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The Community Initiative Award from the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) recognizes organizations, municipalities, agencies, individuals, and others whose work embodies the theme of Pennsylvania’s recently released statewide historic preservation plan, #PreservationHappensHere.
The 2018 awardees are the Walk In Art Center (Schuylkill County), Jefferson County History Center (Jefferson County), and Redbank Valley Trails Association (Clarion County).
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When Ron Sehn and Terry Doran bought their properties in Folmont, they never imagined that they were also signing up to be the defenders of the eighteenth-century Fort Dewart.
Continue readingAs we mark the 100th anniversary of the implementation of Prohibition, it is good to reflect on the fact that many buildings related to Pennsylvania’s historic brewing industry remain.
Continue readingIn Pittsburgh’s Northside, the historic tax credit program helped transform 148 historic buildings into new homes for over 250 residents.
Continue readingIn honor of national African American history month, I thought I would give our readers a glimpse into a few of the resources PHMC has to help study African American historic places in Pennsylvania.
Continue readingDid you know that the first American Heart Month took place in February of 1964, over two years before the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966?
Continue reading2019 was a BIG year for the National Register program in Pennsylvania. Since our last update, 16 listings have been added or updated.
Continue readingIt wouldn’t be New Years without a top 10 recap, and I didn’t want to disappoint you by not giving our faithful readers a recap of their favorite blog.
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One of PA SHPO’s core missions is to educate the commonwealth’s citizens about state and federal historic preservation programs. We can’t do it alone, so we do our best to provide interested citizens, advocates, and partners with the tools to help communicate what historic preservation is and why it matters.
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The Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Board is a little known, but incredibly talented, group of professionals from across the commonwealth.
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