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Celebrating the Titusville Iron Works

May 15, 2024 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 0 Comments

This week’s 2023 Community Initiative Award winner spotlight is on the Titusville Iron Works in Titusville.

The Titusville Iron Works traces its roots to the Titusville Manufacturing Co., the first foundry and machine shop exclusively serving the oil industry, founded in 1860. Local businessmen purchased the company in 1895, renamed it the Titusville Iron Works, diversified its product line, and expanded it with new buildings and acreage.

Over the first few decades of the 20th century, the iron works evolved as owners consolidated other companies and business interests in the facility. In the early 1940s the federal government invested in new machinery and buildings for the iron works to support the war effort. By 1964 the plant was closed and the property and buildings subdivided.

Fast forward to today, and the site of this 19th century foundry is a busy event venue and preservation success story. I asked owner Bob Joyce to share the story with us.

People standing on deck of long wood building and in adjacent parking lot.

Celebrating the Nicholson Train Station

May 8, 2024 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 3 Comments

Each week in May, to celebrate National Historic Preservation Month, we will highlight one of the 2023 Community Initiative Award winners. In this week’s post, I asked Josh Stull with the Nicholson Heritage Association about their work preserving the Nicholson Train Station.

Celebrating Preservation Month with the 2023 Community Initiative Award Winners

May 1, 2024 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 1 Comment

For the past few years, PA SHPO has kicked off National Historic Preservation Month by announcing the newest Community Initiative Award winners. The four 2023 recipients and their projects showcase a variety of preservation success stories, demonstrating the importance of preserving those places at the heart of Pennsylvania’s communities that embody its past and present stories.

Metal bridge over a creek with grass on one side and wooded area on other.

Expanding the Program: More Metal Truss Bridge Rehabilitations on the Way

April 24, 2024 / Guest Contributor / 2 Comments

Last year, we announced PennDOT’s new funding source for historic metal truss bridges and highlighted two rehabilitation projects that were selected for the new program. With those projects well on their way, the Historic Metal Truss Bridge Capital Rehabilitation Program has since added four additional bridge projects across the Commonwealth.

Side by side images of two large buildings.

‘Take me out to the ball game!’: Pennsylvania’s Historic Baseball Stadiums

April 10, 2024 / mmcnish / 1 Comment

With a new season of baseball upon us and what I regard as the real start of spring, it’s an opportune time to look back at Pennsylvania’s rich baseball history.

One woman stands on a ladder against a brick wall while another woman holds the ladder.

How Women Shaped Preservation in Pennsylvania

March 27, 2024 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 3 Comments

Several years ago, my colleagues and I at the PA SHPO compiled a history of preservation achievements in Pennsylvania. This interesting trek through the preservation timeline was published in the Winter 2016 issue of Pennsylvania Heritage magazine and was added as a chapter in the current statewide historic preservation plan, #PreservationHappensHere. This week in honor of Women’s History Month, I’m taking a deeper dive into the role of women in Pennsylvania’s preservation accomplishments.

One story white frame building with steep roof.

Baseline Survey Adds Almost 8,000 Places in Year 3

March 13, 2024 / Guest Contributor / 1 Comment

The Pennsylvania Baseline Survey Team is thrilled to share the final year of findings from the Pennsylvania Baseline Survey. From June 2022 to March 2024, Year 3 of the Baseline Survey took place in 20 counties. To date, over 6,854 new resources have been recorded in 503 municipalities thanks to the efforts of our Baseline Survey Teams!

Historic Tax Credits @ Work: Delaware Station of the Philadelphia Electric Company

March 6, 2024 / smassey / 0 Comments

The Battery Philadelphia is another example of a successful historic tax credit project. This latest installment of “Historic Tax Credits @ Work” shows how a classic “white elephant” was re-energized into a unique lifestyle campus that offers space for people to live, work, stay, and gather under one roof.

Row of two-story brick buildings along a sidewalk. — The International Athletic Club is one of the many places in York identified through NTHP's crowdsourcing effort. This club was started in 1954 by Black Olympian John Terry, a weight lifter and boxer who competed in the 1936 summer Olympics in Berlin.

Results of the Chesapeake Bay Mapping Initiative in Pennsylvania

February 28, 2024 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 0 Comments

A few years ago, the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP), in collaboration with the National Park Service Chesapeake Bay and the Chesapeake Conservation Partnership, launched an ambitious project called the Chesapeake Mapping initiative (CMI). The purpose of the project was to identify and map older and historic places that reflect African American history in the Chesapeake Bay watershed in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia.

Aerial view of archaeology dig with excavation squares, exposed stones, plywood borders, and people and tools. — Field school excavations in progress around one of the stone hearth foundations uncovered at Fort Halifax (36DA0008).

A Trip Through the PASS: The 2023 Annual PASS Report

February 21, 2024 / Taylor Napoleon / 1 Comment

Now that 2023 is officially in the PASS, let’s look back on another successful year of archaeological site recording and survey efforts throughout Pennsylvania.

Category: Counties (Page 3 of 43)

Celebrating the Titusville Iron Works

Celebrating the Nicholson Train Station

Celebrating Preservation Month with the 2023 Community Initiative Award Winners

Expanding the Program: More Metal Truss Bridge Rehabilitations on the Way

‘Take me out to the ball game!’: Pennsylvania’s Historic Baseball Stadiums

How Women Shaped Preservation in Pennsylvania

Historic Tax Credits @ Work: Delaware Station of the Philadelphia Electric Company

Results of the Chesapeake Bay Mapping Initiative in Pennsylvania

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