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Getting to Know the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Board

February 26, 2014 / / 1 Comment

If you haven’t participated in a Pennsylvania National Register nomination you may not have experienced a Historic Preservation Board meeting.  But that shouldn’t stop you!  The meetings are open to the public and we welcome all preservation aficionados to attend a future meeting.  The 2014 schedule is posted on our website. The nominations to be reviewed at an upcoming meeting will also be posted to the website about one month prior to the scheduled meeting.

The purpose of the Historic Preservation Board is to provide expert judgments about the historical, architectural, and archeological significance of resources in Pennsylvania as authorized by Section 101 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, and Sections 504 and 505 of the Pennsylvania History Code. Continue reading

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Section 106 Consultation: 5 Steps to Meaningful Mitigation Outcomes

December 25, 2013 / / 1 Comment

Last month we discussed Section 106 consultation and how the outcome of the process is not predetermined but rather a result of the interaction among the participants, with the Federal agency making the final decision about how a project will proceed. Agencies in coordination with consulting parties are required to consider project design options that avoid or minimize effects to historic properties. However, it is not always possible to meet the needs of the project and simultaneously preserve a historic property. Continue reading

BHP’s Offbeat Outings: Athens

December 11, 2013 / / 2 Comments

Offbeat Outings is a bi-monthly series that highlights the travels of BHP staff as they experience history first-hand throughout Pennsylvania.

My name is Dave, and I’m an addicted heritage tourist.  However, as I’m sure most readers of this blog can confess, I am not alone.  In fact, Heritage Tourism brings billions of dollars to Pennsylvania each year, with historic communities and districts creating the largest draw.  Continue reading

Farmstead in the Oley Valley. Credit: Zachary Pyle.

Preserving the Oley Valley Rural Historic District in Pennsylvania

July 17, 2013 / / 0 Comments

by Brenda Barrett

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in the Living Landscape Observer and appears here with the permission of the author and founder of that publication, Brenda Barrett.  We appreciate Brenda’s contributions and reporting on this subject.

Oley Valley gristmill. Credit: Zachary Pyle.

Oley Valley gristmill. Credit: Zachary Pyle.

Even in a state famous for its agricultural landscapes, the Oley Valley in southeast Pennsylvania is an exceptional place. Located in a in a bowl-shaped valley flanked by the forested hills of the Reading Prong and underlain by limestone, the region is drained by two small creeks, the Manataway and the smaller Monocacy. English Quakers, French Huguenots, and Palatine farmers from Switzerland and Germany settled in the valley as early as 1725 in search of religious freedom and good farmland. They found both, producing an 18th-century pattern of farmsteads, fields, and villages that has marked the landscape ever since. Continue reading

Bradford Armory

Local Landmarks For Sale: National Guard Armories

June 26, 2013 / / 0 Comments

There is an armory in almost every county in Pennsylvania.  Some counties have two or three.  They are one of the most historically significant and, in most cases, architecturally distinctive buildings in the communities lucky enough to host one.  The National Guard in Pennsylvania has a long history of military and civic service and the armories are the physical expression of that history.  The Department of General Services is offering eleven of these historic armories for sale.  This is the perfect opportunity to adaptively reuse these buildings and retain an important landmark in your community. Continue reading

Brutalist Style building, Harrisburg, PA

A Mid-century Modern Quandary

June 12, 2013 / / 1 Comment

When is an ugly building just an ugly building?

In the almost 50 years since the passage the landmark and policy setting National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the world of historic preservation has evolved to reflect the complexities and new understanding of the field.    Continue reading

Sycamore Allee Nomination Photo

National Transportation Week: A Road to the Past

May 15, 2013 / / 2 Comments

On Saturday, April 27, 2013, I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at a unique dedication ceremony at Fort Halifax Park in Halifax Township, Dauphin County, just north of the Borough of Halifax.  The ceremony was to dedicate numerous London Plane Sycamores recently planted to, if you’re feeling poetic, fix what time has wrought.  You see, these trees were planted to replace missing Sycamores in the National Register of Historic Places-listed Legislative Route 1 Sycamore Allee (see the nomination on CRGIS for more information and for references). Continue reading

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