Category: National Register of Historic Places (Page 14 of 23)

Group of people standing outside in forest. — The Board at the October 2019 meeting. From left: Lynne Calamia, PhD. (Philadelphia), Sue Hannegan (Mill Hall), Christine Ussler, AIA (Bethlehem), Megan Tooker (Bellefonte), Lindsay Varner, Ph.D. (Carlisle), Angelique Bamberg (Pittsburgh), Katherine Wyrosdick, AICP (Erie), Jayashree Shamanna (Scranton), Ben Ford Ph.D., RPA (Indiana), Johnette Davies (Philadelphia), and John Conti (Pittsburgh). Board members missing from the photo are Rob Armstrong (Philadelphia), Ira Beckerman, PhD (New Cumberland), Jane Sheffield (Altoona), and Cara Halderman (Pittsburgh).

Welcome, new Preservation Board members!

October 30, 2019 / Elizabeth Rairigh / 0 Comments

The Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Board is a little known, but incredibly talented, group of professionals from across the commonwealth.

Celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month with the August Wilson House

October 16, 2019 / Karen Arnold / 0 Comments

October is the opportunity to explore the arts in your local community as part of National Arts and Humanities Month. This month-long celebration was established to honor of the founding of the National Endowment for the Arts in 1965.

Philadelphia’s Urban Landscape, a NUTTY Place

September 25, 2019 / Guest Contributor / 0 Comments

Don’t worry, I capitalized the word NUTTY for a reason. While sorting through some documents here at the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO), I came across a file for the National Register listed Franklin Square in Philadelphia.

Ask ReGIS will help you navigate through in CRGIS.

CRGIS your Commute!

September 11, 2019 / Guest Contributor / 3 Comments

The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike is the oldest paved highway in America. It was chartered in 1792 and opened in 1795, connecting farmers in Lancaster County with markets in Philadelphia via a state-of-the-art crushed gravel (or “macadamized”) surface pioneered by Scottish engineer John Loudon Macadam to prevent the wheels of wagons and carriages from sinking into the notorious mud of standard dirt roads.

Just Listed! New National Register Listings in PA

July 3, 2019 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 1 Comment

Since our last Just Listed! post, nine resources have been listed in the National Register of Historic Places. You can explore these and other historic properties in Pennsylvania via CRGIS, our online map and database.

Stone house — Peter Wentz Homestead. Photo attribution: Hshuvaeva [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]

Artifacts in the Attic

June 19, 2019 / Guest Contributor / 0 Comments

The Peter Wentz Farmstead is a fascinating Montgomery County landmark.

Houses along street — Titusville, Crawford County

Titusville, Drafting Community-Focused Design Guidelines to Promote Preservation

June 12, 2019 / Karen Arnold / 0 Comments

Design guidelines have long been considered the “level” in the preservation toolbox.

2022 Updates to PA’s Agricultural History Project

May 29, 2019 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 2 Comments

This post contains updates to the statewide agricultural context, also known as the Pennsylvania Agricultural History Project, through January 2022. The development and implementation of Pennsylvania’s Historic & Archaeological Resource Exchange (PA-SHARE) has necessitate updates to the way information is collected and provided to the PA SHPO.

Historic photo of men working outside building. — CCC Camp PA S.P. 8 in the 1930’s.

Preserving Laurel Hill CCC Camps – Part 2

May 22, 2019 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 1 Comment

This post is the second of two highlighting the work of two recent interns to preserve WPA-era Civilian Conservation Corps camps at Laurel Hill State Park. You can read Part 1 and the history of the park in this post.

PA Historic Preservation Blog 2018 Year in Review

December 26, 2018 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 0 Comments

This week I’m counting down to the 10 most popular blog post written in 2018! Its been awhile since we’ve done this kind of “year in review” for you loyal readers, so I thought it might be fun and give you the opportunity to read a post you may have missed. Continue reading