-20-13
Architect: AIA Objects to House Bill That Would Dump Gehry's Design for Eisenhower Memorial

3-18-13
NYT: Giving Up May Be a Way to Save Old Buildings

3-15-13
Architect: House Bill Would Delete Gehry's Design for the Eisenhower Memorial

3-14-13
NYT: The Dazzling Work of 19th-Century Architect Henri Labrouste

3-13-13
WSJ: "London's 'Village' People"

Architecture Source: San Francisco's Historic Flood Building Gets an Energy Retrofit

3-12-13
The Verge: New Software Helps to Complete Gaudi's Old-Style Masterpiece

3-11-13
Skyscraper Museum: New York City's Famed Woolworth Building Turns 100

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3-8-13
Michael Graves to Deliver Annual McKim Lecture April 3 in NYC

NYT: "Post Office Buildings with Character, and Maybe a Sale Price"

3-7-13
Washington Examiner: "Crumbling Capitol Buildings Desperate for Repairs"

3-6-13
NYT: "Eye Candy, Structual and Natural"

3-5-13
Atlantic Cities: Boom in Micro Apartments Brings Iconic Greek Revival Structure in Providence, RI, Back in a Big Way

3-1-13
NTHP: Ah, Yes! Yosemite's Historic Ahwahnee Hotel

EcoBuilding: In Grand Junction, CO, Net-Zero History in the Making


FEBRUARY 2013

2-25-13
EBN: FTC Moves Against False and Exaggerated Claims About Replacement Windows

2-22-13
NYT: "A Reunion, with Apologies for Last Time"

NYT: "Vestige of a Bygone Era Endures Time, and Talk of Its Demise"

Atlantic Cities: Is the Pan Am Terminal in Terminal Condition?

Coming Soon: Designer Craftsmen & Historic Home Show, March 8-10

2-21-13
Architect: ABI Is Flying High

Builder: Adaptive Reuse Turns Old into Bold for Three Buildings

2-20-13
New Republic: The Real Problem with Gentrification: Monotony

EcoBuilding Pulse: Energize! Eighty-Something Shedd Aquarium Goes for the Green

PRC: How Historic Preservation Can Stop People from Fleeing Cities

2-14-13

Summer School in the U.K.

Brown Daily Herald: Old Bank, New Library

Presenting the Winners of the 2013 Arthur Ross Awards

2-13-13
Arch daily: Preservationists Prevail; Brutal Design Lives On

2-12-13
Scholarship Alert! The American College of the Building Arts Announces a New Program

2-8-13
European Stone Festival June 22-23

EcoBuilding: For Now, GSA Gives a Red Light to Green Standards

2-7-13
Roll Call: Dome Sweet Dome--Finding Money to Restore the U.S. Capitol

Boston Globe: Wholly Devoted--Q&A with Traditional Architect Ethan Anthony on Ecclesiastical Architecture

Washington Business Journal: D.C. Preservation League May Seek Landmark Status for Post Company Building

WSJ: "A Modern Plan for Historic London Market"

Reg Is Now Open for the Year's First Traditional Building Conference

2-1-13

Registration Begins Feb. 15 for Maymester at ACBA

Midwest Energy News: Marking Time in Historic Marktown?


JANUARY 2013

1-30-13
Nj.com: New Life for an Old Church

Tour Guide: Draw and Paint Your Way Through Rome

1-28-13
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Restoration in Store for H.H. Richardson's Grand Allegheny County Courthouse

1-25-13
Hands On: Learning the Techniques of Drawing and Sketching

Atlantic Cities: "As Important As It Is, LEED Can Be So Embarrassing"

Curious Eggs: Rare Color Photos of Paris in the Early 1900s! Magnifique!

NTHP: Money Talks--Applying for Grants from the National Trust Preservation Fund

App Deadline for This Year's Beaux-Arts Atelier Is March 1

1-23-13
Architect: ABI's Growth Spurt Continues

1-22-13
Architect: "Unbuilt Washington"

NYT: "100 Years of Grandeur—the Birth of Grand Central Station"

1-18-13
Best College Reviews: "The 30 Most Beautiful College Cathedrals"

1-17-13
The Art Newspaper: Towering Inferno

1-16-13
Bloomberg: Old Newspaper Buildings Are Getting a New Lease on Life

NTHP: "Ten Benefits of Establishing a Local Historic District"

NYT: In Miami Beach, Preservationists Once More Climb the Battlements

1-15-13
WDAY: Preserving North Dakota's Stained Glass Windows

1-11-13
Huffington Post: Spielberg's Lincolnesque Movie Is About Architecture, Too

The Classicist: Calder Loth Takes on Alternating Pediments

NYT: A Spanish Monastery Comes Back to Life--in California

Urban Indy: "The Genius of Traditional Buildings"

1-9-13
BuildingGreen.com: Building Green Up, Chasing LEED Down

1-8-13
NYT: "Ada Louise Huxtable, Champion of Livable Architecture, Dies at 91"

1-7-13
Daily Yonder: "When School Was Hard to Come By"

Atlantic Cities: Walkability--Good Exercise for the Local Economy

1-4-13
Architect: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!

1-3-13
NTHP: The Ten-Step Program: How to Set Up an Historic District

1-2-13
NYT: "City's Law Tracking Energy Use Yields Surprises"

NYT: "In Need, French Museums Turn to Masses, Chapeaux in Hand"

Design Observer: Faulting Foster's Plan for the New York Public Library

NTHP: Pittsburgh's Adaptively Reused Market Square Is All Business Again

NTHP: "How College Students Are Preserving Historic Indiana Neighborhoods"

DemocratandChronicle.com: Preservation, Unnaturally

NCPTT: A Graveyard Smash

The Year in Preservation


DECEMBER 2012

12-19-12
NYT: Peeking in at the New York Public Library's Plan to Renovate an Architectural Gem

WSJ: "Demand for Architects Builds Momentum"

WSJ: "Boston Seaport in Revival"

12-17-12
Chicago Tribune: A True Architectural Icon, Chicago's Wrigley Building Is Changing Face

12-14-12
WSJ: "Religious Conversions"

12-10-12
WMF Supports Preservation Arts Training High School in Brooklyn, NY

12-10-12
WSJ: "History Gives Roslyn Edge on the Future"

Indiana Public Media: Fish Story with a Happy Ending

12-7-12
Hidden City Philadelphia: "America's Oldest Yarn Mill"

NYY: "When Streets Eat Buildings"

New Website for Beaux-Arts Atelier

12-3-12
NTHP: Hurricane Sandy Update in NJ


NOVEMBER 2012

11-9-12
Nov. 30 is Deadline to Submit Wood Awards Projects

11-2-12
WSJ: "A Hollywood Icon's Turning Point"

11-1-12
Count on 2 News: In Charleston, SC, Congregation Buys Salvation for an Historic Church


OCTOBER 2012

10-31-12
Chron: The Brutal Attractions and Distractions of Houston's Alley Theatre

10-30-12
Washington Post: Hoover Building to Get the Heave-Ho by Preservationists?

USA Today: "In U.S. Building Industry, Is It Too Easy to Be Green?"

GSA's Program Breaks New Ground in Proving Value of Green Products and Systems

10-26-12
Providence Journal: Time to Reform Preservation?

10-25-12
Architect: ABI--Up, Up and Away?

NYT: Architect Schafer Heads for the Door(knob)

10-23-12
NYT: "Bidding Farewell to a City's Precious Stone"

Weather.com: Historic Cemeteries Come to Life

10-18-12
Bloomberg: Kahn's Memorial to FDR Finally Comes Home

Atlantic Cities: Cuba's National Arts School

NPS: Department of the Interior Designates 27 New National Landmarks

10-17-12
Boston Globe: "Pressing Pause, for Cause, on the Eisenhower Memorial"

10-15-12
The Architect's Newspaper: Liberating the Statue of Liberty

10-12-12
Home Channel News: "EPA Delays Lead Paint Rule for Commercial Buildings"

Architects Come Up Short

NYT: "Old Battle Ax Gets a Face-Lift"

WSJ: "Historic Florida Hotel Sits on Death Row"

10-02-12
NTHP: South Dakota's Most Venerable Public Institution Makes a Comeback


SEPTEMBER 2012

9-27-12
Downtown Spokane: Vintage Parking Garage Gets a Rousing Restoration

Atlantic Cities: Historic Preservation Tax Could Be Lost

9-26-12
Architectural Record: Architects Scarce? What?

9-25-12
NBC Looks at the $177 Million Restoration of St. Patrick's Cathedral

9-24-12
WSJ: Grand Central Station Kisses Up

9-21-12
NYT: "A Glossary for Architectural Rubberneckers"

9-18-12
WSJ: "A Church Seeks a Rescue"

9-17-12
Crosscut: Modernism's Big Foot

Washington Post: Tiny Town in Delaware Has a Big Past

9-14-12
Detroit Free Press: Old Bank or New Parking Garage? That Is the Question

9-13-12
Architect: "Palladio's Forms Not Ideal?"

9-12-12
Architect: In Brooklyn, New Industry from Old Industrial Site

9-4-12
NYT: "Joe Frazier Wins Belated Embrace as Philadelphia Starts a Fight"

Architect: Looking for a Blacksmith? Try the Red Hook Neighborhood—in Brooklyn, N.Y.

9-4-12
NYT: Wright Stuff Moving to New York City


AUGUST 2012

8-31-12
Charlotte Observer: The Upsetting Upscaling of New Orleans After Katrina

8-28-12
Dizzying! New York's Skyscraper Museum

Builder: Old School, New Life

8-27-12
NTHP: Bank to Bistro: Cream of the Crop

8-24-12
AIA: ABI in July—Not Great but Getting Better

Atlantic Cities: Most Compelling Historic Preservation Books

8-22-12
Preservation: Historic Black Theaters Are Enjoying a Grand Revival

8-20-12
BeyondDC: Depot Delights Across the U.S.

8-17-12
Architect: Brutal Photos

Weather.com: Fave American Lighthouses

GreenSpec: The Big Bamboo—How to Choose the Most Eco-Friendly Flooring

Architectural Literacy: Two-Day Course, Sept. 5-6

NYT: “From Weeds and Bricks to Media Hub in Brooklyn”

8-10-12
Builder: "Will Micro Apartments Go Macro?"

Architect: Buggy Building Materials

8-9-12
WSJ: "Stanford White Slept Here"

8-3-12
Back to School

NTHP: Remember the Main Streets!

Eco-Structure: In New York, Green Means Green

GreenSpec: Cork Uncorked as an Insulator


JULY 2012

7-30-12
WBEZ 91.5: Faded Gem, Chicago Vocational, Could Gleam Again

Chicago Tribune: Time Is of the Essence as Two Old Buildings Look for New Life

NTHP: World's First All-Electric Building Powers Up Again

NTHP: The Coolest Firehouse Restoration in Texas

7-27-12
Deadline to apply for 2013 Richard Morris Hunt Fellowship: July 31

7-24-12
Architect: Venturi Ventures into Retirement

7-23-12
NYT: "Reclaiming Wild Ambition Gone to Seed"

7-20-12
Hats Off to the First Graduating Class of Beaux-Arts Atelier!

7-19-12
Chicago Tribune: Hyatt Heir Has Sporting Proposition for an Old Building

7-18-12
Atlantic Cities: "New York's Lovely Abandoned Subway Station"

AIA: ABI Reflects "Sluggish and Erratic Marketplace"

7-17-12
Vanity Fair: Goldberger on the Moral Ambivalence of Classical Architecture

7-12-12
ICA&A: Announcing the Stanford White Awards

7-9-12
Richard Morris Hunt Scholarship

New York Daily News: "Save the New York Public Library"

Scholarship: Learn About Parks in a National Park


JUNE 2012

6-28-12
Travel with the ICAA

Chicago Tribune: New Tower Doesn't Match Its Restored Neighbor

6-22-12
Treanor Preservation: Separating Financial Fact from Financial Fiction

MSNBC: "World's Best Cities for Architecture Lovers"

6-21-12
NTHP: Chinatown Saved in Riverside, CA

NTHP: In Buffalo, NY, Preservationists Steal the Day for the Bethlehem Steel Office Building

6-19-12
NYT: "Palace-Hopping in Poland"

6-18-12
Architect: Is Brutalism Too Young to Get Any Love?

6-14-12
GreenSource: The (Masonry) Envelope, Please

Washington Post: Repairing the Corcoran--a Costly Numbers Game

6-13-12
Atlantic Cities: "Are These the Fastest-Gentrifying Neighborhoods in the U.S.?"

6-12-12
NYT: Move to Austerity Threatens Greek Antiquities

6-8-12
Architectural Record on Historic Preservation

Washington Post: The Liberty Bell Gets Waxed

Architect: Eisenhower Memorial—the Secretary Has Something to Say

6-7-12
GreenSpec: "Six Things LEED Consultants Do Wrong in Specs"

The Building Stone Institute's 2012 Tucker Award Winners

NTHP: The 2012 List Is Out--America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places

6-6-12
NYT: "A Couple Who Gave Brownstones New Life"

6-5-12
WBEZ: Remembering Chicago's Garrick Building

Stern Talks--in a New Book

Environmental Building News: LEED-ing Nowhere for Now

6-4-12
NYT: "If These Barns Could Talk"


MAY 2012

5-29-12
Chicago Tribune: No Rush to Renovate Wrigley Field

NYT: Deck the Hall! Reporters Return to a Renovated Home

Metropolis: At Yale--Yesterday's Design, Today's Needs

5-24-12
Omaha.com: Traveling Money in Nebraska

ICA&A: Announcing the Addison Mizner Medal Winners

Architectural Record: Preservation Going Mainstream

Artinfo: Brutal Buildings--To Save or Not to Save?

Build Direct: Boffo Balconies, Old and New

Artinfo: Saving an Art Deco Masterpiece

5-23-12
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Milwaukee's "Good Bones"

Next American City: New Urbanist Heavyweights Duke It Out

5-22-12
Greek to You? Redesigning Athens's City Center, a Competition

Washington Post: He Wants to Save Old Havana--Badly

Architectural Record Weighs in on Historic Preservation

5-18-12
Seattle Times: Just Say No to the Blank Slate Idea

NYT: "Old, Massive, Illustrious and Somehow Overlooked"

5-17-12
Architect: AIA Billings Index--the Pause That Regresses

5-14-12
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Adaptive Reuse at Its Most Hospitable

5-10-12
Los Angeles Times: Robert Miles Parker, Preservationist, RIP

5-9-12
Courant.com: Historic Preservation Is in the Money

5-8-12
Bronx Church Honored [PDF]

Chicago Tribune: Judge K.Os. Challenge to Chicago's Landmarks Law

5-7-12
Vanity Fair: Critic Paul Goldberger on the Value of Saving That Brutalist Building in Goshen, NY

5-3-12
NYT: "A House Tour: Yes, That House"

5-2-12
WSJ: "Giving Helping Hands to Places of Worship"

Seattle Times: The Greenest Building Is. . . .

5-1-12
BBC: Glass Action


APRIL 2012

4-27-12
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Historic Buildings' Last Hurrah?

4-24-12
Landmarks Illinois: The State's 10 Most Endangered Historic Places

Providence Journal: Downtown Development: Trad or Modern?

4-23-12
NTHP: Facts and Figures on Green Building

4-20-12
NTHP: "To Save Brutalism or Not to Save Brutalism?"

NTHP: Preservation Magazine's New Editor on His New-Look Quarterly Magazine

4-19-12
Architect: ABI Climbs Again; Commercial Sector Leads the Way

4-16-12
Architect: Bombs Away! The National Civic Arts Society Blasts the Eisenhower Memorial Commission, Again

4-13-12
Huffington Post: Modernism Under Assault

Urban Land: "The Distinctive City"

What's Up, Doc? Diagnosing Existing Buildings

4-10-12
WTTW: "Ten Buildings That Changed America"

NYT: "Architecture's Ugly Ducklings May Not Get Time to Be Swans"

4-6-12
Happy Anniversary: The Rosenwalds Turn 100

Bloomberg Businessweek: "U.S. Growth of Distant Suburbs Falls to Historic Low"

4-4-12
New York Observer: IRT Powerhouse Powers on to the "Seven to Save" List

NTHP: Ah, Wilderness?

4-3-12
NTHP: 2012's Great American Main Street Award Winners

A/N Blog: Goldberger's Getaway

NTHP: Facts and Figures on Green Building


MARCH 2012

3-30-12
The Atlantic Cities: The Powerful Math of Old Buildings

WSJ: In Brooklyn, Whole Foods Comes Up Against a Landmark

SouthBendTribune.com: New Use for Old Train Station

AIA: Stone on Stone

3-28-12
AIA: Billing Index Still Positive

Washington City Paper: D.C. Review Board to Developer: You've Got the Wrong Washington!

Chicago Tribune: Changes Ahead for the Wrigley Building?

3-27-12
Real Estate Weekly: Restoring Chelsea

3-23-12
Architect: 13 Sites Named to Historic Register

3-21-12
NYT: Chicago's Pullman Neighborhood Chugs Ahead Once More

3-20-12
The Atlantic Cities: Should Preservationsts Be Sky Pilots?

3-19-12
Where We Live: "Landmarks That Fly and Float"

3-16-12
Fenway Scores a Place on the National Register

Presenting the 2012 Arthur Ross Awards

Timber Framing at Savannah Tech

For Historic Preservation: $47 Million

3-14-12
Architect: 13 New Historic Landmarks Named

3-9-12
Learn to Draft by Hand

3-8-12
Orlando Sentinel: Wright-Designed Campus Lands a Landmark

WSJ: "New Call by Developer on Historic Tower"

3-6-12
WSJ: "Saving the Heart of Brooklyn"

3-2-12
The Guardian: Frank Gehry Confronts Eisenhower Monument Backlash

NYT: Monkey Business to End Soon


FEBRUARY 2012

2-29-12
The Globe and Mail: Are Skyscrapers "Architectural Pornography"?

2-27-12
Architectural Record: "Restoration Redux"

2-23-12
New Geography: Does New Urbanism Equal Crime and Punishment?

Reviving an Historic Garden

The Environmental Value of Greening Old Buildings [PDF]

2-22-12
The Guardian: Frank Gehry Confronts the Backlash

2-17-12
Window Repair Workshops

America's Persian Garden

Learning from History

2-16-12
Atlantic Cities: Up Your Alleys

NTHP: Historic Cemetery in Washington, DC, Is Back from the Dead

NTHP: In Staunton, VA, Preservation and Economic Development Go Hand in Hand

Atlantic Cities: For Nashville, Sprawl Over Now?

2-13-12
Chicago Tribune: Raising Cain over a Would-Be Razing

The Builder's Counsel: "Is LEED Construction Less Safe Than Traditional Construction?"

2-10-12
Atlantic Cities: The Wonders of Diocletian's Palace

2-9-12
Architizer: In Wright's Doghouse

Providence Journal: Superman Building Up in the Air

NYT: Restore Penn Station!

2-8-12
NYT: "Met Aims to Build Itself a Museum-Quality Plaza"

Prince Wins Patronage

CP Community.com: Jailhouse Rocks!

2-7-12
Chicago Tribune: Finally! The Wrigley Building Is a Landmark at Last

2-6-12
Lohud.com: Restoring 'America's Greatest Forgotten Garden'

2-3-12
Landslide for Landscapes

2-1-12
EcoBuildTrends: Old Is in, but What Do We Do with All the Stuff?

Architect: Parsing the Great William MacDonald

SFGate: Arts Center for Arts Center's Sake

Chicago Tribune: Tweaking Wrigley Field


JANUARY 2012

1-27-12
NTHP: Up in Armories!

1-25-12
thestar.com: Preservation Presses Forward in Toronto

The Wesleyan Connection: Prof Talks About Wright's Religious Buildings

WAN.com: New Mobile App Reveals Old Toronto

1-23-12
School Days: Trades Training at the Prince's Foundation

1-17-12
Chicago Tribune: Wright's Last Hotel Is Back in Business--in Mason City, IA

1-14-12
Atlantic Cities: The Sweet Design of England's First Planned Community

NTHP: "New Life for an Old Depot"

Washington Post: Eisenhower Family Opposes Gehry's Design for Memorial

1-6-12
Apply Now for 2012-13 Beaux-Arts Atelier: Deadline Is March 1

1-4-12
Class Acts from the Prince's Foundation

Quick on the Draw at Yale

1-3-12
telegram.com: Clock Ticking on Clock Tower


12-29-11
NTHP Names the Best of 2011

12-21-11
NYT: "A Jewel Box for Translucent Treasures"

Architect: Nice Going! ABI Bumps Upward Again

12-19-11
Washington Post: Eisenhower's Granddaughters Criticize Gehry's Design

12-16-11
Michael Graves Wins Driehaus Prize

To Replace or Not?

HABS/HAER Highlights

Building Technology Heritage Library Goes Digital

12-15-11
NTHP: Saginaw's Savoy Soldiers On

12-14-11
Brattleboro Reformer: An 18th-Century Meeting House Gets Plastered

MLive.com: Burnham's Building to Go Boutique in Downtown Detroit

NCPTT: "Mourning Glory: Preserving Historic Cemeteries"

12-12-11
Preservation in Pink: What's the Meaning of This?

12-09-11

Obama Pledges $4 Billion for Energy Upgrades

New Green Construction Code

Chicago Tribune: Oh God. Now What?

philly.com: Save These Buildings in Philly!

Archinect: Graves's "Portland Building" Goes Historic

NYT: "Treasuring Urban Oases"

fredericksburg.com: In Fredericksburg, VA, History Is Losing Out

12-02-11
Obama Pledges $4 Billion for Energy Upgrades


11-30-11
NYT: "To Rethink Sprawl, Start with Offices"

Switchboard: Rebuilding Galveston

11-29-11
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Zombie Zealots" Move to Protect Chapel

11-28-11
Denverpost.com: Denver Union Station Gets Ready for a Preservation

Monticello: Triglyphs, Metopes and Guttae, Oh My! [PDF]

NTHP: Oregon's New Guidelines for Historic District Infill

Washington National Cathedral Reopens

11-18-11
GreenSource: Green Is Good

Providence Journal: Modern Take on Postmodernism

GreenBuildingAdvisor.com: Green Renovation and Historic Preservation Really Do Relate

11-16-11
Finance & Commerce: Historic Preservation--Who Should Make the Rules?

Washington Post: Still Half Quaked, Washington National Cathedral Reopens

Architectural Record: Billings Index Jumps in October

11-15-11
Southeast Missourian: Well Schooled

11-14-11
OregonLive.com: Williams-Sonoma Acquires Lighting Maker Rejuvenation

TwinCities Business: A Cool Million Bucks for Preservation

Herald-News: Sword-Did! Copper Thieves Will Steal Anything, It Appears

11-10-11
Lord, Aeck & Sargent Acquires TWC Architects of Austin, TX [PDF]

WSJ: "The Empire State Building's Luster Returns"

NYT: What Are the Real Energy Savings in Retrofitted Buildings?

11-9-11
Architect: Stern Cadges Commission for Museum of the American Revolution

11-8-11
Architect: New Book About an Old Subject

11-7-11
Washington Post: Building Up Buffalo

11-4-11
Rome Observer: That's Hall There Is

Washington Post: Turning Back the Clock

NTHP: President Obama Creates National Monument at Fort Monroe

11-2-11
Library of Congress: Make It Rare

11-1-11
NYT: "A Gothic Tour of Italy"


10-26-11
BuffaloNews.com: "New for Buffalo: a Superiority Complex"

Richmond Times-Dispatch: Platinum LEED in a Golden Oldie

10-21-11
Threatened Monuments: 2012 Watch List

10-13-11
The Daily Caller: Family Speaks Out Against Design of Eisenhower Monument

10-12-11
Gizmodo: Big Ben Takes a Bow

10-7-11
WSJ: "Sketching Out a New Course for Architects"

10-6-11
Bulfinch Awards: Classical Gas

10-5-11
Architectural Record: Monuments—Watch Out!

Washington Post: A $25 Million Shake

Architect: "Retro Grades"

10-4-11
WSJ: "Sketching Out a New Course for Architects"

10-3-11
Washington City Paper: Protecting Future's Past


9-30-11
PlaceMakers: Urbanists vs. Preservationists

9-29-11
Think You're an Innovator? Tell It to the Government

9-26-11
Switchboard: August Development in Milwaukee

9-23-11
WSJ: What Is an American Style?

Traditional Building Conference Comes to New York

Cincinnati.com: Heaven's Fate—Cincy's Churches Expiring Fast

9-21-11
Bloomberg: Architectural Billings Bounce Back

9-20-11
Cincinnati.com: Heaven's Fate--Cincy's Churches Expiring Fast

BuffaloNews.com: Restoration a Watchword? In Buffalo, It May Be

Architect: After a Restoration, Wright's Last Hotel Reopens for Business

NYT: "Tax Plan to Turn Old Buildings 'Green' Finds Favor"

9-15-11
Curbed NY: Things Are Looking Up for Brooklyn's Skyscrapers

9-13-11
Treanor Architects: Debunking the Bunkum About Historic Preservation

WSJ: Steven Semes Sticks Up for Tradition

9-12-11
WeHo News: Preservationists Down Modernists

9-9-11
PreservationNation: Helping Buildings Battle Climate Change

9-8-11
The Real Deal: The Waldorf Astoria Comes into the Automobile Age

Chicago Tribune: White Castle, Culinary and Architectural Delight'

9-6-11
Virginia Business: Hard-Working Historic Tax Credits

9-1-11
NYT: Bad Breaks for Covered Bridges

Calling All Firms: Navy Pier Wants You (Maybe)!

NTHP: Time to Comment on LEED 2012!

Tampa Preservation: Having Fun with Replacement Windows


8-31-11
Quake, Shake but No Break

NTHP: "Restoring Provincetown's 'Heartbeat'"

8-26-11
Study Shows Benefits of Historic Preservation in CT [PDF]

8-23-11
WSJ: "The Full Monticello"

8-22-11
Crain's Chicago Business: Double Their Pleasure--for Half Off?

8-18-11
NTHP: Green Stuff

Calculated Risk: AIA's ABI Dips--Again

8-17-11
BuffaloNews.com: Lofts Get Lift from Old Buildings

Inman News: Adapting Old Buildings Is the Greenest Choice

8-15-11
GreenBuildingAdvisor.com: "Insulating Old Brick Buildings"

8-10-11
NTHP: Time for Another Cuban Tour

8-8-11
Secretary of Interior: Sustainability Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings [PDF]

NYT: "Fiscal Woe Haunting Baltimore Poe House"

8-5-11
In the Footsteps of Jane Jacobs, Saving a Small NY Town

8-4-11
The Atlantic: "How One Man's Renovations Are Saving a Small New York Town"

8-3-11
NYT: "Cities See the Other Side of the Tracks"

In Rockland, ME, Tax Credits Mean Revival

8-2-11
Hallelujah: Baptists and Ballet Dancers Thrive in Historic Church

8-1-11
NYT: "Old Windows Find a Following"


7-29-11
ICAA Tour of Lebanon and Jordan, October 27-November 8

7-27-11
Blair Kamin: Time to Landmark the Wrigley Building

Preservationists to Gehry: Can It!

7-25-11
Vineyard Gazette: "Mending Walls, Neighbors Find Right Balance"

Lahontan Valley News: Reno, NV, to Host Geothermal Summit in August

7-22-11
Setting Standards for Preserving Wood Windows

7-15-11
James Howard Kunstler: "Back to the Future"

7-11-11
NYT: "Sale May Rescue Ruined Greenhouse"

7-7-11
ICAA: Educational Events Galore!


6-28-11
Old Becomes New: From Useless Shell to Shining Platinum

6-24-11
Orion: "Back to the Future"

The Huffington Post: Time for the Preservation "Empire" to Strike Back?

AIA: Two Preservation Bills Proposed in Congress

6-23-11
Two Bills Proposed to Expand Preservation Tax Credits

6-22-11
Collaborating on Preservation Standards for Windows

AIA: University of Tennessee Petitions for Historic Preservation Education

NJ.com: Built to Last

6-15-11
NTHP: Louisville's Whiskey Row Saved

6-13-11
Cleveland.com: Cleveland to Demolish Historic Downtown Building for the Usual--a Parking Lot

New Columbia Heights: A Movable Feast

Calder Loth Talks Balusters

6-10-11
Newstimes.com: CT Renovating Schools Instead of Building New Ones

ICAA Accepting Application for Beaux-Arts Atelier Until June 15

NTHP Announces Great American Main Street Awards

July 4 Is Deadline for Bulfinch Award Entries

2011 Preservation Awards from Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia

6-8-11
New York Observer: Ouroussoff Leaving New York Times

Chicago Tribune: City Postpones Landmark Vote on Old Prentice Women's Hospital

6-6-11
Chicago Tribune: City Postpones Landmark Vote on Old Prentice Women's Hospital

6-3-11
NTHP Announces Great American Main Street Awards

IPTW Early Registration Extended Until June 30

NTHP Announces Great American Main Street Awards

6-1-11
Call for Entries for 2011 Bulfinch Awards


5-31-11
Episcopal News Service: Stern Selected to Design Seminary Chapel in Virginia

5-27-11
NTHP Announces Great American Main Street Awards

5-25-11
NTHP: Historic Church in York, PA: Demolition Ahead?

Chicago Tribune: AIA Supports Preservation of Old Prentice Women's Hospital

NTHP: Residents Seeking to Save Mill Ruins Park in Minneapolis

2011 Mid-Career Fitch Grant Awarded to Shawn Evans, AIA

5-24-11
Deseret News: Saving Old Buildings Creates Jobs

5-20-11
NTHP: Five-Year-Old Warms Up to Preservation in NH

WSJ: Call for Help for Brooklyn Navy Yard

5-13-11
APTI Announces New Online Heritage Library

NTHP: Saving an Art Deco School in Wyoming

5-10-11
nola.com: Birthplace of Jazz Is Crumbling

Federal Times: Government Buildings Struggle to Go Green

5-09-11
Detroit Free Press: Quinn Evans to Restore Michigan Central Depot

5-06-11
Preservation Trades Education: Training for Jobs That Can't Be Outsourced

Notre Dame's Palladio Conference Is June 10-12

BuildingGreen.com: Preservation and Green Building: Odd Couple or Perfect Pair?

5-05-11
Palm Beach Post: Restoration Planned for Historic Comeau Building

Preservation and Sustainability Linked in Rehabilitation of Historic Mill

5-03-11
NYT: Tenants Fighting to Preserve Landmark Status

USA Today: Are Steeples an Endangered Species?

NBC Montana.com: Buy an Historic Building for $5,000

Richmond Times-Dispatch: John Hanbury Passes On


4-29-11
May 17: Steven W. Semes to Talk About the Future of the Past at the National Trust for Historic Preservation

NTHP: Restoring the Cosmopolitan

4-28-11
John D. Milner of Chadds Ford, PA, Receives Simons Medal of Excellence

4-26-11
Crafts Program in New Orleans Seeking Positions for Apprentices

Northwestern University, Preservationists Debate Future of Chicago's 1975 Old Prentice Women's Hospital

Washington Post: Stern to Design Replacement for Washington, DC's, Brutalist Third Church of Christ

Toledo Blade: City Uncertain What to Do With Historic Sheriff's Home

4-25-11
WSJ: A Reward for a Non-Gehry Building

Architect's Newspaper: Driehaus vs. Pritzker

NPS Announces Guidelines on Sustainability for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings

4-22-11
Apply Now for the ICA&A's Beaux-Arts Atelier

Cruise Ship Terminal Causes Uproar in Charleston, SC

Kansas City Star: Experts Cite Challenges Facing Cities

4-15-11
Not Worth the Gamble: No Casino for Gettysburg, PA

WSJ: Harlem's Corn Exchange Building Available for Development

LSJ.com: Historic Tax Credits Spur Development

Statesman.com: Austin, TX, Sued for Historical Properties Tax Breaks

4-14-11
UVA Today: The Future of the University of Virginia's Academical Village

Concrete Construction: Saving Unity Temple

4-12-11
bdonline: UK Philosopher Mauls 'Starchitects'

4-1-11
Philadelphia Weekly Press: Portrait of Alvin Holm, a Speaker at Restore Media Conference, April 14-15

Chicago Tribune: Plans to Rebuild Adler and Sullivan Church

UVA Today: Funding Found for Restoration of Rotunda

Ten-Day Summer Program in July at The British School in Rome

4-1-11
In Memory of David Fischetti

Next American City: Misunderstanding Historic Preservation


3-28-11
Interfaith Forum: Goody Clancy's Jean Carroon on Environmental Value of Historic Religious Buildings

3-24-11
New Study on Energy and Historic Windows [PDF]

Chicago Tribune: The Clock That Ran Out of Time

3-18-11
Ann Arbor.com: Cutting Historic Tax Credits in Michigan

National Park Service Architectural Drawing Competition

The Atlantic: Conversation with Paul Goldberger '

3-14-11
NYT: Fitting In, Not Standing Out

3-11-11
Fifth Annual Schutze Award Winners Announced

Steve Mouzon's Tribute to Michael Barranco

Marvin Windows Sets May 31 Deadline for 2011 Architect's Challenge

Witold Rybczynski Reviews Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City

The Seattle Times: Preservation vs. Tall Buildings in Pioneer Square

3-4-11
Washington Post: Jefferson's Rotunda at University of Virginia in Need of Repair

Curbed: Chicago's Most Endangered Buildings

3-1-11
NYT: Updating a Great Space at the Brooklyn Museum


2-28-11
Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia Announces 2011 Awards

2-25-11
2011 Arthur Ross Awards Announced

Training Fellowships Available in Woodwork, Metalwork and Stonework at the Coubertin Foundation Near Paris

2-18-11
2011 Henry Hope Reed Award Goes to Robert A. Peck

2-17-11
Summer School in Italy on Traditional Architecture and Urban Planning

2-16-11
TAIA Awards 2011 Latrobe Prize for "Public Interest Practices in Architecture"

2-15-11
The Oakland Tribune Reviews New Book on Bernard Maybeck

JSOnline: Frank Lloyd Wright at the Milwaukee Art Museum

2-11-11
GSA Announces 11 Design Awards

2-10-11
NTHP: Americorps Presents Hands-On Preservation Education in WV

Estes Park Trail Gazette: Promoting Preservation in the Park

2-4-11
Flaharty to Teach Ornamental Plaster Workshop at RISD, Feb. 12-13

Classical Architecture Program Launches Online

University of Notre Dame Call for Papers

NTHP: Save America's Treasures Grants

SF Weekly: Do Preservationists Gain from Preservation?

Preservationists in Louisville in Conflict with Mayor

Curbed: Landmark Mid-Century Glass Box Now Applying for Historic Status--for Interiors

2-1-11
Online Program in Classical Architecture


1-31-11
Competition for Classical Design of Eisenhower Memorial

Competition Offers Cash Prize for Measured Drawing

1-28-11
Little Red Schoolhouse, Big Bad Wolf

Save That Barn: Social Networking to the Rescue

1-25-11
Preservation Mindedness Grows in Easton, MA

1-24-11
GSA Announces 2010 Design Award Winners

Cast and Wrought Iron Symposium

New Movie: The Greenest Building

David Flaharty to Teach Plastering at RISD in February

NYT: Before the Library, a Reservoir

Architectural League's President's Award Goes to Robert A.M. Stern'

1-14-11
WUWM Public Radio: Preservation Battle Lines in Milwaukee

April 8 Deadline to Apply for Grad Program in Sustainable Architecture/Urbanism [PDF]

NYC Bypasses LEED

Mid-Century Maintenance: It's All in the Details

Deadline for Submitting Nominations to NTHP's 2011 Preservation Awards Is Feb. 17

David Brussat on the Little Red Schoolhouse and the Big Bad Wolf

1-12-11
What's the Greatest Building in NYC?

1-7-11
Grist: Measuring the Historical Diversity of Neighborhoods

NYT: "Be There or Be Square, 1830 to the Present"

1-5-11

Chicago Magazine Honors Preservationist Gunny Harboe

1-4-11
2011 Preservation Awards: Now Open for Nominations

University of Notre Dame's Call for Papers: The Perpetual Modernity of Palladio

NYT: New Life for Historic Theaters in Connecticut

Will LEED Still Be the Leader?

NYT: "Old Move Palaces, Trying on the New"

National Trust Now Accepting Nominations for 2011 Preservation Awards

Stephen Byrns Launches Non-Profit Organization to Restore Untermyer Gardens

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