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# Pennsylvania Historic Preservation

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- [PA SHPO is Hiring an Environmental Review Streamlining Coordinator!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-environmental-review-streamlining-coordinator/) - Are you passionate about conserving resources in Pennsylvania for the benefit of future generations? The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is looking for an Environmental Review, Streamlining Coordinator who enjoys solving problems and helping projects move forward. In this role, you will support agencies as they identify important archaeological resources before construction begins. You
- [Cool Down this Summer with Ice Cream from PA's Many Historic Ice Cream Shops!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/cool-down-this-summer-with-ice-cream-from-pas-many-historic-ice-cream-shops/) - In the words of Pennsylvania native P!nk, pop-rock singer and performer, “Cover me in Sunshine, Shower me with good times!” It’s finally summer in Pennsylvania and it’s National Ice Cream Month so while you’re out soaking up the sun this summer, be sure to cool down with ice cream from one of Pennsylvania’s many local
- [PA SHPO is Hiring a Historic Preservation Supervisor!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-historic-preservation-supervisor/) - Are you passionate about conserving resources in Pennsylvania for the benefit of future generations? The Historical & Museum Commission is searching for a Historic Preservation Supervisor - Above Ground to assist the PA State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) to support project reviews, lead a dedicated team, and work closely with state and federal partners. Your
- [Keystone Grant Program Funds Semiquincentennial Projects, Readying for the Tricentennial](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/keystone-grant-program-funds-semiquincentennial-projects-readying-for-the-tricentennial/) - The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission is pleased to announce the selected projects for the 2025-2026 Keystone Grant program. The grant program again saw an 8% increase in the number of applications over last year with requests over $7,561,262.52. This funding furthers our partner’s efforts to preserve and celebrate tangible history for the future. PHMC’s
- [The Power of MPDFs: African American Churches and Cemeteries in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-power-mpdfs-african-american-churches-and-cemeteries-pennsylvania/) - On a bright, crisp day in Harrisburg last October, several SHPO staff members toured Lincoln Cemetery. Several years before, Rachael Keri Williams, a descendent of ancestors buried at Lincoln Cemetery, started Saving Our Ancestors Legacy (SOAL)—an organization of descendants working to restore Lincoln Cemetery’s grounds, and reconnect the community with the cemetery’s story and the
- [Radiocarbon Dating: A look at the last 80 years](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/radiocarbon-dating-look-the-last-80-years/) - One of the fundamental concepts in archaeology is the Law of Superposition, which states that older material is located underneath more recent material. So generally, on an archaeological site, the deeper you dig, the older the materials will be. It’s a simple concept that at times can require a good amount of interpretation and investigation.
- [HPIP Spotlight: Christ Episcopal Church of Reading](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historic-property-inspection-program-spotlight-christ-episcopal-church-readings-interior-rehabilitation-and-assessment-under-the-nps-soi-standards-for-rehabilitation/) - Looking up while shading our eyes, we stood in awe under the 180-foot-tall ornate spired bell tower designed in the nineteenth century by renowned architect, Edward T. Potter, and the rusticated brownstone exterior with Gothic ornamentation, pinnacles, and tracery executed by master mason, George Maltzberger. On February 13, 2025, PA SHPO’s Historic Property Inspection Program
- [Celebrating SOAL and the Stewardship of Lincoln Cemetery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-soal-and-the-stewardship-lincoln-cemetery/) - This week’s 2025 Community Initiative Award winner spotlight is on Lincoln Cemetery and Saving Our Ancestors Legacy (SOAL), the group preserving the cemetery, in the Borough of Penbrook, Dauphin County. We covered a bit about Lincoln Cemetery and SOAL in our May 6th post announcing the cemetery as one of the three 2025 winners. Check
- [Celebrating the Lansdowne Theater Rehabilitation Project](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-the-lansdowne-theater-rehabilitation-project/) - This week’s 2025 Community Initiative Award winner spotlight is on the rehabilitation of the Lansdowne Theater in the Borough of Lansdowne, Delaware County. We covered a bit about the theater and the ambitious and highly successful rehabilitation project in our May 6th post announcing the Lansdowne Theater as one of the three 2025 winners. Check
- [Celebrating First Cambria AME Church National Register Recognition](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-first-cambria-ame-church-national-register-recognition/) - This week’s 2025 Community Initiative Award winner spotlight is on the First Cambria African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church congregation in the City of Johnstown, Cambria County. We covered a bit about the church and their activities in our May 6th post announcing First Cambria as one of the three 2025 winners. Check it out
- [Celebrating Historic Preservation Month with the 2025 Community Initiative Award Winners](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-historic-preservation-month-with-the-2025-community-initiative-award-winners/) - May is Historic Preservation Month! Since 2018, PA SHPO has celebrated by announcing the newest Community Initiative Award winners. Historic Preservation Month May is National Historic Preservation Month, with preservation organizations across the country using the opportunity to talk about the many ways historic preservation and historic places benefit our communities and our quality of
- [Do You Want to Own a Piece of the Industrial Revolution(s)?  Then We Have a Bridge for You](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/you-want-own-piece-the-industrial-revolutions-then-have-bridge-for-you/) - Odds are if you ask a historian of industry to tell you about The Industrial Revolution, they will respond with, “Which one? There have been four.” If they are from Pennsylvania, they may even add that Pennsylvania has many places associated with all four of them. So, what are these four industrial revolutions and what
- [Marking the Journey, Part 2: Power of Place](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/marking-the-journey-part-2-power-place/) - We are officially into 2026 and the beginning celebrations of America250! The Historical Marker Program continues Marking the Journey with our second trail: Power of Place. These trails highlight both familiar and lesser-known stories, encouraging visitors to build a deeper and more meaningful connection to the past. The natural geography and resources of the land
- [An Introduction to NAGPRA: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/introduction-nagpra-native-american-graves-protection-and-repatriation-act/) - NAGPRA—or the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act—was signed into law on November 16, 1990. At its core, NAGPRA was created to address the historical mistreatment of Native American human remains and cultural items. NAGPRA requires federal agencies and cultural institutions (e.g. museums, universities, state agencies, and local governments) that receive federal funds to
- [UFO? Oversized Bowling Pin? Mid-Century Navigational Aid.](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/ufo-oversized-bowling-pin-mid-century-navigational-aid/) - Driving around the country, you may have seen something rising from a field that resembles a large bowling pin. Or, more likely, you have driven past these without a second glance. This was my experience with the East Texas VOR/DME. As part of my job as a cultural resource specialist for the Pennsylvania Department of
- [City Island Cache](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/city-island-cache/) - In the late 1980s, the City of Harrisburg began to experience economic rejuvenation under the driving force of the newly elected mayor, Stephen Reed. One of his projects was the revitalization of City Island, situated in the middle of the Susquehanna River. He proposed a new parking lot, a new baseball stadium and a variety
- [We're Hiring an Environmental Review Streamlining Coordinator!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/were-hiring-environmental-review-streamlining-coordinator/) - Are you searching for an exciting new professional opportunity to support the preservation of historic and archaeological resources in Pennsylvania? Achieve your goals in this Environmental Streamlining Coordinator role with the PA State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO). In this position, you will proactively assist agencies and applicants with fulfilling their legal obligation to consider
- [PA SHPO is Hiring a Western Region Community Preservation Coordinator!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-western-region-community-preservation-coordinator/) - Are you interested in helping preserve places that tell Pennsylvania's history? If so, join the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission as a Western PA Community Preservation Coordinator in the PA State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO). This position is responsible for providing technical preservation assistance to municipalities and partner organization across the region. You will
- [PA SHPO ITQ contract - NOW OPEN for Pre-Qualification](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-itq-contract/) - The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is happy to announce the opening of a new Preservation Services ITQ contract for future consulting opportunities with the PA SHPO. We are inviting consultants to pre-qualify and be notified of upcoming bids for the exciting work we do. The purpose of the PA SHPO Preservation Services
- [Historic Tax Credits @ Work: The Westinghouse Air Brake Company General Office](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historic-tax-credits-work-the-westinghouse-air-brake-company-general-office/) - The Westinghouse Air Brake Company General Office is another example of a successful historic tax credit project in Pennsylvania. This latest installment of “Historic Tax Credits @ Work” highlights how a historic industrial landmark can be thoughtfully rehabilitated and reused as educational and event space. Today, the well-known Wilmerding landmark once again supports the community
- [PA SHPO's 2025 Annual Report](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpos-2025-annual-report/) - There are lots of things I look forward to in March as spring nears, like melting snow, daffodils, warmer sunny days, and... the PA SHPO Annual Report! We publish this report each year to highlight the growing list of activities, accomplishments, and preservation outcomes across the Commonwealth. We share it with Pennsylvanians, our agency and
- [A Glimpse into the PASS: The 2025 Annual PASS Report](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/glimpse-into-the-pass-the-2025-annual-pass-report/) - The Pennsylvania Archaeological Site Survey (PASS) is the Commonwealth’s inventory of recorded archaeological sites. The program officially started in the late 1970s—when site files held by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History were combined with those kept by the State Museum of Pennsylvania—but it was built on a foundation of nearly 100 years of site
- [Experimental Archaeology at the Historical and Museum Commission: Building a Dugout Canoe](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/experimental-archaeology-the-historical-and-museum-commission-building-dugout-canoe/) - In painstakingly precise recreations, archaeologists of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) created three vessels during the innovative outreach program, the Pennsylvania Dugout Canoe Project, which educated thousands of visitors about this fascinating aspect of travel by Native Americans. This project, which concluded in 2005, was done through public programs using replicated historic and/or
- [Just Listed: July through December 2025](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-july-through-december-2025/) - In this edition of Just Listed! we are celebrating Black History Month by highlighting Lincoln Cemetery (PA-SHARE RE #1999RE00677) which was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in September 2025. First established on a 1/2-acre plot in 1867 by the "Sons of Goodwill,' the land later called "Lincoln Cemetery" became the principal burial
- [PA SHPO is Hiring an Environmental Review Streamlining Coordinator!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-environmental-review-streamlining-coordinator/) - Are you passionate about conserving resources in Pennsylvania for the benefit of future generations? The Historical & Museum Commission is searching for an Environmental Review, Streamlining Coordinator to assist the PA State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) deliver an effective and efficient Environmental Review program. You will have the opportunity to proactively assist federal and state agencies
- [Mitigation Spotlight: Section 106 Agreements, July – December 2025](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mitigation-spotlight-section-106-agreements-july-december-2025/) - This is part of a biannual blog series highlighting the agreement documents executed by PA SHPO in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and its implementing regulations. Between July 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025, the PA SHPO was a signatory to 11 Section 106 agreements with five agencies as part
- [PA SHPO is Hiring an Environmental Review Above Ground Supervisor!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-above-ground-supervisor/) - Are you a cultural resources professional with collaboration, outreach, and education skills? Do you want to join a team of dedicated preservationists, historians, archaeologists, and planners working with people and organizations across the Commonwealth? If you have the experience and training to be an Above Ground Supervisor to coordinate the office's above ground environmental review
- [Surveyor Updates to Light Up Your Winter!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/surveyor-updates-light-your-winter/) - After more than two years of hard work and upgrades, PA-SHARE 2.0 is already shining bright! As we wrap things up this winter, we’ve managed to add a few extra enhancements to really make Surveyor glow. For All Resource Types Several of our latest updates to Surveyor add shine to all resource types, bringing a
- [Pennsylvania's Newest Historical Markers!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvanias-newest-historical-markers/) - The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) recently approved an additional 9 new historical markers, to the previously approved 47 markers in September. Many of these markers will contribute to Pennsylvania’s celebration of America250, while others contribute to Native American history and religious tolerance. Approval Criteria require that marker subjects have statewide and/or national, rather
- [Hello, 2026!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/hello-2026/) - Leading up to the new year, enthusiasm at PA SHPO was building as we plan to welcome new staff, commit to fulfilling our NAGPRA responsibilities, honor America’s 250th anniversary, and unload a sleigh-full of enhancements to PA-SHARE. Before we crossed the 2026 threshold, I waded through the inescapable season of countdowns. Communities across Pennsylvania anticipated
- [These are a few of YOUR favorite things…](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/these-are-few-your-favorite-things/) - I’ll start by offering an apology to anyone who now has this holiday classic from the Sound of Music running on a loop in their head. I was looking for a new twist on our traditional end-of-year blog highlights and the “My Favorite Things” song kept popping up in my mind. I initially tried my
- [Archaeological excavations in Lehigh Gorge State Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/archaeological-excavations-lehigh-gorge-state-park/) - During the week of June 15. 2009, archaeologists from the State Museum of Pennsylvania and Temple University tested a pre-contact Native American site along the Lehigh River in Lehigh Gorge State Park, Carbon County. The site (designated 36CR0142 in the Pennsylvania Archaeological Site Survey files) was brought to our attention by local amateur archaeologists who
- [Newest Additions to the PA SHPO Team](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/newest-additions-the-shpo-team/) - I’m excited to introduce you to some of my colleagues who joined the SHPO team over the last six months. I’ve asked Nika, Clare, Anusha, and Sarah to answer a few questions so we can get to know them better. We're happy they're here! Nicholas (Nika) Zeitlin Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
- [Apply Now! 2026 Keystone Internship Positions with PA SHPO](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/apply-now-2026-keystone-internship-positions-with-shpo/) - Are you exploring the field of historic preservation, public history or archaeology and looking for some real-world experience? The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission’s Keystone Internship Program provides opportunities to pursue your professional growth and contribute to sharing Pennsylvania’s rich heritage with the public. We’d like to invite college and graduate school students interested in
- [A Delaware County Landmark Reopens!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/delaware-county-landmark-reopens/) - I fondly remember my evening outings to my downtown movie theater as a child, especially waiting in a long queue at the Eric Pacific to secure coveted tickets to see the Empire Strikes Back in 1980. While the theaters opened in Lancaster City in the 1980s were modern replacements of the landmark movie houses of
- [Marking the Journey, Part 1: We the People](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/marking-the-journey-part-1-the-people/) - Back in July, we announced the Historical Marker Program’s plans to recognize Pennsylvania’s role in U.S. history during the Semiquincentennial with a series of marker trails. These trails highlight both familiar and lesser-known stories, encouraging visitors to build a deeper and more meaningful connection to the past. Now, the first installment of Marking the Journey
- [Check Out Our Harvest!: An Update on Our Ongoing “Celebrate Your Barn!” Survey](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/check-out-our-harvest-update-our-ongoing-celebrate-your-barn-survey/) - You might remember hearing about the PA SHPO’s “Celebrate Your Barn” survey from our blog post back in June, from attending the Historic Barn and Farm Foundation’s 2025 Annual Meeting, from watching the news reporting on WGAL, from reading the newsletters from some of our state legislators, or by chatting with your neighbors – or
- [Can you guess what this is?](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/can-you-guess-what-this/) - It is the edge of a stone tool under 200x magnification. By comparing this image with experimental tools used on different materials, we know this was used on hard wood. This artifact is called an “endscraper” or a keeled endscraper. This one was recovered from the Shoop site (36DA20) excavations located in Dauphin County on
- [Preserving Rural Pennsylvania's Sacred Spaces: The Pennsylvania's Faithful Fund](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preserving-rural-pennsylvanias-sacred-spaces-the-pennsylvanias-faithful-fund/) - We are often contacted by Pennsylvanians looking for assistance to help them preserve a historic place of worship in their community. When I learned of this new program by Partners for Sacred Places, I asked Emily Sajdak, Partners Director of Rural Initiatives, to provide our readers with some information about this opportunity. I'm happy to
- [Historic Tax Credits @ Work: Blumenthal Brothers Chocolate Factory](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historic-tax-credits-work-blumenthal-brothers-chocolate-factory/) - Just in time for Halloween, this installment of “Historic Tax Credits @ Work” puts the spotlight on a project that creates office space in a former chocolate factory. The Blumenthal Brothers Chocolate Factory in northeast Philadelphia made some of the country's iconic sweets that were trick or treating staples in the early 20th century. About
- [Urban Archaeology Finds in Philadelphia](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/urban-archaeology-finds-philadelphia/) - In the 1990s, a federal construction project for a new detention center in Philadelphia resulted in the identification of an urban archaeological site in the area of North 7th and Arch Streets. The archaeological excavations of the site focused on uncovering foundations and associated items of historic interest within a series of early lots that
- [Preventing Extinction: Saving the Last Wrought Iron Warren Pony Truss in PA](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preventing-extinction-saving-the-last-wrought-iron-warren-pony-truss/) - On large stained and moss-covered stone masonry abutments over a single line of tracks in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County rested a dinosaur, a wrought iron relic of the past originally constructed to support the industry of a developing nation. Its appearance was worn and weathered from over 140 years of service. Random holes and a
- [Marking More PA History in 2025](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/marking-more-history-2025/) - The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) recently approved 47 new historical markers, one of the largest groups in the program’s history. This year, the nomination process was simplified, making it easier for individuals and organizations to apply. Marker staff offered support earlier in the process, helping more submissions move forward. Approval Criteria require that marker
- [Pennsylvania Archaeology Month is Here!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvania-archaeology-month-here/) - October is Pennsylvania Archaeology Month! Every October, events and programs are held across Pennsylvania to celebrate the Commonwealth’s deep past. PA SHPO partner agencies and organizations including the the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology (SPA) and their local chapters, the Pennsylvania Archaeological Council (PAC), as well as local historical societies and universities, offer public archaeology programs for all
- [Updates to Archaeological Artifact Data Entry in PA-SHARE](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/updates-archaeological-artifact-data-entry-share/) - After more than 2 years of development and enhancements, we are nearing the end of our PA-SHARE 2.0 project. As part of the final set of improvements, we want to highlight significant changes to the Archaeological Resource artifacts. PA SHPO’s work to improve this area of our archaeological data included extensive review of the existing
- [Byberry Hall: Robert Purvis' Legacy](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/byberry-hall-robert-purvis-legacy/) - September is International Underground Railroad Month and this week's post features the story of Robert Purvis and Byberry Hall. In 1844, Robert Purvis, a prominent Black abolitionist and leading figure in the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia, moved with his wife Harriet and their children to Byberry, a rural village in the far northern part of
- [Highlights of Pennsylvania Archaeology](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/highlights-pennsylvania-archaeology/) - November is Native American Heritage Month. The month is a time to celebrate rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and histories and to acknowledge the important contributions of Native people. One of the ways to learn about Native American heritage in Pennsylvania is through archaeology. If you are one of our regular readers, you'll know that
- [Check out these CLG Updates!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/check-out-these-clg-updates/) - Long time blog readers may recall back in June of 2023, the PA SHPO announced the Certified Local Government (CLG) Grant recipients of our FY23 funding. These grants are intended to advance local historic preservation activities. The CLG grant program provides participating communities with matching grants to undertake projects that help build local capacity and achieve preservation
- [History of the Beech Creek Railroad and the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/history-the-beech-creek-railroad-and-the-buffalo-rochester-pittsburgh-railroad/) - Railroads played a vital role in Pennsylvania's economic development, particularly during the Industrial Revolution and beyond. They facilitated the transportation of goods, raw materials, and people, fostering industrial growth, urbanization, and the expansion of markets. The construction of railroads like the Beech Creek Railroad and the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad, that primarily transported coal
- [Mark your Calendars! 2025 Archaeology Learn at Lunchtime Events](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mark-your-calendars-2025-archaeology-learn-lunchtime-events/) - I am excited to announce this year's lineup for the virtual Learn at Lunchtime series during October for Archaeology Month. Sign up now for the four free presentations scheduled for Fridays this October. WYKNT: Free, virtual programs on the first four Fridays of October: October 3, 10, 17, and 24. Each presentation will begin at
- [A New Life for an Old Building: Expressions of Interest Wanted for the Butler VA Hospital](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/new-life-for-old-building-expressions-interest-wanted-for-the-butler-hospital/) - The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has recently posted an Expression of Interest (EOI) for a historic reuse opportunity at the former Butler VA Hospital in Butler Township, Butler County. The VA reached out to PA SHPO for assistance in sharing this opportunity with the development community. If you are a developer, read on.
- [CLG Spotlight: Learning to Read the Built Environment](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/clg-spotlight-learning-read-the-built-environment/) - Pennsylvania has 49 Certified Local Governments, one of which is Lower Makefield Township in Bucks County. The Certified Local Government (CLG) program is a partnership between municipal governments, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO), and the National Park Service (NPS) that promotes and supports effective historic preservation programs and policies in Pennsylvania municipalities.
- [Mitigation Spotlight: Section 106 Agreements, January – June 2025](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mitigation-spotlight-section-106-agreements-january-june-2025/) - This is part of a biannual blog series highlighting the agreement documents executed by PA SHPO in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and its implementing regulations. As we’ve discussed in past blogs, the Section 106 process requires consideration of resources that are affected by federal projects. However, it is not always possible
- [Your History Starts Here: America250 Historical Marker Trails](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/your-history-starts-here-america250-historical-marker-trails/) - To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission’s Historical Marker Program is launching a series of interpretive “trails” that highlight Pennsylvania’s significant role in shaping the nation. These trails will guide the public through well-known and less-known stories, encouraging a deeper and more meaningful connection to the past.
- [Historic Tax Credits @ Work: International Harvester Company of America](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historic-tax-credits-work-international-harvester-company-america/) - This installment of "Historic Tax Credits @ Work" puts the spotlight on a project that transformed the former Pittsburgh Branch of the International Harvester Company of America into 36 market rate apartments in the heart of the city. About the International Harvester Co. Pittsburgh Branch The International Harvester Company of America (formerly McCormick Harvesting Machine
- [Preservation Partner Spotlight: Poquessing Trail of History](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservation-partner-spotlight-poquessing-trail-history/) - Partnership is often a key ingredient for a preservation outcome. The value of partnership and collaboration, the importance of preservation networks, and leveraging resources are all central ideas of Pennsylvania's statewide historic preservation plan, Historic Preservation: The Keystone of Community. We recently learned about the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia's Poquessing Trail of History initiative
- [Just Listed! January through June 2025](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-january-through-june-2025/) - This edition of Just Listed! includes a variety of Pennsylvania places from across the Commonwealth listed in the National Register of Historic Places in the first half of 2025. These twenty-two properties include places associated with transportation, architecture, industry, commerce, healthcare, neighborhoods, and religion. Want to learn more about these properties? Now, its easier than
- [PA SHPO is Hiring a Senior Curator of Archaeology!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-senior-curator-archaeology/) - The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) is looking for a versatile and experienced archaeologist to direct the Archaeology Curation section of the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office. As a Senior Curator, you will oversee a team of archaeologists who preserve more than 11.5 million artifacts and use them to help tell the story of
- [PA-SHARE Updates and Introducing PA-SHARE SearchLite!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/share-updates-and-introducing-share-searchlite/) - We are nearing the end of our PA-SHARE 2.0 investment, but we still have a number of enhancements and improvements to share with you all! The biggest feature coming out of our most recent release cycle is the new PA-SHARE SearchLite application. Keep reading to learn more about SearchLite and other enhancements! SearchLite SearchLite was
- [Notes from the Field: Testing the new Historic Property Inspection Building Condition Assessment Forms](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/notes-from-the-field-testing-the-new-historic-property-inspection-building-condition-assessment-forms/) - During the fall of 2024, the Historic Property Inspection Program (HPIP) had the pleasure of visiting several historic sites in Allegheny and Washington Counties in the western part of the state: The David Bradford House, Washington, Washington County; Carrie Furnaces, Swissvale, Allegheny County; and The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County. These visits allowed
- [Uncovering the Susquehannock Village at Lemoyne](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/uncovering-the-susquehannock-village-lemoyne/) - November is Native American Heritage Month. The month is a time to celebrate rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and histories and to acknowledge the important contributions of Native people. One way we can learn about indigenous peoples is through archaeology. Archaeology can help expand the Native American voice beyond what’s written in history textbooks and grow
- [Congratulations to the 2024-2025 Keystone Grantees!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/congratulations-the-2024-2025-keystone-grantees/) - The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission is pleased to announce the selected projects for the 2024-2025 Keystone Grant program. The grant program again saw a 6% increase in the number of applications over last year with requests over $6,510,000. It is gratifying to know that the program serves our partners well and can react to
- [Celebrate Your Barn!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrate-your-barn/) - From the rolling hills of Lancaster County to the quiet valleys of the Alleghenies, Pennsylvania’s barns are as diverse and storied as the landscapes they are part of. Now, we’d love to help tell the story behind your barn. We're inviting Pennsylvanians to contribute to an ongoing effort to document and celebrate the barns that
- [PA SHPO is Hiring an Education & Special Initiatives Coordinator!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-education-special-initiatives-coordinator/) - Are you a preservation professional with a passion for education, outreach, and collaboration? Do you want to join a team of dedicated preservationists, historians, archaeologists, and planners working with people and organizations across the Commonwealth? If you have the experience and training to be a Historic Preservation Specialist - Education & Special Initiatives Coordinator, we
- [PA SHPO is Hiring an Environmental Review Archaeologist!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-environmental-review-archaeologist/) - Are you an archaeologist who would enjoy utilizing your experience to conduct a wide range of environmental review projects? If so, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is eager to welcome a Historic Preservation Specialist with a discipline in archaeology to join the Environmental Review Division. Join us in our mission to discover,
- [Celebrating the Restoration of Huntingdon's Community Clock](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-the-restoration-huntingdons-community-clock/) - This week’s 2024 Community Initiative Award winner spotlight is on the restoration of the community clock in the Borough of Huntingdon, Huntingdon County. For 143 years, a clock in the Huntingdon Presbyterian Church steeple marked time for residents in the small borough and county seat until it stopped working in 2016. The project to restore
- [Celebrating Lansford's Welsh Church](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-lansfords-welsh-church/) - To celebrate National Historic Preservation Month this year, we will highlight the two 2024 Community Initiative Award winners with their own blog posts. In this week’s post, I asked Bruce Markovich with the Lansford Historical Society in Lansford, Carbon County about their work preserving the Welsh Church, which will celebrate its 175th anniversary this year.
- [Celebrating Preservation Month with the 2024 Community Initiative Award Winners](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-preservation-month-with-the-2024-community-initiative-award-winners/) - May is Historic Preservation Month! PA SHPO traditionally kicks off the month by announcing the newest Community Initiative Award winners. For 2024, the awardees are two organizations whose projects demonstrate the importance of embracing and preserving local history and the places that help tell their communities’ stories. Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Month On April 28, 2025,
- [Don't Miss Pennsylvania's Statewide Heritage Gathering in June!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/dont-miss-pennsylvanias-statewide-heritage-gathering-june/) - Preservation Pennsylvania's statewide conference is back - in mini-form! - with Preservation Forward: A Statewide Heritage Gathering in Johnstown on June 1 & 2, 2025. It's been a minute since Pennsylvania's preservation and heritage communities came together in one place. I'm very excited to see old friends and make new ones in Johnstown and learn
- [The Howellville Truss Bridge: A Historic Journey](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-howellville-truss-bridge-historic-journey/) - The Howellville Truss Bridge is a great example of a Warren Pony Truss bridge, originally built in 1879 to serve the Northern Central Railway, which ran between Baltimore, Maryland, and Sunbury, Pennsylvania. A Warren Pony Truss is a design where the truss members form a series of triangles, creating a strong yet lightweight structure. The
- [Volunteer a Few Minutes of Your Time to Advance Baseline Survey Recommendations](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/volunteer-few-minutes-your-time-advance-baseline-survey-recommendations/) - There are many ways in which we contribute to our communities, and if you are reading this blog, I have a hunch that you are interested in recognizing, protecting, and celebrating historic places in your community. If I guessed correctly, please read on to learn about one easy task you can do the week of
- [PA SHPO is Hiring a new PASS Coordinator!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-new-pass-coordinator/) - Are you interested in a career where you have the opportunity to work with a pro-active, dedicated team of preservationists, historians, and archaeologists? If so, consider joining the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), Preservation Support Division as the Pennsylvania Archaeological Site Survey (PASS) Coordinator. This position allows you to utilize your experience as you oversee
- [Preservation Success at Gilfillan Farm](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservation-success-gilfillan-farm/) - One of the more rewarding parts of my job as the PA SHPO’s Community Preservation Coordinator for the Western Region is assisting non-profits, developers and municipalities understand and think through how historic buildings fit into economic development strategies and projects. I was recently asked to provide some examples of projects that involved facilitating participation by
- [PA SHPO is Hiring an Archaeologist!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-archaeologist/) - Are you an archaeologist who would enjoy utilizing your experience to conduct a wide range of environmental review projects? If so, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is eager to welcome a Historic Preservation Specialist with a discipline in archaeology to join the Environmental Review Division. Don’t miss out on this opportunity! PA
- [Get to Know the State Library!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/get-know-the-state-library/) - Last year, PA SHPO staff had the opportunity to visit the State Library here in Harrisburg and learn more about their work and research collections. The Forum Building - built in 1931 and now home to the State Library - had just reopened after a long renovation project. I asked Kathy Hale, Supervisor for Public
- [Connecting across the Country](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/connecting-across-the-country/) - Earlier this month, PA SHPO staff made their annual trek to Washington, D.C. to meet with other SHPOs and preservationists from across the country as part of National Historic Preservation Advocacy Week. Advocacy Week, organized each year by Preservation Action and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Offices (NCSHPO), is a national outreach campaign
- [What is educating, recording, advising, supporting, and commemorating?](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/what-educating-recording-advising-supporting-commemorating/) - Queue the Jeopardy! music... If you answered "PA SHPO's Annual Report," you're correct! I am excited to share with PA SHPO's annual report for 2024. Each year, PA SHPO publishes this report to share the growing list of activities, accomplishments, and preservation outcomes across the Commonwealth. In it you'll find some basic information about the PA
- [A Blast from the PASS: The 2024 Annual PASS Report](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/blast-from-the-pass-the-2024-annual-pass-report/) - On this day 12 years ago…. *Insert horrible photo with questionable style choices and aggressive side bangs* Thankfully, this is not that kind of blast from the past. This is your yearly recap on archaeological site recording and survey efforts throughout Pennsylvania. A Numbers Game In 2024, 260 new archaeological sites were added to the
- [Historic Tax Credits @ Work: Fairelawn](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historic-tax-credits-work-fairelawn/) - This latest installment of “Historic Tax Credits @ Work” features the rehabilitation of a Tudor Style mansion into local office space. About Fairelawn Fairelawn is a large Tudor Revival style property in Philadelphia that embodies the distinctive characteristics of the Tudor Revival style and represents the work of architects G.W. and W.D. Hewitt and Pelham
- [Recent Additions to the PA SHPO Team](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/recent-additions-the-shpo-team/) - I’m happy to introduce you to some of my colleagues who joined the SHPO team over the last six months. I've asked each of them to answer a few questions to help us get to know them. Welcome to the team, Blair, Liz, Arden, and Lauren! Blair Horton Can you tell us a bit about
- [Just Listed! July through December 2024](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-july-through-december-2024/) - This edition of Just Listed! includes a variety of Pennsylvania places from across the Commonwealth representing education, homes, industry, commerce, healthcare, community, and religion. You can learn more about each one through PA-SHARE. Search by the PA-SHARE resource number to find the resource record and then scroll to the attachments section to find the National
- [Untold Stories of PA’s State Parks and Forests at Laurel Hill](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/untold-stories-pas-state-parks-and-forests-laurel-hill/) - Two Black men, Edenborough Smith and John Harshberger appear in the 1850 census on tracts of land now situated in Laurel Ridge State Park overlooking Johnstown’s West End. From at least the 1820s, and possibly as early as the turn of the 19th century, Smith, Harshberger and their families lived in a community of Black,
- [Another Round of PA-SHARE 2.0 Updates!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/another-round-share-2-0-updates/) - As we welcome the new year, we also continue to welcome improvements to PA-SHARE as part of the 2.0 Project. 2024 saw several significant improvements to PA-SHARE, including the photo gallery, streamlining of the Quick Search, updates to External User queues, and enhanced functionality to allow for batch uploading and downloading of photos and attachments,
- [Mitigation Spotlight: Section 106 Agreements, July - December 2024](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mitigation-spotlight-section-106-agreements-july-december-2024/) - This is part of a biannual blog series highlighting the agreement documents executed by PA SHPO in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and its implementing regulations. As we’ve discussed in past blogs, the Section 106 process requires consideration of resources that are affected by federal projects. However, it is not always possible
- [America250 and the Keystone Historic Preservation Grant Program](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/america250-and-the-keystone-historic-preservation-grant-program/) - On July 4, 2026, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Second Continental Congress’ adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Pennsylvania was at the center of this unifying event as the delegates were convening in Philadelphia. Their headquarters at the Pennsylvania State House, later renamed Independence Hall (PA-SHARE Resource #1966RE000032), is often
- [Introducing… Historic Preservation: The Keystone of Community](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/introducing-historic-preservation-the-keystone-community/) - My favorite authors are those who write about travel. I’m attracted to books that not only transport me to another place, but also another time. I seek authors whose writing is inspired by history, and who then follow in the footsteps of historical figures to learn about their lasting (or not) impact on society. Stories
- [Happy New Year!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/happy-new-year/) - You’re probably wondering what this postcard has to do with PA SHPO and historic preservation, let alone New Year’s or 2025. I came across this gem while searching the PA State Archives digital collections for images that I could use for a New Year’s Day blog post. It immediately captured my imagination! I am so
- [PA SHPO's 12 Popular Posts of 2024](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpos-12-popular-posts-2024/) - Is it even the end of a year if you don't see at least a dozen "year in review" lists? Here is PA SHPO's year-end list to the mix highlighting one pahistoricpreservation.com blog post for each month in 2024. These are a combination of most views, most comments, and staff favorites: Just Listed! July through
- [Offbeat Outing to the Mauch Chunk Cemetery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/offbeat-outing-the-mauch-chunk-cemetery/) - Site visits to the Commonwealth's many communities and historic places are routine for most SHPO staffers and one of the best parts of our jobs. I asked Cheri Garrett, part of PA SHPO's administrative team, to share her first site visit experience with us. In addition to keeping us all on track, what is your
- [Baseline Wrapped](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/baseline-wrapped/) - (… Or is it?) As 2024 winds down and all the social media platforms and streaming services summarize and wrap-up the year, the Pennsylvania Above Ground Survey (PAGS) program has the opportunity publish its BASELINE WRAPPED for 2020-2024. Baseline Wrapped is going to summarize the changes in technology, highlight certain municipalities, provide some numbers, and
- [Preserving Pittsburgh’s Park Infrastructure with the Keystone Grant Program](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preserving-pittsburghs-park-infrastructure-with-the-keystone-grant-program/) - Since its inception thirty years ago, PHMC's Keystone Historic Preservation Grant program has supported a variety of historic places, from barns to bridges to buildings. I recently had the opportunity to tour some grant projects in Pittsburgh's local park system. Valley Refuge Shelter One of the projects selected in the last round of the Keystone
- [Your Dream House in Erie County?](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/your-dream-house-erie-county/) - In an effort to preserve one of Pennsylvania’s historic homes, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) is marketing for sale, removal, and preservation a two-story, three bedroom, one bath, Italianate-style house with many beautiful original features including brick exterior, wood floors, wrap-around porch, and pyramidal roof capped by a cupola. The Joshua C. Thornton
- [Archaeology at York's Lebanon Cemetery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/archaeology-yorks-lebanon-cemetery/) - Two years ago, the Pennsylvania Archaeological Council (PAC) teamed up with Pennsylvania Hallowed Grounds (PAHG) to record Midland Cemtery in Swatara, PA . The goal of this pilot project was to document a cemetery using PAC’s membership and archaeological methods that could then be applied to other cemeteries with similar needs. Through discussions with PAHG
- [PHMC Historical Marker Program Reopening!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/phmc-historical-marker-program-reopening/) - The PHMC Historical Marker Program is now accepting new marker nominations for 2025. Beginning November 15, 2024, those wanting to acknowledge Pennsylvania history will be able to submit a Historical Marker Nomination. Nominations must be submitted through PA-SHARE, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office’s online project and data management system. Nominators can begin their submissions
- [PA SHPO’s Updated Determination of Eligibility Guidance](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpos-updated-determination-eligibility-guidance/) - In last week’s blog post, I reviewed some important information about the Determination of Eligibility (DOE) process in Pennsylvania. This included what a DOE is, how to figure out where to start if you’d like to have your property evaluated for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, and a brief overview of SHPO’s
- [Determinations of Eligibility shouldn’t be Scary!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/determinations-eligibility-shouldnt-scary/) - Frequently, PA SHPO staff receive inquiries regarding a homeowner’s historic property and their wish to list it in the National Register of Historic Places. Many times, interesting family stories passed down from one generation to the next are tied to the property. As fascinating as most of the stories are, not all will hit the
- [Historic Tax Credits @ Work: Connellsville’s Union Passenger Station](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historic-tax-credits-work-connellsvilles-union-passenger-station/) - This latest installment of “Historic Tax Credits @ Work” features a successful project to transform an underutilized train station into a community asset. About the Station The Connellsville Union Passenger Station (1993RE00395), at 900 West Crawford Avenue in Connellsville, Fayette County, was built between 1911 and 1912 and designed by architects J.C. Grooms and Charles
- [Geoarchaeology 101: How deep do archaeologists dig?](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/geoarchaeology-101-how-deep-archaeologists-dig/) - October is Archaeology Month, so today let’s talk about a key part of identifying archaeological sites: geoarchaeology and geomorphology. Understanding how the land has changed through time is an important first step in identifying archaeological sites. Natural forces bury archaeological sites. Human activity can also further bury these sites (particularly in urban areas) or destroy
- [Preserving the Mt. Carbon Bowstring Truss Bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preserving-the-carbon-bowstring-truss-bridge/) - At the end of July, PennDOT celebrated the relocation of a historic bowstring truss bridge in Schuylkill County onto Schuylkill River Greenways’ trail system with a ribbon cutting ceremony. The bridge was removed from its 20th century crossing, rehabilitated to carry pedestrians and cyclists, and set on new abutments less than four miles to the
- [Pennsylvania Archaeology Month is Here](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvania-archaeology-month-here/) - October is Pennsylvania Archaeology Month! Every October, events and programs are held across Pennsylvania to celebrate the commonwealth’s deep past. PA SHPO partner agencies and organizations including the State Museum of Pennsylvania (SMOP), the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology (SPA) and their local chapters, the Pennsylvania Archaeological Council (PAC), as well as local historical societies and universities, offer public
- [Another PA-SHARE 2.0 Update](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/another-share-2-0-update/) - I’m excited to share some exciting new improvements to PA-SHARE. If you’re keeping track, this is the fifth major round of improvements and bug fixes to PA-SHARE and Surveyor as part of our PA-SHARE 2.0 investment. Photo Gallery You may recall that any photos attached to a resource, project, survey, or marker record were contained
- [Resource Round Up: Resources for Studying the Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/resource-round-resources-for-studying-the-underground-railroad-pennsylvania/) - September is International Underground Railroad Month. This week’s post is another in our “Resource Round-Up” series, which we occasionally publish during important months as a guide to learning more about the older and historic places and spaces in Pennsylvania that reflect that month’s theme. This one highlights just some sources related to the Underground Railroad
- [Celebrating Preservation Success Stories with Community Initiative Awards](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-preservation-success-stories-with-community-initiative-awards/) - Earlier this week my Alexa reminded me that there are 100 days until the end of the year. After a moment of shock, my brain started its mental cataloguing of all the things that I have to do before December 31. Deadlines, appointments, holidays, the list goes on... One reminder I'd like to put on
- [PA SHPO is Hiring a National Register Reviewer!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-national-register-reviewer-2/) - Are you a highly skilled historic preservationist with National Register knowledge and experience? The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking a Historic Preservation Specialist to work as a National Register reviewer. This position is focused on assisting the public with determinations of eligibility and National Register nominations. Bring your dedication and experience
- [Intern Introspect: 2024 PennDOT Bridge Internship](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/intern-introspect-2024-penndot-bridge-internship/) - Bridges are a part of everyone’s lives, we walk across them, drive across them, and use them for cover in the rain. But do we ever really stop to appreciate the history of these bridges? My internship this summer focused a lot on historic bridges, especially stone arch bridge, and helped me to appreciate their
- [Reimagining the Everett Theatre](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/reimaging-the-everett-theatre/) - The Everett Theatre, an Art Deco style theatre built in 1923, continues to grace the streets of Everett, Bedford County. Located on Main Street along the 1913 Lincoln Highway heritage corridor (Route 30), the Everett Theatre is within the National Register’s Everett Historic District. Everett was created in 1787 when Michael Barndollar bought land and
- [Intern Introspect: 2024 PennDOT Resource Internship](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/intern-introspect-2024-penndot-resource-internship/) - The practice of historic preservation is like a family heirloom, passed down from one generation to the next so that when you get tasked with the role of heirloom keeper, it reminds us to not forget about the past and look to how it has shaped the present. This is how I feel as I
- [Intern Introspect: 2024 Keystone Archaeology Internship](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/intern-introspect-2024-keystone-archaeology-internship/) - This summer I had the privilege of being a Keystone Intern for the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office. As a SHPO intern, I was part of the Archaeology Historic Preservation team housed within Environmental Review. Through this internship I got to experience the innerworkings of the PA Preservation system and how invaluable the SHPO’s work
- [Intern Introspect: 2024 Keystone Grants Internship](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/intern-introspect-2024-keystone-grants-internship/) - One year ago, I decided to uproot my life by leaving behind the corporate world and going back to school in search of a more fulfilling career. After my internship at the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), I am pleased to say that I am on the right track. This summer, I worked under
- [PA's Historic Preservation Tax Credit - and these 21 Buildings - Get a Boost](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pas-historic-preservation-tax-credit-and-these-21-buildings-get-boost/) - This week's post has some great preservation news to share! We're happy to announce another successful round of the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Tax Credit allocation and an expansion of this successful program. What are the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Tax Credits? The PA Historic Preservation Tax Credit program provides tax credits to qualified taxpayers who will be completing
- [Pennsylvania’s First Metropolitan State Park: A Brief History of Gifford Pinchot State Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvanias-first-metropolitan-state-park-brief-history-gifford-pinchot-state-park/) - A couple times each summer in the 1990’s my dad would pack us three kids into his truck and hook up the pop-up camper and head on over to ‘Pinchot’. Arrival was a ton of work which often included setting up the camper, unloading the canoe, getting a fire set to light, and finding the
- [Pithole or Bust!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pithole-bust/) - Last month, PA SHPO staff and interns enjoyed a two-day educational team meeting in Venango County to learn more about archaeology, northwest Pennsylvania, and the area’s fascinating history. We were fortunate enough to have some beautiful weather and the help of our local partners and colleagues from the Jefferson County History Center, Drake Well, PHMC
- [PA SHPO is Hiring an Above Ground Environmental Reviewer!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-above-ground-environmental-reviewer/) - Are you interested in joining a dedicated and pro-active team of preservationists? If so, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) has the perfect opportunity for you! We are seeking a Historic Preservation Specialist with a discipline in architectural history or history within the Environmental Review division. Apply today to join a team that
- [Mitigation Spotlight: Section 106 Agreements, January - June 2024](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mitigation-spotlight-section-106-agreements-january-june-2024/) - This is part of a biannual blog series highlighting the agreement documents executed by PA SHPO in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and its implementing regulations. Between January 1 and June 30, 2024, PA SHPO has been a signatory to approximately ten (10) Section 106 agreement documents with five different
- [Just Listed! January through June 2024](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-january-through-june-2024/) - Join us in celebrating the Pennsylvania’s latest additions to the National Register of Historic Places! The PA-SHPO extends our congratulations and heartfelt thanks to all those who worked so hard on these nominations. Bath Crossroads Historic District Bath, Northampton County Listed, 2/12/2024 PA-SHARE Resource #1998RE01959 In the late 1700s, the small, rural village of Bath
- [PA-SHARE News You Can Use](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/share-news-you-can-use/) - It’s been a minute since we last posted about some PA-SHARE improvements. PA-SHARE’s developers and PA SHPO staff have been hard at work continuing with the 2.0 enhancements we announced last year. Most of the recent changes are in response to user feedback and suggestions. Search Improvements You may have noticed several changes to some
- [PA SHPO is Hiring a PA-SHARE Triage Specialist!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-share-triage-specialist/) - Are you interested in joining a pro-active and dedicated team of preservationists, historians, and archaeologists? In this Historic Preservation Specialist role, you will specialize in our online data management and cultural resources GIS tool, the Pennsylvania's State Historic and Archaeological Resource Exchange (PA-SHARE). If you want to preserve our history with the Pennsylvania Historical &
- [Cantini’s Mosaic Tunnel Preserved: A Legacy of the Section 106 Process](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/cantinis-mosaic-tunnel-preserved-legacy-the-section-106-process/) - “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” — Henry Ford Some of our readers may recall past blogs on the life and work of Virgil Cantini and efforts to save one of his larger public works projects, known as the Cantini Mosaic Tunnel. This post recounts the seven-year story
- [PHMC Announces the 2023-2024 Keystone Grant Awardees](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/phmc-announces-the-2023-2024-keystone-grant-awardees/) - Many of the PA-SHPO’s partners shared my enthusiasm for the 30th anniversary of the Keystone Grant program and submitted a proposal to the grant program in March. This year’s awardees include 44 projects that showcase the breadth of preservation happening across the Commonwealth. From historic barns and park pavilions to historic theaters and county courthouses,
- [Quarrying our Data for Quarry Districts Part 2: The Updated Hardyston Jasper District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/quarrying-our-data-for-quarry-districts-part-2-the-updated-hardyston-jasper-district/) - Back in October 2023, we shared a blog highlighting the updates to the Hardyston Jasper District that PA SHPO archaeologists were working on. These updates included reevaluating our PASS data to create and formally designate the NPS/Keeper Eligible Hardyston Jasper District, refine the district’s boundaries from the boundary established in the 1988 report by Anthony
- [Celebrating Preservation Month with the 2023 Community Initiative Award Winners](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-preservation-month-with-the-2023-community-initiative-award-winners/) - 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
- [Celebrating the Fallon Hotel](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-the-fallon-hotel/) - Prominent landmarks in small towns hold a special type of nostalgic significance for those who have interacted with them. Accordingly, a place like the Historic Fallon Hotel in Lock Haven – which has served the community as a hotel, restaurant, nightclub, bar, and boarding house over the last 150 years – and which is the
- [Celebrating the Slate Hill Cemetery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-the-slate-hill-cemetery/) - This week's 2023 Community Initiative Award winner spotlight is on the Slate Hill Cemetery in Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County. Lower Makefield’s Slate Hill Cemetery is an intact Colonial-era graveyard that was established in 1690 as a Quaker burial ground and was later expanded to include the township’s first public cemetery. It contains about 580
- [Celebrating the Titusville Iron Works](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-the-titusville-iron-works/) - 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,
- [Celebrating the Nicholson Train Station](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-the-nicholson-train-station/) - 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. Can you tell me a little bit about your organization and the Nicholson community
- [The Hawk Falls Bridge in Carbon County, PA](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/hawk-falls-bridge/) - “This bridge will triumphantly typify the trail-blazing strategy…” so said Pennsylvania Governor John S. Fine in 1954 about the soon to be constructed Hawk Falls Bridge, finishing with “that took the Pennsylvania Turnpike System across streams of great width and turbulence…and through the rocky cores of mighty mountains.” The Pennsylvania Turnpike was the first of
- [Expanding the Program: More Metal Truss Bridge Rehabilitations on the Way](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/expanding-the-program-more-metal-truss-bridge-rehabilitations-the-way/) - 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. To quickly recap, the Historic
- [The Historic Property Inspection Program (HPIP): A Walkthrough](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-historic-property-inspection-program-hpip-walkthrough/) - A few years ago, we announced a new PA SHPO program, the Historic Property Inspection Program (HPIP). We’ve talked about what HPIP is and shared our first site visit under this new program. Site visits are the most important way in which we achieve the program’s goals. In today’s post, I’ll explain how the PA
- [‘Take me out to the ball game!’: Pennsylvania’s Historic Baseball Stadiums](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/take-out-the-ball-game-pennsylvanias-historic-baseball-stadiums/) - 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. Pennsylvania has been a part of baseball from the beginning with the Philadelphia Athletics’ participants in the first professional season in 1876 with the creation
- [Spring into Surveyor Updates!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/spring-into-surveyor-updates/) - Spring is around the corner, and long-requested updates to Surveyor Manager functionality are the among the first new blooms of the season! Over the last two years of Surveyor’s deployment, the PA SHPO has gotten great comments and suggestions from our partners related to features that you would love to see in Surveyor. PAGS and
- [Baseline Survey Adds Almost 8,000 Places in Year 3](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/baseline-survey-adds-almost-8000-places-year-3/) - 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
- [How Women Shaped Preservation in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/how-women-shaped-preservation-pennsylvania/) - 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
- [Resource Round-Up: Resources for Studying Women's History in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/resource-round-resources-for-studying-womens-history-pennsylvania/) - March is Women's History Month and an opportunity to highlight and celebrate the vital role of women in Pennsylvania and American history. This week’s post is another in our “Resource Round-Up” series, which we occasionally publish during important months as a guide to learning more about the older and historic places and spaces in Pennsylvania
- [PA SHPO is Hiring a National Register Reviewer!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-national-register-reviewer/) - Are you a highly skilled historic preservationist with National Register knowledge and experience? The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking a Historic Preservation Specialist to work as a National Register reviewer, focused on assisting the public with determinations of eligibility and National Register nominations. Join us in preserving the treasured history of
- [Historic Tax Credits @ Work: Delaware Station of the Philadelphia Electric Company](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historic-tax-credits-work-delaware-station-the-philadelphia-electric-company/) - 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. About Delaware Station Located at 1325
- [Results of the Chesapeake Bay Mapping Initiative in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/results-the-chesapeake-bay-mapping-initiative-pennsylvania/) - 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
- [A Trip Through the PASS: The 2023 Annual PASS Report](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/trip-through-the-pass-the-2023-annual-pass-report/) - 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. PASS by Numbers In 2023, 309 new archaeological sites were added to the PASS files, bringing the statewide total to 27,010 recorded sites. Sites were recorded through a variety of sources,
- [Advancing Black Preservation to Sustain Black Neighborhoods with The Friends of the Tanner House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/advancing-black-preservation-sustain-black-neighborhoods-with-the-friends-the-tanner-house/) - As part of Black History Month, we invited Friends of the Tanner House - which we first introduced to our readers in this post - to talk about strategies for advancing Black heritage site preservation with attention to rich community and cultural engagement. In this blog post, guest contributor Chris Rogers discuss the principles behind
- [Meet PA SHPO's Newest Staff](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/meet-pashpo-new-staff/) - I'm happy to introduce you to our newest PA SHPO staffers! We are very excited to have Kristen Walczesky join us as an Environmental Review archaeologist in late 2022 and Marissa Barret as a National Register reviewer and John Wood as the Preservation Incentives manager this year. I asked each of them to answer a
- [24 Things to Look Forward to in 2024](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/24-things-look-forward-2024-2/) - While I am still enjoying the holiday high (and feeling blissfully stuffed), I am also looking forward to the many initiatives the PA SHPO has in the works for 2024. Small but mighty. The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office is a relatively small government bureau. A staff of just 28 carry out responsibilities of nearly
- [Mitigation Spotlight: Section 106 Agreements, July - December, 2023](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mitigation-spotlight-section-106-agreements-july-december-2023/) - This is part of a biannual blog series highlighting the agreement documents executed by PA SHPO in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and its implementing regulations. Between July 1 and December 31 of 2023, PA SHPO has been a signatory to approximately eleven (11) Section 106 agreement documents with five
- [Meet the Newest PA SHPO Staff!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/meet-the-newest-shpo-staff/) - I’m happy to introduce you to our newest PA SHPO staffers! We are very excited to have Jennifer Thornton join us as our National Register Coordinator, Ashley Respet as part of the above ground Environmental Review team, and Alex O'Gorman as the Historic Property Inspection Program Coordinator. I asked each of them to answer a
- [Just Listed! July through December 2023](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-july-through-december-2023/) - Included in this Just Listed! update are properties representing over three centuries of Pennsylvania history. Properties range from Muhammad Ali’s mountain boxing retreat to a masterpiece of modern architecture to a historic district rich in the building traditions of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Read below to learn more about the Commonwealth’s newest additions to the National
- [PA-SHARE 2.0 Update](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/share-2-0-update/) - As we announced last October, PA SHPO has been working on upgrades and improvements to PA-SHARE. We have made some notable changes since our last update that will improve the external user experience. They are primarily focused on enhanced functionality and clearer presentation of information. Batch Uploading You can now select and upload multiple photograph
- [Apply Now! PA SHPO's Summer 2023 Internships](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/apply-now-shpos-summer-2023-internships/) - Are you exploring the field of historic preservation and looking for some real-world experience? The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission’s Keystone Internship Program provides opportunities to pursue your professional growth and contribute to sharing Pennsylvania’s rich heritage with the public. We’d like to invite college and graduate school students interested in historic preservation, archaeology, community
- [24 Things to Look Forward to in 2024](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/24-things-look-forward-2024/) - While I am still enjoying the holiday high (and feeling blissfully stuffed), I am also looking forward to the many initiatives the PA SHPO has in the works for 2024. Small but mighty. The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office is a relatively small government bureau. A staff of just 28 carry out responsibilities of nearly
- [ICYMI: PA SHPO's Blog in 2023](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/icymi-shpos-blog-2023/) - It's been a minute since I did a "year in review" post for the blog, so I thought I'd treat our readers to PA SHPO's version of the ubiquitous end-of-year list. In the spirit ICYMI, here is a list of the best posts from 2023 that you want to be sure to read. If I
- [The Elusive Historic Agricultural District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-elusive-historic-agricultural-district/) - We had some fun recently during a site visit to identify the presence of a historic agricultural district for a solar project... *Cue Sir David Attenborough's voice* Here we are searching for the elusive historic agricultural district. Often impossible to find, we are hoping to get a glimpse of it today, as whispers of its
- [From Fifty-One to Two: Rehabilitation of One of Schuylkill County’s Last Two Remaining Covered Bridges](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/from-fifty-one-two-rehabilitation-one-schuylkill-countys-last-two-remaining-covered-bridges/) - The Rock Covered Bridge and Zimmerman Covered Bridge National Register nominations note that Schuylkill County once had fifty-one covered bridges. By the time the nominations were written in 1977, the total count was down to two. Both are owned by Schuylkill County, who appreciate the structures’ place in regional history and the importance of their
- [The Past, Present and Future of the Keystone Historic Preservation Grant Program](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-past-present-and-future-the-keystone-historic-preservation-grant-program/) - 2023 marks an important anniversary for the Keystone Historic Preservation Grant Program. In honor of the 30th anniversary of this important program that provides public grants to our partners to support preservation to Pennsylvania’s history. About the Keystone Fund The Pennsylvania General Assembly established the Keystone Recreation, Park and Conservation Fund in 1993 as a dedicated
- [Preserving the Henry Ossawa Tanner House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preserving-the-henry-ossawa-tanner-house/) - Earlier this year, the National Trust for Historic Preservation included the Henry Ossawa Tanner House in North Philadelphia on their 11 Most Endangered List. With the help of the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, I was able to connect with Chris Rogers of the Friends of the Tanner House to talk about what is happening
- [PennDOT’s New Historic Bridges of Pennsylvania GIS Map](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/penndots-new-historic-bridges-pennsylvania-gis-map/) - As one of the most heavily traveled states in the country, Pennsylvania’s vast transportation network demonstrates technological changes from the 18th century to the present. These changes, and the growth of Pennsylvania and the United States, would not be possible without bridges. Pennsylvania’s key location placed the Commonwealth at the forefront of development and application
- [Documenting Veterans Organizations with Baseline Survey](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/documenting-veterans-organizations-with-baseline-survey/) - We've written quite a bit about PA SHPO's Baseline Survey initiative over the last three years. We'll be sharing even more in 2024 when we publish our Year 3 results but - spoiler alert! - I can say that we will have added over 16,000 NEW resources in 55 counties to PA-SHARE by the time
- [Historic Tax Credits @ Work: Peter Woll & Sons Factory](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historic-tax-credits-work-peter-woll-sons-factory/) - Tucked away in quiet North Philadelphia neighborhood is the former Peter Woll & Sons factory, now the Paper Lofts. Historic tax credits - both federal and state - gave the property it's third lease on life. A bit of history The Peter Woll & Sons factory was built in 1885 and looked similar to many
- [Baseline Survey On the Road Again: Newly Documented Roadside Resources in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/baseline-survey-the-road-again-newly-documented-roadside-resources-pennsylvania/) - “I can't wait to get on the road again/On the road again/Goin' places that I've never been/Seein' things that I may never see again/And I can't wait to get on the road again...” -Willie Nelson, “On the Road Again,” 1980 With Pennsylvania’s long transportation history – from railroads and canals to the Pennsylvania Turnpike and
- [What PA Places are on your list?](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/what-places-are-your-list/) - Any Pennsylvanian at heart has a list of places in the Keystone State that captures the essence of who we are. Places that reflect my Pennsylvania roots and my love of architecture make up my long list. It includes places like Berwick, Columbia County were both branches of my family tree helped to make Stuart
- [Update on PennDOT’s Historic Metal Truss Bridge Management Plan](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/update-penndots-historic-metal-truss-bridge-management-plan/) - In 2017, PennDOT, in conjunction with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the PA SHPO, published the Metal Truss Bridge Management Plan (Management Plan). This plan, designed to serve as an ongoing planning tool, was the result of a multi-year effort to address the accelerating loss of historic metal truss bridges throughout the state. Now,
- [Announcing PA-SHARE 2.0](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/announcing-share-2-0/) - Earlier this year, the PA State Historic Preservation Office started working on new upgrades and improvements to PA-SHARE. We’re calling this effort PA-SHARE 2.0. PA-SHARE launched in February 2021 and Surveyor launched later that year in August. This custom-built system replaced CRGIS and many of the legacy databases used to track resources and projects. Since
- [PA SHPO is Hiring an Above Ground Environmental Reviewer!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-above-ground-environmental-reviewer/) - Are you interested in joining a proactive and dedicated team of historic preservationists, historians, archaeologists, and planners? The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking a Historic Preservation Specialist with a discipline in architectural history or history within the Environmental Review Division. Description of Work The PA SHPO uses its resources to educate,
- [Quarrying our Data for Quarry Districts](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/quarrying-our-data-for-quarry-districts/) - Happy Archaeology Month! One of the most common objects shown to archaeologists for identification are rocks. Most of the time, these objects just end up being rocks, but sometimes people do find one that has been altered in some way by human hands. These artifacts are called lithics and they can be found all over
- [We need your help! Be a part of Planning for Preservation in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/help-planning-for-preservation-pennsylvania-survey/) - Exciting news! It is time to update Pennsylvania’s statewide historic preservation plan. What better way to kick off that effort than with a new survey?! What’s a Statewide Historic Preservation Plan? I’m glad you asked! Statewide historic preservation plans are a guide for planning and decision making. They are intended to encourage broad participation in
- [Barns, Barns, and More Barns](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/barns-barns-and-more-barns/) - We are excited to share about past and future barn tours and barn grant opportunities! 2023 HBFF Barn Tour PA SHPO staff had the pleasure of participating in the 2023 barn tour sponsored by the Historic Barn and Farm Foundation (HBFF). The barns featured on the 2023 tour reflected the tour’s theme, The Agriculture Reform
- [Exploring Historic Preservation and Community Design with Philly Students](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/exploring-historic-preservation-and-community-design-with-philly-students/) - 9th grade design students in Philadelphia explored themes of history, legacy, and commemoration as it relates to the built environment.
- [Intern Introspect: 2023 PennDOT Internship](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/intern-introspect-2023-penndot-internship/) - As one door closes, a new door opens and a new journey in life begins. This feeling of sad excitement doesn’t even begin to encompass how I have come to view my experiences and learning opportunities this past summer. I was given the great opportunity to work for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) as
- [Intern Introspects: 2023 Historical Markers Internship](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/intern-introspects-2023-historical-markers-internship/) - This past summer I participated in the Keystone Summer Internship Program with the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office as the Historical Marker Program intern. I learned more about historic preservation and broadened my perspective on the diverse, rich, and complex history of Pennsylvania. I loved the various opportunities that the internship provided, such as in-office
- [PA SHPO is Hiring a National Register Supervisor!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-national-register-supervisor/) - Are you a highly skilled historic preservationist with National Register experience? The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking a Historic Preservation Supervisor to coordinate the office’s National Register of Historic Places program. Take the next step in your professional career and apply to work with us today! Description of Work The PA
- [Intern Introspect: 2023 PASS Internship](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/intern-introspect-2023-pass-internship/) - One of PA SHPO's 2023 Keystone interns worked with the PA Archaeology Site Survey (PASS) program to get a glimpse into archaeology at a SHPO.
- [Mitigation Spotlight: Section 106 Agreements, January 2023 - June 2023](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mitigation-spotlight-section-106-agreements-january-2022-june-2022/) - This is part of a biannual blog series highlighting the agreement documents executed by PA SHPO in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and its implementing regulations. Between January 1 and June 30, 2023, PA SHPO has been a signatory to approximately nine (9) Section 106 agreement documents with six different
- [The Flounder House, an Intriguing Vernacular House Form](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-flounder-house-intriguing-vernacular-house-form/) - The Flounder House is a bit of a fish out of water among more formal architectural styles. Named for the flat fish found at the bottom of the ocean, flounder houses have the appearance of a house sliced in half. The most distinctive feature of the flounder house is its shed (or occasionally gambrel) roof
- [22 Projects Benefit from Pennsylvania's State Historic Tax Credit in 2023](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/22-projects-benefit-from-pennsylvanias-state-historic-tax-credit-2023/) - Earlier this month, the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (PA DCED) announced that 22 projects across the Commonwealth were awarded a total of $5 million in Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Tax Credits (PA HPTC) through the FY 2022-2023 PA HPTC Allocation. What are the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Tax Credits? The PA Historic Preservation Tax
- [PA SHPO is Hiring a Historic Preservation Incentives Specialist!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-historic-preservation-incentives-specialist/) - Are you seeking a position in the historic preservation field that will allow you to make a difference? Are you interested in assisting partners and the public understand how incentive programs and good stewardship of historic properties can help preserve significant places throughout Pennsylvania? If this is you, apply to join our team of dedicated
- [Surficial Archaeology: What is it and how do we do it?](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/surficial-archaeology-what-and-how/) - Many Pennsylvania Historic Preservation blog readers are familiar with the results of Year 1 and Year 2 of the Pennsylvania Baseline Survey but did you know that the Pennsylvania Baseline Survey is doing archaeology too? We have adapted to recording not just historic buildings, but also documenting the locations where important buildings once stood. If
- [Just Listed! January through June 2023](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-january-through-june-2023/) - The first half of 2022 was a busy one for National Register listings, with 13 new properties listed in the National Register from Pennsylvania! They include a diverse range of institutional, ecclesiastical, commercial, educational, and industrial properties across 9 counties. The table below contains a complete list of all of the recently listed properties, along
- [Historic Tax Credits @ Work: The Yorktowne Hotel](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historic-tax-credits-work-the-yorktowne-hotel/) - The Yorktowne Hotel, in the heart of downtown York at 48 E. Market Street, has been a local and regional landmark for almost a century. Central to it's riches to rags to riches story - in addition to its enduring community legacy - are the historic tax credits that played a big part in it's
- [#PreservAtionHappens at the Local Level with CLG Grants](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservationhappens-the-local-level-with-clg-grants/) - Each year, the PA SHPO awards grants to the Commonwealth’s Certified Local Governments (CLG) for the purpose of advancing local historic preservation activities. Through a competitive application process, CLG communities apply for funds to assist with advancing their local preservation programs. For fiscal year 2023, seven communities in Allegheny, Cumberland, Delaware, Lancaster, and Montgomery counties
- [Preservation Happening With Keystone Grants](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservation-happening-with-keystone-grants/) - New preservation projects will be sprouting up across Pennsylvania this summer. PHMC’s preservation partners will start 48 new projects with the assistance of the Keystone Historic Preservation Grant program in the coming months.
- [Digging into the PASS Year: The 2022 Annual PASS Report](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/digging-into-the-pass-year-the-2022-annual-pass-report/) - Earlier this year, PA SHPO issued its PA Archaeological Site Survey (PASS) report for 2022. Definitely add the PASS report to your "must read" list because it is chock full of interesting information about archaeology in Pennsylvania. By the Numbers In 2022, 365 new archaeological sites were added to the PASS files, bringing the statewide
- [Celebrating Concord Township and the Spring Valley AME Church](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-concord-township-and-the-spring-valley-ame-church/) - This week’s 2022 Community Initiative Award winner spotlight is on Concord Township's preservation of the Spring Valley AME Church in Delaware County. This project in Delaware County caught the eagle eye of one of my colleagues last year from some press reporting and I'm glad it did. She just happened to be the SHPO's reviewer for
- [Celebrating Hay Creek Valley Historical Association](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-hay-creek-valley-historical-association/) - As we wrap up National Historic Preservation Month, we are highlighting the last of our 2022 Community Initiative Award winners. In this week’s post, we talked with Mark Zerr, Executive Director of the Hay Creek Valley Historical Association (HCVHA), about their successful efforts to protect and interpret Joanna Furnace. Joanna Furnace is located along
- [Celebrating the Blairsville Area Underground Railroad](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-the-blairsville-area-underground-railroad/) - This week's 2022 Community Initiative Award winner spotlight is on the Blairsville Underground Railroad organization in Blairsville, Indiana County. Blairsville was laid out in the early 19th century along the Conemaugh River at the southern end of Indiana County, about 40 miles east of Pittsburgh along the planned route of the Huntingdon, Cambria, and Indiana
- [Celebrating the Friends of Sheepford Road Bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-the-friends-sheepford-road-bridge/) - Each week in May, to celebrate National Historic Preservation Month, we will highlight one of the 2022 Community Initiative Award winners. In this week's post, I asked Janice Lynx, Executive Director of the West Short Historical Society, about their successful efforts to save Sheepford Road Bridge. Sheepford Road Bridge is one of the first bridges
- [Celebrating Preservation Month with the 2022 Community Initiative Award Winners](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-preservation-month-with-the-2022-community-initiative-award-winners/) - What better time of year than National Historic Preservation Month to announce the latest round of PA SHPO’s Community Initiative Award winners! The four recipients and their projects showcase a range of preservation success stories, demonstrating the value of volunteers, creativity, and community engagement. What are the Community Initiative Awards? PA SHPO’s Community Initiative Awards recognize the hard
- [Wanted! PA SHPO Preservation Incentives Division Manager](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/wanted-shpo-preservation-incentives-division-manager/) - Are you an innovative and forward-thinking professional with strong program administration skills? Are you seeking a leadership position that will allow you to advance your career and make a difference? If this is you, apply to join the PA SHPO team of dedicated preservationists, historians, and archaeologists working with Pennsylvania’s historic communities to achieve positive
- [Messerall Road Bridge: The Next Chapter](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/messerall-road-bridge-the-next-chapter/) - The main character of our story, the Messerall Road Bridge, began its life over Pine Creek near East Titusville in 1876, carrying traffic associated with the local oil and lumber industries. The bridge served as a crossing over Pine Creek nearly 140 years before it was closed to vehicular traffic in 1987. After years of
- [Mitigation Spotlight: Section 106 Agreements, July 2022 - December 2022](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mitigation-spotlight-section-106-agreements-july-2022-december-2022/) - This is part of a biannual blog series highlighting the agreement documents executed by PA SHPO in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and its implementing regulations. Between July 1 and December 31 of 2022, PA SHPO has been a signatory to approximately nine (9) Section 106 agreement documents with four
- [PA SHPO Special Announcement! We're Hiring a Preservation Incentives Division Manager](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-special-announcement-were-hiring-preservation-incentives-division-manager/) - Are you interested in joining a proactive and dedicated team of preservationists, historians, and archaeologists? The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking a manager to lead the Preservation Incentives Division and help advance PA SHPO priorities. This position is ideal for a professional with proven leadership and relationship-building skills and who has
- [A Little Something for Everyone: Pennsylvania's Newest Markers](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/little-something-for-everyone-pennsylvanias-newest-markers/) - The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) recently approved 37 new historical markers, making this one of the largest number of new markers in the program’s history. Approval Criteria require that marker subjects have statewide and/or national and a substantial association with Pennsylvania. The Marker Program encourages broad distribution, so individuals and organizations from all
- [Exciting news for the President Pumping Engine House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/exciting-news-for-the-president-pumping-engine-house/) - Readers in the Lehigh Valley saw some interesting news stories throughout the month of January as the one of the boilers from the Ueberroth Zinc Mine Historic District (1995RE50357) was removed from the former American Atelier furniture factory on Front Street in Allentown. The 2.5-ton boiler, measuring 30 feet long, was relocated to this location
- [Call this Piece of Pennsylvania History “Home!”](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/call-this-piece-pennsylvania-history-home/) - In an effort to preserve one of Pennsylvania’s historic homes, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) is marketing for sale, removal, and preservation a two-and-a-half-story, 3 bedroom, one bath, Shingle-Style house with many beautiful original features including wooden floors, trim work, railings, plastered walls, windows, doors, fixtures, and wood shingle detailing on the
- [Just Listed! July to December 2022](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-july-december-2022/) - In the second half of 2022, 9 new properties were listed in the National Register from Pennsylvania! They include an interesting range of institutional, ecclesiastical, commercial, educational, and industrial properties across 9 counties. The Peoples Bank Building301 5th Ave., McKeesport City, Allegheny CountyLISTED, 7/5/2022PA-SHARE Resource #1999RE00607 Under Criterion A, The Peoples Bank Building is
- [<strong>Looking Forward to a Year that is काममूत</strong>](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/looking-forward-year-that-काममूत/) - Warm and cozy. For nearly my entire life, achieving that snuggly feeling during the long winter months has been a top priority for me. The arsenal of things I use to feel warm and cozy include an overflowing drawer of wool socks, our rescue dog Collins, and a growing pile of books with subjects relating
- [The 12 Days of PA SHPO](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-12-days-shpo/) - Around the middle of each December, PA SHPO staff get together for a few hours in the afternoon for our holiday party. It is a time to laugh, get to know our colleagues better, overindulge in too much good food, and pass down traditions from older staff to new. By way of tradition, our newest
- [PA SHPO's Keystone Internships for Summer 2023](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpos-keystone-internships-for-summer-2023/) - Are you exploring the field of historic preservation and looking for some real-world experience? The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission’s Keystone Internship Program provides opportunities to pursue your professional growth and contribute to sharing Pennsylvania’s rich heritage with the public. We’d like to invite college and graduate school students interested in historic preservation, archaeology, community
- [More Cool PA Places Found in Year 2 of Baseline Survey](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/more-cool-places-found-year-2-baseline-survey/) - The Pennsylvania Baseline Survey Team is excited to share another year of findings! Between January 2022 to October 2022, our five Year 2 Baseline Survey teams surveyed in 18 counties and recorded 6,663 new resources in 396 municipalities. Quite an impressive number! You can find a refresher on what PA SHPO's Baseline Survey is all
- [Historical Marker Program Announcement](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historical-marker-program-announcement/) - The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) is temporarily pausing its Historical Marker Program. Ongoing supply chain issues, from sourcing raw materials to workforce availability, are impacting all areas of manufacturing, including the production of the iconic, blue-and-gold Pennsylvania Historical Markers. The company responsible for the fabrication of the markers for Pennsylvania has communicated to
- [Learning about Historic Tax Credits with Homestead's Bishop Boyle High](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/learning-about-historic-tax-credits-with-homesteads-bishop-boyle-high/) - The Bishop Boyle High School is another preservation success story for Homestead, a small Pennsylvania borough on the south side of the Monongahela River between Pittsburgh and Braddock. Following the Homestead Masonic Hall a few years ago, Bishop Boyle High School in the Homestead Historic District has also been rehabilitated into housing with the help
- [O’er the Bridge We Go!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/oer-the-bridge/) - For many, the holidays are filled with stories and traditions of the past. Just hearing the song Jingle Bells makes me wonder what it would feel like to go dashing through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh. Or better yet, to ride a sleigh over a historic metal truss bridge. Oh, what fun that
- [The Union Project: Planning for a Community Asset](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-union-project-planning-for-community-asset/) - At the start of the 20th century, Pittsburgh's Highland Park neighborhood was becoming a bustling place. The leaders of the United Presbyterian Church decided to build a new church, which became the Second United Presbyterian Church, at the corner of North Negley and Stanton Avenues in the city's east end in 1903. Second United (PA-SHARE
- [Special Announcement! PA SHPO is Hiring a National Register Reviewer](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-shpo-hiring-national-register-reviewer/) - Are you a highly skilled historic preservationist with National Register and GIS experience? The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking an Historic Preservation Specialist to work as a National Register reviewer and triage specialist, focused on historic districts and survey. APPLY BY 12/10/2022 11:59 PM EST. All applications must be filed online
- [SHPO Staff Explore Lackawanna County](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-staff-explore-lackawanna-county/) - My SHPO colleagues and I, just like the rest of the world, are continuing to emerge from our COVID cocoons. We’ve been getting out and about more each month but still find ourselves wanting to be physically connecting with places in every way we can. We recently had a chance to do just that. Every
- [Historical Marker Program Update](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historical-marker-program-update/) - The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission is making some changes in its state historical marker program. After a holistic review of the Pennsylvania Historical Marker program, PHMC staff have been working on changes that will improve customer service for users of this popular program, bring the new marker policy and evaluation process into the program
- [What’s New in 2022 with Pennsylvania's Historical Marker Program](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/whats-new-2022-with-pennsylvanias-historical-marker-program/) - The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) invites individuals, public agencies, and private organizations to nominate historic people, properties, events, or innovations with statewide or national significance for PHMC’s State Historical Marker Program. Meet the new coordinator, learn more about some changes to this year’s nomination process, and sign up for our upcoming webinars below.
- [Caring for the Country’s Veterans: Pennsylvania’s Butler VA Hospital](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/caring-for-the-countrys-veterans-pennsylvanias-butler-hospital/) - The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is the steward of a large collection of medical facilities that reflect the evolving care for and needs of our military’s veterans. The VA’s health care system provides diverse care through approximately 170 VA medical centers and outpatient clinics across the country, serving millions of veterans each year. Pennsylvania
- [Be a Part of Discovering and Celebrating the Humanities in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/part-discovering-and-celebrating-the-humanities-pennsylvania/) - PA Humanities and Drexel University have launched the PA Humanities Discovery Project, an effort to map, network, and celebrate Pennsylvania’s wonderfully rich humanities landscape to build a more expansive and connected statewide community for sharing, learning, and advocacy. The first step is to collect information from Pennsylvanians like you about what important humanities-centered work you
- [Retelling the Stories of Existing Resources: Adding New Areas of Significance to National Register Properties](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/retelling-the-stories-existing-resources-adding-new-areas-significance-national-register-properties/) - Researching the history of a building can feel like trying to do a jigsaw puzzle from a thrift store without the box. You might get most of the pieces to fit together so that you can tell the story of that place, but some are still missing, leaving gaps in the narrative. If you’re anything
- [A New Funding Source for Metal Truss Bridges](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/new-funding-source-for-metal-truss-bridges/) - If you have been following the PA SHPO Blog, then you have probably read about the Metal Truss Bridge Management Plan (Management Plan) and the ongoing effort by PennDOT and the PA SHPO to preserve historic metal truss bridges whenever feasible. Recently, as of 2021, a new federally funded program has been created to support
- [Have a Barn in Need of Repair? HBFF has a Grant Opportunity for You!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/have-barn-need-repair-hbff-has-grant-opportunity-for-you/) - Do you have a barn or agricultural outbuilding that is 50 years or older in need of repairs? Does it retain a significant degree of historic character and materials? Then the Historic Barn and Farm Foundation of Pennsylvania (HBFF) has a grant opportunity for you! This year marks the inauguration of HBFF’s matching grant program
- [Community Archaeology at Midland Cemetery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/community-archaeology-midland-cemetery/) - Last fall the State Museum of Pennsylvania hosted their annual workshop in archaeology entitled Hidden Stories: Uncovering African American History through Archaeology and Community Engagement. The theme was born out of the acknowledgement that African Americans are vastly underrepresented in the historic record and the representations that are present are typically unfairly biased. Alternatively, archaeology
- [Meet the Paleo-Digger](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/meet-the-paleo-digger/) - October is Archaeology Month! Today's post by Guest Contributor PennDOT archaeologist Steve McDougal covers using a non-traditional method for field tests: the Paleo-Digger. Every archaeological survey poses different conditions and challenges. For PennDOT's SR 22/322 safety improvement project in Northern Dauphin County, one of the big challenges is the depth of soils involved. Past excavation
- [See a cool building? Tell us about it with PA-SHARE!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/see-cool-building-tell-about-with-share/) - Good morning fellow Pennsylvanians, regular visitors, and honored guests! In your travels throughout our beautiful Commonwealth, have you stumbled across a building so magnificent you had no alternative but to document it thoroughly? Did your engine die while driving past a spooky and ominously quiet old cemetery and the only way to pass the time
- [Report Missing & Damaged Markers!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/report-missing-damaged-markers/) - The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission’s State Historical Markers are cherished and celebrated icons across the state, and for good reason! Every community takes pride in their history and how that history has affected the Commonwealth and the nation. According to an article in PA Heritage from 2015, “A Century of Marking History: One Hundred
- [PA SHPO's Community Initiative Award](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/community-initiative-award/) - The Community Initiative Award from the State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) recognizes organizations, municipalities, agencies, individuals, and others whose work embodies the theme of Pennsylvania’s statewide historic preservation plan, #PreservationHappensHere. Started in 2016 for the 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, the Community Initiative Award (CIA) is now an annual program and
- [The Underground Railroad in Columbia, Lancaster County](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-underground-railroad-columbia-lancaster-county/) - September is International Underground Railroad Month. September was chosen because it is the month that two of the most well-known people associated with the Underground Railroad - Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass - escaped from slavery. Today’s post was written by guest author Dr. Leroy Hopkins and he provides a glimpse into the Underground Railroad
- [Join us in July for a party at the PA Statewide Conference on Heritage](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/join-july-for-party-the-statewide-conference-heritage/) - Along with the many insightful training sessions, in-the-field workshops, and engaging panel discussions offered at this year’s Pennsylvania Statewide Conference on Heritage (July 8-10th), we’ll blow out some candles honoring the 50th birthday of the State Museum & Archives complex in Harrisburg and discuss the challenges of restoring and advocating for modern architecture. The 2015
- [In Case You Missed It… the 2015 Statewide Conference on Heritage](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/case-you-missed-2015-statewide-conference-heritage/) - We all know that summer is a great time to kick back and relax, and it’s even better when you can do so while hanging out at the State Museum of Pennsylvania with your friends and learning some interesting stuff at the 2015 Statewide Conference on Heritage. There was so much going on, and so
- [Shouting-Out about the Statewide Conference!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shouting-statewide-conference/) - Time for April’s SHPO Shout-Out! I’m going to mix it up a bit this month and Shout Out about something that’s happening soon rather than something that’s already happened or is in the process of happening. It’s not that I don’t have a whole bunch of great things waiting in the wings – it’s just
- [May's SHPO Shout-Out](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mays-shpo-shout/) - We’re back to our regular SHPO Shout-Out post this month, and I get to tell you about some great local preservation activities, two national award winners, and a cool new park in Jefferson County. Two quick things before I launch into my list of happy news: have you taken our online survey for the next statewide
- [Changing the Tide with Disaster Planning](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/changing-tide-disaster-planning/) - What new challenges will preservationists face over the next 50 years? It's clear that the impacts on historic places by hurricanes Katrina and Sandy and other recent tropical storms, combined with growing international concern about rising sea levels, has started to “change the tide” and bring a new focus to preservation professionals. In April and June 2016, national
- [5 Things about Preservation in 2016](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/2016-year-review/) - This time of year is all about traditions, so I'm keeping one of ours here at the PA Historic Preservation blog: the Year in Review. Its a good time to reflect on all the great preservation in Pennsylvania in 2016. There is so much to choose from that it was hard to come up with my
- [Special Announcement! A Call for Session Proposals](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-call-for-session-proposals/) - Preservation Pennsylvania has issued a Call for Sessions Proposals for the 2017 Statewide Conference on Heritage. This year the conference will be held in the historic downtown of Carlisle Pennsylvania on June 14-16th, 2017. The Statewide Conference on Heritage is Pennsylvania's premiere preservation and transportation conference, which brings together historic preservation professionals, advocates, state agencies, and private companies
- [Join us in Carlisle for 2017 Statewide Conference on Heritage!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/join-carlisle-for-2017-statewide-conference-heritage/) - You spoke and we listened! After all the rave reviews about last year’s downtown-centered location for the Pennsylvania Statewide Conference on Heritage, this year we’re poised to take over historic Carlisle from Wednesday, June 14 to Friday June 16. This year’s theme, Community Connections: Stories, Places, and Ideas that Matter, highlights the importance of community
- [ICYMI: Community Preservation Connections @ 2017 Statewide Conference](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/icymi-community-preservation-connections/) - From June 14-16, Preservation Pennsylvania and its partners hosted 2017’s Statewide Conference on Heritage in delightful downtown Carlisle with the theme Community Connections: Stories, Places, and Ideas that Matter. Read on ICYMI! This year’s conference explored many of the ideas and perspectives that exist at the heart of the intersection between our valued small communities and
- [ICYMI: Community Connections in Lewisburg, PA at the 2016 Statewide Conference on Heritage](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/icymi-community-connections-lewisburg-2016-statewide-conference-heritage/) - From June 6-8, 250 of Pennsylvania’s spiffiest preservationists made Lewisburg, PA the most happening scene in the Commonwealth during the 2016 Statewide Conference on Heritage, and - by all accounts - every beach bunny, bookbuster, cat, chick, cool head, dove, dude, flap jaw, flower child, fox, hodad, hot dog, hunk, mop-top, mover, skirt, and teenie
- [Calling all Preservationists! We know you have great things to share!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/calling-preservationists-share/) - Preservation PA and the Statewide Conference Planning Team are seeking proposals for insightful and educational conference sessions, of interest to an audience composed of professionals and volunteers in the fields of historic preservation, architecture, cultural resource management, planning, real estate development, government, nonprofit, and for-profit communities. We want you to share your preservation knowledge and success stories!
- [Preservationists are flocking to Chambersburg in June](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservationists-chambersburg-conference-june/) - Each year we meet to share and learn at the Statewide Conference on Heritage and to be inspired at the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards. This year, those two inspiring events combine offering preservation festivities from June 19-21 in Chambersburg. For the first time, we’ll host an all-day Pennsylvania Barn & Farm Symposium. We’ll kick off
- [CCC History @ Pennsylvania's Laurel Hill State Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/ccc-history-laurel-hill-state-park/) - This post is the first in a two-part series written by former interns highlighting the CCC history and historic resources at Laurel Hill State Park and the work the PA Department of Conservation & Natural Resources and the PA SHPO are doing to preserve and celebrate them as part of the Laurel Hill landscape. Laurel Hill
- [Mapping the Probability of Pre-Historic Archaeological Sites](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mapping-probability-pre-historic-archaeological-sites/) - As we mentioned in our recent post about new archaeology guidelines, The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), and PHMC partnered with URS Corporation to develop a statewide pre-contact archaeological predictive model for Pennsylvania. The project involved developing statistical models to analyze the landscape at known Native American archaeological sites in Pennsylvania
- [#BeNebby with Doors Open Pittsburgh](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/benebby-with-doors-open-pittsburgh/) - Today's post in one of our Spotlight Series, which showcases places, projects, and people engaged in different kinds of historic preservation activities in Pennsylvania. How many times have you walked past a building in your neighborhood and thought, “Gee, I wonder what that looks like inside?” Through the innovative and creative work of Doors Open
- [PA-SHARE Update: August 2022](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/share-update-august-2022/) - We’ve been hard at work with PA-SHARE’s developers over the summer to continue to improve the user experience with PA-SHARE and Surveyor. Thanks to helpful feedback from PA-SHARE’s users, we’ve been able to make some useful enhancements and fix bugs in both applications. Here are a few of the fixes and enhancements related to the
- [PA SHPO Consultants List](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-consultants-lists/) - The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office has released an updated and revised Consultants List. PA SHPO maintains the Consultants List as a resource for our constituents interested in hiring a professional consultant or architect to assist them with historic preservation projects involving PA SHPO and National Park Service programs and project review under the Pennsylvania
- [PA SHPO is Hiring for a new National Register and GIS position!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-for-new-national-register-and-gis-position/) - Are you a highly skilled historic preservationist with National Register and GIS experience? The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking an Historic Preservation Specialist to work as a National Register reviewer and triage specialist, focused on historic districts and survey. Description of Work The PA SHPO uses its resources to educate, encourage
- [PA SHPO is Hiring a National Register Supervisor!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-national-register-supervisor/) - Are you a highly skilled historic preservationist with National Register experience? The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office is seeking an Historic Preservation Supervisor to coordinate the office’s National Register of Historic Places program. Description of Work The PA SHPO uses its resources to educate, encourage and enable Pennsylvanians to value and preserve Pennsylvania’s history and
- [Intern Introspect: Agricultural Survey Internship](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/intern-introspect-agricultural-survey-internship/) - As my internship with Pennsylvania’s Historic Preservation Office comes to a close, I want to take the time to reflect on my experiences here. When I began in early June, I was relatively new to the field of historic preservation. My only background was some previous research I had done and a passion to learn
- [Intern Introspect: MARS Sites Survey Internship](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/intern-introspect-mars-sites-survey-internship/) - My name is Sarah Hoffeditz, and I spent the first half of this summer gaining unique experiences through my internship at the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office in Harrisburg, PA. This opportunity allowed me to use the skills I have developed over the last four years to the test and learn new skills. My internship
- [Pennsylvania's Historic Preservation Tax Credit At Work: SFY2021-2022 Update](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvanias-historic-preservation-tax-credit-work-sfy2021-2022-update/) - The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (PA DCED) recently announced that it has awarded $5 million in Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Tax Credits (PA HPTC) to 25 projects across the commonwealth through the FY 2021-2022 PA HPTC Allocation. The next round will open on October 1. Preservation Tax Credits awarded to 25 projects State
- [Dramatic Finish for Warner Theatre Project](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/dramatic-finish-for-warner-theatre-project/) - Few buildings are more iconic to downtown Erie than the historic Warner Theatre. At 91-years-old, the luxury movie palace still offers an environment "twice as rich, three times more fanciful than life." Commissioned by a subsidiary of Warner Brothers in 1929, the theatre was designed by preeminent movie palace architects Rapp & Rapp of Chicago
- [New Guidance for Road-Related New Deal Resources](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/new-guidance-for-road-related-new-deal-resources/) - The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office has developed guidance on the evaluation of New Deal historic resources found along roadways. The project came about in response to an increasing number of requests for National Register evaluation of such properties through the Section 106 consultation process. The effort focused on the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the
- [Historic Buildings Key to Economic Development Success: Deindustrialized Communities Market Study Final Report](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historic-buildings-key-economic-development-success-deindustrialized-communities-market-study-final-report/) - PA SHPO is pleased to share the final report for the Deindustrialized Communities Market Study (DCMS). The report’s findings show that historic preservation is an important component for viable, integrated economic development strategies in smaller deindustrialized communities. The DCMS uses data-driven analysis to develop recommendations – community-specific and regional - that are realistic and implementable.
- [PA SHPO is Hiring a Review Archaeologist](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring-review-archaeologist/) - Are you interested in joining a proactive and dedicated team of preservationists, historians, and archaeologists? The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking a Historic Preservation Specialist with a discipline in archaeology within the Environmental Review division. Please note: While the required experience section of this job announcement references architectural/historical survey, PA SHPO
- [Just Listed! January - June 2022](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-january-june-2022/) - There are 14 new National Register listings to share with you from the first half of 2022. They include an interesting range of institutional, ecclesiastical, commercial, educational, and industrial properties in 8 counties. ALLEGHENY COUNTY Western State Penitentiary-Riverside Penitentiary3001 New Beaver Ave., PittsburghLISTED, 2/14/2022PA-SHARE Resource #1993RE00198 Western State Penitentiary is a former state prison
- [Mitigation Spotlight: Section 106 Agreements, December 2021-June 2022](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mitigation-spotlight-section-106-agreements-december-2021-june-2022/) - In a given year, PA SHPO consults with federal agencies, applicants, and preservation stakeholders on thousands of federal undertakings in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. For some context, PA SHPO staff reviewed over 5,100 federal and state projects in 2021. Section 106 does not mandate a preservation outcome but requires
- [PA SHPO’s Inaugural Historic Property Inspection Site Visit](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpos-inaugural-historic-property-inspection-site-visit/) - Not long ago, PA SHPO announced a new program, the Historic Property Inspection Program to improve communication with between the property owners of some of Pennsylvania’s most significant historic treasures under preservation covenant with our office. Recently, PA SHPO staff were fortunate to have a behind the scenes tour of the John Harris-Simon Cameron Mansion
- [Meet PA SHPO's 2022 Interns!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/meet-shpos-2022-interns/) - There are many things my family and I looked forward to in 2022, like seeing a movie in theater again, visiting friends in person instead of Zooming, weddings, and lots more. In the PA SHPO office, I think I can safely say that the chance to host interns again was one of the most anticipated
- [Reflecting on Year One of the Pennsylvania Baseline Survey](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/reflecting-year-one-the-pennsylvania-baseline-survey/) - In late 2020, PA SHPO launched an ambitious, large-scale architectural survey called the Pennsylvania Baseline Survey, with a goal of adding approximately 27,000 new resources in 52 different counties over three years. In Year One, over 7,000 new records were added to PA-SHARE - just from Baseline Survey! Read on to learn about a few
- [Exploring African American Heritage in Pennsylvania’s DCNR Parks and Forests](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/exploring-african-american-heritage-pennsylvanias-dcnr-parks-and-forests/) - Pennsylvania is rife in human history – if you’re in Pennsylvania, consider yourself surrounded with nearly 20,000 years of it! So, it should come as no great surprise that its 121-state park and over 2 million-acre forest system, administered by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, are steeped in both natural and human history.
- [Paths in PA-SHARE](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/paths-share/) - Back in July 2019, I shared with you the news that our interns had added the information from “Indian Paths of Pennsylvania” by Paul Wallace (1965) into CRGIS. This data set is one of the most frequently requested of the data we show, so I thought I would come back and tell you how to
- [The Archaeology of a Village Blacksmith Shop](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-archaeology-village-blacksmith-shop/) - In 1823, a blacksmith named John W. Miller moved into what is now southeastern Blair County with his wife, Mary, and their three-year-old son, James. In their first years there they built their house and a small blacksmith shop along an existing road between Bedford and Rebecca Furnace. They didn’t have neighbors in those early
- [Celebrating Wilkes-Barre's Walkitecture Tour](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-wilkes-barres-walkitecture-tour/) - We conclude our Preservation Month celebration of the 2021 Community Initiative Award winners in the Diamond City. Many may not think the intersection of public health and historic preservation is obvious. I talked about it a few years ago in this post and that historic communities are (or at least once where and could be
- [New PA SHPO Guidelines for Recording Buildings Available](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/new-shpo-guidelines-for-recording-buildings-available/) - PA SHPO’s Guidelines for Recording Buildings in Pennsylvania, and a companion worksheet, Worksheet for Recording Buildings in Pennsylvania, are published to the PHMC website and ready for use. These guidelines replace the PA SHPO’s How to Complete the Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form guidance from November 2014. The Historic Resource Survey Form, or HRSF, was
- [Evaluating Pennsylvania’s Railroads for National Register Eligibility](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/evaluating-pennsylvanias-railroads-for-national-register-eligibility/) - As all railroad history buffs know, Pennsylvania played an important role in the growth of the industry and has a great abundance of remaining stations, tunnels, bridges, and tracks. Pennsylvania became the national leader in railroad development in the late 19th century. By 1860 it held more miles of railroad tracks than all other states.
- [Celebrating the Wilkinsburg Train Station Restoration Project](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-the-wilkinsburg-train-station-restoration-project/) - This week our Preservation Month celebration of the 2021 Community Initiative Award winners takes us west to Allegheny County – specifically, the Borough of Wilkinsburg. The Wilkinsburg Train Station Restoration Project, led by the Wilkinsburg Community Development Corporation (WCDC), received one of PA SHPO’s 2021 Community Initiative Awards for bringing a community landmark back to
- [Celebrating the Friends of Fort Halifax Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-the-friends-fort-halifax-park/) - There are few places that can embody the breadth of Pennsylvania’s narrative like Fort Halifax Park in Dauphin County. The Friends of Fort Halifax Park (FoFHP) are the recipients of one of the PA SHPO’s 2021 Community Initiative Awards for their efforts that led to the discovery of the site of Fort Halifax during last
- [Celebrating Preservation Month with the 2021 Community Initiative Award Winners](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-preservation-month-with-the-2021-community-initiative-award-winners/) - What better time of year than National Historic Preservation Month to announce the latest round of PA SHPO's Community Initiative Award winners. This year's projects and recipients showcase a range of preservation success stories, demonstrating the power of perseverance, collaboration and partnership. What are the Community Initiative Awards? PA SHPO's Community Initiative Awards recognize the
- [Special Announcement: Premiere of Pennsylvania's Historic Bridges](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-premiere-pennsylvanias-historic-bridges/) - 2022 Update: The short video, Pennsylvania's Historic Bridges: Connecting Our Past and Future, is available for viewing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Kf8f8ee5E. 2014 Post: We invite you to attend the premiere of Pennsylvania's Historic Bridges: Connecting Our Past and Future at this year's PA Statewide Conference on Heritage. If you are attending the conference and would like to
- [Unscripted: an archaeologist’s journey into the world of film production](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/unscripted-archaeologists-journey-world-film-production-2/) - In my position here at BHP, I am involved in a wide variety of activities, in addition to my primary job duty, review of compliance projects in the Western Region for archaeology. Most of these activities center on keeping all the internal bits and parts of BHP moving, including processing archaeological reports for final storage
- [PA-SHARE Quarterly Update for April 2022](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/share-quarterly-update-for-april-2022/) - There is always a lot of work going on behind the scenes with PA-SHARE, so we decided that we’ll provide a quarterly update of fixes and enhancements throughout the year. Here are the fixes and enhancements related to the external user experience since the last update in December 2021: In PA-SHARE: On-screen help text updated
- [Bridge Preservation and Education: A Site Visit to the Inwood Iron Bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/bridge-preservation-and-education-site-visit-the-inwood-iron-bridge/) - In 2019, the historic Inwood Iron Bridge in Union Township, Lebanon County was disassembled for relocation. Two years later, in 2021, staff from the PA SHPO and PennDOT’s Environmental Policy and Development Division visited the rehabilitated Inwood Iron Bridge at its new location, a county pocket park on Old State Road about 300 feet south
- [PA SHPO Special Announcement! We're Hiring a National Register Supervisor](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-special-announcement-were-hiring-national-register-supervisor/) - Are you a highly skilled historic preservationist with National Register experience? The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking an Historic Preservation Supervisor to coordinate the office’s National Register of Historic Places program. Description of Work The PA SHPO uses its resources to educate, encourage and enable Pennsylvanians to value and preserve Pennsylvania’s history
- [Meet the New PA SHPO Staff!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/meet-the-new-shpo-staff/) - Since the last time I officially welcomed our new SHPO staffers, three new colleagues have joined our team. We are very excited to have Megan McNish and Frank Grumbine as the new Eastern and Central Region Community Preservation Coordinators and Alli Davis as the new Historical Marker Program Coordinator. I'm also happy to announce Casey
- [Exploring the National Road in Western Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/exploring-the-national-road-western-pennsylvania/) - As the sun emerges, temperatures rise, and travel restrictions ease, consummate travelers begin to get itchy feet. This spring, the National Road Heritage Corridor invites you to exit the highway and take the time to explore some of Pennsylvania’s nation-shaping history and the historic places along the Historic National Road. “The Road That Built America”
- [The New Century Guild in the 21st Century](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-new-century-guild-the-21st-century/) - The New Century Guild building, located at 1307 Locust Street in Philadelphia, PA, is an Italianate brick rowhouse constructed in 1851 as a private residence. It remained a private residence until 1906, when the New Century Guild, one of the earliest and most successful organizations devoted to supporting women in the labor force, acquired the
- [PA SHPO Special Announcement! Join our Team as a Review Archaeologist](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-special-announcement-join-our-team-review-archaeologist/) - The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking a Historic Preservation Specialist to serve as a Review Archaeologist to work between disciplines and advance SHPO priorities. This position is ideal for a detail oriented and flexible preservation professional with a knowledge of state historic preservation programs. Please note: While the required experience section
- [Deindustrialized Communities Market Study: What We Learned](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/deindustrialized-communities-market-study-what-learned/) - As we wrote about in a recent blog post, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) has been working on a huge project in our western region, aimed at identifying the challenges and opportunities for historic preservation and economic revitalization in smaller deindustrialized communities, focusing on twelve riverfront municipalities located within two regions of
- [Preservation Planning through Mitigation in Western PA](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservation-planning-through-mitigation-western/) - In spring of 2015, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACOE), the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO), Shell Chemical Appalachia, LLC (applicant) and the Seneca Nation of Indians (SNI) concluded consultation after 18 months of discussions under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act about the construction of a petrochemical complex
- [Deindustrialized Communities Market Study](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/deindustrialized-communities-market-study/) - The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) has undertaken a project to investigate the economic development and community revitalization prospects in specific southwestern Pennsylvania communities that have experienced significant de-industrialization. The study area includes 12 southwestern Pennsylvania communities over three counties: deindustrialized river towns that are at a crossroads between the economic patterns of
- [We want YOU for the PA Historic Preservation Board!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/want-you-for-the-historic-preservation-board/) - Are you a preservation-minded Pennsylvanian interested in sharing your time and talent? Do you know someone looking for an opportunity to be a leader and make a difference? Then we want to hear from you! The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking letters of interest and resumes from potential Board candidates. About
- [Pennsylvania Above Ground Survey (PAGS) Program’s First Annual Report Summary](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvania-above-ground-survey-pags-programs-first-annual-report-summary/) - As we jump into another new spring season, it’s time to take a look back at above ground survey in Pennsylvania in 2021! For the first time since the 1980s, the PA SHPO is beginning to provide an above ground companion to the PASS Report on annual survey activities throughout the Commonwealth during the preceding
- [Pennsylvania’s Reinforced Concrete Thru Girder Bridges](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvanias-reinforced-concrete-thru-girder-bridges/) - Few people think of history when crossing a bridge. But bridges tell an important story about engineering and technology, especially in Pennsylvania where the early years of iron, steel and concrete came together to produce many early bridges that represent an age of experimentation. An age of experimentation is identified as a time when builders
- [Welcoming Milford to the CLG program!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/welcoming-milford-the-clg-program/) - Travel north along Route 209 through the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and you’ll arrive at the Borough of Milford, Pike County. The small town of nearly 1,200 full time residents appears like Brigadoon as you leave the lush forests of the Water Gap and has a long and layered history. Milford is also
- [Tredyffrin Township and its Neighbors go to CAMP](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tredyffrin-township-and-its-neighbors-camp/) - Although there were no campfires or smores, the Tredyffrin Township Historical Commission (TTHC) and friends had a lot of fun in summer CAMP. TTHC attended CAMP virtually on two Saturday mornings in July of 2021. Now, in this instance, CAMP is the Commission Assistance and Mentoring Program offered by the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions
- [Introducing the Historic Property Inspection Program](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/introducing-the-historic-property-inspection-program/) - One lesser-known duty of the PA SHPO office is the management of protective preservation covenants on historic properties throughout the commonwealth. What is a Preservation Covenant or Easement? A preservation covenant, sometimes called an easement, is a legal document that is executed between two parties to ensure that a property will remain in a good
- [A Look at the PASS Year: The 2021 Annual PASS Report](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/look-the-pass-year-the-2021-annual-pass-report/) - It’s that time of the year again! Time to report and reflect on another successful year of archaeological site recording efforts throughout Pennsylvania. In 2021, over 300 new archaeological sites were recorded by cultural resource management (CRM) projects, independent and university research projects, Society of Pennsylvania Archaeology (SPA) members, and long-time avocational archaeologist. What’s New?
- [Reinterpreting the Underground Railroad: The Sherman’s Dale Discharge Former Slaves’ Graves Site](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/reinterpreting-the-underground-railroad-the-shermans-dale-discharge-former-slaves-graves-site/) - In my short time as an archaeologist working in southeast Pennsylvania, I’ve learned that every basement, crawl space, and root cellar older than 1860 was at one time, a stop on the Underground Railroad (UGRR). This of course is not true, but the mythologies of the UGRR are born out of the fact that the
- [Join the PA SHPO as a 2022 Keystone Summer Intern](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/join-the-shpo-2022-keystone-summer-intern/) - Are you exploring the field of historic preservation and looking for some real-world experience? The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission's Keystone Internship Program provides opportunities to pursue your professional growth and contribute to sharing Pennsylvania's rich heritage with the public. We’d like to invite college and graduate school students interested in historic preservation, archaeology, community
- [Just Listed! August - December 2021](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-august-december-2021/) - We have an interesting mix of National Register recent listings to bring you for this installment of “Just Listed”. We’ve got an African American YMCA, a few interesting industrial properties making everything from jute cordage to furniture to yarn, a farm, a house, farm, school, and more. If you’re interested in learning more about any
- [2022 Updates to PA's Agricultural History Project](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/agricultural-history-updates/) - 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. The updates include the following components, which are
- [Julius Rosenwald and the African American YMCAs of Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/julius-rosenwald-and-the-african-american-ymcas-pennsylvania/) - American philanthropist Julius Rosenwald is best known for his work in the rural South in the early 20th century building schools for African American children. Before his 1917 fund changed the face of education and race in the country, he helped African American communities from coast-to-coast build YMCAs. Of the two dozen facilities Rosenwald funded
- [Success in All Shapes and Sizes](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/success-all-shapes-and-sizes/) - Last month, we asked Pennsylvanians to send us their #PreservationHappensHere Preservation Success Stories using PA-SHARE to celebrate National Historic Preservation Month. We enticed them with prizes! And we received many great submissions, making our campaign its own success story! ICYMI You can read about Preservation Month and our call for stories in this post. A
- [PA SHPO Special Announcement! We're Hiring an Archaeology Supervisor](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-special-announcement-were-hiring-archaeology-supervisor/) - Are you a qualified archaeologist with collaboration, outreach, and education skills? The Position The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking an Archaeology Supervisor to coordinate the office’s archaeology program. Description of Work The PA SHPO uses its resources to educate, encourage and enable Pennsylvanians to value and preserve Pennsylvania’s history and culture.
- [Preservation Planning in Beaver Borough](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservation-planning-beaver-borough/) - Beaver is a lovely community located on the Ohio River bluffs nearly directly across the river from the Shell petrochemical plant. Beaver boasts a large National Register of Historic Places historic district (PA-SHARE Resource #1994RE00048) that consists of large, stately homes, vernacular residences, a thriving central business district bursting with historic character and a series
- [Rehabilitating Pittsburgh's "First" Skyscraper with Historic Tax Credits](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/rehabilitating-pittsburghs-first-skyscraper-with-historic-tax-credits/) - The Arrott Building, located at 401 Wood Street in Pittsburgh, PA, was designed by prominent Pittsburgh architect, Frederick J. Osterling in 1902 and is one of Pittsburgh’s first skyscrapers. The Renaissance Revival-style building stands eighteen stories high and features a brick and terracotta striped masonry exterior on a granite base and capped by a decorative
- [I went to a Marker Dedication and a Car Show Broke Out](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/went-marker-dedication-and-car-show-broke-out/) - I think it is safe to say that the dedication of the new Pennsylvania Historical Marker for Holbert Racing had the most impressive (and expensive) parking lot that has ever existed at a historical marker dedication. Porsche enthusiasts and motor heads from multiple states left their daily drivers at home and came to Warrington, Bucks
- [Bridge for Sale Spotlight: Burnt Mill Road Bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/bridge-for-sale-spotlight-burnt-mill-road-bridge/) - A drive along Burnt Mill Road in Lurgan Township in Franklin County winds around scenic county farmland crossing the Conodoguinet Creek where a monument to Pennsylvania’s industrial past, the Burnt Mill Road Bridge, has stood for the past 136 years. The Burnt Mill Road metal truss bridge (PA-SHARE Resource #2004RE06914) is a 105 foot long
- [PA-SHARE Year in Review](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/share-year-review/) - Lots of us spend many hours in December making lists! Shopping lists, wish lists, grocery lists, top ten lists, to do lists – the list goes on! Given all those lists, I’m very surprised that December isn’t also recognized as National List Month. The internet tells me that it is National Egg Nog Month, National
- [PHMC's Plan to Evaluate Historical Markers](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/phmcs-plan-evaluate-historical-markers/) - The Pennsylvania Historical Marker program has been in existence for more than 100 years. There are currently over 2,500 historical markers in the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission’s (PHMC) inventory. Over 125 of the markers in that inventory are bronze plaques installed by the Pennsylvania Historical Commission (PHC), PHMC’s predecessor, between 1913 and 1933. PHMC's Historical Marker
- [Baseline Survey: An Essential Ingredient in Our Preservation Pantry](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/baseline-survey-essential-ingredient-our-preservation-pantry/) - There are some time-honored recipes in the historic preservation cookbook. The most successful, and dare I say scrumptious, preservation medleys include an essential ingredient – survey. Survey in the historic preservation profession is like the flour in your favorite holiday desserts. Without survey, many preservation projects are challenged to rise to a superior outcome, just
- [Hail to the Queen!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/hail-the-queen/) - The Queen Anne style is one of the most distinctive and popular architectural styles of the Victorian era, with examples of the style found throughout Pennsylvania and the country. With their round turrets, elaborate porches, and abundant decorative trim, they are often considered beloved local landmarks. The Queen Anne style ruled at the turn of
- [Just in time for the Holidays, A "new" set of Shutters for the Gemeinhaus](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-time-for-the-holidays-new-set-shutters-for-the-gemeinhaus/) - This winter, visitors to Bethlehem – the City in Northampton County, Pennsylvania – may see some new changes in the Historic Moravian Bethlehem National Historic Landmark District. Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites just completed the restoration of 88 shutters on the 1741 Gemeinhaus, the oldest building in Bethlehem. The 1741 Gemeinhaus The 1741 Gemeinhaus (PA-SHARE
- [“Instruction Thorough; Situation Delightful.”](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/instruction-thorough-situation-delightful/) - Advertisements for Tuscarora Academy continued to use this phrase more than 50 years after the school was established in 1836. Located in the quaint hamlet of Academia, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, the Tuscarora Academy was a premier 19th century secondary educational institution. Thousands of students, from 47 Pennsylvania counties, more than 30 other states, and six
- [PA SHPO Special Announcement! We're Hiring an Eastern PA Community Preservation Coordinator](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-special-announcement-were-hiring-eastern-community-preservation-coordinator/) - Are you a preservation professional who is skilled at collaboration, outreach, and technical assistance? Then we want to hear from you! The Position The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking a historic preservation specialist to work as the Eastern Pennsylvania Community Preservation Coordinator. This position is based out of PHMC’s Hope Lodge
- [The National Cemetery at Indiantown Gap](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-national-cemetery-indiantown-gap/) - According to the US Department of Veterans Affairs website, nearly 4.9 million individuals—including Veterans of every conflict, from the Revolutionary War to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—are honored by burial in our national cemeteries. Each year about 15 percent of all eligible Veterans are interred in a national cemetery, while about 5 percent opt
- [PA SHPO Environmental Review Changes](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-environmental-review-changes/) - In an effort to better advise and assist state and federal agencies with their responsibilities under Section 106 and the Pennsylvania History Code, Above Ground Environmental Review is shifting from regional to agency-specific reviews, effective November 1, 2021. To find the Above Ground reviewer for a particular federal or state agency, please visit https://www.phmc.pa.gov/Preservation/About/Documents/Above%20Ground%20Reviewer%20Agency%20Assignments_November%201%202021.pdf. Archaeology
- [Precious Metal Preservation: the Lift](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/precious-metal-preservation-the-lift/) - Nestled amongst the oak-covered hills of rural northwest Pennsylvania until very recently sat an iron artifact from a bygone era. Built in 1876 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio, this elegant, metal arch structure is what is termed, in historical bridge parlance, as a bowstring through-truss. Originally owned and maintained by Crawford
- [Finding the Fort: The Juniata College Field School at Fort Halifax Park – Part 2](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/finding-the-fort-the-juniata-college-field-school-fort-halifax-park-part-2/) - In last week's post, we introduced you to this past summer's Juniata College Field School at Fort Halifax Park in Halifax, Dauphin County. This week, we'll tell you about the "major discovery" we hinted at last week! The fifty-three test units, the trench, and the metal detecting survey produced thousands of artifacts, some of them
- [Finding the Fort: The Juniata College Field School at Fort Halifax Park - Part 1](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/finding-the-fort-the-juniata-college-field-school-fort-halifax-park-part-1/) - On our first day at our field school in archaeology, we searched through the soil for mountain peaks: or rather, mountain peak-shaped rocks. That's the tip we were given for finding flakes -fragments of stone produced by Native American flintknapping. Flintknapping is the process of chipping away at a stone to make a point for
- [Archaeology Month in Pennsylvania - 2021 Version](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/archaeology-month-pennsylvania-2021-version/) - October is Pennsylvania Archaeology Month! Every October, events and programs are held across Pennsylvania to celebrate the commonwealth’s deep past. PA SHPO partner agencies and organizations including the State Museum of Pennsylvania (SMOP), the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology (SPA) and their local chapters, the Pennsylvania Archaeological Council (PAC), as well as local historical societies and
- [PA Special Announcement! We're Hiring a Community Preservation Coordinator](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-were-hiring-community-preservation-coordinator/) - Are you a preservation professional who is skilled at collaboration, outreach, and technical assistance? Then we want to hear from you! The Position The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking a historic preservation specialist to work as the Central Pennsylvania Community Preservation Coordinator. Responsibilities include working with PA SHPO staff and partners
- [The Flagship City is now a CLG!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-flagship-city-now-clg/) - The PA SHPO extends hearty congratulations to Pennsylvania’s fourth largest city, the City of Erie, which on May 17th, became one of Pennsylvania’s newest Certified Local Governments (CLG). The certification of Erie City as a CLG is the latest success in a long string of preservation projects and initiatives undertaken by public, private and non-profit
- [George Nakashima Woodworkers Property, a National Historic Landmark and Source for Inspiration and Peace](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/george-nakashima-woodworkers-property-national-historic-landmark-and-source-for-inspiration-and-peace/) - I’ve been lucky enough to visit the idyllic George Nakashima Woodworkers property in Solebury Township, Bucks County three times, once for “work” but each time a genuine pleasure, and I will jump at any chance to return. I hope this deep-ish dive into the story behind George Nakashima and his property inspire you to learn
- [Drone Imagery and Geographic Information Systems for Historic Preservation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/drone-imagery-and-geographic-information-systems-for-historic-preservation/) - The intersection of technology and historic preservation is nothing new as the field has embraced new and different ways to engage with people, diagnose issues in buildings, and find long-buried archaeological sites. This week’s post by Christine Musser of the West Short Historical Society and Harrisburg University tells the story of how drones were used
- ["A common field one day. A field of honor forever."](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/common-field-one-day-field-honor-forever/) - Each person has one event in their lifetime that is so significant that they will say for the remainder of their lives “I remember exactly where I was standing when I heard the news.” An event so significant that it seemed as if time stood still. For the Greatest Generation, they remember where they stood
- [PA SHPO Special Announcement! We're Hiring a Historical Marker and Diversity Coordinator](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-historical-marker-and-diversity-coordinator/) - The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is looking for a dynamic person to fill our Historical Marker & Diversity Coordinator position to expand our efforts to identify, document, and celebrate Pennsylvania's diverse stories, places, and spaces. This is a great opportunity to work with a team of dedicated and forward-thinking preservationists, historians and
- [The Gamble on this Mill Paid Off](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-gamble-this-mill-paid-off/) - The Gamble Mill at 160 Dunlap Street in Bellefonte, Centre County, PA was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 1975, as one of the only remaining grain mills in the county and one with surviving original 18th and 19th century spaces and materials. As the National Register designation makes the
- [You'll Dig our New Archaeologists!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/youll-dig-our-new-archaeologists/) - I can hear the collective groan at that tired old archaeology joke, but I couldn't resist. We have four new(-ish) archaeologists on the PA SHPO team and I wanted to officially welcome them with a blog post. I am confident that you'll enjoy working with them at the PA SHPO just as much as I
- [PA-SHARE's Surveyor is Here!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shares-surveyor-here/) - Are you ready to put PA-SHARE in your pocket and start documenting Pennsylvania’s historic places and archaeological sites? The PA SHPO is pleased to introduce its newest set of tools to conduct both above ground and archaeological survey in Pennsylvania – the PA-SHARE Surveyor suite. What is Surveyor? PA-SHARE Surveyor is a new set of
- [The Mystery at Rodef Shalom](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-mystery-rodef-shalom/) - Last year in what was entirely a stroke of good fortune, Rodef Shalom Congregation in Pittsburgh was awarded a Keystone Construction grant from the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission to replace the sewer system that runs under our Henry Hornbostel-designed sanctuary. Rodef Shalom Congregation The Rodef Shalom (“Pursuer of Peace”) Congregation can trace its beginnings
- [PA SHPO Special Announcement! We're Hiring a Historic Preservation Manager](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-special-announcement-were-hiring-historic-preservation-manager/) - Are you interested in joining a pro-active and dedicated team of preservationists, historians, and archaeologists? The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking a manager to lead the Environmental Review Division and help advance PA SHPO priorities. This position is ideal for a professional with proven relationship-building skills and has broad knowledge of
- [Just Listed! February- July 2021](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-february-july-2021/) - Since our last Just Listed! update at the end of January, thirteen more historic resources have been listed in the National Register of Historic Places! They include the African American churches and cemeteries historic context, several places associated with Pennsylvania’s industrial history, one historic district, and Chimney Rocks – a site in Hollidaysburg (Blair County)
- [Welcome, Sewickley! One of Pennsylvania's New CLGs](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/welcome-sewickley-one-pennsylvanias-new-clgs/) - The PA SHPO is excited to announce the Borough of Sewickley in Allegheny County has become one of the newest members of Pennsylvania’s Certified Local Government program. There are now 48 CLGs in the Commonwealth; Sewickley is one of only seven in the entire PA SHPO Western Region. What is the CLG Program? The Certified
- [Historic Tax Credits + Artists + Braddock = Preservation Success](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historic-tax-credits-artists-braddock-preservation-success/) - There are great examples throughout Pennsylvania - and the country - of historic buildings being repurposed to support, house, and celebrate local and regional arts communities. Two specifically come to mind in Pennsylvania, the GoggleWorks in Reading, Berks County and the Walk In Art Center in Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill County. The Ohringer Artist Residences in
- [Safety: A Priority for all creatures at these Keystone Grant sites](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/safety-priority-for-all-creatures-these-keystone-grant-sites/) - I was surprised earlier this spring when Mary Sorenson, Executive Director of the Centre County Historical Society notified me that their Keystone-funded roof replacement at the Centre Furnace Mansion was delayed. Of course, delays are commonplace for many of our grant projects for a myriad of reasons: structural failures, scheduling conflicts or fundraising challenges. But
- [Preservation Backstory: Emporium's Sylvania Corporation Marker](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservation-backstory-emporiums-sylvania-corporation-marker/) - The Historical Marker Program is one of the PHMC’s most popular public history programs, and the recently approved nominations prove these aluminum markers dotting our roads and city sidewalks are more than just "history on a stick." The words cast into markers and the marker topics have deep meaning to many Pennsylvanians. Each year, newly-cast
- [Resource Round-up: Resources for LGBTQ+ Pride Month in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/resource-round-resources-for-lgbtq-pride-month-pennsylvania/) - June is Pride Month and an opportunity to recognize, celebrate, and support LGBTQ+ communities. This week's post is another in our "Resource Round-Up" series, which we occassionally publish during important months as a guide to learning more about the older and historic places and spaces in Pennsylvania that reflect that month's theme. This one highlights
- [What's New with PA-SHARE](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/whats-new-with-share/) - It has been a few months since we last posted any updates and news-you-can-use for PA-SHARE. Since PA-SHARE launched at the end of February, the PA SHPO team has been hard at work helping our users learn this new system, and collaborating with the developers on bugs and improvements. A huge thank you to everyone
- [Ironing Out the Wrinkles:  Finding a New Life for the Inwood Iron Bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/new-life-for-the-inwood-iron-bridge/) - When travelling between Schuylkill and Lebanon County, some may prefer to skip Interstate 81 and take the more scenic route past Swatara State Park. The park is relatively recent in its formation, created in 1987, and DCNR continues to make infrastructure improvements to provide access to recreational opportunities within the park including biking, hiking, boating,
- [Rehabilitated Mott Street Bridge Reconnects Milford and the Delaware River National Recreation Area](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/rehabilitated-mott-street-bridge-reconnects-milford-and-the-delaware-river-national-recreation-area/) - Driving along East Harford Street in Milford, a compact borough in Pike County nestled between National Historic Landmark Grey Towers and National Park Service’s Delaware River National Recreational Area, it is easy to miss Mott Street. A late 19th century home now hosting the regional newspaper is on one corner of Mott and East Harford
- [Preservation Success Story: Mainstreet Waynesboro, Inc.](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservation-success-story-mainstreet-waynesboro-inc/) - Continuing our theme of Preservation Success Stories this Preservation Month, we’ll feature short interviews with our 2020 Community Initiative Award winners for the next few weeks. Next in line is Mainstreet Waynesboro, Inc., which leads economic development and revitalization activites for Waynesboro, Franklin County's downtown commercial district. They hosted a successful virtual “Historic Designation Celebration” in May 2020 after
- [Preservation Success Story: Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservation-success-story-society-preserve-the-millvale-murals-maxo-vanka/) - Continuing our theme of Preservation Success Stories this Preservation Month, we’ll feature short interviews with our 2020 Community Initiative Award winners for the next few weeks. Last but certainly not least is the Society to Preserve the Millvale Muarls of Maxo Vanka (or SPMMMV for short). SPMMMV was founded in 1991 to raise awareness and educate the public about
- [Preservation Success Story: Old Erie on Foot](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservation-success-story-old-erie-foot/) - Continuing our theme of Preservation Success Stories this Preservation Month, we'll feature short interviews with our 2020 Community Initiative Award winners for the next few weeks. First up is Erin Phillips, aka Old Erie on Foot in the social media world. In July 2018, Erie resident Erin Phillips started her Old Erie on Foot project on Instagtram
- [Designing for Distance in Pennsylvania's Historic Communities](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/designing-for-distance-pennsylvanias-historic-communities/) - To say that COVID-19 changed things about away we live our lives would be the understatement of the century. Virtually everything about the ways in which we live, work, learn, recreate, shop – everything – changed in an instant and we have spent the last 12+ months learning how to adapt, as individuals and communities.
- [Make this Preservation Month a Success by Sharing Your Story!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/make-this-preservation-month-success-sharing-your-story/) - National Historic Preservation Month was started in 1973 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation to draw attention to older and historic places across the country and to highlight the benefits of historic preservation in the nation’s communities. This year, we’re celebrating National Historic Preservation Month by asking our readers to share with us a
- [PA SHPO Special Announcement: We're Hiring a Review Archaeologist!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-special-announcement-were-hiring-review-archaeologist/) - The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking a Historic Preservation Specialist to serve as a Review Archaeologist to work between disciplines and advance SHPO priorities. This position is ideal for a detail oriented and flexible preservation professional with a knowledge of state historic preservation programs. Please note: While the required experience section
- [Section 106: Not Always the Preferred Preservation Outcome](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/section-106-not-always-the-preferred-preservation-outcome/) - The Section 106 process was created to ensure that federal agencies consider historic properties in the planning process for projects they sponsor. Historic properties are those resources listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register. Federal agencies or their applicants deliberate and document consideration of alternatives to avoid or minimize adverse effects during
- [Exploring the Harrisburg Cemetery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/exploring-the-harrisburg-cemetery/) - Spring has sprung in Harrisburg! So when I was deciding what National Register resource to focus on for this week’s blog post, my office mate/dining room table neighbor/husband suggested we take a walk through Harrisburg Cemetery, listed in the National Register in 1985. And what a beautiful afternoon it was! All the photos you will
- [Preserving Pennsylvania’s Stick Style Architecture: Old Lutheran Church in Franklin](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preserving-pennsylvanias-stick-style-architecture-old-lutheran-church-franklin/) - The mid-nineteenth century oil boom is synonymous with northern Venango County, which brought population and construction growth to the city of Franklin. I remember my discovery of the Franklin Historic District’s collection of stately homes, grand commercial structures and awe-inspiring religious buildings when I first joined the PA SHPO office. I was surprised that the
- [Approved Markers for 2021](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/approved-markers-for-2021/) - Soon fans of Pennsylvania's historical markers will be braking for 23 new ones. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) recently approved the next batch of new historical markers at their March 2021 meeting. Approval Criteria require that marker subjects have statewide and/or national rather than local or regional historical significance as well as having
- [Supporting the Section 106 Review Process](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/supporting-section-106/) - One of the many roles for all State Historic Preservation Offices (SHPOs), including Pennsylvania's, outlined in the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) is to advise, assist, and consult on the review of federally assisted projects that have the potential to affect historic properties. This is known as the Section 106 Review Process. In Pennsylvania, the PA SHPO Environmental Review
- [Rehabilitating Wilkes-Barre's Memorial Presbyterian Church](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/rehabilitating-wilkes-barres-memorial-presbyterian-church/) - Rehabilitating a religious property, like a church, using historic tax credits can be very challenging because it is often difficult to match the building's desired new use with the historic floor plan and character-defining spaces. Design professionals and building owners have to negotiate a difficult balance between preserving a church's large, open sanctuaries with the
- [Finding Meaning in Stone](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/finding-meaning-stone/) - Nothing excites the imagination like an unanswered question, and since spring I’ve been exploring a little-recognized mystery here in Pennsylvania. New England has a tradition of dry-laid stone cairns, walls, and chambers that have been variously interpreted over the years as colonial field clearing piles, industrial remains, Celtic structures, Native American memory piles, astronomical observation
- [Preservation's March Madness](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservations-march-madness/) - "March Madness" in the historic preservation world isn't quite the same as the highly competitive, single-elimination college basketball tournaments that happen each March. I've coopted the phrase to describe National Historic Preservation Advocacy Week and the days leading up to it in our office. Just like the NCAA I players that begin prepping and practicing
- [The 2020 PASS Report](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-2020-pass-report/) - For the past several years, PA SHPO archaeologists have issued an annual report - known as the PASS Report - detailing the ongoing efforts to record Pennsylvania’s archaeological sites. Despite 2020’s many challenges, over 280 new archaeological sites were recorded thanks to cultural resource management (CRM) projects and continued contributions from independent research projects, members
- [Subscribing to PA-SHARE](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/subscribing-share/) - We are happy to announce that PA-SHARE users are now able to purchase a Pro or Business subscription! How do I purchase a Pro or Business subscription for PA-SHARE? User can choose their preferred subscription from their User Profile once they have signed in to PA-SHARE. Sign in to PA-SHARE at https://share.phmc.pa.gov/pashare/landing: Go to your
- [Welcome to PA-SHARE!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/welcome-share/) - PA SHPO is excited to announce the launch of PA-SHARE! PA-SHARE is Pennsylvania's new online GIS and project mangement system for working with cultural resources in the Keystone State. You can access PA-SHARE at https://share.phmc.pa.gov/pashare/landing. Take some time this week to sign in for the first time, explore its different features, and get to know
- [Virgil Cantini: Saving Cantini's Mosaics](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/virgil-cantini-saving-cantinis-mosaics/) - Last week’s blog post introduced the life and work of artist Virgil Cantini and highlighted the vulnerable position of postwar public art objects and installations, which often require special expertise to understand and articulate their significance for preservation. This week's post recounts part of the struggle to save one of Cantini’s largest works of public
- [2021: The Year of PA-SHARE](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/2021-the-year-share/) - Every new year is filled with excitement and anticipation of change. Once the page turns (or we click) to the new month, our minds begin a mental list of resolutions, personal goals, and reflections on what we would like to do better, or avoid, from the past year. 2020 was a test for all of
- [Virgil Cantini: A Purpose in Public Art](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/virgil-cantini-purpose-public-art/) - On a sunny August morning in 2017, a group of Pittsburgh-based architects, historians, artists, students, preservationists and art enthusiasts convened before venturing out with a shared goal; to experience first-hand nearly all public artworks accessible in the vicinity, both indoors and outdoors, created by the late Virgil Cantini (1919-2009). Our itinerary for this organized tour
- [Requesting Archaeology Privileges in PA-SHARE](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/requesting-archaeology-privileges-share/) - There are many ways in which PA-SHARE will be different than CRGIS. However, one of the ways in which they are similar is that users will have to request access to view archaeological data. This access is called “archaeological privileges” and users will have to request this access from PA SHPO, even if they currently
- [PA SHPO Environmental Review: Continuity of Operations during COVID-19 State Office Closures](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-environmental-review-continuity-operations/) - UPDATE: Due to public health measures to limit the spread of COVID-19, effective March 30, 2020, we are no longer accepting mailed submissions. Any previously mailed submissions should be resubmitted through PA-SHARE. Please use the process outlined for sending submissions below. The PA SHPO will continue to carry out our consultation responsibilities under Section 106
- [PA-SHARE Basics: Wizards, Submissions and Projects](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/share-basics-wizards-submissions-and-projects/) - Today’s PA-SHARE Basics topic focuses on the process of sending information to PA SHPO through the PA-SHARE system. This process is governed largely through Wizards, Submissions and Projects. If you need a quick refresher for the definitions used in this post – or any other PA-SHARE materials – check out the PA-SHARE Glossary. Wizards The
- [Recent Archaeology on the Upper Ohio River Floodplain](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/recent-archaeology-the-upper-ohio-river-floodplain/) - In 2014 and 2015, professional archaeologists conducted archaeological excavations along the Upper Ohio River in Beaver County. Archaeologists investigated two deeply buried pre-contact Native American sites as part of a cultural resource management (CRM) project associated with a petrochemical plant project. The two sites were registered with the PA SHPO and assigned site numbers 36BV0051
- [PA-SHARE in Less than a Week!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/share-less-than-week/) - PA-SHARE launch is on schedule to launch on Monday, February 22, 2021! What does this mean? It means that all you external users can log in, check it out, and see what we've been working on for the last couple years! You'll either login using your Keystone Login or your Commonwealth of Pennsylvania credentials. Don't
- [Historic Eden Cemetery: Preserving Memory and Protecting Legacy](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historic-eden-cemetery-preserving-memory-and-protecting-legacy/) - The creation of Eden Cemetery in Collingdale, Delaware County was a collaborative effort by African Americans to provide a sanctuary in the Philadelphia area where African Americans could be buried with dignity and respect. Eden's Beginnings Founded at the height of Jim Crow, six years after Plessy v. Ferguson, Eden Cemetery is Philadelphia's African American
- [PA SHPO Special Announcement: We're Hiring a PASS Coordinator!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-special-announcement-were-hiring/) - The PA SHPO is hiring for a Historic Preservation Specialist to serve as the coordinator for the Pennsylvania’s Archaeological Site Survey (PASS) program. Please note: While the required experience section of this job announcement references architectural/historical survey, PA SHPO is looking for an archaeologist to fill this position. This is a quirk in the classification
- [Section 106 Success @ Reading's Penn Street Bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/section-106-success-readings-penn-street-bridge/) - I recently had an opportunity to talk about PennDOT’s Penn Street Bridge Project in Reading at the American Planning Association’s Pennsylvania Chapter conference this past October. There was one hitch: each presenter had only seven minutes. Seven minutes?? I could easily fill hours with Penn Street Bridge stories. The time limit forced me to consider
- [105th PA Farm Show Scavenger Hunt – Virtual Edition!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/105th-farm-show-scavenger-hunt-virtual-edition/) - In light of the current public health crisis and keeping safety a priority, the Department of Agriculture hosted the 105th PA Farm Show virtually to celebrate Pennsylvania’s agriculture industry. The virtual Farm Show brought the stories of agriculture into homes and explored how we can cultivate a brighter tomorrow for Pennsylvania's leading industry. Not to
- [PA-SHARE Basics: The Glossary](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/share-basics-the-glossary/) - PA-SHARE is scheduled to be released to external users later this month! In preparation, our weekly posts will begin to cover some basic, what-you-need-to-know information. Today's post will cover some important key terms that will be helpful to understand when using PA-SHARE. Key Terms Consider post your go-to cheat sheet for an explanation of key
- [Just Listed! January 2021](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-january-2021/) - It's time for our six-month update to bring you the latest and greatest in new National Register of Historic Places listings! Since the end of July 2020 through January 25, 2021, there have been eleven new listings, including an archaeological site, a couple churches, lots of factories, a farm, a goup of parks and a
- [The 2020 PA SHPO Community Initiative Award Winners](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-2020-shpo-community-initiative-award-winners/) - For the past several years, the PA SHPO has used their Community Initiative Award to recognize the hard work and dedication of organizations, municipalities, individuals, and others whose work embodies the spirit of #PreservAtionHappensHere. The three recipients of the 2020 awards have demonstrated the power of digital engagement and the importance of 21st-century tools and
- [Ready – Set – Login!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/ready-set-login/) - One of the most important things you can do to get ready for PA-SHARE when it launches on February 22, 2021 is to have your login credentials at the ready. Basic, Pro, or Business account users will be required to have a login to submit projects and resources in PA-SHARE. This will be either CWOPA
- [Kicking Off PA SHPO's Baseline Survey Effort](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/kicking-off-shpos-baseline-survey-effort/) - PA SHPO is kicking off a three-year effort to collect baseline survey information about thousands of older and historic places across a huge part of Pennsylvania. Why survey? Survey is the process of identifying and gathering data on a community's historic resources. It is more than field survey (the physical search for and recording of historic resources
- [A New Year - Is a Keystone Grant Project A Resolution?](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/new-year-keystone-grant-project-resolution/) - Happy New Year! As much as I would like to count 2021 as a fresh start and forget all about 2020, I first must share how impressed I am with the resilience of our museum and preservation community and its innovation to engage with the public at large. I appreciated the distraction from the 24-hour
- [2020 Blog in Review](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/2020-blog-review/) - In this crazy year, the PA SHPO's blog is the one thing you could count on every week to bring you all sorts of current, relevant, fun and interesting information. I have actually won a trivia contest or two because of something I read in one of our weekly posts! Here is a short recap
- [Window Shopping at 5 of Pennsylvania’s Historic Department Stores](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/window-shopping-5-pennsylvanias-historic-department-stores/) - With the widespread availability of plate glass at the end of the nineteenth century, department stores and window-shopping culture flourished in cities and towns throughout Pennsylvania – especially during the holiday shopping season near the end of the calendar year. From the rise of Solomon Boscov’s Boscov’s Department Store in Reading to the competition between
- [And the 2019 Community Initiative Winners are....](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/2019-community-initiative-winners/) - Each year, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) recognizes the hard work and dedication of outstanding organizations, municipalities, agencies, and individuals whose work embodies the theme of Pennsylvania’s statewide historic preservation plan, #PreservAtionHappensHere, with a PA SHPO Community Initiative Award. This year’s four recipients have demonstrated the value of preserving iconic places and
- [Surveying Western Pennsylvania Communities](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/surveying-western-pennsylvania-communities/) - With support from the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation office, this summer, a team from ASC Group, Inc. and Aurora Research Associates, LLC undertook a community survey project in the Beaver and Monongahela river valleys in western Pennsylvania. The project is part of a wider initiative to conduct a market study of a collection of 11
- [A Preservation Story: Franklin County](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/franklin-county-and-its-preservation-firsts/) - Founded in 1784, and located in the fertile and strategic Cumberland Valley, Franklin County possesses a rich and unique history. A tour through the National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County offers just a glimpse into the rich history of the county, and also highlights the community’s continued efforts to designate and preserve their
- [A New Life for Homestead's Masonic Hall](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/new-life-for-homesteads-masonic-hall/) - Homestead's Masonic Hall is an imposing - and impressive - stone building at the corner of E. 9th Avenue and McClure Street in Homestead, Allegheny County. This early 20th century property anchors the National Register-listed Homestead Historic District and is a local landmark. With the help of state and federal historic tax credits, the formerly
- [Expressions of Interest wanted for Mather Mill and Peace Church](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/expressions-interest-wanted-for-mather-mill-and-peace-church/) - Interested in owning a piece of Pennsylvania's history? Looking for a unique opportunity to rehabilitate a local landmark? Does your organization want a new home in a historic building? PHMC is looking for new owners for Historic Mather Mill in Montgomery County and Peace Church in Cumberland County. Interested parties can submit an Expression of
- [Countdown to PA-SHARE](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/countdown-share/) - Anticipation of PA-SHARE has been building among the staff of the PA State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO). We first introduced PA-SHARE to our partners and the public in early 2018. What is PA-SHARE? PA-SHARE, or Pennsylvania's State Historic and Archaeological Resource Exchange, is the PA SHPO's enterprise-wide, spatially enabled, cultural resource information system, to
- [Resource Round-up: PHMC's Resources for Native American History in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/resource-round-phmcs-resources-for-native-american-history-pennsylvania/) - Since 1990, November has been recognized across the United States as Native American Heritage Month. In Pennsylvania, the story of the Native American peoples who lived in what is now the commonwealth is largely told through archaeology and the sites and artifacts that are uncovered across the landscape. This story, which is still unfolding, is
- [Should I go left or right at the next historical marker?](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/should-left-right-the-next-historical-marker/) - There are only so many times I could run to the Race Street Pier or the Art Museum steps… I needed my next destination. You see, I’ve been logging long distance runs since July 2015 training for seven half-marathons, one full-marathon, and five Broad Street runs to date. I also jump on my dad’s 1970-ish
- [Preserving York County's Hull Drive Bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preserving-york-countys-hull-drive-bridge/) - As the air becomes a little brisker over the last few days, the chill enhances visual clues that autumn has officially arrived. Leaves slowly change from their summer greens to vivid Fall oranges, browns, and reds. During weekend walks around Pennsylvania, another signal of the season is unmistakable: the black and yellow outfits, contrasted with
- [From SPA to PHMC and Back Again – One Archaeologist’s Journey](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/from-spa-phmc-and-back-again-one-archaeologists-journey/) - I grew up in Western Pennsylvania – mostly Somerset County. Everywhere around me there was evidence that we were not the first people to inhabit this land. We all knew about remains of old iron furnaces and coal mines in the woods and almost every farmer had a collection of “arrow heads” from their fields.
- [PA-SHARE in Your Pocket means Efficiency!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/share-your-pocket-means-efficiency/) - PA-SHARE is an innovative platform designed to streamline project submissions. PA-SHPO’s staff, key stakeholders and digital experts came together to design an online system to unite data sources, streamline systems, reduce unnecessary searching, and speed reviews. One of the great results? Surveyor, a mobile tool that is like having PA-SHARE in your pocket. Another great result?
- [Telling a Fuller Story about African American History in Pennsylvania's Chesapeake Bay Watershed](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/telling-fuller-story-about-african-american-history-pennsylvanias-chesapeake-bay-watershed/) - Earlier this month, the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) announced a new pilot project with PHMC, PA DCNR, the states of Maryland and Virginia, and National Park Service Chesapeake Bay to identify, document, and map sites and landscapes in the Chesapeake Bay watershed region significant to African American history and culture. You can read
- [Expanding story telling at Pennsylvania’s cultural sites](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/expanding-story-telling-pennsylvanias-cultural-sites/) - I’ve spent a good bit of my time lately enjoying virtual content from our partner cultural and heritage sites around Pennsylvania. Since many of them have reduced hours and may only accommodate a few visitors at any given time, it is great to have the opportunity to enjoy these places virtually – with my dog
- [Manayunk Main Street Historic District Flood Guide](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/manayunk-main-street-historic-district-flood-guide/) - September is National Preparedness Month. According to the PA Emergency Management Agency (PEMA), this year’s theme is “Disasters don’t wait. Make your plan today.” Now, that’s less a theme than a slogan, but it’s an important reminder of the importance of planning for the unexpected. We usually think about disasters, natural and otherwise, as they
- [Convenience. It’s part of the PA-SHARE plan.](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/convenience-its-part-the-share-plan/) - Last month we officially kicked off the PA-SHARE countdown and gave you a sneak peak into what PA-SHARE is all about. In that post, I introduced four great reasons why you should make PA-SHARE part of your plans. Today we’ll do a deep dive into reason #1 – convenience. What does PA-SHARE convenience look like?
- [Documenting Historic Flood-Prone Communities in Central Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/documenting-historic-flood-prone-communities-central-pennsylvania/) - Over the last year, architectural historians and survey engineers with Commonwealth Heritage Group and ASC Group have been documenting historic properties and communities in Dauphin, Cumberland, and Perry Counties. At the same time, staff from Johnson, Mirmiram, & Thompson have been doing similar work in Juniata County. Disaster Planning Initiative These survey projects were undertaken
- [Buildings on the move: Diners in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/buildings-the-move-diners-pennsylvania/) - If historic preservationists could choose a superpower, it just might be the ability to move buildings to a new location when they are threatened with a proposed demolition. Unfortunately, moving a building is not always possible, rarely practical, and always expensive. But what if there was a building type that was actually built to be
- [Chadds Ford is Pennsylvania's Newest CLG](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/chadds-ford-pennsylvanias-newest-clg/) - The PA SHPO is excited to announce that Chadds Ford Township, Delaware County is the newest participating community to join the Certified Local Government (CLG) program. The National Park Service issued the final certification in July 2020, making the township the 45th CLG in Pennsylvania and the 3rd in Delaware County. Chadds Ford is also
- [#PreservationHappensHere thanks to the PA Historic Preservation Tax Credit](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservationhappenshere-thanks-the-historic-preservation-tax-credit/) - The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (PA DCED) recently announced that it has awarded $5 million in Pennsylvania historic preservation tax credits (PA HPTC) to 22 projects across the commonwealth through the FY 2019-2020 PA HPTC Allocation. The application period for the next round opens October 1, 2020. Preservation Tax Credits awarded to
- [PA SHPO's Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Access](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpos-commitment-diversity-equity-inclusion-access/) - As part of PHMC’s commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access (DEIA), PA SHPO identified ways in which underrepresented stories and places in Pennsylvania can be better identified, documented, and celebrated. Through three proactive efforts —survey, National Register nominations, and historical markers—PA SHPO has identified significant thematic and geographic gaps in Pennsylvania’s cultural resources data.
- [Call for Nominations: Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Board](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/call-for-nominations-pennsylvania-historic-preservation-board/) - The nominating committee of the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Board is seeking letters of interest and resumes from potential Board candidates. The Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Board serves as an advisory committee to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) for preservation policy in the commonwealth. The Board also works with the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office
- [Support Preservation in Pennsylvania by being counted in the 2020 Census](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/support-preservation-pennsylvania-being-counted-the-2020-census/) - No doubt about it - there is a lot going on this year. I don't need to elaborate here about the many ways each and every one of us have had our lives turned around, upside down, or inside out over the last six months. Even the idea of just one more thing to do
- [Preserving Pennsylvania's Historic County Courthouses](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preserving-pennsylvanias-historic-county-courthouses/) - Most Pennsylvanian’s think of jury duty, county assessment records or where they went to apply for their marriage license when someone mentions a courthouse. Not me, I immediately think of the tall columns and central rotunda of Lancaster County’s Courthouse - or the countless hours I spent in its basement pouring through early deed books
- [The Triumphant Note of Women's Equality: the Justice Bell & Women's Suffrage](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-triumphant-note-womens-equality-the-justice-bell-womens-suffrage/) - One hundred years ago, the clapper of the Justice Bell was unchained for the first time so that it could ring out in jubilation to celebrate the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. Suffragists had worked unceasingly for decades for the right to vote before finally achieving their goal in
- [No More Penn Pilot for Historical Aerial Photos!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/more-penn-pilot-for-historical-aerial-photos/) - PA SHPO recently learned that the Penn Pilot website for historical aerial photographs will be taken offline in the near future. Two new online websites offer free access to these photographs, so update your bookmarks! We know many of you make use of this data, as do our staff members, for all types of survey,
- [Just Listed! July 2020](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-july-2020/) - Its time to highlight six more properties in Pennsylvania that have been recently listed in the National Register of Historic Places! Our National Register staff has been working from home to continue to recognize significant historic properties in the commonwealth – and now we can submit nominations to the National Park Service electronically. This
- [Hollidaysburg's Canal Era Houses](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/hollidaysburgs-canal-era-houses/) - With the help of the federal and state historic tax credits, a local team gives the 1847 Canal Houses 1 & 2 in Hollidaysburg, Blair County a third lease on life as retail and commercial space in the borough's historic downtown. Brief History of Canal Houses 1 & 2 While it was founded years after
- [When a door closes, a window opens...](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/when-door-closes-window-opens/) - One of the stereotypes that often accompanies historic preservationists is the battle over replacing historic windows. What good are they in this modern world of central air conditioning and cheap vinyl replacements? Why go through all the trouble to take the time and effort of removing the sashes, repairing the sash cords, resetting the glass,
- [FYI: PA SHPO's Updated Project Review Form!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/fyi-shpos-updated-project-review-form/) - The PA SHPO has recently updated its project review form. Please updated any downloaded or bookmarked forms. You can find the new form on PHMC's website here: https://www.phmc.pa.gov/Preservation/About/Documents/SHPO%20Project%20Review%20Form_Digital%20Submission.pdf Updates include: The PA SHPO address was removed as we are longer accepting paper submissionsAdditional guidance on the requirement to submit the Project Review Form as a
- [#FavoritePAPlaces: PA SHPO's Andrea MacDonald](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/favoritepaplaces-macdonald/) - Pennsylvania’s communities are filled with special and meaningful historic places and spaces that add value to our lives and offer comfort and stability during these challenging times. Now more than ever, it is important to stay connected to our communities. Today's Spotlight: Andrea MacDonald The final entry in PA SHPO’s #FavoritePAPlaces campaign is Andrea MacDonald, Director of the
- [#FavoritePAPlaces: Easton Main Street Initiative's Kim Kmetz](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/favoritepaplaces-kmetz/) - Pennsylvania’s communities are filled with special and meaningful historic places and spaces that add value to our lives and offer comfort and stability during these challenging times. Now more than ever, it is important to stay connected to our communities. Today’s Spotlight: Kim Kmetz The next entry in PA SHPO’s #FavoritePAPlaces campaign is Kim Kmetz, Manager of the
- [#FavoritePAPlaces:  PA Historic Preservation Board's Sue Hannegan](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/favoritepaplaces-hannegan/) - Pennsylvania’s communities are filled with special and meaningful historic places and spaces that add value to our lives and offer comfort and stability during these challenging times. Now more than ever, it is important to stay connected to our communities. Today’s Spotlight: Sue Hannegan The next entry in PA SHPO’s #FavoritePAPlaces campaign is Sue Hannegan, Chair of the
- [#FavoritePAPlaces: Oil City Main Street's Kathy Bailey](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/favoritepaplaces-bailey/) - Pennsylvania’s communities are filled with special and meaningful historic places and spaces that add value to our lives and offer comfort and stability during these challenging times. Now more than ever, it is important to stay connected to our communities. Today’s Spotlight: Kathy Bailey The next entry in PA SHPO’s #FavoritePAPlaces campaign is Kathy Bailey, manager of the
- [#FavoritePAPlaces: Preservation Pittsburgh's Matthew Falcone](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/favoritepaplaces-falcone/) - Pennsylvania’s communities are filled with special and meaningful historic places and spaces that add value to our lives and offer comfort and stability during these challenging times. Now more than ever, it is important to stay connected to our communities. Today’s Spotlight: Matthew Falcone The next entry in PA SHPO’s #FavoritePAPlaces campaign is Matthew Falcone, President of the Preservation
- [#FavoritePAPlaces: Preservation Pennsylvania's Mindy Crawford](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/favoritepaplaces-crawford/) - Pennsylvania’s communities are filled with special and meaningful historic places and spaces that add value to our lives and offer comfort and stability during these challenging times. Now more than ever, it is important to stay connected to our communities. Today’s Spotlight: Mindy Crawford The next entry in PA SHPO’s #FavoritePAPlaces campaign is Mindy Crawford, Executive Director of Preservation
- [#FavoritePAPlaces: Preservation Alliance's Paul Steinke](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/favoritepaplaces-steinke/) - Pennsylvania’s communities are filled with special and meaningful historic places and spaces that add value to our lives and offer comfort and stability during these challenging times. Now more than ever, it is important to stay connected to our communities. Today's Spotlight: Paul Steinke The next entry in PA SHPO’s #FavoritePAPlaces campaign is Paul Steinke, Executive Director of the
- [#FavoritePAPlaces: PHMC's Andrea Lowery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/favoritepaplaces-lowery/) - Pennsylvania’s communities are filled with special and meaningful historic places and spaces that add value to our lives and offer comfort and stability during these challenging times. Now more than ever, it is important to stay connected to our communities. Today’s Spotlight: Andrea Lowery The next entry in PA SHPO’s #FavoritePAPlaces campaign is Andrea Lowery, Executive Director
- [#FavoritePAPlaces: PA Humanities Council's Laurie Zierer](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/favoritepaplaces-zierer/) - Pennsylvania’s communities are filled with special and meaningful historic places and spaces that add value to our lives and offer comfort and stability during these challenging times. Now more than ever, it is important to stay connected to our communities. Today’s Spotlight: Laurie Zierer The next entry in PA SHPO’s #FavoritePAPlaces campaign is Laurie Zierer, Executive Director
- [#FavoritePAPlaces: West Chester BID's Malcolm Johnstone](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/favoritepaplaces-johnstone/) - Pennsylvania’s communities are filled with special and meaningful historic places and spaces that add value to our lives and offer comfort and stability during these challenging times. Now more than ever, it is important to stay connected to our communities. Today’s Spotlight: Malcolm Johnstone The next entry in PA SHPO’s #FavoritePAPlaces campaign is Malcolm Johnstone, Executive Director
- [#FavoritePAPlaces: Preservation Erie's Melinda Meyer](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/favoritepaplaces-meyer/) - Pennsylvania’s communities are filled with special and meaningful historic places and spaces that add value to our lives and offer comfort and stability during these challenging times. Now more than ever, it is important to stay connected to our communities. Today’s Spotlight: Melissa Meyer The next entry in PA SHPO’s #FavoritePAPlaces campaign is Melinda Meyer, Board of
- [#FavoritePAPlaces: Endless Mountain's Cain Chamberlin](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/favoritepaplaces-chamberlin/) - Pennsylvania’s communities are filled with special and meaningful historic places and spaces that add value to our lives and offer comfort and stability during these challenging times. Now more than ever, it is important to stay connected to our communities. Today's Spotlight: Cain Chamberlain The next entry in PA SHPO's #FavoritePAPlaces campaign is Cain Chamberlin,
- [#FavoritePAPlaces: PAC's Ira Beckerman](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/favoritepaplaces-beckerman/) - Pennsylvania’s communities are filled with special and meaningful historic places and spaces that add value to our lives and offer comfort and stability during these challenging times. Now more than ever, it is important to stay connected to our communities. Today’s Spotlight: Ira Beckerman The next entry in PA SHPO’s #FavoritePAPlaces campaign is Ira Beckerman, President of
- [#FavoritePAPlaces: PDC's Julie Fitzpatrick](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/favoritepaplaces-fitzpatrick/) - Pennsylvania’s communities are filled with special and meaningful historic places and spaces that add value to our lives and offer comfort and stability during these challenging times. Now more than ever, it is important to stay connected to our communities. Today's Spotlight: Julie Fitzpatrick The next entry in PA SHPO's #FavoritePAPlaces campaign is Julie Fitzpatrick,
- [#FavoritePAPlaces: PHMC's Nancy Moses](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/favoritepaplaces-moses/) - Pennsylvania’s communities are filled with special and meaningful historic places and spaces that add value to our lives and offer comfort and stability during these challenging times. Now more than ever, it is important to stay connected to our communities. #FavoritePAPlaces In honor of National Historic Preservation Month, PA SHPO is highlighting some of these
- [#FavoritePAPlaces: Quakertown Alive!'s Naomi Naylor](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/favoritepaplaces-naylor/) - Pennsylvania’s communities are filled with special and meaningful historic places and spaces that add value to our lives and offer comfort and stability during these challenging times. Now more than ever, it is important to stay connected to our communities. Today's Spotlight: Naomi Naylor The next entry in PA SHPO’s #FavoritePAPlaces campaign is Naomi Naylor, executive director
- [Cultural Resource Management at Graeme Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/cultural-resource-management-graeme-park/) - In the winter/spring of 2020, the PA SHPO initiated a pilot project to build a toolkit that will help the PHMC develop cultural resource management plans for the properties that we operate. What is a Cultural Resource Management Plan? Cultural resource management plans (CRMP) allow agencies and other organizations to integrate historic preservation concerns into
- [Dip into History: Five Historic Pools and Swimming Holes in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/dip-into-history-five-historic-pools-and-swimming-holes-pennsylvania/) - Summer is definitely here in Pennsylvania! And when the weather turns hot and humid, my mind turns to swimming and lazy days by the water. Historic pools and swimming holes probably aren't the first things that come to mind when you think "historic resource." You'd be surprised at what I find in CRGIS! Even if
- [#ReadyForPreservation: Tools & Tips to Support Your Downtown's Recovery & Revitalization](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/readyforpreservation-tools-tips-support-your-downtowns-recovery-revitalization/) - Pennsylvania downtowns are the economic, social, and cultural heart of many communities. Downtown buildings, businesses and activities often reflect a community’s history, values and economic core as well as the aspirations of local leaders and community members. Today, Pennsylvania downtowns are facing the daunting task of responding to the current economic havoc and planning for
- [We will bounce back in Emmaus](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/will-bounce-back-emmaus/) - When the PA SHPO asked me to write a blog entry about what place I am most looking forward to reconnecting with after we settle into the Lehigh Valley’s “new normal,” I thought about the recent conversation I had with my 12-year old son. We were driving through downtown Emmaus (sometimes spelled Emaus), a few
- [Vietnamese History in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/vietnamese-history-pennsylvania/) - In addition to being National Historic Preservation Month, May is also Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and the perfect time to share this story by PA SHPO's 2019 Keystone Intern, Yen Ho. Yen is a Vietnamese American from southeast Pennsylvania who, in addition to her summer project, helped the PA SHPO learn more about the places important
- [Preserving Historic Metal Truss Bridges](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preserving-historic-metal-truss-bridges/) - Pennsylvania has a long and important history related to metal truss design, fabrication and erection. PennDOT's SPIKE funding may help with their preservation as part of the commonwealth's transportation infrastructure. Pennsylvania is full of historic metal truss bridges Pennsylvania's varied terrain necessitated the building of many thousands of bridges. Additionally, the era of metal truss
- [From Silk to Toothbrushes at the Kutztown Silk Mill](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/from-silk-toothbrushes-the-kutztown-silk-mill/) - This historic silk mill in Kutztown, Berks County was recently transformed into the new home of toothbrush manufacturer, Radius, thanks to the federal and state historic preservation tax credits. Silk History in the Lehigh Valley On January 22, 1912, Desiderius George Dery, the largest individual producer of silk in America -possibly in the world -
- [Remembering Jim Vaughan](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/remembering-jim-vaughan/) - PHMC's former Executive Director and State Historic Preservation Officer, Jim Vaughan, passed away on Thursday, April 23, 2020. Jim was appointed as Pennsylvania's State Historic Preservation Officer and PHMC's Executive Director in November 2011. He left retirement to serve the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Before retiring, Jim had spent decades working in the history and preservation
- [A Rockshelter Awakens](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/rockshelter-awakens/) - Four years of background research and two years of carefully documented shovel test pits finally came to fruition on August 1, 2019. The first two buckets from Shovel Test Pit (STP) 6 yielded a dozen or so chert flakes. Then in that next bucket – pay dirt!!! On top of the loose soil and hunks
- [Supporting Pennsylvania's Main Streets](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/supporting-pennsylvanias-main-streets/) - As one of PA SHPO’s Community Preservation Coordinators, one of the more heartening things I've observed (and participated in) the past few weeks has been the response of many Main Street communities and their partners to the COVID 19 crisis. National Main Street programs - and many other communities - and their partner organizations are
- [Say Happy Birthday with ReGIS!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/say-happy-birthday-with-regis/) - This week, one of my close friends will have a birthday. Given our current situation, I can't get out to my local gift shop to buy him the fun, creative, and unique card that I normally do each April. CRGIS to the rescue. I'm sure you're scratching your head and thinking, "Shelby has finally lost
- [Inspiration in Philadelphia](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/inspiration-philadelphia/) - When the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia announces the recipients of their annual Preservation Achievement Awards, I immediately skim through the list of properties looking for familiar names and places. This year’s list did not disappoint. I thought it would be fun to share a bit of detail about some of the PA SHPO-connected properties
- [Advocacy Week 2020](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/advocacy-week-2020/) - Each year, the PA SHPO and members of Preservation Pennsylvania join other SHPOs and historic preservation partners from across the country in Washington for National Historic Preservation Advocacy Week to learn from and network with other states and educate our federal legislators about the important of historic places and spaces in Pennsylvania. In this post,
- [Digitization Project Update!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/digitization-project-update/) - In Fall 2017, PA SHPO contracted with JMT to help us complete an ambitious digitization project to turn all of the CD and paper files in the PA SHPO file room into digital documents for greater accessibility and as part of the move to the PA SHARE system. All the files scanned are available on
- [Dedicated Volunteers Preserve the Embassy Theatre in Lewistown, Mifflin County](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/dedicated-volunteers-preserve-the-embassy-theatre-lewistown-mifflin-county/) - The historic Embassy Theatre in Lewistown is one of the community’s most beloved and iconic structures. It is being rehabilitated with the help of a Keystone Historic Preservation Grant. Brief History of the Embassy Built in 1927, it was the cultural peak of entertainment for many decades, but suffered to television and other competition, as
- [March Marker Mania 2020](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/march-marker-mania-2020/) - Soon there will be some new markers out there for you to brake for! Earlier this month, PHMC approved twenty-four new historical markers for an amazing range of subjects that highlight even more interesting Pennsylvania facts and figures. Proactive Marker Program Many of this year's round of Pennsylvania Historical Markers are associated with PA SHPO's
- [PA SHPO COVID-19 Update](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-covid-19-update/) - Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) offices throughout the commonwealth are closed. PA SHPO and PHMC staff continue to work remotely and will respond to inquiries received via voicemail and email. Please read the information below to understand how PA SHPO is responding to the COVID-19 outbreak:Community Preservation: Our Community Preservation Coordinators remain available via
- [Defending Fort Dewart, a Legacy of Stewardship](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/defending-fort-dewart-legacy-stewardship/) - 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. Situated atop the Bald Summit of Allegheny Mountain along the Bedford-Somerset County line, Bill Nuzzo founded the residential mountain community of Folmont in 1972. The scenic
- [Pennsylvania Archaeological Site Survey is seeking an Intern!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvania-archaeological-site-survey-seeking-intern/) - The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking an archaeological research intern to work with the Pennsylvania Archaeological Site Survey (PASS) program. This will be an exciting opportunity to conduct research about the history of survey in Pennsylvania, conduct site documentation projects, and work with SHPO archaeologists to record Pennsylvania’s archaeological heritage. Project
- [PA SHPO's 2016 Community Initiative Award Winners](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/2016-community-initiative-award-winners/) - 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 2016 awardees are Bradford Revitalization Team (McKean County), East Liberty Development, Inc. (Allegheny County), and Hidden City Philadelphia (Philadelphia). What
- [PA SHPO's 2018 Community Initiative Award Winners](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/2018-community-initiative-award-winners/) - 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
- [100 Years After Prohibition, the Legacy of Pennsylvania’s Historic Breweries Survives](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/100-years-after-prohibition-legacy-pennsylvanias-historic-breweries-survives/) - As 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. In an earlier post commemorating the passage of the 17th Amendment which laid the groundwork for Prohibition, I noted the many losses of historic businesses and
- [Northside's Historic Tax Credit Success Story](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/northsides-historic-tax-credit-success-story/) - In Pittsburgh's Northside, the historic tax credit program helped transform 148 historic buildings into new homes for over 250 residents. A Look at Northside Pittsburgh's Northside is a large area of the city north of the Allegheny and Ohio rivers. It isn't one specific neighborhood, but a group of eighteen smaller neighborhoods. It is also
- [YOUR Archaeological Site Survey: a Shout-Out to 2019 PASS Contributors](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/your-archaeological-site-survey-shout-out-2019-pass-contributors/) - The PHMC has been a steward of archaeological site information in Pennsylvania since the late 1920s. This started with the Pennsylvania Historical Commission’s acquisition of the Pennsylvania Indian Survey in 1927, continued with the issuing of Smithsonian Trinomial site numbers beginning in the 1940s, and was formalized with the creation of the Pennsylvania Archaeological Site
- [Resource Round-up: PHMC's Resources for Studying  Pennsylvania's African American History](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/resource-round-phmcs-resources-for-studying-pennsylvanias-african-american-history/) - In 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. National Register Nominations and HRSFs There are thousands of records in PA SHPO's online GIS database, CRGIS, that researchers, historians, and
- [Of Paper and Parks: A Varied History of Mount Holly Springs](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/paper-and-parks-varied-history-mount-holly-springs/) - This week's post about Mount Holly Springs in Cumberland County is the third in our series about the Tri-County Survey for PA SHPO's Disaster Planning for Historic Properties Initiative. In previous posts, we wrote about Lykens, Dauphin County and Blain, Perry County. Nestled in the foothills of the South Mountain range separating Cumberland and Adams
- [Walking the Harrisburg Historic District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/february-american-heart-month/) - Did 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? Well I didn’t. But I do find it interesting that both American Heart Month’s proclamation and the passage of the groundbreaking historic preservation were passed by
- [Just Listed! January 2020](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-january-2020/) - 2019 was a BIG year for the National Register program in Pennsylvania. Since our last update, 16 listings have been added or updated. One listing that has been a long time coming is The Grotto, Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine – Pennsylvania’s second Traditional Cultural Property (TCP). The property was first nominated by the PA
- [Making #PreservationHappensHere with CLG Grants](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/making-preservationhappenshere-with-clg-grants/) - The PA SHPO has awarded six communities grants to improve their municipality’s historic preservation program through the Certified Local Government (CLG) Grant Program. These grant funds will allow each of the communities to undertake projects that will advance preservation goals and achieve preservation outcomes in ways that are important to the community. A total of
- [It's a Wonderful Life](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/its-wonderful-life/) - We all know the story of the classic American film, It's a Wonderful Life. But did you know that the star of this quintessential holiday film is a Pennsylvanian? And that there is a Pennsylvania Historical Marker for this star? Pennsylvania's Jimmy Stewart James "Jimmy" Maitland Stewart was born in Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania on
- [PA SHPO's Top 10 Posts of 2019](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpos-top-10-posts-2019/) - It 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. The top 10 posts include several oldies but goodies and some newcomers that have made their way into our most-viewed-posts-ever list. The top 10 viewed PA
- [Historic Tax Credits and the Rebirth of Philly's Metropolitan Opera House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historic-tax-credits-and-the-rebirth-phillys-metropolitan-opera-house/) - The 1908 Metropolitan Opera House on North Broad Street is undoubtedly a preservation success story. The Met, as its affectionately called, was recently rehabilitated and reopened with thanks, in part, to the federal historic tax credit program. The Met's History The Metropolitan Opera House is located on North Broad Street in Philadelphia between Center City
- [Testimonials in Pennsylvania's Preservation Tool Box](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/testimonials-pennsylvanias-preservation-tool-box/) - 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. Testimonials The production of testimonial
- [An Architectural Masterpiece: Visiting Founder’s Hall](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/architectural-masterpiece-visiting-founders-hall/) - I have a fascination with historic architecture. That is what launched me on in my career path. There is just something about a well-designed building that strikes awe in me. I feel it when I enter the state Capitol Building here in Harrisburg or when I walk through a quaint Lancaster City neighborhood. It amazes
- [Marking Thanksgiving](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/marking-thanksgiving/) - Knowing I’d need to write a post for Thanksgiving week, I went to my favorite internet search engine and typed in “Thanksgiving and Pennsylvania”. Among the hundreds of results was one for a Pennsylvania Historical Marker. Really? We have a marker related to Thanksgiving? In 2015, PHMC dedicated a marker to Sarah Josepha Hale at
- [Summer Plans? Be a Keystone Intern!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/summer-plans-keystone-intern/) - One of the most important parts of a student’s education is an internship. It is an opportunity to gain real-life work experience, explore the many different types of things people in the real world do in your field of interest, and build personal and professional relationships that can support you throughout your career. We’d like
- [From a Creek Came a Village: A Brief History of the Town of Blain](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/from-creek-came-village-blain/) - Since our last update on the Tri-County survey project in Dauphin County, the Commonwealth Heritage Group and ASC Group survey teams have crossed the Susquehanna River and begun surveying communities in Cumberland and Perry Counties. As part of the Disaster Planning for Historic Properties Initiative, we are continuing to survey historic resources located in flood-prone
- [Celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month with the August Wilson House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrate-national-arts-and-humanities-month-with-the-august-wilson-house/) - 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. Much like National Historic Preservation Month celebrated by the preservation community in May, National Arts and
- [Let’s Raise a Glass to the 100th Anniversary of Prohibition! (Preferably at a historic brewery)](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/100th-anniversary-prohibition/) - The year 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution. In Pennsylvania, a state with a large number of breweries, courtesy of our English and German ancestry, as well as an excellent climate for the growing of hops and malt, the impact was dramatic. What was the 18th
- [Welcome, new Preservation Board members!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/welcome-new-preservation-board-members/) - The Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Board is a little known, but incredibly talented, group of professionals from across the commonwealth. What is the Preservation Board? The Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Board was officially created in 1980. You can read about its interesting history and first members in this post from February 2016. Under the PA History Code
- [The Society at 90: Celebrating the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology’s 90th Year with a Look at the Present and the Future!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-society-90-look-the-present-and-the-future/) - This Archaeology Month, we are celebrating the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology’s 90th year. As part of that celebration, we are taking over the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office’s Blog for two weeks. Last week we looked at how the society was founded, and this week we are going to see what the Society for Pennsylvania
- [The Society at 90: Celebrating the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology’s 90th Year with a Look Back at our Beginnings](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-society-90-spas-past/) - In 1929, the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology (SPA) was formed to promote the study of archaeology within the Commonwealth. Throughout the history of the SPA, up to and including today, the SPA has provided a forum for amateur and professional archaeologists to work together, share their findings, and piece together the archaeology of Pennsylvania. To
- [PA SHPO is Hiring!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-hiring/) - HISTORIC PRESERVATION SPECIALIST, Pennsylvania SHPO THE POSITION Are you interested in joining a pro-active and dedicated team of preservationists, historians, and archaeologists? If you have the experience and training to be a Historic Preservation Specialist, we have the job for you! DESCRIPTION OF WORK The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking a Historic Preservation Specialist
- [Philadelphia’s Urban Landscape, a NUTTY Place](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/philadelphias-urban-landscape/) - 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. While it was interesting to learn about Franklin Square's majestic fountain, the Parx Liberty carousel, and
- [December means Holidays and Historical Markers!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/december-means-holidays-and-historical-markers/) - The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) invites members of the public to prepare and submit marker nominations for the upcoming December 1, 2019 annual deadline. The Historical Marker Program is one of PHMC’s most popular public programs, with nearly 2,500 markers throughout the Commonwealth and new ones dedicated each year. Nominating markers The nomination
- [CRGIS your Commute!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/crgis-your-commute/) - 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
- [Mather Mill: A Model for Developing Resiliency for Historic Properties](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mather-mill-model-for-developing-resiliency-for-historic-properties/) - On October 3rd, 2018, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) hosted a demonstration workshop to explore resiliency options for Mather Mill, a National Register–listed gristmill constructed ca. 1820 in Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County. The workshop was conducted as part of PA SHPO’s Disaster Planning for Historic Properties (DPHP) initiative, a program developed with
- [400 Years of African American History](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/400-years-african-american-history/) - It's been 400 years since the documented arrival of African people in America. In August 1619 the first enslaved Africans were brought to the English colonies at Point Comfort, Virginia. To recognize the contributions and commemorate the resilience of African Americans, the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) will be sharing highlights from the Pennsylvania
- [Lykens: A Case Study on the After-Effects of Flooding on Pennsylvania’s Communities](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/lykens-case-study-the-after-effects-flooding/) - In the last installment about the ongoing Disaster Planning for Historic Properties Initiative we focused on survey work in the City of Harrisburg. Since that time, the survey teams led by Commonwealth Heritage Group and ASC Group have moved on to other communities in Dauphin County. Located at the northern end of the county, Lykens
- [Disaster Planning in the Capital: Surveying the City of Harrisburg](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/disaster-planning-surveying-harrisburg/) - As part of the Commonwealth’s Disaster Planning for Historic Properties Initiative, the PA SHPO and the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission (TCRPC) have partnered to continue the state’s efforts to inventory flood-prone historic buildings for integration into the County’s Hazard Mitigation Plan.
- [“Before I get carried away with THE HOUSE”](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/before-carried-away-house/) - The Hassrick House was designed in 1958 by Richard Neutra, famed modernist architect, for “Doll” and Ken Hassrick. As a wedding present, the Hassrick’s were given three acres and a Buggati. This land was gifted from Doll’s family parcel off of Schoolhouse Lane in Philadelphia. In more recent history, the house has been used for
- [Getting to Know Mod Betty Better](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mod-betty-better/) - In the second installment of this two-part interview with Pennsylvania Historic Preservation blog, Mod Betty discusses her research methods, her main influences, and “the ones that got away.” Missed Part 1? Read it here! Take us on a trip with you to a city or town you’ve never been to before. What are you on
- [Archaeology students help uncover Stroudsburg’s history](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/archaeology-students-help-uncover-stroudsburgs-history/) - Where Main and 9th Streets meet in downtown Stroudsburg, Monroe County, PA has been occupied by people since long before the streets were constructed. The Stroud Mansion Today, the historic 1795 Georgian-style Stroud Mansion prominently stands at the intersection. Originally built by Jacob Stroud for his son Daniel, the structure now serves as the headquarters
- [Honoring local Veterans through the Keystone Fund](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/honoring-veterans-keystone-fund/) - Many communities across Pennsylvania have prominent memorials to honor their local veterans. Centre County is no exception displaying their memorial proudly in front of the Centre County Courthouse in downtown Bellefonte. A prominent feature of the memorial is the center statue of Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin (1815-1894), Pennsylvania’s fifteenth governor serving from 1861 to 1867.
- [Getting to Know Mod Betty](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/getting-know-mod-betty/) - Phoenixville's Mod Betty talks about preservation and place.
- [Mapping the Wallace Paths (aka those new red lines on CRGIS)](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mapping-the-wallace-paths/) - New data set for Wallace's "Indian Paths of Pennsylvania" added to CRGIS.
- [Laurel Hill State Park and HistoriCorps: Partnership for Preservation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/laurel-hill-historicorps-partnership/) - The HistoriCorps Laurel Hill State Park Mess Hall project relied on a crucial partnership between Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), the Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation’s Friends of Laurel Hill, the 501(c)3 preservation organization HistoriCorps, and HistoriCorps’ workforce of volunteers who arrived on the jobsite from homes all over the country.
- [Artifacts in the Attic](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/artifacts-the-attic/) - The Peter Wentz Farmstead is a fascinating Montgomery County landmark. Built in 1758 by first-generation German-American farmer Peter Wentz and his wife Rosanna, the impressive Georgian home is perhaps most famous for its role in the American Revolution, having served as George Washington’s headquarters in the run-up to and aftermath of the Battle of Germantown
- [Just Listed! New National Register Listings in PA](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-new-national-register-listings/) - 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.
- [Celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride Month with Pennsylvania History](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/lgbtq-pride-month/) - June is LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer) Pride Month, a time to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, how far we’ve come in the advancement of equal rights, and to recognize the work that’s yet to be done. This year’s Pride Month is notable because it marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. In
- [Updated Electronic Data Submission Guidelines](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/updated-electronic-data-submission-guidelines/) - PA SHPO has issued new electronic data submission guidelines.
- [Titusville, Drafting Community-Focused Design Guidelines to Promote Preservation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/titusville-design-guidelines/) - Design guidelines have long been considered the “level” in the preservation toolbox. These handy documents provide guidance to property owners within a historic district on how to appropriately care for their building. Addressing issues as diverse as retaining the three components of a historic storefront for that Main Street commercial building, to choosing gutters and
- [Preserving Laurel Hill CCC Camps - Part 2](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/laurel-hill-ccc-camps-part-2/) - 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. The Good Ole Days in the Western PA Woodlands My fondest childhood memories stem from
- [Saving the Watts Mill Road Bridge: Part 1](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/watts-mill-road-bridge-part-1/) - Beaver County's Watts Mill Road Bridge, a National Register-listed Pratt pony truss bridge built in 1878, will be preserved as a new pedestrian crossing through the collaborative efforts of PennDOT, Workin' Bridges, Beaver County, and the citizens of Beaver County.
- [#PreservationHappensHere](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservationhappenshere/) - May is Historic Preservation Month and what better way to kick it off than with a fun – and impactful – social media campaign about our favorite hashtag, #PreservationHappensHere! #PreservationHappensHere! isn’t just the title of Pennsylvania’s statewide historic preservation plan. It’s also the idea that great preservation activities are happening every day across the commonwealth.
- [#PreservAtionhappenshere!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservationhappenshere-old/) - How does the old saying go? Do you see the glass half empty or is the glass half full? At times we are all prone to thinking that the glass is half empty - particularly because it often feels like we are in an uphill battle when it comes to historic preservation. We are going to try and
- [Out of the ashes: Taking stock of our own landmarks in the wake of Notre Dame](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/out-the-ashes-taking-stock-our-own-landmarks-the-wake-notre-dame/) - The fire that ravaged the Cathedral of Notre Dame in mid-April was a tragedy felt around the world. In a digitally-connected age, viewers from all parts of the globe were able to watch the flames engulf the centuries old landmark in real time and collectively grieve in ways previously unimaginable. The fire will become an
- [PA SHPO Goes to Washington!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-goes-washington/) - A few of my PA SHPO colleagues and I traveled to Washington, D.C. in March to join State Historic Preservation Offices and other preservationists from around the country at National Historic Preservation Advocacy Week. Sponsored by the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers (NCSHPO) and Preservation Action, the week includes workshops and presentations that
- [5 Things to Know about the New and Improved Certified Local Government Program](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/5-things-know-about-the-new-and-improved-certified-local-government-program/) - The Certified Local Government (CLG) program is one of the unsung heroes of the historic preservation world. Less well known than the National Register, Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits and Section 106, the CLG program’s utilitarian name has surely contributed to the bewilderment about what the program can do for community-level preservation efforts over the years.
- [#PreservAtionHappensHere @ Eckley Miners’ Village](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservationhappenshere-eckley/) - An intra-agency effort is underway to plan for the future of PHMC’s Eckley Miners’ Village. In October 2018, the PHMC was awarded a federal grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission to support the completion of a strategic plan for Eckley. The desired outcome will result in a sustainable future for Eckley that will enable the
- [Spring = New Historical Markers!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/spring-new-historical-markers-2019/) - Earlier this month, PHMC approved 18 new historical markers to the collection of over 2,500 for subjects that run the gamut from notable athletes to a late 19th century African American archaeological site in Mercer County. In the Eastern part of the commonwealth... Anna T. Jeanes (Philadelphia) - A Quaker abolitionist and activist, Jeanes made plans for
- [Answering the Key Questions about Local Historic Preservation in PA](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/key-questions-local-historic-preservation/) - Have you ever wondered WHERE local historic preservation programs are being implemented in Pennsylvania? After a year-long study of historic preservation ordinances, supported by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, we can now answer that question… and we can also begin to answer the WHO, the HOW and the WHY NOT. Before this study, we knew
- [Update! Pennsylvania's State Historic Preservation Tax Credit](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/update-state-historic-preservation-tax-credit/) - Lots of work has been going on these past few weeks to reauthorize and expand Pennsylvania's state Historic Preservation Tax Credit. Take a look! If you need a quick recap of what the program is, what it does, and why it matters, check out our January post. Here is what's new since then... Preservation Pennsylvania's
- [The Pennsylvania Archaeological Site Survey (PASS), A Look Forward and Back](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pass-report-2019/) - Did you know that Pennsylvania contains over 25,300 recorded archaeological sites? That’s not counting several hundred archaeological finds, such as isolated projectile points, which we don’t count as sites. And it goes without saying, this doesn’t include the sites that are yet to be found and documented! Annual PASS Report Each spring we take a
- [Special Announcement! PA SHPO looking for Archaeology Intern](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/announcement-shpo-archaeology-intern/) - The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office is seeking an archaeology research intern to help with the development of a proactive, statewide survey program: the Pennsylvania Archaeological Site Survey (PASS). This will be an exciting opportunity to conduct research and analysis of existing statewide survey models, and the work will feed into a feasibility study and
- [Showing the Love for Crawford Grill No. 2, a Once Swinging Hot Spot in Pittsburgh](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/showing-love-crawford-grill-2/) - Like many urban areas, Pittsburgh had a vibrant nighttime music scene presenting fabulous music of all genres. But it was jazz music that flowed freely from one major venue, the Crawford Grill. In our second post this Black History Month, read on about this amazing place. Gus Greenlee The Hill District neighborhood, located immediately east
- [Offbeat Outing: The Green Book in Philadelphia](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/green-book-philadelphia/) - Some of my colleagues are known to check their Facebook accounts while they drink their morning coffee, and on more than one occasion that has resulted in a Facebook message or email with the subject line “I have a great idea…” One of these great ideas led to one of the more interesting, informative, and
- [2019 Pennsylvania At Risk Announced](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/2019-pennsylvania-risk/) - This week, Preservation Pennsylvania, the nonprofit dedicated to advocacy for and preservation of historic places across the commonwealth, announced the 2019 Pennsylvania At Risk. This list of endangered historic resources began in 1992 draw statewide attention to the plight of Pennsylvania’s historic resources; promote and support local action to protect historic properties; and encourage funding
- [Archaeology for the People and by the… PennDOT?](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/archaeology-penndot/) - Yep, you’re reading that right: the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) does archaeology! Public perceptions of PennDOT can run the gamut from potholes to plow trucks. If this is your first time reading about archaeology at PennDOT, that’s because we have not always been very good at talking about it. We know that and we’re
- [2019 as the Year of the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Tax Credit?](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/update-pas-historic-preservation-tax-credit/) - The Chinese calendar says 2019 is the Year of the Pig. I’m feeling optimistic and thinking that 2019 might also be the Year of the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Tax Credit. What is the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Tax Credit (PA HPTC)? The Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Tax Credit (PA HPTC) provides tax credits to qualified taxpayers who
- [CRGIS in the Classroom](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/crgis-classroom/) - If you use Pennsylvania's Cultural Resources GIS (CRGIS) on a regular basis, you already know that it is an invaluable resource for preservation planning and research-- a one-stop shop for survey and inventory information on more than 130,000 historic properties across the state. You may also have noticed a number of recent improvements that have made
- [Vision for Preservation in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/vision-preservation-pennsylvania/) - In May 2018, as my daughter Josie was putting elementary school behind her, Pennsylvania’s new statewide historic preservation plan, #PreservAtionHappensHere, was released. The plan was developed with a series of guiding principles in mind, engaged thousands of Pennsylvanians, gathered and analyzed pages upon pages of data, was steered and tested by an external task force
- [Sharing PA-SHARE](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/sharing-share/) - Over its 50 years of operation, the PA State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) has produced and received a large and varied quantity of archival materials. This includes Environmental Review files, more than 13,000 archaeology and above ground survey reports, 165,000 historic and archaeological resource forms, National Register nominations, tax credit applications, and more that amounts
- [Windows to the Soul?](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/windows-building-soul/) - If the eyes are the windows to the soul, maybe windows help convey the soul or true nature of historic buildings? Old building enthusiasts often cringe at the very bad things that have been done to original windows. For whatever reason, historical significance or pure aesthetics, the proportions, style, design and materials of windows have
- [PA Historic Preservation Blog 2018 Year in Review](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historic-preservation-blog-2018/) - 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. Don't want to miss these
- [Just listed!! An Update from the PA SHPO’s National Register staff](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/national-register-just-listed-update/) - Before we talk about the newest additions to the National Register in Pennsylvania, let’s try a little National Register trivia: Question 1: Is something listed IN the National Register of Historic Places, or ON the National Register of Historic Places? If you answered “in,” you are correct (at least according to the National Park Service.)
- [PA SHPO Special Announcement: We're Hiring!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-special-announcement-hiring/) - PA SHPO Special Announcement: We're Hiring an Archaeologist! THE POSITION Are you an experienced professional North American archaeologist interested in using your knowledge and previous experience to serve the public sector? Are you interested in making a difference in the protection and management of Pennsylvania's Archaeological Resources? Do you want to be on the forefront of
- [Not your Grandmother's Gingerbread House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/gingerbread-house/) - Tired of the same old gingerbread house each Christmas? Just four (mostly straight) walls and a gable roof? Challenge yourself this year to break out of that mold and make one of Pennsylvania's landmarks instead! The inspiration... I was scrolling through Facebook the other day and noticed a post from the Heritage Documentation Programs at the
- [5 Things to Know from the PA SHPO](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/5-things-shpo/) - This week's post brings you "5 Things" to know for November and December 2018. Take a breather from your Thanksgiving holidays and read about new staff, important deadlines, and a fun way to show what you're thankful for. PA SHPO Welcomes Jenna Solomon! Jenna Solomon recently joined the PA SHPO as a Historic Preservation Specialist
- [The Cornplanter Grant: The Last Native American Settlement in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/cornplanter-grant-native-american/) - Deep in the forests of northwestern Pennsylvania lies a little-known, but incredibly important part of our Country’s early history and our Native American past. Although now mostly covered by the waters of the Allegheny Reservoir (a body of water created when the Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Allegheny River with the Kinzua Dam in
- [Keystone Grant aids Towanda's Keystone Theatre](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/keystone-theatre-towanda/) - The Keystone Theatre's history has been long and illustrious, highs and lows aside. The Keystone has the distinction of being the longest continuously operating theatre in NE Pennsylvania at 131 years of age. Her champions have been all of those who worked to fill her houses and keep her doors open. The Theatre... The Keystone Theatre
- [Hobgoblins in the Humanities](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/hobgoblins-humanities/) - Can I tell you about something that gives me chills and sends me running? October is Arts & Humanities Month. It’s also time for Halloween, so when I was invited to submit a post, our friends at SHPO asked if I could kill two birds with one stone and do justice to both October happenings.
- [The Lenticular of Lazy Brook Park: Bridging the Gap between Idea and Execution](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/lenticular-bridge-lazy-brook-park/) - It was ten years ago, almost to the day, that I participated in a series of scoping field views for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) that involved a brilliant idea to address the needs of two seemingly separate projects. It was early in the day when we saw a truss bridge unable to carry
- [Guidance for the Treatment of Historic Bridges](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/guidance-for-the-treatment-historic-bridges/) - Wherever you travel in Pennsylvania, you are likely to cross a historic bridge. These bridges are an important part of the cultural landscape and a link to Pennsylvania’s transportation and engineering history. Eventually these bridges need some level of work to continue providing a safe passage, but what is the best way to execute this
- [Special Announcement! New in CRGIS...](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-new-crgis/) - We had a new release in CRGIS this week. Most of the changes were things that will just make it move more smoothly for you, but there are two things that we wanted to point out: You can now see attachments to individual inventory items within districts. In the past, all attachments were only visible
- [Change the Outcome: You can make a difference to Pennsylvania's At Risk places!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/change-the-outcome-make-difference-risk/) - Residents of Whitemarsh Township in Montgomery County were alarmed to hear that a developer planned to build 65 townhomes in their local historic district. The National Register-listed crossroads village features a homestead that once served as an important Underground Railroad hub where generations fought against slavery and George Corson built a public meeting space where
- [Welcome to LGBT History Month](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/welcome-lgbt-history-month/) - October is national LGBT History Month and Pennsylvania has an important place in the history of the modern LGBT (Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender) civil rights movement. One might assume that history only took place in the state’s major population centers of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. But as we are discovering, that is not the case.
- [Archaeology Matters: A Pennsylvania Perspective](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/archaeology-matters-pennsylvania-perspective/) - October is Archaeology Month, and what better way to kick it off than with five good reasons why archaeology matters. Like most artistic, cultural, and educational institutions, we are challenged to demonstrate the public value of what we do. Very often this takes the form of an economic impact statement, but we should not lose
- [Protecting against Future Floods: Floodproofing Workshops in PA](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/floodproofing-workshops/) - During the week of August 13th, The Pennsylvania Silver Jackets hosted floodproofing workshops in York, Lewisburg, and Wellsboro, and the State Historic Preservation Office had a representative (me) there to answer questions from public officials and members of the public. Now I’m sure you have a lot of questions. What are Silver Jackets? Why was
- [5 Things to Do on Pennsylvania's West Branch Susquehanna Byway](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/5-things-west-branch-susquehanna-byway/) - Are you looking for an adventure? Then take a drive to Clearfield County because Pennsylvania's West Branch Susquehanna Byway is an adventure that awaits you at every turn. What is a Pennsylvania Byway? The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) established the Pennsylvania Byways (PA Byways) program in 2001 to identify and designate corridors with cultural, historical, recreational,
- [Caring for African American Cemeteries with PA Hallowed Grounds](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/african-american-cemeteries-hallowed-grounds/) - Throughout Pennsylvania, African American burial grounds are often lost or destroyed due to lack of permanent markers and documentation, dwindling community presence and awareness of the cemetery’s existence, vandalism, land ownership disputes, and a host of other issues to which their sensitive nature renders them vulnerable. As we shared with you in this post from
- [Looking Forward to Another 25 Years of Community Impact with the Keystone Fund](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/community-impact-keystone-fund/) - One of the most successful preservation programs in Pennsylvania is the Keystone Fund's Historic Preservation Grant program. The PASHPO is honored to manage this grant program, connecting much-needed grant funding to communities and non-profit organizations who care for some of the most significant historic and architectural treasures in the Commonwealth. Without this source of grant funds,
- [The Four Ps: Places, People, Pride and Preservation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/places-people-pride-and-preservation/) - Cue those spotlights! Load those confetti cannons! Each year, the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards celebrate remarkable preservation work across the state. In a field where the losses are so permanent and can feel so personal, it’s important to take the opportunity to applaud these success stories! Preservation Pennsylvania will celebrate the 2018 award honorees on
- [Things You Need to Know: Environmental Review Updates](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/env_rev_updates/) - There are always lots of "Things You Need to Know" in today's world, and this week's post features a few from our Environmental Review staff, Barbara Frederick and Doug McLearen. Online Data Entry for Above Ground Resources We've been talking about PA-SHARE for quite a while now, and we here at the PA SHPO have been
- [The Calamity of Donora, Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/calamity-donora-pennsylvania/) - As Halloween morning dawned on Donora in 1948, twenty people lay dead while half of the town’s population was sick. Within the next month, fifty more people would die because of the incident and the death rate in the town would remain elevated for decades to come. The Donora Zinc Works had always been the
- [Summer 2018 PA Historic Tax Credit Update](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/summer-2018-historic-tax-credit-update/) - After a chaotic winter where one of the federal government’s most successful historic preservation programs over the past 40 years – the Historic Preservation Tax Credit – was almost eliminated during federal tax reform, there is a lot to catch up on relating to both the federal and Pennsylvania historic tax credit programs. Federal HTC
- [Metal Truss Bridges Survey Update: More Bridges Determined Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/metal-truss-bridges-survey-update/) - Metal truss bridges are an important part of Pennsylvania’s engineering and technological history and stand as a legacy to the state’s iron and steel industry. However, the loss of over half of the historic metal truss bridges in Pennsylvania since the 2001 Statewide Historic Bridge Inventory spurred the need to reevaluate the National Register eligibility
- [Hiking History on Pennsylvania’s Appalachian Trail](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/hiking-history-pas-appalachian-trail/) - Think of Pennsylvania’s section of the famous Appalachian Trail, and generally you think of green mountain vistas, woodsy wilderness, and for anyone who’s hiked it, endless ROCKS. Or you might think of the role Pennsylvania plays in Trail culture, being home to the Appalachian Trail (AT) Museum, the halfway marker and its associated half-gallon ice
- [Intern Insights: CRM @ Ridley Creek State Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/crm-ridley-creek/) - A significant part of any good management plan is an understanding of the significance of identified resources. This summer we are looking at resources in Ridley Creek State Park in Delaware County.For the past couple of years, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) and SHPO have been working together to develop policies and
- [Special Announcement! Online Data Entry & Project Review Forms](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/announcement-online-data-entry-project-review-forms/) - July 2nd is the day we start doing things a little bit differently here at the PA SHPO: online data entry and required project review forms! Here is what we first announced in our April 4, 2018 blog: Electronic, aka online, data entry is one of the ways in which we are changing how we do business
- [Celebrating Keystone's Silver Anniversary with the USS Olympia](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-keystone-silver-anniversary-uss-olympia/) - Happy Fourth of July Pennsylvania - and Happy Anniversary Keystone Fund - from the PASHPO staff! As we celebrate this holiday, I would like to reflect on the many historic resources in the Commonwealth that serve as reminders to our nation’s efforts in the pursuit of freedom and the hard work of our partners to preserve
- [We LOVE Barns!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/love-barns/) - The PA SHPO’s staff has been thinking a lot about barns. But then again, who doesn't?! Ever since 2015 was designated the Year of the Pennsylvania Barn, we’ve been strategizing ways to help ensure a viable future for more barns across PA as they continue to be pressured by warehouse and residential development, changing agricultural
- [Just Listed! PA's National Register Listings](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-pas-national-register-listings/) - Your State Historic Preservation Office has been hard at work since our last Just Listed column appeared on this blog. Since that post , the National Park Service has approved over 30 Pennsylvania listings (!) for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. And, because several of those listings are districts, that’s many, many more
- [Hazard Planning in a Historic Context: Part 2 - Taking Action](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/hazard-planning-part-2/) - Last month we talked about how researching a place's history and physical context factors into hazard planning, and what kinds of building elements are most at risk. This week's post focuses on taking action and what can be done to protect historic places and their features. There is so much information to share with you about the
- [Special Announcement! Job Opportunity @ PA SHPO](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-job-opportunity-shpo-2/) - Are you interested in joining a pro-active and dedicated team of preservationists, historians, and archaeologists? The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking a Historic Preservation Specialist to work between disciplines and advance SHPO priorities across program areas. This position is ideal for a flexible preservation professional with a knowledge of Pennsylvania's history
- [Preservation Month recap](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservation-month-recap/) - At the beginning of May, I promised we'd provide a recap of the #31for31 social media campaign to celebrate Preservation Month across Pennsylvania. If you missed a post on our Facebook page or in our Twitter feed, no worries! You can see it, and the rest of the month's content, right here. Don't miss the
- [Add this to your summer reading list! #preservationhappenshere - PA's Statewide Preservation Plan - is ready for you](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/summer-reading-statewide-preservation-plan/) - Picture yourself - lounging poolside, lakeside, or on the beach - with your tablet or smart phone (or even good old-fashioned paper) enjoying the hottest summer publication that hasn't yet made the New York Times bestseller list: #preservationhappenshere, Pennsylvania's next statewide historic preservation plan. The Highlights I'm not going to give it all away - after all, we
- [Hazard Mitigation in a Historic Context: Wrapping up the Disaster Planning for Historic Properties Initiative](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/hazard-mitigation-historic-context-disaster-planning-historic-properties-initiative/) - Hazard Mitigation in a Historic Context – Wrapping up the Disaster Planning for Historic Properties Initiative Three years ago, the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) announced that we were embarking on a new initiative to, for the first time in this office’s history, address the risks posed to historic properties by natural hazards, storms,
- [Seeking Projects with a Special Something for the 2018 Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/2018-preservation-awards/) - Now is the time for all good preservationists to put on their thinking caps! Do you know of a great project, person or organization that deserves recognition with a Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Award, the state’s highest preservation honor? For almost 40 years, these awards from Preservation Pennsylvania have recognized outstanding preservation practice throughout the state,
- [Preserving living history at the W.A. Young & Sons Foundry and Machine Shop](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preserving-living-history-young-foundry-machine-shop/) - It's important to recognize the value of The Keystone Fund and the preservation work it supports all year round, especially during preservation month! Without this program and its financial support, many, many important historic places in Pennsylvania would suffer. Read on for this month Keystone Fund success story, the W.A. Young & Sons Foundry and
- [5 Things to know about Preservation Month in PA](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/5-things-preservation-month/) - Preservationists across America are celebrating today as National Historic Preservation Month kicks off. What is National Historic Preservation Month you ask? Well, we here at the SHPO think it’s one of the most important months of the year! Hundreds of thousands of people across the U.S. celebrate and advocate for historic places every day, but,
- [Guess Where? A Rare Look Inside](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/guess-where-rare-look-inside/) - Preservationists often get the rare opportunities to see inside older and historic places. Definitely a #jobperk! As preservationists, archaeologists, and historians, SHPO staff have the opportunity to explore a lot of really cool places during the course of our jobs. Because we are asked to consult on various projects or provide initial determinations of eligibility for the National Register of
- [“Ketchup” with Pittsburgh’s H.J. Heinz](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/ketchup-pittsburghs-heinz/) - Did you know that Pittsburg's H.J. Heinz was one progressive dude!? First, some context… A few weeks ago, we introduced you to the exciting new data management system, PA-SHARE, that will be up and running in a few years. As we transition from paper files to digital files, one of the biggest – and most important
- [What do Slinky, the Wizard of Oz, poinsettas, and a Rev War personality have in common?](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/slinky-pointsettas-historical-markers/) - You win the prize if you said, "They will all have historical markers in PA!". The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission recently approved 16 new historical markers! This year's selections deliver another eclectic mix of pop culture, military, African American, film, and medical subjects. Let's start with Philadelphia... McAllister Family of Opticians Beginning in 1799, John
- [Sign Up for the new Historic Metal Truss Bridge Newsletter!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/new-historic-metal-truss-bridge-newsletter/) - Metal truss bridges are an important part of Pennsylvania’s engineering and technological history and are a standing legacy to the state’s iron and steel industry. Unfortunately, modern traffic needs in combination with insufficient maintenance funding, especially for locally owned bridges, has made rehabilitation and ongoing maintenance of these bridges difficult and many of them have
- [ReGIS isn't foolin'! Electronic submissions and online data entry are here!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-electronic-submissions-online-data-entry/) - It may be the time of year when we all joke around and partake in fun pranks to celebrate April Fools Day, but we're not joking when we say that your life is about to get easier. Why? Electronic submissions and online data entry! Electronic Archaeological Report and Resource (PASS) Submission is Finally Here! We are
- [PASS: More than an Acronym or a Site Number](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pass-acronym-site-number/) - The Pennsylvania Archaeological Site Survey (PASS) is the Commonwealth’s inventory of recorded archaeological sites. The program officially started in the late 1970s—when site files held by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History were combined with those kept by the State Museum of Pennsylvania—but it was built on a foundation of nearly 100 years of site
- [PA SHPO goes to Washington! Advocacy Week 2018](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-goes-washington-advocacy-week-2018/) - Every year in March, State Historic Preservation offices and preservation advocates from across the country travel to Washington, D.C. for National Historic Preservation Advocacy Week. The Pennsylvania delegation was there to be a part of it. What is Advocacy Week? Advocacy Week, as you may recall from this post and this post, is one of
- [What’s in a name like "Pennsylvania Archaeological Data Synthesis: The Beaver Creek Watershed?"](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/whats-name-archaeo-data-syn-beaver-creek-watershed/) - The Pennsylvania Archaeological Data Synthesis: The Beaver Creek Watershed B is a mouthful of words, to say the least. In my spare time (when I am not acting in my official capacity as a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation [PENNDOT] archaeologist), I am chasing down a four-year-old that needs to work on enunciating his words. If
- [The "Key" to Preserving Lawrence Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/key-preserving-lawrence-park/) - If this were the game show Jeopardy!, the question would be "What grant, administered by PHMC, was the "key" to celebrating the history and significance of Pennsylvania's Lawrence Park?" And the answer, of course, is the Keystone Historic Preservation Grant! A "Garden City" in Erie County In 1910, General Electric established Lawrence Park as a
- [Tax Credit Roller Coaster Ride](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tax-credit-roller-coaster-ride/) - This ride wasn't nearly as fun as a real roller coaster ride, but the fight to keep the historic tax credit alive felt like one with all the ups, downs, twists, and turns. If you were paying attention during the end of 2017, you may be aware the Republican-led Congress passed the most significant rewrite of the federal
- [4 places; 635 years of Pennsylvania’s history](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/2018-risk/) - Each year, the statewide nonprofit Preservation Pennsylvania puts out a call for nominations to its Pennsylvania At Risk list, made up of sites determined to be among the commonwealth’s most endangered historic resources. In 2018, four remarkable places that are part of Pennsylvania's history were added to the list and will become Preservation Pennsylvania’s work priorities for
- [Get to Know PHMC's Executive Director!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/phmcs-executive-director/) - If you've been reading our blog with any frequency, you know that we believe that a large part of what makes PHMC great is the people who work here. This interview with PHMC's Executive Director, Andrea W. Lowery, gives you a chance to get to know her better. This interview between Andrea Lowery and PHMC's Social Media
- [Studying African American history in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/study-african-american-history/) - February is national African American history month. All over the country, communities are discovering, celebrating, and acknowledging the places that tell the stories of African American history and experience. This is the perfect time for us to talk about one of our newest initiatives to study African American history in Pennsylvania. The project... Last year, the
- [Don't PASS up this post about our new forms!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/dont-pass-this-post-about-archaeology/) - Archaeology can be pretty slow in the winter, but like you, we’re gearing up for the spring field season! We thought we'd PASS some time updating a few things. As we have been changing other forms and procedures over the past year, we felt it was also time to refresh the Pennsylvania Archaeological Site Survey
- [Punching through the Plowzone](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/punching-through-the-plowzone/) - Archaeologists are always on the ready for the next mythical idea of what we are and what we do. We don’t dig dinosaurs or find buried treasure (at least the kind that entails riches untold). We don’t all work in academia and, yes, our parents likely told us there were no jobs in archaeology. We
- [The Keystone Program Helps Plan a New Fine Art Museum in Bedford County](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/keystone-program-art-museum-bedford-county/) - Bedford County sorely lacked a fine art museum after its previous institution dissolved in 2013. Two years later, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (SAMA) decided to expand their satellite museum program into Bedford Borough and identified a historic building on Pitt Street as a prime location for the new fine art center. The Dr.
- [Ringing in the New Year with a "Bang" with Cannonballs!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/bringing-new-year-bang-cannonballs/) - I thought it would be clever to start the New Year off with "bang" by sharing this fun story about cannonballs. Yes, I said cannonballs. One of the best things about my job here at the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) is that you never know what each new phone call or email is going
- [5 Things about Preservation in 2017](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/5-things-about-preservation-2017/) - It's that time of year again! The end of December brings about all sorts of "Year in Review" lists and we didn't want to disappoint you and not provide our annual "preservation in 2017" post. So much has happened over the last 12 months - good and bad - that it was hard to find the
- [Dig into Your Roots at the 2018 Farm Show](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/dig-into-your-roots-the-2018-farm-show/) - So, you are enjoying the delights of the Farm Show and you misplaced your spouse and kids. Where to find them? At the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission booth at the 2018 Farm Show? Maybe not, but you might find older generations of your family there. The PA SHPO and the Pennsylvania State Archives have
- [Erie’s culture, heritage shine in new preservation plan](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/eries-culture-heritage-shine-new-preservation-plan/) - By Liz Allen, Preservation Erie Erie County’s story spreads out across the land and spills out across the water. Our tales are told through architectural treasures and our narrative is shaped by our natural environment. We’ve unearthed our roots by preserving our immigrant past, while we continue to reinvent our future by welcoming new Americans.
- [Spotlight: William C. Goodridge Freedom Center Keystone Grant](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/spotlight-william-goodridge-freedom-centers-second-phase-complete/) - Leveraging local dollars to support important historic preservation initiatives is one of the key facets of the PHMC’s Keystone Historic Preservation Grant program. Never was this more evident in the development of the William C. Goodridge Freedom Center, an ongoing initiative of the Crispus Attucks Association of York, and the completion of its second phase
- [Special Announcement! New Archaeology Guidelines Available](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-new-guidelines-available/) - PA SHPO has released an updated 2017 version of the Guidelines for Archaeological Investigation in Pennsylvania. After a series of changes over this past summer, we are happy to provide a comprehensive revision to our Guidelines for Archaeological Investigation in Pennsylvania. All the tweaks and updates we have made in anticipation of updates to the
- [The Second Empire Strikes Back](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-second-empire-strikes-back/) - Perhaps no architectural style has been more cruelly reinterpreted in the modern era than the classy and distinctive French Second Empire style (also called the Mansard style). With its iconic curved and slate shingled faux roof attic level, the Second Empire style was enormously popular all across the country in the late Victorian era. Often
- [Centre County's Hatch Site](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/centre-countys-hatch-site/) - This past summer I had the opportunity, along with other members of the PA SHPO, to visit an archaeological field school underway in State College. It’s not often I get away from my desk, so it was a nice chance to get out in the field and get my hands dirty helping to screen soil,
- [Pine Bank Covered Bridge at Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pine-bank-covered-bridge-meadowcroft-rockshelter-and-historic-village/) - Recently, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission collaborated with the Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village to preserve one of the oldest covered bridges in Washington County.One of the most important goals of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission’s Keystone Historic Preservation Grant program is to provide critical funding to support our museum community with necessary
- [Hazard Mitigation in a Historic Context: Update on Historic At-Risk Properties Initiative](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/hazard-mitigation-historic-context-update-historic-risk-properties-initiative/) - Historic resources inform citizens of their unique local heritage, cultural identity, and the origins of their community. They are the corner stones of our built environment and they provide a “sense of place”. In the aftermath of a disaster, these buildings, structures, objects, and sites are often associated with the very memories and connections that
- [Marker Maintenance isn't a Mystery!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/marker-maintenance-isnt-mystery/) - Do you know what happens when a PHMC marker is damaged by a delivery truck, plowed over after a snowstorm or original 1946 blue and gold paint resembles the make-up of a faded movie star? Do you think PHMC throws out the markers and orders a new one? No way! We work in the State
- [CRGIS will soon have a NEW Map Viewer!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/crgis-has-new-map-viewer/) - Over the next several hours, CRGIS will have limited functionability will it is being updated with the new and improved changes. This new map viewer has been a long time coming, and I am happy to tell you that it will be here very soon! As I type, the existing CRGIS system is being updated with several
- [Preservation PA Calls for "Pennsylvania At Risk" Nominations!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservation-calls-for-pennsylvania-risk-nominations/) - Is there a local landmark you’ve got your eye on, wondering how much longer it will last without someone doing something? Well, now you can be the someone who can help change the fate of the place! The deadline to submit a nomination to the Pennsylvania At Risk list is November 13, 2017. Each year,
- [How Humanities-Based Community Development Can Foster a More Democratic Future](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/how-humanities-based-community-development-can-foster-more-democratic-future/) - What role can the humanities play in community development-- and how can they foster a more democratic future for small towns and cities across America? The Pennsylvania Humanities Council addressed these questions by partnering with the Orton Family Foundation in 2015 to bring Orton’s model of resident engagement, Community Heart & Soul, to communities across
- [Shipwrecks? In Pennsylvania? PASST tells us all about them](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shipwrecks-pennsylvania-passt/) - It had been blowing hard from the east and the red sky on the July morning of 2013 did not concern Presque Isle lifeguard Darren Reading as he headed out for a group swim off the shore of the beach. According to Reading, “I saw a fish and followed it under the water. I couldn’t
- [The Keystone Grant and the Mystery of the Missing Piazza](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/keystone-grant-mystery-missing-piazza/) - Ever wonder just how much scholarship of construction chronology is behind your visit to a historic property in Pennsylvania? Or how that research is funded? Woodford is one of Fairmount Park’s most carefully documented and researched buildings because of its architectural significance and as its interpretive use as a historic house museum. Recorded in the
- [Listening to the Public: Results of the Marketing Archaeology Survey](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/listening-the-public-results-the-marketing-archaeology-survey/) - In the previous Marketing Archaeology blog post, we introduced you to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-eligible Armstrong Site and the associated current Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) road reconstruction and widening project . Need a quick refresher? In 2013, PTC initiated a project to widen the PA turnpike in Allegheny County that required environmental review
- [Certified Local Government Reboot - Public Comments Welcome](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/certified-local-government-reboot-public-comments-welcome/) - The Certified Local Government (CLG) Program has been part of the national preservation toolbox since the early 1980s. Like other programs established by the National Historic Preservation Act, the CLG program is administered by each State Historic Preservation Office based on state-specific guidelines approved by the National Park Service. Pennsylvania’s CLG guidelines procedures were last
- [Archaeology Month: Celebrating Recordation, New Insights, and Preservation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/archeology-month-celebrating-recordation-new-insights-and-preservation/) - Fall is always an exciting time of year for archaeologists across the state as we gear up to celebrate Pennsylvania Archaeology Month each October! I know it's a bit early, but I didn't want anyone to be caught off-guard come October 1st. Pennsylvania Archaeology Month What started as Pennsylvania Archaeology Week in November 1991 grew
- [The Power of Preservation: Announcing 2017 Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Award Recipients](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-power-preservation-announcing-2017-pennsylvania-historic-preservation-award-recipients/) - Celebrating projects from all across the state of Pennsylvania, twenty-three people and projects will be honored at the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards on October 12. Pennsylvania’s First Lady Frances Wolf will participate in the awards ceremony, taking place at The State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg. The awards are hosted by Preservation Pennsylvania, the commonwealth’s
- [Historic Communities (by design) are Healthy Communities](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historic-communities-are-healthy-communities/) - About a month or so ago, I was checking my APA PA news feed at lunch one day and saw a post about taking a survey about how "healthy" my community is. I always try to take surveys like this - because they are important and matter and because I know how hard it can be to get
- [Datasets on PA Historical Markers and Agriculture Now Online](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/datasets-historical-markers-and-agriculture-now-online/) - The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) is pleased to announce the recent addition of two datasets to OpenDataPA: Pennsylvania Historical Markers and the 1850 Agricultural Production in Pennsylvania. Wondering what datasets and open data have to do with the PA SHPO? Lots, apparently. OpenDataPA In August 2016, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania launched OpenDataPA, a portal
- [CLG Spotlight: Pittsburgh](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/clg-spotlight-pittsburgh/) - From Philadelphia (Pop. 1.5 million) to Mercersburg, Franklin County (Pop. 1500) and located in over a third of Pennsylvania counties, the Certified Local Government (CLG) program provides exclusive funding and technical assistance for local governments. This week's post introduces us to Pittsburgh as a CLG and provides a glimpse into the amazing things they are doing
- [Community Connections: Summer 2017 Update](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/community-connections-summer-update/) - I was looking back through our posts from the last few months and thought "Yikes! Its been six months since my last update on the statewide preservation plan!" So read on for the latest installment of Community Connections: Planning for Preservation in Pennsylvania. My last check-in with our readers covered the results of the public
- [Change, Change, and More Change! New Review Areas for Environmental Review](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/change-change-and-more-change-new-review-areas-for-environmental-review/) - Did anyone else start singing David Bowie's "Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes" song when you read that title? If you have been keeping up with the announcements this year, you may think this is now the PA SHPO theme song. Behind the scenes, we have been thinking about our internal work gets done here at the SHPO in preparation for
- [Rethinking the Row House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/rethinking-the-row-house/) - What could be simpler than understanding the design of the row house? I had a chance to take a walk through two of Philadelphia's neighborhoods - Society Hill and South Philadelphia - and I started thinking about some of the changes to the iconic row house. Dictionaries define a row house as being “one of a
- [Just Listed!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-3/) - It is time to highlight some of Pennsylvania’s recently listed historic properties! Since our last post ( Just Listed!) in May, 2016, 20 nominations have been approved by the National Park Service in the Commonwealth. Because several of these are districts, that means that over 1600 properties in the Commonwealth have been added to the
- [Pittsburgh National Historic Landmark invaded by Penguins](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pittsburgh-national-historic-landmark-invaded-penguins/) - Its summer and its hot, so why not talk about Penguins at Pittsburgh's Point State Park. Curious what it has to do with preservation? Dateline: June 14 2017 Headline: Lots of Penguins and tens of thousands of their admirers descend upon Point State Park National Historic Landmark--- Pittsburgh’s Point has been occupied by a wide
- [The Future of Preservation is …..Summer Interns at the PA SHPO](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-future-preservation-summer-interns-the-shpo/) - As the summer of 2017 begins a new group of students and perhaps future preservationists have arrived at the PA State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) to participate in the PHMC Keystone Summer Internship Program or the collaborative PennDOT/PA SHPO cultural resource management internship program. Undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of educational backgrounds
- [Special Announcement: Job Opening @ PA SHPO](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-job-opening-shpo-2/) - Are you interested in making a difference through disaster management planning? Do you want to be on the forefront of proactive historic preservation? The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is seeking a Historic Preservation Specialist to administer and report on planning and demonstration projects funded through Hurricane Sandy Historic Preservation Recovery Funding from the National
- [Reminder! Draft Report Submissions](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/reminder-draft-report-submissions/) - Reminder for all Project Review archaeology report preparers! As we announced in our April 2017 Newsletter and at last week's Statewide Conference on Heritage in Carlisle, the PA SHPO has changed the way we would like to receive initial (draft) report submissions for project review. Missed the conference session? Check out the presentation slides here: 2017 Preservation
- [2017’s Newly Approved Markers](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/2017s-newly-approved-markers/) - I am happy to announce that the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission recently approved 18 new historical markers! As you’ll see from the list below, over half of the approved subjects are for markers in Philadelphia County. The Marker Program encourages broad distribution, so we’d love to see more individuals and organizations from Pennsylvania’s other
- [Adams County Fruit Belt makes $ense](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/adams-county-fruit-belt-makes-ense/) - Beginning in the early 19th century, and becoming more widespread in the years following the Civil War, fruit orchards of one type or another have dotted the South Mountain landscape in northwestern Adams County. Today, Adams County is home to the largest fruit growing industry in Pennsylvania. South Mountain, the northern terminus of the Blue
- [Special Announcement: Geospatial Standards for Report Submissions](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-geospatial-standards-for-report-submissions/) - Last month, we announced changes in how we would like to receive archaeological and architectural reports. These changes are designed to streamline the review process and to reduce paper copies. In addition, we are now requesting shapefiles for survey areas and resources so that we can process your data into CRGIS faster and with greater
- [McKean County's Keating Site, Part 2](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mckean-countys-keating-site-part-2/) - Last month, we introduced you to the Keating Site (36MC0127) located along the Potato Creek north of Smethport in McKean County, Pennsylvania in this interesting blog post. Read on to learn about more cool finds at this prehistoric site! Allegheny Archaeology Research’s data recovery excavations at this site for a Section 106 mitigation project have
- [We need YOU for the 2017 Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/need-you-for-the-2017-pennsylvania-historic-preservation-awards/) - Some days it can be tough to be a preservationist. Demolition takes place after a hard-fought battle. Funding for a project doesn’t come together. Local government approves a terrible design for development on a historic landscape. We’ve all been there with a bad case of the preservation blues. Which is why the opportunities to celebrate
- [Asset Mapping for Chester's Third Presbyterian Church](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/spotlight-series-chesters-third-presbyterian-church/) - This week's post in honor of National Preservation Month talks about the tool of asset mapping and how its being used to re-imagine a new life for a local landmark in Chester, Delaware County. Hopes are high in the City of Chester as civic leaders convened on the evening of Thursday, May 4th to plan for the future
- [Preservation People & Places Worth Celebrating](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservation-people-and-places-worth-celebrating/) - As many of you already know, May is national Historic Preservation Month. What better way to kick-start our month-long celebration of historic preservation than with this year's winners of the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia's 2017 Preservation Achievement Awards. If you're not familiar with the Preservation Alliance, they are the Philadelphia region's non-profit, membership-based historic preservation
- [Special Announcement: Changes for PA Archaeological Site Survey (PASS)](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-changes-for-archaeological-site-survey-pass/) - This spring, change is in the air for the Pennsylvania Archaeological Site Survey (PASS)! Archaeologists from the PA SHPO and State Museum of Pennsylvania have worked together to revise the PASS Site Identification Criteria and to devise new procedures for handling isolated finds and non-site collections. Our goal was to simplify and clarify the existing
- [Mine Sealing: A Little-Known Legacy of the New Deal](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mine-sealing-little-known-legacy-the-new-deal/) - With Earth Day right around the corner, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to share with you one of the little-known and fascinating historic contexts available from the PA SHPO: Mine Sealing in Southwestern Pennsylvania During the Great Depression. This may sound like a very narrow and esoteric context (and not even remotely related
- [5 Things to Know about Upcoming Changes!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/5-things-know-about-upcoming-changes/) - Head’s up! Changes are coming to the PA SHPO in 2017! As many of you out there may be aware, our office is working hard behind the scenes to construct and prepare for a 21st century system to manage our survey and resource data as well as provide a platform for electronic environmental review and consultation
- [Preservation Partnerships: Working Together To Save Historic Resources From Natural Disasters](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservation-partnerships-working-together-save-historic-resources-from-natural-disasters/) - We all know that partnerships, collaboration, and teamwork are critical in the effort to identify, preserve, and celebrate Pennsylvania’s historic resources. One such partnership in Philadelphia will help protect the city’s historic places and spaces from the devastating damage caused by natural disasters. As you may remember from our previous blog posts or the Statewide Conference
- [A Journey to Potters Mills: Story Maps as Mitigation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/journey-potters-mills-story-maps-mitigation/) - Potters Mills? Story Maps? What are these things? This week's post from guest contributor Charles Richmond will answer these burning questions and talk about this creative way to use 21st century technology to connect people to place and preservation. For over two hundred years, the village of Potters Mills has witnessed travelers traversing the Seven Mountains between
- [McKean County's Keating Site, Part 1](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mitigation-files-archaeology-mckean-countys-keating-site-part-1/) - Located along the Potato Creek north of Smethport in McKean County, Pennsylvania, the Keating site (36MC0127) is a prehistoric site with a long history of occupation covering a period of time from approximately 7000 B.C. to A.D. 1500. The site is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places important because of its potential to
- [Mill-Rae: A Monument of Women’s History Hidden in Plain Sight](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mill-rae-monument-womens-history-hidden-plain-sight/) - High on a hill overlooking the Somerton neighborhood of Philadelphia stands Cranaleith Spiritual Center, a beautiful Shingle style house that overlooks ten acres of gardens, groves of trees, a pond, and a sensitively-designed modern retreat facility. It’s a lovely place nestled amongst a quiet residential neighborhood. But beneath the bucolic setting is a significant story
- [Bridge to the Past:  PennDOT’s Historic Metal Truss Bridge Management Plan](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/bridge-past-penndots-historic-metal-truss-bridge-management-plan/) - In June 2016, I was hired as the Transportation Special Initiatives Coordinator in the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). This new position was created through a special funding agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and was developed to assist them in marketing the state’s historic metal truss bridges. My position has evolved
- [Special Announcement: Help us build a digital library!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-help-build-digital-library/) - Historic preservation consultants, archaeology consultants, local preservation and/or archaeology organizations, local & county planners, and historical societies, the PA SHPO needs your help! Today.... You settle in at the computer and begin the long process of clicking through CRGIS, writing down lots of file numbers, and scheduling an appointment at the PA SHPO research room in Harrisburg. When appointment day arrives, you
- [Pennsylvania's Preservation Delegation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvanias-preservation-delegation/) - It's almost spring in Washington, D.C. and for us here at the PA SHPO it doesn't mean cherry blossoms - it means Advocacy Week! Next week, Pennsylvania's Preservation Delegation heads south to talk about one of our favorite topics (historic preservation!) in a fresh new way (with videos!) and we are ready to go. For
- [Three Centuries of the Dennis Farm: Looking Forward, Part 2](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/three-centuries-the-dennis-farm-looking-forward-part-2/) - This week's post is Part 2 of the Dennis Farm SHPO Shout Out. If you missed Part 1 last week, go back and read it before enjoying this one! Three Centuries of the Dennis Farm: Looking Forward (continued) By Denise Dennis, President & CEO of the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust Historical Features My ancestors transported
- [Three Centuries of the Dennis Farm: Looking Forward, Part 1](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/three-centuries-the-dennis-farm-looking-forward-part-1/) - This month I am switching up our usual format to provide you with a two-part Shout Out about the great work happening at the Dennis Farm, an 18th century African American farm in northeastern Pennsylvania. It makes sense to learn more about this amazing place during African American History Month from Denise Dennis, President &
- [2017 Pennsylvania At Risk Announced](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/2017-pennsylvania-risk-announced/) - Each year, the nonprofit Preservation Pennsylvania releases a list of new additions to the Pennsylvania At Risk list, sites determined to be among the commonwealth’s most endangered historic resources. In 2017, eleven places were identified through nominations submitted by the public, and will become Preservation Pennsylvania’s work priorities for the year. The 2017 Pennsylvania At
- [Community Connections: Survey Says!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/community-connections-statewide-survey-results/) - Did anyone else hear Richard Dawson's voice yell this out when they read the title of our post today? Perhaps I'm dating myself by knowing who first hosted Family Feud. We didn't host our own preservation version of one of America's favorite game shows (but that's an idea!) but we did host a survey and the
- [January's SHPO Shout Out!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/januarys-shpo-shout-out/) - This month's Shout Out includes great news about PA's new National Historic Landmarks, some cool stuff in Cumberland County, and some new research projects! Pennsylvania's NHLs No, I'm not talking about PA's two teams in the National Hockey League - even though we're deep in ice hockey season at the moment. I'm talking about our
- [Local Landmark for Sale: Johnstown Car Barns](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/local-landmark-for-sale-johnstown-car-barns/) - Car barns are a historic remnant of a bygone era. The Johnstown Car Barns, located at 630 and 716 Central Avenue in Johnstown are no exception. Built in 1893 to service and store trolleys, these building help communicate the story of public transportation in Cambria County. The historic car barns are being offered for sale,
- [Marker Scavenger Hunters Extraordinaire](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/marker-scavenger-hunters-extraordinaire/) - By Suzanna Barucco One of the honors of serving on the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Board is the opportunity to represent the Commonwealth at historical marker dedications. I met some true marker scavenger hunters at one of these dedications and wanted to share their story. Interested in doing some marker hunting of your own? Take a
- [The Governor’s Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force 2015-2016](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/governors-pipeline-infrastructure-task-force-2015-2016/) - In May of 2015, Governor Tom Wolf appointed 48 people to serve on the newly-created Governor's Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force, which was charged with creating a set of recommendations for responsibly guiding the extraction and transportation of natural gas in Pennsylvania. The purpose of the recommendations was to suggest best practices that would avoid or lessen
- [Find Your Story at the 2017 PA Farm Show!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/find-story-2017-farm-show/) - 2016 flew like a flash! I can't believe its time for the 101st Pennsylvania Farm Show already. Although my head remains full of visions of dancing sugar-plums, staff at the State Historic Preservation Office have been busy getting ready for our booth at the PA Farm Show. Speaking of visions… Did you know that PHMC has a
- [Into the Wilderness: Part 3](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/into-wilderness-part-3/) - The search for Thompson's Island ends... and a new search begins... Previously, I explained that archaeologist Chris Espenshade identified three likely locations for the Battle of Thompson’s Island—let’s call them Alternatives 1, 2, and 3— and ranked them based on how well they fit the historic record. Chris used a method called KOCOA (pronounced CO-CO-AH)
- [December's SHPO Shout Out](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/decembers-shpo-shout-out-2/) - I don't want this month's Shout Outs to get lost in the holiday shuffle of office parties, vacation days, and last-minute lunch-hour shopping trips so I'm bringing it to you a week early. Consider it an early present from your favorite SHPO! Another great preservation partnership! We all love Fallingwater and understand why Frank Lloyd
- [What a Difference a Program Makes!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/what-difference-program-makes/) - Each year, one of the most meaningful programs of the Commission is the Keystone Historic Preservation Grant program. With this grant program, the PHMC partners with local communities to address key historic preservation issues. As we found out through our local recent preservation plan community forums, every region of the Commonwealth has its own unique
- [November's SHPO Shout Out!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/novembers-shpo-shout-out/) - Tis the season to be thankful - after all, Thanksgiving was just last week and more holidays are just around the corner - and I for one have been rattling off a list of all the great places in Pennsylvania that I am thankful for and appreciate. The SHPO Shout Out, which, btw, turns 1 year old this month, was
- [Fall in Love with a Metal Truss Bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/fall-love-with-metal-truss-bridge/) - Have you ever driven along the back roads of Pennsylvania and come across one of the state’s beautiful metal truss bridges? Or seen a massive truss bridge spanning a major river crossing? These awe-inspiring bridges are a part of Pennsylvania’s landscape and an important part of the state’s engineering and technological history. Metal truss bridges
- [Don't Just Look Forward or Backward: Look Around for Preservation Partners](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/dont-look-forward-or-backward-look-around-for-preservation-partners/) - In 2016, the preservation community has been looking back over the past 50 years to reflect upon the legacy of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. The legislation laid the groundwork for the tools and strategies of preservation. For Pennsylvania, 2016 also marks the beginning of a multi-year planning process to look forward over
- [Positive Preservation @ PA’s Historic Preservation Awards](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/positive-preservation-pas-historic-preservation-awards/) - The 2016 Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards offered me the opportunity to get a break from Harrisburg, away from everyday work, and to see the bigger picture. While traveling south to York for the ceremony blue skies and sunshine beamed through my car windows. It was a remarkably beautiful fall day. This extraordinary day also represented
- [Why is archaeology important?](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/why-is-archaeology-important/) - Sorry, guys, no October SHPO Shout-Out this month - but I have a good reason! I’m off talking to everyone in north-central and north-west PA at our statewide plan Open Houses this week so PA SHPO staffer Kira Heinrich offered to fill in and wrap up Archaeology Month with a reflection on why archaeology matters.
- [Special Announcement: Job Opening at the PA SHPO](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-job-opening-at-the-pa-shpo-2/) - Interested in working at the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office? PA SHPO has received approval to hire an Architectural Designer 2 (AD2) for the position of Tax Credit Reviewer. PA SHPO encourages anyone with an interest in working with the PA SHPO’s state and federal historic tax credit programs who meets AD2 class specifications to
- [Artifacts from PennDOT Dig Shine at Wheaton](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/artifacts-from-penndot-dig-shine-at-wheaton/) - There’s a scene in the 1960 classic, The Time Machine, where Rod Taylor escapes the imminent nuclear war by throwing his machine fast into the future. Quickly, the ground rises all around him and for what appears to be an eternity, he is sitting there isolated from the outside world. At that moment, as we
- [Special Announcement! Job Opening at PA SHPO](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-gis-position-open-at-pa-shpo/) - There is an immediate opening for the following position with the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC): Historic Preservation Specialist THE POSITION: This professional position within the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), a bureau of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), is responsible for the development, processing, and management of records pertaining
- [Community Connections: Connect with us at an Open House!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/community-connections-connect-with-us-at-an-open-house/) - They're finally here! As promised in this post from September, here are the dates, times, and locations of the nine - yep, I said nine - Open Houses that the PA SHPO and Preservation PA are having in October and November for the next statewide historic preservation plan. You can also check out our recent
- [3 Things to Know About Local Preservation Programs in Pennsylvania – Part 2](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/3-things-know-local-preservation-programs-pennsylvania-part-2/) - A long, long time ago (okay it was only 2014, but still…) I wrote about local preservation in Pennsylvania and at the end of that article I promised a follow up with some additional insights. Time passed and lots of other interesting projects and places were more worthy of being featured on this blog. But,
- [Spotlight Series: Philadelphia's Penn Museum](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/spotlight-series-philadelphias-penn-museum/) - When I realized that October is Archaeology Month, I thought it would be a great opportunity to share my first trip to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the university's world renowned archaeology museum. When Philadelphia was recognized as the nation’s first World Heritage City in 2015, it seemed like a fitting
- [Surveying Rural PA: Update on the Disaster Planning Initiative](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/surveying-rural-pa-update-on-the-disaster-planning-initiative/) - Bedford and Cameron Counties are the latest counties to be surveyed as part of the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office’s (PASHPO) Disaster Planning for Historic Properties Initiative, following up on the surveys done in Monroe County and the City of Philadelphia by AECOM Technical Services. Architectural historians from AECOM canvassed the two counties to catalog
- [Special Announcement! Position Open at the PA SHPO](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-job-opening-at-the-pa-shpo/) - There is an immediate opening for the following position with the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC): Historic Preservation Manager Applications are due October 17, 2016 THE POSITION: This position is responsible for providing leadership, management, and oversight to the Division of Preservation Services within the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), a bureau of
- [September's SHPO Shout-Out!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/septembers-shpo-shout-out/) - I've got some great SHPO Shout-Outs to share with you this month, and I'm anxious to get started! I would be remiss, though, in my duties as Education and Outreach Coordinator if I didn't share some exciting updates about our Community Connections public outreach effort for the next statewide historic preservation plan. ICYMI, you can check out
- [Community Connections: What's New?](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/community-connections-whats-new/) - Its been a few months now since we introduced you to the Community Connections: Planning for Preservation in Pennsylvania campaign and I thought it was a good time for an update. We've been making great progress over the summer and we have some exciting things coming up this fall. As you may remember from this
- [Wild Whippersnappers or Heritage Heroes? The [not always] Young Preservationist Movement](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/wild-whippersnappers-or-heritage-heroes-the-not-always-young-preservationist-movement/) - From Pittsburgh to Philly and in between, the Young Preservationist movement is changing the way we approach historic resources, leaving many of us scratching our heads as to what the real deal is. Polling members of the Young Preservation Movements on “what word would you use to describe a Young Preservationist?” resulted in some fascinating
- [Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Tax Credit Year 3 Recap](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvania-historic-preservation-tax-credit-year-3-recap/) - Due to Fiscal Year 2015-2016 budget challenges, the status of Year 3 of Pennsylvania’s Historic Preservation Tax Credit program was up in the air through March 2016. With the enactment of a budget, there was a brief application window with a March 24, 2016 deadline. The shortened budget period did impact the total number of
- [Marketing Archaeology: A Non-Scientific Survey about Public Outreach Tools](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/marketing-archaeology-a-non-scientific-survey-about-public-outreach-tools/) - Fostering a public appreciation for historic resources and archaeology is one of the most important keys to protecting our history. Unfortunately, many cultural resources professionals struggle with how to make their work accessible and interesting to the general public. In this blog post, we take on this challenge and announce the launch of a non-scientific,
- [August's SHPO Shout-Out!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/augusts-shpo-shout-out/) - It's that time again! As some of you may know, the National Park Service highlighted Pennsylvania in their #50for50 social media campaign earlier this month. This initiative is part of their broader effort to celebrate and recognize the 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act this year. Each week, NPS has been promoting the interesting, meaningful, and
- [Know of a cool person, place, or event? Maybe it should have a PHMC Marker!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/2541-2/) - Question: What do Albert M. Greenfield, Eddie Adams, and Mr. Rogers have in common? One was a Philly businessman, politician, and influential member of the Planning Commission. Another was a Westmoreland County native who won a Pulitzer Prize for his photojournalism of the Vietnam War. And who doesn’t know Mr. Rogers, whose show on PBS
- [Talking Local Preservation at FORUM 2016 in Mobile](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/talking-local-preservation-forum-2016-mobile/) - Every two years, the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions hosts a conference unlike any other – an event focused on providing training and education on issues relevant to historic preservation commissions, review boards, and local governments. FORUM is a truly national event, drawing participants from all over the country to share ideas, war stories, and
- [Highway Planning on a Landscape Scale: The Next Generation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/highway-planning-on-a-landscape-scale-the-next-generation/) - by Brenda Barrett, Living Landscape Observer What happens when a highway project long planned to improve the functionality of the overall transportation system runs up against newer approaches of planning on a landscape scale? I recently spoke to this issue at the Pennsylvania Statewide Conference on Heritage. The project in question, the Central Susquehanna Valley Transportation
- [July's PA SHPO Shout Out!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/julys-shpo-shout-out/) - We're all looking for ways to cool off these days - this heat wave is one for the records! Grab your iced tea, sit next to the AC, and take a few minutes to read this month's PA SHPO Shout Out. We'll cover an unusual historic marker, a really cool Section 106 project, and a reader submitted Shout Out.
- [Summer 2016: New Faces at the PA SHPO!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/summer-2016-new-faces-pa-shpo/) - The warm days of summer almost always mean that the PA SHPO has a new group of interns on board and a number of special projects underway. That is certainly true for summer 2016 as new faces and new ideas brighten our cubicle world in the Commonwealth Keystone Building. This year we are hosting two
- [Job Opening at the PA SHPO!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/job-opening-pa-shpo/) - There is an immediate opening for the following position with the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC): Project Manager 1 THE POSITION: This is a limited-term position expected to expire on or before June 30, 2021. The position responsible for directing the construction and implementation of a new State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) electronic data
- [Celebrating African American History at Carver Court](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/celebrating-african-american-history-carver-court/) - As part of our Preservation50 activities during this milestone year, we’d like to share some stories we think showcase the people and projects that celebrate, protect, and promote important pieces of Pennsylvania’s heritage. The first story we want to share is about the Carver Court neighborhood in Caln Township, Chester County, just on the edge
- [June's SHPO Shout Out!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/junes-shpo-shout/) - June… school’s out, summer officially arrives, vacations galore, and lots of great preservation work going on. I myself just got back from a nice long weekend in the PA Wilds, and they deserve a Shout Out for the amazing work they’re doing to promote the natural and historical wonders of this region. I didn’t want
- [#FindYourPark: Independence National Historical Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/findyourpark-independence-national-historical-park/) - Several months ago, my colleague Cory Kegerise wrote a blog highlighting his childhood memories visiting Hopewell Furnace as part of the National Park Service’s #FindYourPark campaign . He inspired me to make sure my kids had the same experiences and appreciated the plethora of historic sites throughout the Commonwealth. So one Friday in late March
- [A Tale of Three Cities: Moon Township](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/moon-township/) - 45 communities in Pennsylvania have a formal working relationship with the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PASHPO) on a variety of preservation-related programs and projects. Known as Certified Local Governments (CLGs) these communities represent a broad geographic, demographic and economic swath across the Commonwealth. From Philadelphia (Pop. 1.5 million) to Mercersburg, Franklin County (Pop. 1500)
- [Community Landmarks in the City of Neighborhoods](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/community-landmarks-city-neighborhoods/) - By Samantha Kuntz Philadelphia has managed to accrue some significant historic resources over the past, oh, 300 years or so. It is home to no fewer than 550 resources (including districts) listed on National Register of Historic Places, and it holds over 11,087 resources (including districts) on the local Philadelphia Register of Historic Places. Philadelphia
- [Just Listed!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-2/) - Western Pennsylvania has been a hotbed of National Register activity during the past year. From three Washington County farms, to an industrial facility and a Salvation Army building in Pittsburgh, to a Masonic lodge in Latrobe and a synagogue in Brownsville, the National Park Service has recently listed an eclectic variety of properties in that
- [Special Announcement: Job Opening at the PA SHPO](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-job-opening-pa-shpo/) - There is an immediate opening for the following position with the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC): Historic Preservation Manager THE POSITION: This position is responsible for the direction and operation of the Division of Preservation Services within the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), a bureau of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). This
- [Community Connections: Planning for Preservation in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/community-connections-planning-preservation-pennsylvania/) - As the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) turns fifty this year, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO), a bureau of the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC), has begun outreach and strategic planning for Pennsylvania’s next statewide comprehensive historic preservation plan. We believe that this important anniversary is the right opportunity to engage
- [Preservation Month Big Announcements!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservation-month-big-announcements/) - May is National Historic Preservation Month and a great time to announce two new exciting preservation initiatives at the PA SHPO. We’re celebrating this year by kicking off our “Community Connections” campaign, the outreach and planning efforts for Pennsylvania’s next statewide historic preservation plan, and our Preservation50 Community Recognition campaign. Why are we talking about
- [Preserving Titusville: The Birthplace of The Oil Industry Finds A Path Towards Saving Its Historic Architecture](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preserving-titusville-birthplace-oil-industry-finds-path-towards-saving-historic-architecture/) - by Abigail Watson-Popescu As a child growing up in Titusville the first thing you are taught about your hometown is that Edwin Drake struck oil here on August 27, 1859. The thing you notice, though, is that your town feels very different from other towns. With wrought iron fences lining slate sidewalks, horse hitching posts
- [What is National Historic Preservation Advocacy Week?](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/national-historic-preservation-advocacy-week/) - I had to quickly learn the answer to that question for the first time this year… Advocacy Week is our annual opportunity to have a mass impact on opinion leaders and policy makers – together with a cohesive message in support of preservation-positive legislation. Advocacy Week is organized each year by Preservation Action and the
- [Intern Introspect:  10 Historic Bridges in Pennsylvania to Paddle Under Before the Temperature Plummets](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/intern-introspect-10-historic-bridges-in-pennsylvania-to-paddle-under-before-the-temperature-plummets/) - by Elizabeth Shultz Nestled between the peak heat of July and the crispness of October’s flaming foliage is that special span of outdoor living in Pennsylvania that is the perfect time to hoist your kayaks and canoes onto your shoulders, strap your sturdiest water shoes to your feet, and set out to feast your eyes on
- [Resolving to Endorse: Getting Municipalities On-Board With Historic Preservation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/resolving-endorse-getting-municipalities-board-historic-preservation/) - The Bureau for Historic Preservation (BHP) unveiled Pennsylvania’s Statewide Historic Preservation Plan last year. In an effort to assist County Planning Directors and Certified Local Governments to become familiar with the Plan, BHP recently sent a request for our local government partners to endorse the plan. Correspondence of pertinent information was mailed to better inform
- [5 Things about the New and Improved Archaeological Guidelines](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/better-than-ever/) - What better way to celebrate archaeology during Preservation50 than to share the PA State Historic Preservation Office's recently revised and newly issued of the Guidelines for Archaeological Investigations in Pennsylvania? Another bit of big news is that the revised Guidelines are being released in tandem with the much-anticipated Pre-Contact Probability Model layer on CRGIS. Now that I have
- [Special Announcement: PA SHPO Job Opportunity](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-pa-shpo-job-opportunity/) - There is an immediate opening for the following position with the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC): Historic Preservation Specialist THE POSITION: This limited-term position will assist State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) staff in the implementation of the annual SHPO/Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (Transportation)/Federal Highways work plan, which outlines tasks to be undertaken by the
- [March's SHPO Shout-Out!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/marchs-shpo-shout/) - Question: What do a Georgian country estate, an African American Methodist Church, the Whiskey Rebellion, and Chester County all have in common? Stumped? Can’t think of an answer? Then you’re not paying attention! It’s the last Wednesday of the month, which means its SHPO Shout-Out Day, and this month’s Shout Outs go to an interesting
- [Special Announcement: A Job Opportunity at the PA SHPO](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-job-opportunity-pa-shpo/) - There is an immediate opening for the following position with the PA Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC): Historic Preservation Specialist THE POSITION: This professional position is within the Division of Archaeology and Protection. This position serves as an Environmental Reviewer and works independently to provide technical advice and assistance to applicants, agencies, and the
- [New Historical Markers Approved](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/new-historical-markers-approved/) - Great news for fans of Pennsylvania's beloved blue and gold markers - there are going to be more of them soon! At the March 9th meeting, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission recently approved 23 new historical markers. Many of the marker applications and approvals were from Philadelphia County this year so we're anxious to
- [Disaster Planning for Historic Properties in a World Heritage City](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/disaster-planning-historic-properties-world-heritage-city/) - by Emily Paulus Everett, AECOM Technical Services On November 6, 2015, the City of Philadelphia became the first United States city to join the Organization of World Heritage Cities – a prestigious designation that recognizes, among other things, its vast and significant collection of well-preserved historic resources. That same week, representatives from the PA SHPO, US
- [Spotlight Series: The Punxsutawney Post Office](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/wish-you-were-here-at-the-punxsutawney-post-office/) - While Punxsutawney, Jefferson County is best known as the home of a renowned weather forecasting groundhog, it is also a community of notable historic buildings, including the grand Classical Revival style US Post Office. With all this great weather we've been having, it looks like that famous groundhog got it right this year with his
- [Preservation’s Next Generation: PennDOT/PHMC Internships in Cultural Resource Management](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/penndot-phmc-internships/) - If you’ve been to a preservation or archaeology conference lately, you may have found yourself looking out at a sea of grey heads. The generation that began working on public projects in the 1970’s and 1980’s with the initial implementation of Federal and State Historic and Archaeological Preservation laws and regulations, is now retiring. These
- [Special Announcement! A Job Opening!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-job-opening/) - There is an immediate opening for the following position with the PA Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC): Historic Preservation Specialist THE POSITION: This is a limited-term position (lasting through 06/30/17) in the Division of Preservation Services. The incumbent will serve as the Historic Preservation Recovery Project Manager. The position requires Cultural Resource Management experience and
- [Special Announcement: New Position open at the PA SHPO!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-new-position-open-pa-shpo/) - There is an immediate opening for the following position with the PA Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) THE POSITION: This limited-term position coordinates and communicates information about the Bureau for Historic Preservation's programs; develops implements and evaluates the bureau's community outreach programs; and helps to coordinate educational activities with state agency partners, local governments, non-profit
- [Just Listed: Recent Additions to the National Register of Historic Places](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-recent-additions-to-the-national-register-of-historic-places/) - Just Listed is a semi-annual feature of Pennsylvania’s cultural resources that were recently listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Since our last Just Listed post, 27 resources from all corners of the Commonwealth have been listed in the National Register of Historic Places. You can explore these and other historic properties in Pennsylvania via CRGIS,
- [Hosanna Church: The Last building in Hinsonville](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/hosanna-church-last-building-hinsonville/) - In the shadow of Lincoln University – one of Pennsylvania’s four “state affiliated” universities (its fellows being Pitt, Temple, and Penn State) – can be found the small and stoic Hosanna AUMP Church. One pragmatic story tall, with a grand total of eight windows on four sides, the modest footprint of Hosanna belies its cultural
- [Pennsylvania’s Historic Preservation Tax Credit: Year One Recap](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/year-one-recapawards-pas-historic-preservation-tax-credit/) - As the calendar flips to another Fiscal Year, I want to take a few minutes to review the first year of Pennsylvania’s Historic Preservation Tax Credit and present the first 15 projects to receive historic tax credits in Pennsylvania. Many people in the preservation and economic development community believed that a historic tax credit program
- [Spotlight Series: National Register - The Irving Female College](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/spotlight-series-national-register-the-irving-female-college/) - The Spotlight Series is an occassional series that highlights interesting people, places, programs, and partner organizations working on historic preservation issues. During the Civil War, countless Northern soldiers passed through the small town of Mechanicsburg on the Cumberland Valley Railroad. Often, hordes of townspeople turned out to cheer them on; sights not soon forgotten by the
- [Hands On: The PHMC Preservation Trades Apprenticeship Program](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/hands-on-phmc-preservation-trades-apprenticeship-program/) - by Joe Lauver (Above: Apprentices learning the basics of mortar removal and pointing from James Houston, the Preservation Field Services Supervisor at the apprentice training workshop at Daniel Boone Homestead (PHMC staff) Just as rust (and rot) never sleeps, historic buildings rarely let those who are responsible for their preservation rest. The ultimate goal of
- [Good to Know: The Bungalow - Cozy and Charming, America’s Early 20th Century Dream Home](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/bungalow-cozy-charming-americas-early-20th-century-dream-home/) - Who doesn’t love a Bungalow? This charming cottage-like dwelling was America’s favorite small house at the turn of the 20th century and was most popular between 1900 and 1930. Some view Bungalows as the embodiment of “home” -- intentionally designed as a cozy and welcoming house form with a prominent front porch and chimney. It
- [Clouds by Day and Fire by Night: Industrial Archaeology at the Harrisburg Nail Works](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/clouds-day-fire-night-industrial-archaeology-harrisburg-nail-works/) - by Jonathan Libbon, RPA Perhaps no other theme in Pennsylvania’s history is more important than industry. With October being National Archaeology Month, it’s a great opportunity to highlight industrial archaeology in Pennsylvania. The archaeology of industrial sites focuses on the industrial process, the history of labor and management, and the artifacts and features that remain.
- [Announcing the PA SHPO Shout-Out!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/announcing-pa-shpo-shout-out/) - How often is it that we, as preservationists and champions of history, get to hear some good news about historic preservation? When I check my Facebook feed every morning, I usually see one post after another calling attention to the plight of our cherished historic places and spaces. Finally, one morning, I said, “Enough! There
- [Philadelphia’s Magical Mosaic Streetscape and the South Street Renaissance](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/philadelphias-magical-mosaic-streetscape-south-street-renaissance/) - When I discovered the fabulously whimsical and colorful mosaic murals along the 1000 block of South Street in Philadelphia, I had no idea this outpouring of creativity was actually part of a fascinating preservation story. Visually, the neighborhood is delightful surprise, a colorful, mysterious and enigmatic world of unexpected images, embedded in the physical structure
- [Looking Backward and Forward](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/looking-backwards-forwards/) - 2015 went by so quickly that we didn’t even have time to put together our traditional “Year in Review” post! Since we’re in the first week of 2016 already, I’ll give you a quick look at the PA SHPO’s 2015 highlights and a glimpse into some of the great things we have in store for
- [Preservation50: Celebrating the Golden Anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservation50-celebrating-golden-anniversary-national-historic-preservation-act/) - Ah, 1966… A gallon of gas costs 32 cents… the Dow Jones reaches a high of 950… Ronald Reagan is elected governor of California… Star Trek premieres on NBC and leads us into the final frontier... Robert Venturi’s observation on modernist architecture - Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture – is published… AND the National Historic
- [Heart + Soul + Humanities: Stronger Civic Engagement in PA!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/heart-soul-humanities-stronger-civic-engagement-in-pa/) - by Mimi Ijima, Pennsylvania Humanities Council In 2015, the Pennsylvania Humanities Council launched a partnership with the Orton Family Foundation to help Pennsylvania communities engage in meaningful civic and engagement and community planning using the Foundation’s successful Community Heart & Soul™ planning method. Community Heart & Soul is a tried and tested process that empowers
- [2016's First SHPO Shout-Out](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/2016-first-shpo-shout-out/) - The internet tells me that 45% of all Americans make News Year’s resolutions. The top ones – which I think we’ve all made at one time or another – are to be happier, healthier, and more organized. A psychologist friend tells me that one of the ways to be happier and healthier is to manage
- [Mark your Calendars – Keystone Grant Applications are due March 1, 2013!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mark-your-calendars-keystone-grant-applications-are-due-march-1-2013/) - The PHMC is proud to announce that eGrant is open for applications for the Keystone Historic Preservation Grant Program. Many applications are already started for this immensely popular grant program but it isn’t too late for your community or local-nonprofit to submit an application. Since 1993, the program has supported over 550 community “bricks and
- [The Pennsylvania Agricultural History Project: Researcher’s Guide](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-pennsylvania-agricultural-history-project-researchers-guide/) - The Pennsylvania Agricultural History Project involved a unique partnership among the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, and the Pennsylvania State University with funding from the Federal Highway Administration and the federal Preserve America program.
- [New Year, New Approach to Environmental Review](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/new-year-new-approach-to-environmental-review/) - As we ring in a new year, the PA Historic Preservation Office (PA HPO) is also fine tuning a new approach to the review of state and federal projects that have the potential to affect historic structures. The review process, mandated by federal law (Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 as amended)
- [P.H.A.S.T. and Dirty.](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/p-h-a-s-t/) - The crisis in transportation funding in Pennsylvania has had some consequences for the management of heritage resources. Since the Federal Highway Administration and PennDOT are legally required to consider the effects transportation projects have on archaeological sites and historic structures and districts, the historically low levels of funding have made that mandate more difficult. The
- [Community Preservation Workshop in Altoona September 18th](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/community-preservation-workshop-altoona-september-18th/) - Altoona Cultural Resources Essentials Focus: Community Preservation Workshop Where: Altoona Heritage Discovery Center 1421-1427 12th Avenue Altoona, PA 16601 When: Thursday, September 18th 2014, 9AM–4PM Partners: Allegheny Ridge Corporation Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission’s Bureau of Historic Preservation Preservation PA Sponsor: Middle PA Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (MPCAIA) Cost: Free admission for
- [Unearthing the Forgotten Past at Pandenarium, Site 36ME0253](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/unearthing-the-forgotten-past-at-pandenarium-site-36me0253/) - Growing up in a small northwestern Pennsylvania town, I always assumed that while our local history was important to us – it didn’t always carry the same import to the world beyond. As so often happens, I was wrong and, in this case, willingly so. In graduate school, I was fortunate enough to work on
- [Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Tax Credit Program: Year 2 Recap](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvania-historic-preservation-tax-credit-program-year-2-recap/) - Since the opening date of the application period on December 1, 2014, I have received many calls and inquiries about the status of Year 2 of Pennsylvania’s Historic Preservation Tax Credit program. By the closure of the application period on February 1, 2015, the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) received 30 applications for
- [Archaeological Survey and Marcellus Shale](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/archaeological-survey-and-marcellus-shale/) - In the past five years since Marcellus shale drilling has started, the pace of archaeological survey in the northern tier and the western counties has increased sharply. In the northern tier, which is part of my review region, this increase is well illustrated by looking at Bradford County. In terms of raw numbers, the PA
- [#FindYourPark: Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/findyourpark-hopewell-furnace-national-historic-site/) - We have probably all visited places or done things in our childhood that we’ve long since forgotten, and certainly didn’t appreciate the significance of it until much later in life. Thinking about the National Park Service’s Centennial and the #FindYourPark campaign recently brought back a memory of visiting Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site with my
- [February's SHPO Shout-Out](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/februarys-shpo-shout/) - I checked the weather maps, and it looks like most of Pennsylvania is having a cold, dreary, rainy day. What better time to read the latest SHPO Shout-Out for something cheery! So get a nice warm cup of coffee or tea, settle back, and prepare for some good news. I’m going to start off this
- [Pennsylvania’s Historic Preservation Board: Past, Present, And Future](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvanias-historic-preservation-board-past-present-and-future/) - It’s been a happy convergence of events. As planning started for the 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966, the PA State Historic Preservation Office announced its new name and is currently rehabilitating its office space, adapting and reusing the staff’s original office cubicles from Y2K. All that reorganizing has uncovered
- [Getting High-Tech to Identify Monroe County’s Flood-Prone Historic Places](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/getting-high-tech-to-identify-monroe-countys-flood-prone-historic-places/) - by Vanessa Zeoli, AECOM Technical Services A potentially trendsetting countywide survey has just been completed in the floodplains of Monroe County, in the heart of the Pocono Mountains region of northeastern Pennsylvania, identifying all flood-prone historic properties there and laying the groundwork for the development of strategies to better protect the county’s historic built environment
- [Pennsylvania At Risk 2016](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvania-at-risk-2016/) - Preservation Pennsylvania has announced the addition of 8 properties to Pennsylvania At Risk, the list of sites determined to be among the most endangered historic resources in the Commonwealth. The sites were selected from nominations submitted by the public in 2015 and will become Preservation Pennsylvania’s work priorities in 2016. The annual Pennsylvania At Risk list
- [Special Announcement!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-jan-2016/) - Great Things in Store for 2016! I am happy to share some exciting news... We are now the PA SHPO As of January 1, 2016, the Bureau for Historic Preservation (BHP) is now the PA SHPO, for the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office. The PHMC Commissioners approved the official designation at their December meeting "to recognize the significance and legacy
- [What is your most amazing discovery?](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/what-is-your-most-amazing-discovery/) - by Christine Davis, Christine Davis Consultants, Inc. After 30 years of excavating archaeological sites in Pennsylvania, I’m often asked about my most amazing discovery. I would not hesitate for a moment to say it was our large-scale excavation of the Freeport Site in Freeport Township, Greene County, which revealed an extraordinary Native American archaeological site dispersed
- [Spotlight Series: Preservation At Work in Bradford](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/spotlight-series-the-bradford-clg/) - 45 communities in Pennsylvania have a formal working relationship with the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) on a variety of preservation-related programs and projects. Known as Certified Local Governments (CLGs), these communities represent a broad geographic, demographic and economic swath across the Commonwealth. From Philadelphia (Pop. 1.5 million) to Mercersburg, Franklin County (Pop. 1500)
- [5 Things To Know: Section 106 and Consulting Parties](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/5-things-to-know-section-106-and-consulting-parties/) - Arguably, like most any full-time hard working adult, there aren’t enough hours in the day to absorb all of the informative blogs and interesting articles regarding Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966 that traverse the “intra-web.” So no surprise, I recently came across a blog a mere 6 months after
- [Farms + Family = Heritage](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/farms-family-heritage/) - It’s that time of year again . . . . . not holiday shopping, but Farm Show planning! That’s right, the Pennsylvania Farm Show will be taking place soon, January 9-16, and the SHPO will be there for the whole week. 2016 marks the 100th time Pennsylvania has celebrated agriculture and farmers with a multi-day
- [December's SHPO Shout-Out](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/decembers-shpo-shout-out/) - It’s hard to believe that a month has gone by since our first ever SHPO Shout-Out! I’ll give my own Shout-Out to everyone who liked, posted, shared, tweeted, and emailed our November post to spread the word not only about the great projects I featured but also to let people know that we’d like to crowd-source candidates
- [Saltsburg Or Bust!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/saltsburg-or-bust/) - This past June Barbara Frederick and I were in Saltsburg, Indiana County attending a stakeholder meeting for the Loyahanna and Conemaugh Dam’s master planning process. The Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District has been hard at work this summer updating their planning documents, and, as the Western Region Section 106 review team, Barbara and I have
- [#FindYourPark: Steamtown National Historic Site](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/findyourpark-steamtown-national-historic-site/) - The National Park Service will marks its 100th anniversary in 2016, and in honor of this centennial celebration, PHMC will highlight the National Parks in Pennsylvania throughout the coming year, as seen through the eyes of our staff. Recently, a couple of us from the office went on a trip to the Steamtown National Historic
- [5 Things To Do Now: Keystone Historic Preservation Grants](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/5-things-to-do-now-keystone-historic-preservation-grants/) - Things To Do Now is an occasional series featuring tips and tricks for some of the SHPO’s most popular programs and projects. It is that time of year to start thinking about applications to the PHMC’s Keystone Historic Preservation Grant program, which supports planning and construction projects for historic places throughout the Commonwealth. Unfortunately, PHMC is
- [PA Modern: Discovering Pennsylvania's Midcentury Architectural Legacy](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pa-modern-discovering-pennsylvanias-midcentury-architectural-legacy/) - by Beth Hager Eloquence in word and in visual expression – this is the exciting outcome of the new juried exhibit opening at The State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg on Sunday, October 25: “PA Modern: A Photography Exhibit of Midcentury Architecture.” Featuring 98 photographs by 44 photographers, the exhibit displays a wonderful array of
- [Happy Birthday, Pennsylvania Turnpike!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/happy-birthday-pennsylvania-turnpike/) - The Pennsylvania Turnpike turned 75 on October 1, and groups throughout the state have already started their tributes to this engineering marvel and cultural icon. On October 2, the State Museum opened a new permanent exhibit about the Turnpike in its Industry and Transportation gallery, and the recent issue of the Pennsylvania Heritage magazine featured
- [Into The Wilderness Part 2: Getting Our Bearings On Thompson's Island](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/into-the-wilderness-part-2-getting-our-bearings-on-thompsons-island/) - In my last post about the Battle of Thompson’s Island, I gave a brief background on the conflict and discussed the National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) grant our office received to find the battlefield. Like the campaign itself, the project has continued moving. We have chosen a consultant, Chris Espenshade of Commonwealth
- [5 Things To Do Now: Historical Markers](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/5-things-to-do-now-historical-markers/) - Things To Do Now is an occasional series featuring tips and tricks for some of the SHPO's most popular programs and projects. Think there is a person, place, or event in your community that deserves some recognition? If you believe that one of PHMC's blue-and-gold historical markers is a great way to tell that story to the
- [Special Announcement: Job Opportunity at the PA SHPO!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/special-announcement-job-opportunity-at-the-pa-shpo/) - There is an immediate opening for the following position with the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC): Historic Preservation Specialist THE POSITION: This position supports and maintains the Commonwealth's historic building survey, including maintaining the integrity of the historic property information in the Cultural Resources Geographic Information System (CRGIS) and facilitating new surveys in order
- [Nominating Historical Markers](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/nominating-historical-markers/) - The Historical Marker Program is one of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission's (PHMC) most popular public programs. Since 1913, well over 2000 markers have been erected throughout the Commonwealth. Initially, PHMC’s predecessor, the Pennsylvania Historical Commission (PHC) erected bronze plaques on boulders or stone monuments. When the State Archives, State Museum and the PHC combined
- [CLG Soul Searching](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/clg-soul-searching/) - The 1980 amendments to the National Historic Preservation Act established the Certified Local Government (CLG) program to give local governments a formal voice in the national historic preservation conversation. Let’s call out the super-powers of metaphor to explain this relationship. I often like to use the fabulously versatile bungee cord. Yes, the thing you use to keep
- [Offbeat Outing: Mt. Gretna Tour of Homes and Gardens](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/offbeat-outing-mt-gretna-tour-of-homes-and-gardens/) - Offbeat Outings is a bi-monthly series that highlights the travels of BHP staff as they experience history first-hand throughout Pennsylvania. Trying to find something to do outside in Pennsylvania during the month of August is often challenging with our hot and humid days. Luckily, the first Saturday in August is always the Mt. Gretna Tour
- [Offbeat Outing:  Shades of Grey - On the Road in Pike County](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/offbeat-outing-shades-of-grey-on-the-road-in-pike-county/) - Offbeat Outings is a bi-monthly series that highlights the travels of BHP staff as they experience history first-hand throughout Pennsylvania. Although I’m Pennsylvania born and raised, I’m the first to (sheepishly) admit that there are many counties within the Commonwealth where I have never stepped foot. So when the invitation arose under the guise of
- [People Power at the 2015 Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/people-power-at-the-2015-pennsylvania-historic-preservation-awards/) - by Sabra Smith, Preservation Pennsylvania What is the preservation community’s most important asset? It’s the people! Those passionate, creative, place-loving, story-telling folks who wear invisible super hero capes and do their best work so that a beloved landmark is restored, or a neighborhood story is discovered, or a community of advocates is activated. This year’s
- [Good Things Take Time:  The First Pennsylvania Tax Credit Project Comes Online](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/its-about-time-the-first-pennsylvania-tax-credit-project-comes-online/) - During my tenure with Pennsylvania’s Historic Preservation Office, I reviewed numerous legislative drafts for the long-awaited Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Tax Credit program. Early drafts included a historic homeowner component. Later versions proposed grants instead of tax credits. All dozen or so drafts were bypassed in the legislative process until the approval of the Pennsylvania Historic
- [Offbeat Outings: Vandergrift](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/offbeat-outings-vandergrift-2/) - Offbeat Outings is a bi-monthly series that highlights the travels of BHP staff as they experience history first-hand throughout Pennsylvania. When some people plan to go on an historic vacation they think of places to visit like the Egyptian pyramids at Giza, Colonial Williamsburg, Stonehenge, or even Gettysburg. When I think of an historic vacation,
- [Just Listed: Historic Breweries of Pennsylvania Edition](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed-historic-breweries-of-pensylvania/) - Just Listed is a semi-annual feature of Pennsylvania’s cultural resources that were recently listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Since our last Just Listed post, four properties from across the Commonwealth have been listed in the National Register of Historic Places. You can explore these National Register nominations and other historic properties in Pennsylvania via CRGIS, our online
- [Shippensburg’s Corn Festival: Thirty-Five Years of Corn, Fun, and Historic Preservation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shippensburgs-corn-festival-thirty-five-years-of-corn-fun-and-historic-preservation/) - By Steven Burg On the last Saturday in August for the last three and a half decades, tens of thousands of visitors have descended on downtown Shippensburg to enjoy the crafts, music, entertainment, and food of the Shippensburg Corn Festival. Despite the continued success of the event, many people know little about its origins as
- [Do you know what HPF Stands For?](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/do-you-know-what-hpf-stands-for/) - Q: What do the National Register of Historic Places, Section 106 consultation, Federal Historic Preservation Tax Credits, Certified Local Government grants, Tribal preservation activities, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities have in common? A: All of these programs (and more) are supported by the Historic Preservation Fund. The next logical question you might be asking
- [Meet the 2015 Summer Interns](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/meet-the-2015-summer-interns/) - The PA SHPO provides opportunities for interested college students to work as interns in our office throughout the year, but summer always brings a crop of fresh faces. Our summer interns are participants in either the PHMC Keystone Internship Program or the PENNDOT sponsored summer internship program in cultural resource management. Summer 2015 interns at
- [‘Disaster Planning for Historic Properties’ Exhibit Debuts at the PA State Association of Township Supervisors Conference](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/disaster-planning-for-historic-properties-exhibit-debuts-at-the-pa-state-association-of-township-supervisors-conference/) - Staff from the PA State Historic Preservation Office were on location at the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors’ (PSATS) 93rd Annual Educational Conference and Trade Show in Hershey, Dauphin County, from April 19-21 to promote the Commonwealth’s new Disaster Planning for Historic Properties Initiative and to convey the importance of considering the impacts of
- [2015: The Year of the Pennsylvania Barn](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/2015-the-year-of-the-pennsylvania-barn/) - by Curt Musselman Ten years ago, Historic Gettysburg Adams County (HGAC) received a grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) to help establish a barn preservation program within Adams County. One of our first steps was to begin a survey of the historic barns in the county so that we would know more
- [National History Day inspires a new generation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/national-history-day-inspires-a-new-generation/) - Several weeks ago I had the opportunity to serve as judge at the National History Day in Pennsylvania competition at Millersville University. The National History Day Program started in 1974, and is an excellent educational opportunity for students in grades 6-12 to learn about the research, analysis, and presentation of history. Students compete at regional,
- [Happy Birthday to ReGIS](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/happy-birthday-to-regis/) - ReGIS is 10! In Spring 2005 we launched the public version of the Cultural Resources Geographic Information System (CRGIS) website. The database search was named AskReGIS and this little guy was born (thank you Kathy Alsvary!). Since then hundreds of people have consulted him every day to find out what he knows about historic places
- [Digging Deep: Pennsylvania and the Making Archaeology Public Initiative](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/digging-deep-pennsylvania-and-the-making-archaeology-public-initiative/) - by Joe Baker, PennDOT Cultural Resources Program On a lovely morning in early autumn, I arrive at an old farm along the Susquehanna River to find Dr Frank Vento in his natural element. That is to say, he is squatting down at the bottom of backhoe trench some eight feet deep, carefully examining the many
- [The National Park Service @ 100: #FindYourPark](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-national-park-service-100-findyourpark/) - 2016 is shaping up to be a great year for celebrating historic preservation. The National Historic Preservation Act turns 50, and the National Park Service turns 100! Throughout the next year, the National Park Service and its partners will announce a number of initiatives for this centennial celebration. A few days ago, President Obama declared
- [UPDATE:  SHPO Research Room Policy Change](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shpo-research-room-policy-change/) - UPDATE - Effective May 1, 2015 We are pleased to announce that the update to our Archive and Research Room User Policy is now complete! Our Research Room Policy is now aligned with the procedures and rules of the Pennsylvania State Archives. We encourage you to review these changes by visiting our website and downloading
- [Discovering Pennsylvania's Jazz History](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/discovering-pennsylvanias-jazz-history/) - Turning the calendar page from March to April is a cause for celebration on many fronts – the end of winter, the blooming of spring flowers, and an official reason to celebrate jazz! Yes, April is National Jazz Appreciation Month and Pennsylvania has a long, rich history with the musical genre. Jazz has its roots
- [New Historical Markers Approved for 2015](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/new-historical-markers-approved-for-2015/) - The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) approved 22 new historical markers at its March 4, 2015 meeting. There are currently more than 2,000 PHMC markers throughout Pennsylvania and the program is one of the most popular and visible aspects of the Commission’s work. The Commission has standard approval criteria that, among other things, require
- [UPDATE: Local Landmarks For Sale](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/update-local-landmarks-for-sale/) - In our June 2013 post, we featured the upcoming sale of National Register listed state armories located in historic communities throughout the Commonwealth. To date, eight of the armories marketed for adaptive reuse by the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs have been sold to buyers who have agreed to purchase the buildings with a
- [A Place In Time: The Original Little League Field](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/a-place-in-time-the-original-little-league-field/) - A Place In Time is a regular feature in Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine, published quarterly by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and available for purchase at ShopPaHeritage.com. A subscription to the magazine is a benefit of membership in the Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit partner of the PHMC. Like many boys growing up in
- [Spotlight Series: Easton Cemetery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/spotlight-series-easton-cemetery/) - High on a hill overlooking the City of Easton is the serene, picturesque, and endlessly fascinating Easton Cemetery. The cemetery occupies a point of land created by a bend in the Bushkill Creek that, at the time of the cemetery’s establishment in 1849, was on the edge of a rapidly growing industrial community in desperate
- [The Battle of Brandywine Revisited](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/battle-brandywine-revisited/) - By Jill Hall and Karen Marshall On September 11, 1777, British General William Howe and his professional army engaged General George Washington and his citizen soldiers along the banks of the Brandywine River about 30 miles southwest of Philadelphia. Part of a larger strategy known as the Philadelphia Campaign, the Battle of Brandywine was one
- [Making the Grade: The Architecture of Philadelphia's Public Schools, Part 1](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/making-grade-architecture-philadelphias-public-schools-part-1/) - The architectural historian in me is fascinated by the threads of science, theory, and symbolism that go into designing and building schools. Like most preservationists, I am a strong believer that the power of place plays a central role in shaping our experiences, attitudes, and values. The tangible aspects of a school’s ‘power of place’
- [Pennsylvania At Risk 2014](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvania-risk-2014/) - Preservation Pennsylvania recently announced the Pennsylvania At Risk 2014 list -- seven properties nominated by the public last year that will become the nonprofit group’s work priorities in 2015. The list illustrates a range of threats to historic resources, including 1) demolition; 2) potential loss due to deferred maintenance; 3) loss of vitality due to
- [Before the (Next) Storm: The Disaster Planning for Historic Properties Initiative](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/next-storm-disaster-planning-historic-properties-initiative/) - The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is pleased to announce that it has begun moving forward on an exciting and historic new initiative to continue through 2017. Special funding awarded by the National Park Service following Hurricane Sandy has enabled the PA SHPO to assist select counties with prioritizing their communities’ historic properties
- [It's January - Time for the 2015 Pennsylvania Farm Show!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/january-time-2015-pennsylvania-farm-show/) - UPDATE! The PHMC booth showcasing the Historical Markers Program was selected as the Best Educational Display by the Farm Show judges! Thank you to the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and the thousands of Farm Show attendees who visited the booth to learn about Pennsylvania's rich agricultural heritage. Make room on your calendars because the Pennsylvania
- [A Place In Time:  The Pittsburgh Renaissance Historic District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/place-time-pittsburgh-renaissance-historic-district/) - A Place In Time is a regular feature in Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine, published quarterly by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and available for purchase at ShopPaHeritage.com. A subscription to the magazine is a benefit of membership in the Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit partner of the PHMC. Throughout much of its industrial history,
- [Preservation in a Changing Economic Climate](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservation-changing-economic-climate/) - Many of Pennsylvania’s communities face the challenging task of adapting to a vastly different economic climate than the one that led to their historic growth and development. This new economic reality of dramatically reduced population, deindustrialization and loss of tax base has resulted in historic downtowns and residential neighborhoods pockmarked by disinvestment and vacant properties.
- [Into the Wilderness!: The Search for Thompson’s Island](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/wilderness-search-thompsons-island/) - In July 2014, the Bureau for Historic Preservation received an American Battlefield Protection Program planning grant from the National Park Service to locate, document, and delineate the boundaries of a significant, but little known Revolutionary War conflict site in northwestern Pennsylvania. The Battle of Thompson’s Island, in present day Warren County, is listed with “Other
- [Taking Stock of 2014 at the PaSHPO](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/taking-stock-2014-pashpo/) - There’s something about turning the final page of the calendar each year that makes us all a little introspective. What were the high points of the past 12 months? The low points? The successes? The challenges? What might we do differently in the coming year? What should stay the same? This past year has been
- [Digital Underground: Seeking Electronic Versions of Archaeological Reports](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/digital-underground-seeking-electronic-versions-archaeological-reports/) - As many of you will have noticed in your recent correspondence with our office, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), we have made a change in number and media requested for archaeological report copies. We are now requesting just one hard copy for the permanent archive file here at the SHPO office in Harrisburg,
- [New Faces and Places in Environmental Review](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/new-faces-places-environmental-review/) - As we are poised to ring in a new year, we wanted to make you aware of new developments in the review of state and federal projects that have occurred within our office over the past several months. In August, we said a fond farewell to Ann Safley who retired after 23 years of service.
- [Preservation at 50: Planning for the Anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservation-50-planning-anniversary-national-historic-preservation-act/) - I am dismayed to learn from reading this report that almost half of the twelve thousand structures listed in the Historic American Buildings Survey of the National Park Service have already been destroyed. This a serious loss and it underlines the necessity for prompt action if we are not to shirk our duty to the
- [The Keystone Fund Partners in Preserving James Buchanan’s Wheatland  ](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/keystone-fund-partners-preserving-james-buchanans-wheatland/) - I realize that when it is cold outside, it might be more comfortable to hibernate on the couch watching television, but this is a great time of year to visit the Commonwealth’s museums and historical sites. Always in need a last-minute hostess gift for a party, I often pop into the Landis Valley Museum Shop
- [School Daze](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/school-daze/) - No, this isn’t a review of Spike Lee’s 1988 movie. I’m referring to my state of mind when I think about all of the work I’ve done with public schools in Philadelphia over the past few months. As you may remember from this post, I joined BHP in July and my first assignment was to
- [Updated Forms and Guidance from the SHPO](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/updated-forms-guidance-shpo/) - Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it. - Anonymous It’s that time of the year for excess chewing, and it’s also timely for the Bureau to take a mid-plan stretch (after a turkey-induced slumber) and to regain focus on evaluating the accomplishments of
- [A Family Reunion at the Mother's Memorial](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/family-reunion-mothers-memorial/) - At the end of October I had the opportunity to take a trip to Ashland, PA for the first time. It was a beautiful fall day, near the peak of the fall foliage season, and the drive up I-81 from Harrisburg afforded me great views of the nearby mountains. The purpose of the trip was
- [History with a slice of pie: on the road with the Heinrichs](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/history-slice-pie-road-heinrichs/) - Late in August this summer Keith and I found ourselves in Westmoreland County, on a rare working Saturday, with a couple hours of down time. Between my meeting with a consultant in the morning and Keith’s event to celebrate the National Register listing of the Concord School in the evening, we needed a plan: something
- [The Potential of Cultural Landscapes](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-potential-of-cultural-landscapes/) - Peirce Lewis, an American geographer and emeritus professor at the Pennsylvania State University, may have best described the concept of cultural landscapes; “The human landscape is our unwitting autobiography, reflecting our tastes, our values, our aspirations, and even our fears in tangible, visible form.” Land shows both individual and collective beliefs in a physical manifestation.
- [Crossing the line: Meeting our SHPO colleagues from across the Northeast](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/crossing-line-meeting-shpo-colleagues-across-northeast/) - By Cory Kegerise and Serena Bellew From time to time, Bureau for Historic Preservation staffers are asked about how a particular process, form, or issue affecting historic resources in Pennsylvania is handled in different states. Fortunately, in the age of e-communication there are websites and listserves to provide answers to most of these questions. But
- [The Revolutionary War Burial Ground in Bethlehem](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/revolutionary-war-burial-ground-bethlehem/) - It’s not every day that you find a human skeleton out in your backyard. But this is exactly what happened in a residential part of the City of Bethlehem in February of 1995. A construction crew unearthed the remains and the homeowner promptly notified local authorities. Once the coroner determined the skeleton was “very old”
- [Traces in the Woods](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/traces-woods/) - Have you ever been walking through the woods and wondered who walked here before you? Setting aside the 16,000 years of prehistory in Pennsylvania, it is amazing to me how much our use of the land has changed during the last 350 years. Much of Penn’s Woods has gone from woods to farms to industrial
- [Spotlight Series: Lancaster Central Market celebrates its 125th Anniversary](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/lancaster-central-market-celebrates-125th-anniversary/) - For some readers the onset of seasonal fall weather means bundling up for Friday night high school football games or starting the furnace, but I’m always reminded that another growing season is coming to a close. However, It is not too late to find great local produce at any of Pennsylvania’s local market houses!
- [Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards: The Case of the Missing Pachyderms and the Marvel of a Brand-New Old Ceiling](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvania-historic-preservation-awards-case-missing-pachyderms-marvel-brand-new-old-ceiling/) - Each year, Preservation Pennsylvania presents the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards as a way to honor individuals and organizations that exhibit excellence in the field of historic preservation. The 2014 award recipients exemplify some of the core values of historic preservation, such as a community pulling together to save a building from demolition or the revitalization
- [Spotlight Series: A neglected architectural gem in North Philadelphia](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/neglected-architectural-gem-north-philadelphia/) - The Spotlight Series is an occasional series that highlights interesting people, places, programs, and partner organizations working on historic preservation issues. At the turn of the last century, the 2200 block of West Tioga Street was a fashionable address for business owners and professionals. Homes were up to 5,800 square feet, housing large families and live-in servants.
- [Looking Down The Road: The PHMC’s Role in Regional Transportation Planning](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/looking-road-phmcs-role-regional-transportation-planning/) - Over the past several years the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission has developed an innovative partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to provide regional Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) and Rural Planning Organizations (RPOs) with free technical assistance to help them develop their Long Range Transportation Plans (LRTP).
- [2nd Time Around: PaSHPO Accepting Pre-Application Materials for the Hurricane Sandy Disaster Recovery Grant Program for Historic Properties through October 10](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/2nd-time-around-pashpo-accepting-pre-application-materials-hurricane-sandy-disaster-recovery-grant-program-historic-properties-october-10/) - Last call! On September 2, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PaSHPO) began accepting its second and final round of Part 1 submissions for its Hurricane Sandy Disaster Recovery Grant Program for Historic Properties. Submissions will be accepted through October 10. Owners of historic properties that sustained damage as a result of the October 2012
- [Intern Insights: The Buckaloons](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/intern-insights-buckaloons/) - Hi y’all, I’m Meghan Rooney and I had the amazing opportunity to intern with PHMC-BHP all summer. I am a senior at Shippensburg University, studying Public Administration with dual minors in History and International Studies. I had a blast working with the BHP staff and on my project, The Irvine Estate/Buckaloons. The area known has
- [New Projects and New Faces at the PaSHPO](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/new-projects-new-faces-pashpo/) - The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office has multiple roles and frequently has many irons in the fire. Among the responsibilities that people are most familiar with are facilitating National Register nominations, assisting tax credit applicants, managing grants, advising community leaders, reviewing state and Federally-assisted project, and maintaining historical markers. But from time to time, the
- [Intern Insights: Two Worlds - CRM and Academia](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/intern-introspect-two-worlds-crm-academia/) - Ever since I discovered archaeology in high school I knew that it was going to be my career, even if I have not figured out the specifics of what I wanted to do. By recommendation, I ended up at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). It was an excellent choice for me, and gave me the
- [Community Preservation Workshop in Erie - June 20](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/erie-preservation-workshop/) - Event will feature experts from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and Preservation Pennsylvania Preservation Erie and the Erie County Historical Society are collaborating to present an Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority Mission Main Street workshop. The event will take place June 20, 2014, from 9a.m. to 3p.m. at the Jefferson Educational Society, 3207 State Street, Erie, Pa. Event updates and RSVP details are available
- [Something About That Place...](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/something-place/) - Given I routinely speak to agencies, applicants, and the public about historic architecture, I was a bit surprised by the presence of sweaty palms and butterflies as I prepared to talk to a new audience, a group I assumed would exhibit short attention spans, emotional reactivity, and call-it-like-you-see-it attitudes while I struggled to make even
- [The Past, Present and Future of the Transportation Enhancement Programs, MAP-21 and Transportation Alternatives Program.](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/past-present-future-transportation-enhancement-programs-map-21-transportation-alternatives-program/) - On July 17, 2014, at the Forum 2014 Statewide Conference on Heritage Byways to the Past in Philadelphia, the Bureau for Historic Preservation (BHP) will be part of the panel for the session “The Past, Present and Future of the Transportation Enhancement Programs, MAP-21 and Transportation Alternatives Program.” The Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) provides funding
- [Bushy Run Battlefield Historic Park: the 251st Anniversary](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/bushy-run-battlefield-historic-park-251st-anniversary/) - Bushy Run Battlefield is a state historic park located along Route 993 northwest of Greensburg and about one mile east of Harrison City in Westmoreland County. The battlefield is associated with Pontiac’s Rebellion when Native American tribes rose up in 1763 in an attempt to drive out British interests after the end of the French
- [Spotlight Series: Back to School](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/back-to-school/) - Over the last several weeks, you've read some of the adventures of our summer 2014 interns. As they, and countless other students, head back to those hallowed halls of higher education, we here at the State Historic Preservation Office thought we’d search through our vast collection of historic resource files, and highlight a selection of
- [Summer 2014:  Interns and Opportunities Abound](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/summer-2014-interns-opportunities-abound/) - Summer usually finds the PA SHPO full of interns from both the PHMC Keystone Internship Program and the PENNDOT summer internship program for non-engineering majors and this year that is especially true. Keystone internships offer college students the opportunity to receive course credit by working on projects in a variety of PHMC settings and perform
- [Intern Life at PHMC](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/intern-life-phmc/) - Each year the PHMC hosts students interested in working in the field of Public History. Each Keystone Intern works directly with a PHMC staff member on a specific project. This year in collaboration with the other Bureaus of the PHMC we have established a blog series that highlights different aspects of the internship. This week's
- [It Was Always Sunny in Philadelphia!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/always-sunny-philadelphia/) - Sunny and 82 degrees -- every day. This type of weather forecast isn’t what I typically look forward to during a conference week. However FORUM 2014 – A Keystone Connection wasn’t your typical conference. Through an unprecedented partnership, FORUM 2014 harnessed the energy of 781 preservation-minded individuals from 48 states. These attendance numbers and ideal
- [For PHMC, Preservation Begins at Home](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/phmc-preservation-begins-home/) - Not everyone appreciates the beauty, simplicity and architectural honesty of mid-century modern architecture. As in every age and style there are good examples, bad examples, and occasionally, a truly exemplary work of architecture. Fortunately for PHMC, The State Museum and Archives building in Harrisburg is an exemplary work of mid-century modern design. I developed my
- [Philadelphia Meeting of Two National Preservation Organizations](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/philadelphia-meeting-two-national-preservation-organizations/) - July 2014 is a busy month for historic preservationists. Over eight hundred people will converge on the city of Philadelphia for the 2014 FORUM Preservation Conference and other related meetings and events between July 16 and 20. This year, Pennsylvania’s annual gathering of its historic preservation community is considerably larger, with an expanded agenda, tours,
- [Reading Terminal Market:	A Proud Philadelphia Tradition Continues](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/reading-terminal-marketa-proud-philadelphia-tradition-continues/) - As preservationists from all over the country converge in Philadelphia this summer for Forum 2014 it is only appropriate to highlight the fabulous and historic food venue that will host the conference reception on July 18th—the Reading Terminal Market. The Market itself is a real preservation success story. It is a landmark building (recognized as
- [BHP's Offbeat Outings: Worlds End](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/bhps-offbeat-outings-worlds-end/) - Offbeat Outings is a bi-monthly series that highlights the travels of BHP staff as they experience history first-hand throughout Pennsylvania. A few weeks ago, I headed north on Friday afternoon and drove just over 100 miles to Worlds End State Park in Sullivan County. Until living in Harrisburg and working for the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation
- [Lynn Hall: A Nexus of Design Perspectives](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/lynn-hall-nexus-design-perspectives/) - Lynn Hall, located in McKean County on Route 6 just west of Port Allegany was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in December of 2006. Lynn Hall was designed and built as a restaurant/ ballroom and residence by local master builder Walter Hall and his architect son Raymond Viner (R.V.) Hall. Walter Hall
- [Remembering Indian Hannah](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/remembering-indian-hannah/) - by Karen Galle and Cory Kegerise Hannah Freeman is not a name that you’ll find in most history books, though her story and her legend live on in southern Chester County. Known more popularly as “Indian Hannah”, Freeman is remembered in local lore as the last Lenni Lenape living in Chester County at the time
- [Spotlight Series: The Allegheny Observatory](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/spotlight-series-allegheny-observatory/) - The Spotlight Series is an occasional series that highlights interesting people, places, programs, and partner organizations working on historic preservation issues. This spring I had the pleasure of working with a group of six students from the University of Pittsburgh’s History of Art and Architecture Department as they participated in a unique opportunity to intensively study the
- [A Museum for the 21st Century: The Online Presence of the Philadelphia Museum of Art](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/museum-21st-century-online-presence-philadelphia-museum-art/) - Editor's Note: Each year PHMC hosts students from Pennsylvania state colleges and universities through The Harrisburg Internship Semester (T.H.I.S.) program. The interns come from a wide variety of backgrounds and majors and are encouraged to gain writing experience by authoring a blog post on a topic that interests them. by Kara Adams, T.H.I.S. intern A
- [An ERIEsistable Journey](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/eriesistable-journey/) - The odometer read 19 when we rolled out of the state garage. We had an ambitious three-day schedule planned to northwestern Pennsylvania. The Bureau’s new director, Serena Bellew, had never been to the ‘Erie triangle’ or the northwest corner of the Commonwealth and she was in for a treat… or two, or three – because
- [The Never-ending ERIEsistable Journey ](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/never-ending-eriesistable-journey/) - My motoring memoirs of the ERIEsistable journey I personally never wanted to end (my travel companion may have felt otherwise), returned us to where we pulled over two weeks ago… lunch! In the spirit of continuing the “positive preservation” theme, we ventured to The Pufferbelly Restaurant on French Street, which recalls the nickname given to
- [Just Listed!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/just-listed/) - Just Listed is a semi-annual feature of Pennsylvania's Cultural Resources that were recently listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Three very different Pennsylvania resources were recently listed in the National Register of Historic Places. They hold significance for very different reasons, too, ranging from design and architectural merit, to labor history in the
- [Job Opportunity at PHMC](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/job-opportunity-phmc/) - There is an immediate opening with the PA Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) for a Historic Preservation Specialist. THE POSITION: This is a limited-term position (lasting less than 1 year) in the Division of Preservation Services. The office location is at Graeme Park in Horsham, Pennsylvania. The division is responsible for the identification, evaluation, and
- [New Markers approved for 2014](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/new-markers-approved-2014/) - The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission recently approved 21 new historical markers. Approval Criteria require that marker subjects must have statewide and/or national rather than local or regional historical significance. After the jump is a quick look at this year's approved markers. The majority of approvals were from the City of Philadelphia (10). Philadelphia has
- [Register Now for FORUM 2014 in Philadelphia](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/register-now-forum-2014-philadelphia/) - Registration is now open for FORUM 2014, July 16-20, in Philadelphia. FORUM is the title for this year’s Statewide Conference on Heritage/Byways to the Past, which has teamed up with the National Alliance of Preservation Commission’s biennial training program for a jam-packed week of workshops, tours, and sessions. Whether you’re a perennial attendee of the
- [Archaeological Sites and the National Register](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/archaeological-sites-national-register/) - The U. S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, describes the National Register of Historic Places as “the official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects significant in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture. National Register properties have significance to the prehistory or history of their community, State, or the Nation (NPS
- [Spotlight Series: The Shawnee-Minisink Archaeological Site](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/shawnee-minisink/) - “Well How Do They Know That?”: Shawnee-Minisink and How We Know What We Know About Prehistoric Peoples at One Archaeological Site. The Spotlight Series is an occasional series that highlights interesting people, places, programs, and partner organizations working on historic preservation issues. It is late summer or early fall about 10,000 years ago (give or take) and
- [Getting to Know the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Board](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/getting-know-pennsylvania-historic-preservation-board/) - 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
- [BHP's Offbeat Outings: Athens](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/bhps-offbeat-outings-athens/) - Along the many rivers and creeks, and in the numerous hills and valleys, visitors to the northern tier of Pennsylvania will find truly unique communities and landscapes. This region is home to some of the most beautiful and interesting collections of Early Republic and Greek Revival architecture found in Pennsylvania, not to mention the scenic vistas that are seemingly around every bend.
- [Spotlight Series: The Ashland Mother's Memorial](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/spotlight-series-the-ashland-mothers-memorial/) - The Spotlight Series is an occassional series that highlights interesting people, places, programs, and partner organizations working on historic preservation issues. Erected in 1938, the Mother's Memorial is situated prominently in the town of Ashland, PA, in the anthracite coal region of Schuylkill County. The Ashland Boys' Association (A.B.A.), an organization of men and boys born
- [Following in Sandy's Path: $1.5 Million Awarded to PA for Recovery and Planning](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/following-sandys-path/) - In the bill authorizing funds for recovery from Hurricane Sandy, Congress allocated $50 million to the National Park Service (NPS) specifically for projects related to historic properties in the affected states. The majority of these funds were directed to New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, while the rest was made available on a
- [Improving Archaeological Reports and Review: Part 2](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/improving-archaeological-reports-part-2/) - Archaeology is a destructive science. Generally there are no exciting explosions, or catastrophic collapses when undertaking an excavation, but all the same, once a site or portion of a site is excavated it is gone for good. Every good archaeologist is trained to take this fact into account when doing archaeological work. We sketch, note,
- [Preservation Pennsylvania announces Pennsylvania At Risk 2013](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/at-risk-2013/) - Preservation Pennsylvania just released Pennsylvania At Risk 2013, an annual list that provides a representative sampling of the Commonwealth’s most endangered historic resources. Pennsylvania At Risk 2013 features nine endangered properties that were identified in 2013, and will be Preservation Pennsylvania’s priorities for action in 2014. The properties included in this annual list of endangered
- [3 Things to Know About Local Preservation Programs in Pennsylvania – Part 1](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/3-things-know-local-preservation-programs-pennsylvania-part-1/) - Preservationists often refer to the range of programs, laws, and financial incentives that are invoked to help protect and enhance historic places as a “toolbox.” Among the tools in the toolbox may be planning and zoning regulations, grants, tax credits, state or Federal laws, to name just a few. The tools with the most “teeth”
- [Preservation Achievement Awards](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preservation-achievement-awards/) - Every year the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia presents the Preservation Achievement Awards to individuals, organizations, businesses and projects from throughout the region that exemplify outstanding achievement in the field of historic preservation. The Awards include Grand Jury Awards to specific projects and Special Recognition Awards to individuals and organizations whose extraordinary accomplishments in preservation
- [Preserving Pennsylvania’s Aquacultural Heritage: Ralph W. Abele](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/ralphabele/) - Every year at the Pennsylvania Farm Show the Bureau for Historic Preservation has a booth presenting our role in the preservation of the Commonwealth's agricultural history. We have launched the third annual Marker Scavenger Hunt at the Farm Show. Twenty-four replicas of actual Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission markers are scattered throughout the complex. In
- [The Continuing Impact of the Keystone Historic Preservation Fund](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/continuing-impact-keystone-historic-preservation-fund/) - Mark your Calendars – Keystone Grant Applications are due March 3, 2014! It is amazing that the Keystone Recreation, Park & Conservation Fund celebrated its 20th Anniversary in 2013. That’s 20 years of enhancing natural, recreational, educational, and historic resources for residents throughout every region in Pennsylvania. The PHMC uses its share of the Keystone
- [Section 106 Consultation: 5 Steps to Meaningful Mitigation Outcomes](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/section-106-consultation-meaningful-mitigation-outcomes/) - 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
- [Greetings From Harrisburg-I am Thrilled To Be Here!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/greetings-harrisburg-thrilled/) - When I got the call offering me the position of Director of the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office I didn't hesitate to say YES! Returning to a SHPO had always been my long-term plan, having started my preservation career with seven years at the Georgia State Historic Preservation Office, before moving to work on the
- [How to cure the wintertime preservation blues?](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/cure-wintertime-preservation-blues/) - As the days get shorter, the nights get longer and the threat of snowfall sends weather forecasters, school district superintendents and milk delivery truck drivers into a maddening frenzy, many people start complaining about the winter blues. You know that time of year - when one is frigid and dim due to the lack of
- [Welcome Serena Bellew, New Director of the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Office](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/welcome-serena-bellew-new-director-pennsylvania-historic-preservation-office/) - On December 2, 2013 Serena Bellew joined the PHMC staff as director of the agency’s Bureau for Historic Preservation and Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer. The Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Office coordinates state and federal historic preservation programs including the National Register of Historic Places, state and federal tax credits, and environmental review of state and
- [Not Your Momma’s Historic Preservation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/mommas-historic-preservation/) - As an architectural historian and preservationist I have been trained to think about historic buildings and neighborhoods in a fairly focused way. Changes to old buildings should be sympathetic to the structure’s original design and be appropriate in terms in size, scale, materials and decorative details. Ideally, improvements to historic buildings should meet the Secretary
- [7 Most Frequently Asked Questions About Section 106 Consultation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/7-frequently-asked-questions-section-106-consultation/) - The National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966 recognizes that historic preservation is a public interest. Under Section 106 of the NHPA, Federal agencies are required to consider the effects of their projects on historic properties in consultation with historic preservation stakeholders. There is a general lack of understanding related to the consultation process, and
- [GISday:  November 20, 2013 – Discovering the World Through GIS](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/gisday-november-20-2013-discovering-world-gis/) - GISday is an international observance that is designed to make people aware of the possible uses of geographic information systems. Various events are held around the world to highlight GIS projects. Begun in 1999 by ERSI, a leader in GIS development, this day is used as a time to help people learn about geography and
- [Farm to City Week, November 22-28, 2013](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/farm-city-week-november-22-28-2013/) - Farm-City Week was a national initiative begun in the 1950s to recognize the interdependence between rural and urban people, emphasizing the linked economies of agriculture and the industries that produced the machinery and products used by farmers to grow food and get it onto urban tables. Today many counties across Pennsylvania still host events observing
- [Honoring Pennsylvanians Committed to Historic Preservation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/honoring-pennsylvanians-committed-historic-preservation/) - Each year countless Pennsylvanians work to preserve the Commonwealth’s legacy that is reflected in our traditions, historic built environment, and our cultural landscapes. In 2008, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) partnered with Preservation Pennsylvania, Inc. to create two special awards to honor those who have demonstrated exemplary leadership in the field of historic
- [Historic Preservation and Outdoor Recreation: The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historic-preservation-outdoor-recreation-whole-greater-sum-parts/) - There is great societal and cultural value in the preservation of our built heritage; of our historic communities and buildings. Most people understand the cultural value of preserving our history as it is illustrated by historic places. The need to experience our shared history seems to reflect a fundamental aspect of who we are as
- [Improving Archaeological Reports and Review: Part 1](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/improving-archaeological-reports-review-part-1/) - We archaeological reviewers here at the PA SHPO have many jobs other than just reviewing Section 106 and State History Code submissions. Among our ‘other duties as assigned’, we are also responsible for helping the GIS Section ensure that the information from archaeological reports gets into the CRGIS (Cultural Resources Geographic Information System) for use by consultants, planners,
- [Spotlight Series: National Alliance of Preservation Commissions](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/spotlight-series-national-alliance-preservation-commissions/) - A major resource for these communities is the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions, the only national –level organization dedicated to serving the needs of local government preservation boards and commissions through education, advocacy, and training.
- [Historic Preservation Opportunities Found Through Collaborative Management](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/historic-preservation-opportunities-found-collaborative-management/) - What should you do for something you enjoy having in your life –a favorite building, deli, museum, music collection, antique, pet, or person? You ensure its survival by providing healthy surroundings. What if your labor to support and protect what you hold dear is eased by others who feel the same? Many hands make light
- [Pennsylvania's Archaeology Month](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvanias-archaeology-month/) - The cool weather this week has reminded many of us that fall is on its way and the warm days of summer will soon be behind us. With the beginning of fall comes an abundance of public programs for archaeologists across the Commonwealth and especially for those employed at The State Museum of Pennsylvania. One might
- [Summertime Marker Round-up](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/summertime-marker-round/) - The summer of 2013 has been filled with interesting marker dedications. In June The Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades received a historical marker. This unique institution in Delaware County was founded in 1888 in response to the decline of the apprenticeship system in the late 19th century. Still offering all of its students full
- [Meet Your Pennsylvania Heritage Areas Program!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/meet-pennsylvania-heritage-areas-program/) - by Mike Piaskowski, Pennsylvania Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources As Pennsylvanians, we are beyond fortunate to live in a place rich with heritage. Our ridges, valleys, plateaus and waterways lured natives and settlers alike to bountiful opportunities and un-imaginable challenges. Our landscape has repeatedly played host to significant events that have stitched the fabric
- [Pennsylvania Agricultural History Project Wins National Award](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvania-agricultural-history-project-wins-national-award/) - By. Dr. Sally McMurry The term “gray literature” well conveys the level of visibility for much work done at agencies like the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Office. Historic Structures Reports, National Register nominations, exhibits, and drawings may have limited long-term public exposure even though they are often based on high-quality research and analysis. The Vernacular Architecture
- [Help Celebrate Success at the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/help-celebrate-success-at-the-pennsylvania-historic-preservation-awards/) - Photo: Shippensburg University’s restored Old Main Fountain will receive a Construction Project Award for Public & Institutional Properties at the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards luncheon in Pottstown on Friday, September 27. by Erin Hammerstedt, Preservation Pennsylvania Earlier this summer Preservation Pennsylvania, along with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and our other partners, announced the
- [Observations on Social Media, Preservation, and Public outreach](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/observations-on-social-media-preservation-and-public-outreach/) - by Audrey Plummer When I woke up this morning, the first thing I did was grab my phone and check Twitter. Yes, I’m addicted! People my mother’s age like to gripe and complain about technology and the demise of youth in America. However, social media, the main culprit of teenagers’ and young adults’ addiction to
- [CRGIS: We Can Rebuild Him](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/we-can-rebuild-him/) - Many months of planning and meetings have culminated in the August 2013 re-launch of the Cultural Resources Geographic Information System (CRGIS). For the last nine months the CRGIS staff has been working closely with PennDOT's development team from Computer Aid, Inc. (CAI) to make major changes to the CRGIS and AskReGIS system. The former system
- [Bushy Run Battlefield Historic Park: the 250th Anniversary](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/bushy-run-battlefield-historic-park-the-250th-anniversary/) - Bushy Run Battlefield is a state historic park located along Route 993 northwest of Greensburg and about one mile east of Harrison City in Westmoreland County. People recently celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg. Less well known, but equally important to American history was the Battle at Bushy Run. The battlefield
- [Preserving the Oley Valley Rural Historic District in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/preserving-the-oley-valley-rural-historic-district-in-pennsylvania/) - 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. Even in a state famous for its agricultural landscapes, the Oley Valley in southeast Pennsylvania
- [Local Landmarks For Sale: National Guard Armories](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/local-landmarks-for-sale-national-guard-armories/) - 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
- [Summer Interns Offer Fresh Perspectives](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/summer-interns-offer-fresh-perspectives/) - For several months every summer the PA Historic Preservation Office is host to student interns, an arrangement that benefits both parties. While the assumption is always that internships are beneficial to students, the converse is quite true as well. The students provide not only assistance with special projects or ongoing research, but a fresh perspective
- ["How do you know where to dig?"](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/how-do-you-know-where-to-dig/) - Almost every archaeologist I know has heard this question from somebody from the general public: “How do you know where to dig?” Although it used to give me a facial tic after hearing it over and over, it’s actually not a bad question. Every day, the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Office receives a pile of mail
- [A Mid-century Modern Quandary](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/a-mid-century-modern-quandary/) - 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. For long time veterans of the American preservation movement, there
- [New Uses for Old Bridges](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/new-uses-for-old-bridges/) - Under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, federal agencies must consider the effect of their projects on historic properties which are defined as resources listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. It is the role of the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office to participate in consultation with
- [Jean Cutler: A 21st-Century Leader’s Definition of Retirement ](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/jean-cutler-a-21st-century-leaders-definition-of-retirement/) - The April 2013 edition of The Burg featured an article about a coalition of dedicated volunteers with a mission to preserve Harrisburg’s historic black churches. The author attended a local training program led by Partners for Sacred Places where he learned how these historically significant buildings can serve a larger role in neighborhood revitalization. Jean
- [Yes Pennsylvania, there is a National Defense Transportation Day!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/yes-pennsylvania-there-is-a-national-defense-transportation-day/) - My blog post for May 22, 2013 will continue BHP’s recognition of one of America’s under-appreciated events – National Defense Transportation Day - celebrated on Friday May 17, 2013 in conjunction with National Transportation Week. As stated in President Obama’s Proclamation on May 10, 2013: As a Nation, we have no task more urgent than
- [National Transportation Week: A Road to the Past](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/a-road-to-the-past/) - 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.
- [The Statewide Conference on Heritage: Twenty-three Sessions, Five Tours, Three Private Evening Events, and One Unforgettable Experience](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-statewide-conference-on-heritage-twenty-three-sessions-five-tours-three-private-evening-events-and-one-unforgettable-experience/) - by Jennifer Horn, Preservation Pennsylvania Every summer Pennsylvania’s preservation and conservation communities convene for a weeklong conference to explore current trends in archaeology and historic preservation. This year, the Statewide Conference on Heritage will be held at the historic William Penn Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, PA. The conference will begin on Tuesday, July 16thwith a
- [SPA and PASS](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/spa-and-pass/) - These two acronyms represent years of cooperation among various groups of people who are concerned about Pennsylvania’s past. SPA is the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology. SPA was organized in 1929 to: “Promote the study of the prehistoric and historic archaeological resources of Pennsylvania and neighboring states; encourage scientific research and discourage exploration which is unscientific or
- [Conservation Landscape Initiatives: A Growing Opportunity for Preservation Partnerships](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/conservation-landscape-initiatives-a-growing-opportunity-for-preservation-partnerships/) - The Conservation Landscape Initiatives (CLI) were established by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) as an integrated approach to strategically investing the agency’s time and funding to protect, conserve, and enhance some of the state’s most important landscapes. Instead of working exclusively within the state park and forest boundaries or supporting a municipal park
- [Pennsylvania’s Post World War II Suburbs](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvanias-post-world-war-ii-suburbs/) - The BHP launched the Pennsylvania’s Historic Suburbs website in September 2010. The first installment focuses on post World War II housing developments. Our main goal is to present an online toolkit that provides information and avenues of research. The website "The Researcher’s Guide for Developing a Context for Evaluating Post World War II Suburbs for
- [Keystone Fund Projects Receive Awards ](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/awards-presented-to-keystone-fund-projects/) - Gathered under the dome of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Building representatives from several nonprofit fund partners, current and former state legislators, and agency directors presented awards to projects from across the Commonwealth that exemplify the intent and impact of the Keystone Fund.
- [Day on the Hill: Taking the Preservation Message to Pennsylvania’s Congressional Delegation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/day-on-the-hill/) - Tuesday, February 26, was the day the rubber literally hit the road! In fact, using a pedometer, one of the participants in “Day on the Hill” in Washington, D.C. determined that Pennsylvania’s two teams each walked about 5 miles in their efforts to deliver Pennsylvania’s preservation message to members of our Congressional delegation! This annual
- [You Speak and We Listen: Design Assistance for Pennsylvania's Communities](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/you-speak-and-we-listen/) - In response to what we heard from our CLG partners and other constituents, BHP staff decided to see what a community design assistance program might look like. The Bureau set up a pilot project with Gettysburg and Hollidaysburg, both CLGs. With assistance provided by the Community Design Center of Pittsburgh and funded by a small Keystone grant, these projects solicited public input to identify community design needs. The program helped the communities find a qualified design professional to assist in creating preservation-friendly design solutions to problems identified through the public participation process.
- [Smokin’ Joe Frazier and Pennsylvania’s Boxing History ](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/smokin-joe-frazier-and-pennsylvanias-boxing-history/) - On February 5, 2013, the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Board gave their support to heavyweight boxer Joe Frazier’s Philadelphia gym for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. That’s one step closer to official recognition for not just the man but also the gym where he trained for most of his career and later shared
- [A Refocus on Preservation in Pittsburgh](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/a-refocus-on-preservation-in-pittsburgh/) - Historic preservation in Pittsburgh has had a productive past few months. Activity in downtown Pittsburgh is blossoming due to the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of several historic buildings by developers using historic preservation tax incentives.
- [T.H.I.S and a little bit of that](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/t-h-i-s-and-a-little-bit-of-that/) - My name is Gabrielle Vielhauer. I am a student at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania where I am studying anthropology. From September to December 2012, I was pleased to be selected to participate in The Harrisburg Intern Semester (THIS) program sponsored by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). This program places one student representative
- [Camp Security](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/camp-security/) - Camp Security is a Revolutionary War period prisoner-of-war camp occupied by British, Scottish and Canadian prisoners and camp followers (often wives and other family members) between 1781 and the end of the war in 1783. The site is located about four miles east of the City of York, in a relatively small, undeveloped portion of
- [Pennsylvania At Risk: Twenty-Year Retrospective of Pennsylvania’s Endangered Historic Properties](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/pennsylvania-at-risk-twenty-year-retrospective-of-pennsylvanias-endangered-historic-properties/) - Preservation Pennsylvania established the annual Pennsylvania At Risk list in 1992, making us the first statewide preservation organization in the United States to have an annual roster of endangered historic properties. Since 1992, we have listed and worked to preserve more than 200 endangered historic resources, including individual buildings, historic districts and thematic resources statewide.
- [The Agricultural History Project: Agricultural Regions Map](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/the-agricultural-history-project-map/) - Did you know that the Lehigh Valley was once a major producer of potatoes? Or that Tioga County had a robust tobacco-growing industry? Or that Southwestern Pennsylvania was known for its sheep farms? The list of agricultural products grown and produced in Pennsylvania over the past 300 years is as long and diverse as the state
- [Uncommon Modern](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/uncommon-modern/) - Most communities in Pennsylvania have at least one bank that looks like a spaceship, or an office building with more glass and metal than brick and stone. The problem is that we often look past these buildings, rather than at them, and by doing that, we’re missing the incredible story they’re telling us about design and culture in the mid 20th Century.
- [Scavengers, Markers, and Ice Cream at the PA Farm Show](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/scavengers-markers-ice-cream-pa-farm-show/) - To celebrate PHMC's 2012 annual theme "The Land of Penn and Plenty: Bringing History to the Table," Historical Marker Program staff developed a scavenger hunt featuring markers related to Pennsylvania's rural and agricultural history for the 2012 Pennsylvania Farm Show. Last January, twenty-two replica markers were located at strategic locations throughout the Farm Show Complex. Visitors
- [Sharing What Pennsylvanians Love About Pennsylvania!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/sharing-what-pennsylvanians-love-about-pennsylvania/) - It’s a big job to develop a plan to preserve and promote the Commonwealth's historic resources, because as you know, Pennsylvania is a very big and historic place. To preserve and protect our important history, we need everyone to pitch in. And, this is why I’m sending you this inaugural message about BHP’s latest effort to improve our communication with all of you! I’m hoping that you will be receptive to our messages and that we will hear back from you!

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- [Preservation Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/preservation-pennsylvania/)
- [National Trust for Historic Preservation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/national-trust-for-historic-preservation/)
- [National Alliance of Preservation Commissions](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/national-alliance-of-preservation-commissions/)
- [Education and Training Opportunities](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/education-and-training-opportunities/)
- [NAPC Forum 2014](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/education-and-training-opportunities/napc-forum-2014/)
- [PA Statewide Conference on Heritage](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/education-and-training-opportunities/pa-heritage-conference/)
- [Architectural History](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/architectural-history/)
- [National Register of Historic Places](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/national-register-of-historic-places/)
- [Historical Markers](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/historical-markers/)
- [PennDOT](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/penndot/)
- [Modernism](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/architectural-history/modernism/)
- [Adams](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/adams/)
- [Armstrong](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/armstrong/)
- [Beaver](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/beaver/)
- [Bedford](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/bedford/)
- [Bradford](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/bradford-tag/)
- [Butler](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/butler/)
- [Cameron](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/cameron/)
- [Clarion](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/clarion/)
- [Columbia](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/columbia/)
- [Cumberland](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/cumberland/)
- [Fayette](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/fayette/)
- [Forest](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/forest/)
- [Franklin](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/franklin/)
- [Fulton](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/fulton/)
- [Greene](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/greene/)
- [Huntingdon](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/huntingdon/)
- [Indiana](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/indiana/)
- [Jefferson](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/jefferson/)
- [Juniata](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/juniata/)
- [McKean](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/mckean/)
- [Mifflin](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/mifflin/)
- [Monroe](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/monroe/)
- [Montour](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/montour/)
- [Northumberland](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/northumberland/)
- [Perry](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/perry/)
- [Pike](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/pike/)
- [Potter](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/potter/)
- [Schuylkill](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/schuylkill/)
- [Snyder](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/snyder/)
- [Somerset](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/somerset/)
- [Sullivan](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/sullivan/)
- [Susquehanna](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/susquehanna/)
- [Tioga](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/tioga/)
- [Union](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/union/)
- [Wayne](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/wayne/)
- [Pennsylvania Dept. of Agriculture](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/pennsylvania-dept-of-agriculture/)
- [Agriculture](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/agriculture/)
- [Pennsylvania Farm Show](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/pennsylvania-farm-show-tag/)
- [Cultural Resources Essentials](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/education-and-training-opportunities/cultural-resources-essentials/)
- [CRGIS](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/crgis/)
- [Federal Highway Administration](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/federal-highway-administration/)
- [Penn State University](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/penn-state-university-tag/)
- [Environmental Review](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/environmental-review/)
- [Statewide Historic Preservation Plan](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/statewide-historic-preservation-plan/)
- [Internships](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/education-and-training-opportunities/internships/)
- [Pennsylvania Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/pennsylvania-dept-of-conservation-and-natural-resources/)
- [Conservation Fund](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/conservation-fund/)
- [Allegheny National Forest](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/allegheny-national-forest/)
- [Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/pittsburgh-history-and-landmarks-foundation/)
- [Black History Month](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/african-american-history/black-history-month/)
- [NCSHPO](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/ncshpo/)
- [Preservation Action](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/preservation-action/)
- [Spotlight Series](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/spotlight-series/)
- [Women's History Month](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/womens-history-month/)
- [Pennsylvania Land Trust Association](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/pennsylvania-land-trust-association/)
- [Growing Greener Coalition](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/growing-greener-coalition/)
- [Post War Suburbs](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/post-war-suburbs/)
- [Post WWII](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/architectural-history/post-wwii/)
- [Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/society-for-pennsylvania-archaeology/)
- [ProjectPATH](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/projectpath/)
- [Transportation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/transportation/)
- [Bridges](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/bridges/)
- [Oley Valley Heritage Association](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/oley-valley-heritage-association/)
- [Heritage Tourism](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/heritage-tourism/)
- [PA Trails of History](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/pa-trails-of-history/)
- [Battlefield Preservation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/battlefield-preservation/)
- [Social Media](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/social-media/)
- [Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/pennsylvania-historic-preservation-awards/)
- [Sustainability](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/sustainability/)
- [Vernacular Architecture Forum](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/vernacular-architecture-forum/)
- [GIS Day](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/gis-day/)
- [Advisory Council on Historic Preservation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/advisory-council-on-historic-preservation/)
- [National Environmental Policy Act](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/laws-policies-and-regulations/national-environmental-policy-act/)
- [Offbeat Outings](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/offbeat-outings/)
- [Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/preservation-alliance-for-greater-philadelphia/)
- [Disaster Relief](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/disaster-relief/)
- [Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Review Board](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/pennsylvania-historic-preservation-review-board/)
- [National Park Service](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/national-park-service/)
- [National Historic Preservation Act](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/laws-policies-and-regulations/national-historic-preservation-act/)
- [Special Announcement](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/special-announcement/)
- [Just Listed](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/just-listed/)
- [Preservation Erie](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/preservation-erie/)
- [Pennsylvania's Historic Tax Credit](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/financial-incentives-for-historic-preservation/pennsylvanias-historic-tax-credit/)
- [Pennsylvania's Historic Preservation Tax Credit](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/financial-incentives-for-historic-preservation/pennsylvanias-historic-preservation-tax-credit/)
- [Keystone Internship](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/keystone-internship/)
- [PennDOT Internship](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/penndot-internship/)
- [Intern Introspect](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/intern-introspect/)
- [Intern Insights](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/intern-insights/)
- [Survey](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/survey/)
- [National Historic Landmarks](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/national-historic-landmarks/)
- [LancasterHistory.org](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/lancasterhistory-org/)
- [Antiquities Act](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/laws-policies-and-regulations/antiquities-act/)
- [Historic Sites Act](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/laws-policies-and-regulations/historic-sites-act/)
- [Pennsylvania Archaeological Council](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/pennsylvania-archaeological-council/)
- [Military History](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/military-history-2/)
- [A Place In Time](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/a-place-in-time/)
- [Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/pennsylvania-heritage-foundation/)
- [Planning](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/planning/)
- [Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/pennsylvania-emergency-management-agency/)
- [Federal Emergency Management Agency](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/federal-emergency-management-agency/)
- [Greek Revival](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/architectural-history/greek-revival/)
- [ExplorePAHistory.com](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/explorepahistory-com/)
- [U.S. Forest Service](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/u-s-forest-service/)
- [National History Day](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/education-and-training-opportunities/national-history-day/)
- [Historic Gettysburg Adams County](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/historic-gettysburg-adams-county/)
- [Barns](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/barns/)
- [Historic Preservation Fund](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/historic-preservation-fund/)
- [Preservation Trades Apprenticeship Program](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/education-and-training-opportunities/preservation-trades-apprenticeship-program/)
- [Craftsman](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/architectural-history/craftsman/)
- [Historic American Buildings Survey](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/historic-american-buildings-survey/)
- [Historic American Engineering Record](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/historic-american-engineering-record/)
- [U.S. Army Corps of Engineers](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/u-s-army-corps-of-engineers/)
- [Certified Local Government](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/certified-local-government/)
- [5 Things To Do](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/5-things-to-do/)
- [Society for Industrial Archaeology](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/society-for-industrial-archaeology/)
- [Shout-Out](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/shout-out/)
- [Pennsylvania Downtown Center](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/pennsylvania-downtown-center/)
- [Railroads](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/railroads/)
- [Canals](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/canals/)
- [Native American](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/native-american/)
- [PA SHPO](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/pa-shpo/)
- [Preservation50](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation50/)
- [PA Humanities Council](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/pa-humanities-council/)
- [Pennsylvania Humanities Council](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/pennsylvania-humanities-council/)
- [#FindYourPark](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/findyourpark/)
- [African American history](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/african-american-history/)
- [Women's History](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/womens-history/)
- [LGBT History](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/lgbt-history/)
- [DCNR](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/dcnr/)
- [Georgian](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/architectural-history/georgian/)
- [NAPC Forum](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/education-and-training-opportunities/napc-forum/)
- [PA Turnpike Commission](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/pa-turnpike-commission/)
- [Local Preservation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/local-preservation/)
- [American Planning Association](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/american-planning-association/)
- [Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/pennsylvania-department-of-environmental-protection/)
- [Advocacy Week](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/advocacy-week/)
- [Shingle](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/architectural-history/shingle/)
- [Mitigation Files](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/mitigation-files/)
- [Industry](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/industry/)
- [Coal and Coke](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/industry/coal-and-coke/)
- [Historic Contexts](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/historic-contexts/)
- [Mine Sealing](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/historic-contexts/mine-sealing/)
- [Partners for Sacred Places](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/partners-for-sacred-places/)
- [Entertainment](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/entertainment/)
- [Recreation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/recreation/)
- [Medicine](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/medicine/)
- [Science and Technology](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/science-and-technology/)
- [Pennsylvania Archaeological Site Survey](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/pennsylvania-archaeological-site-survey/)
- [Second Empire](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/architectural-history/second-empire/)
- [Federal](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/architectural-history/federal/)
- [Schools](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/schools/)
- [Food](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/industry/food/)
- [Art](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/art/)
- [#preservationhappenshere](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservationhappenshere/)
- [Historic Preservation Month](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/historic-preservation-month/)
- [PA-SHARE](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/pa-share/)
- [Archives](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/archives/)
- [Preservation Education](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-education/)
- [Breweries](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/industry/breweries/)
- [Art Deco](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/architectural-history/art-deco/)
- [Paper](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/industry/paper/)
- [Community Initiative Award](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/community-initiative-award/)
- [Favorite Pennsylvania Places](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/favorite-pennsylvania-places/)
- [PA Historical & Museum Commission](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/pa-historical-museum-commission/)
- [Preservation Pittsburgh](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/preservation-pittsburgh/)
- [Romanesque](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/architectural-history/romanesque/)
- [PA Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED)](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-partners/pa-department-of-community-and-economic-development-dced/)
- [Cemeteries](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/cemeteries/)
- [Furniture/Home Goods](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/industry/furniture-home-goods/)
- [Electrical](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/industry/electrical/)
- [Preservation Backstory](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/preservation-backstory/)
- [Textile](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/industry/textile/)
- [Queen Anne](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/architectural-history/queen-anne/)
- [Wyoming](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/county/wyoming/)
- [Pennsylvania Above Ground Survey (PAGS)](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/pennsylvania-above-ground-survey-pags/)
- [Surveyor](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/surveyor/)
- [Religious Buildings](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/religious-buildings/)
- [Historic Property Inspection Program](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/historic-property-inspection-program/)
- [Covenants](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/covenants/)
- [This Week in Pennsylvania Archaeology](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/archaeo/this-week-in-pennsylvania-archaeology/)
- [A250](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/a250/)
- [Religion](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/religion/)
- [Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/laws-policies-and-regulations/native-american-graves-protection-and-repatriation-act/)
- [MPDF](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/mpdf/)
- [Agricultural Resources of Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/mpdf/agricultural-resources-of-pennsylvania/)
- [Public Elementary and Secondary Schools in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/mpdf/public-elementary-and-secondary-schools-in-pennsylvania/)
- [African American Churches and Cemeteries in Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/category/mpdf/african-american-churches-and-cemeteries-in-pennsylvania/)

## Tags

- [University of Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/university-of-pennsylvania/)
- [Architectural Archives](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/architectural-archives/)
- [Betsy Manning](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/betsy-manning/)
- [Agricultural Extension Service](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/agricultural-extension-service/)
- [ice cream](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ice-cream/)
- [good roads](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/good-roads/)
- [Gifford Pinchot](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/gifford-pinchot/)
- [Hershey](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hershey/)
- [Elizabethtown](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/elizabethtown/)
- [Leap-the-Dips](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/leap-the-dips/)
- [Pittsburgh](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pittsburgh/)
- [Mechanicsburg](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mechanicsburg/)
- [Oley Valley](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/oley-valley/)
- [Pennsylvania German](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-german/)
- [Marcellus Shale](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/marcellus-shale/)
- [Military history](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/military-history/)
- [French and Indian War](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/french-and-indian-war/)
- [Reading](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/reading/)
- [Shippensburg University](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/shippensburg-university/)
- [Northampton County Courthouse](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/northampton-county-courthouse/)
- [Pennsylvania Agricultural History Project](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-agricultural-history-project/)
- [Easton](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/easton/)
- [Bath](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/bath/)
- [Gettysburg](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/gettysburg/)
- [Eastern State Penitentiary](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/eastern-state-penitentiary/)
- [Moon Township](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/moon-township/)
- [Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-fish-and-boat-commission/)
- [Ralph Abele](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ralph-abele/)
- [Awards](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/awards/)
- [conference](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/conference/)
- [Philadelphia Museum of Art](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/philadelphia-museum-of-art/)
- [Indian Hannah](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/indian-hannah/)
- [Longwood Gardens](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/longwood-gardens/)
- [Forms](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/forms/)
- [Guidance](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/guidance/)
- [Schools](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/schools/)
- [Revolutionary War](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/revolutionary-war/)
- [American Battlefield Protection Program](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/american-battlefield-protection-program/)
- [Fort Pitt](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/fort-pitt/)
- [Hurricane sandy](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hurricane-sandy/)
- [Samuel Sloan](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/samuel-sloan/)
- [armory](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/armory/)
- [Jazz](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/jazz/)
- [Bradford](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/bradford-tag/)
- [Pennsylvania Farm Show](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-farm-show-tag/)
- [Penn State University](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/penn-state-university-tag/)
- [Shippensburg](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/shippensburg/)
- [Elizabeth Shultz](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/elizabeth-shultz/)
- [Battle of Thompson's Island](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/battle-of-thompsons-island/)
- [State Museum of Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/state-museum-of-pennsylvania/)
- [Harrisburg Nail Works](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/harrisburg-nail-works/)
- [PA SHPO](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pa-shpo/)
- [Lehigh County Commissioners](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lehigh-county-commissioners/)
- [Borough of Ashland](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/borough-of-ashland/)
- [Ambridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ambridge/)
- [City of Reading City Council](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/city-of-reading-city-council/)
- [West Chester Borough Council](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/west-chester-borough-council/)
- [Hill District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hill-district/)
- [Energy Innovation Center](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/energy-innovation-center/)
- [Connelly Trade School](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/connelly-trade-school/)
- [historic tax credits](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/historic-tax-credits/)
- [Steamtown](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/steamtown/)
- [#FindYourPark](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/findyourpark/)
- [Saltsburg](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/saltsburg/)
- [Mooncrest](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mooncrest/)
- [Historic Gettysburg Adams County Barn Preservation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/historic-gettysburg-adams-county-barn-preservation/)
- [Manayunk Bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/manayunk-bridge/)
- [rails to trails](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/rails-to-trails/)
- [Certified Local Government](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/certified-local-government/)
- [CLG](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/clg/)
- [Adena](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/adena/)
- [Native American](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/native-american/)
- [Greene County](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/greene-county/)
- [Archaeology](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/archaeology/)
- [PA SHPO; historic preservation; NHPA; Preservation50](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pa-shpo-historic-preservation-nhpa-preservation50/)
- [Orton Family Foundation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/orton-family-foundation/)
- [Lazaretto; Tinicum Township; Pennsylvania Farm Show; South Mountain Partnership; Pittsburgh](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lazaretto-tinicum-township-pennsylvania-farm-show-south-mountain-partnership-pittsburgh/)
- [PA Historic Preservation Board](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pa-historic-preservation-board/)
- [NHPA](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/nhpa/)
- [National Register](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/national-register/)
- [Monroe County](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/monroe-county/)
- [Glen Foerd](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/glen-foerd/)
- [Hopewell Furnace](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hopewell-furnace/)
- [Post Office Punxsutawney](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/post-office-punxsutawney/)
- [Works Progress Administration](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/works-progress-administration/)
- [historical markers](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/historical-markers/)
- [Woodlands](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/woodlands/)
- [Woodville](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/woodville/)
- [Chester County](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/chester-county/)
- [Ebenezer Methodist Church](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ebenezer-methodist-church/)
- [Historic Preservation Fund](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/historic-preservation-fund/)
- [Titusville](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/titusville/)
- [Pennsylvania Statewide Conference on Heritage; PA SHPO; Preservation Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-statewide-conference-on-heritage-pa-shpo-preservation-pennsylvania/)
- [Lewisburg](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lewisburg/)
- [Preservation50; historic preservation plan](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/preservation50-historic-preservation-plan/)
- [National Register of Historic Places](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/national-register-of-historic-places/)
- [Philadelphia; National Register; Philadelphia Register](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/philadelphia-national-register-philadelphia-register/)
- [Scripture Rocks](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/scripture-rocks/)
- [SCORP](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/scorp/)
- [Strong Towns](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/strong-towns/)
- [Moon Township; Mooncrest](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/moon-township-mooncrest/)
- [Hatfield](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hatfield/)
- [Caernarvon](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/caernarvon/)
- [Mellon Square](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mellon-square/)
- [Camp Michaux](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/camp-michaux/)
- [Flooding](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/flooding/)
- [Newport](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/newport/)
- [Annapolis](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/annapolis/)
- [Casa Farnese](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/casa-farnese/)
- [McCleery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mccleery/)
- [John Harris - Simon Cameron Mansion](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/john-harris-simon-cameron-mansion/)
- [Great Plains Wolf](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/great-plains-wolf/)
- [Historical Society of Dauphin County](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/historical-society-of-dauphin-county/)
- [Susquehanna Greenway](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/susquehanna-greenway/)
- [Captain John Smith Trail](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/captain-john-smith-trail/)
- [#50for50](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/50for50/)
- [#Preservation50](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/preservation50/)
- [City of Lancaster](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/city-of-lancaster/)
- [Goodwill Industries](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/goodwill-industries/)
- [Times Finishing Works](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/times-finishing-works/)
- [Bloch Go-Cart Company](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/bloch-go-cart-company/)
- [Young Friends of the Preservation Alliance](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/young-friends-of-the-preservation-alliance/)
- [Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/young-preservationists-association-of-pittsburgh/)
- [Community Connections](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/community-connections/)
- [pa historic preservation plan](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pa-historic-preservation-plan/)
- [Driftwood](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/driftwood/)
- [Sinnemahoning](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/sinnemahoning/)
- [CCC](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ccc/)
- [Sizerville State Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/sizerville-state-park/)
- [Bedford Springs Hotel](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/bedford-springs-hotel/)
- [Juniata Woolen Mill](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/juniata-woolen-mill/)
- [log](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/log/)
- [East St. Clair Township](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/east-st-clair-township/)
- [Snake Spring Township](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/snake-spring-township/)
- [Danville Business Alliance](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/danville-business-alliance/)
- [Kinzua Bridge State Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/kinzua-bridge-state-park/)
- [Kinzua Viaduct](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/kinzua-viaduct/)
- [Bucks County Community College](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/bucks-county-community-college/)
- [York County Planning Commission](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/york-county-planning-commission/)
- [Penn Museum](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/penn-museum/)
- [Archaeology Month](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/archaeology-month/)
- [manager](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/manager/)
- [GIS](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/gis/)
- [CRGIS](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/crgis/)
- [Dyottville Glass Works](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/dyottville-glass-works/)
- [Philadelphia](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/philadelphia/)
- [Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/wheaton-arts-and-cultural-center/)
- [Gunner’s Run South](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/gunners-run-south/)
- [Aramingo Canal](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/aramingo-canal/)
- [Hope Farm/Richmond Hall](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hope-farmrichmond-hall/)
- [tax credits](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/tax-credits/)
- [civil service](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/civil-service/)
- [York](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/york/)
- [East Liberty](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/east-liberty/)
- [Sylvester K. Stevens](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/sylvester-k-stevens/)
- [Hidden City Philadelphia](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hidden-city-philadelphia/)
- [bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/bridge/)
- [marketing](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/marketing/)
- [Thompson's Island](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/thompsons-island/)
- [Brokenstraw Creek](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/brokenstraw-creek/)
- [Brodhead](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/brodhead/)
- [Middletown](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/middletown/)
- [Johnstown Area Heritage Association](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/johnstown-area-heritage-association/)
- [Partners for Sacred Places](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/partners-for-sacred-places/)
- [Save Our Steeples](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/save-our-steeples/)
- [church](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/church/)
- [feasibility report](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/feasibility-report/)
- [Pipeline](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pipeline/)
- [task force](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/task-force/)
- [DEP](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/dep/)
- [George Nakashima](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/george-nakashima/)
- [Penn](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/penn/)
- [The News Eagle](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/the-news-eagle/)
- [Hawley](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hawley/)
- [Paupack School](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/paupack-school/)
- [PA State Archives](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pa-state-archives/)
- [Consultants List](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/consultants-list/)
- [Marker Scavenger Hunt](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/marker-scavenger-hunt/)
- [Historic Preservation Board](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/historic-preservation-board/)
- [local history](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/local-history/)
- [Johnstown](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/johnstown/)
- [car barn](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/car-barn/)
- [Johnstown Passenger Railway Company](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/johnstown-passenger-railway-company/)
- [Johnstown Traction Company](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/johnstown-traction-company/)
- [Cambria County Transit Authority](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/cambria-county-transit-authority/)
- [Keim Homestead](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/keim-homestead/)
- [W.A. Young & Sons Foundry and Machine Shop](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/w-a-young-sons-foundry-and-machine-shop/)
- [Cumberland County Historical Society](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/cumberland-county-historical-society/)
- [Center for Land Use and Sustainability](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/center-for-land-use-and-sustainability/)
- [Carlisle](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/carlisle/)
- [Abolition Hall](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/abolition-hall/)
- [HOVENDEN HOUSE](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hovenden-house/)
- [PLYMOUTH MEETING HISTORIC DISTRICT](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/plymouth-meeting-historic-district/)
- [JEWELERS ROW](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/jewelers-row/)
- [MIFFLIN HOUSE](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mifflin-house/)
- [BUCK’S TAVERN](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/bucks-tavern/)
- [HOKE HOUSE](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hoke-house/)
- [MOON LORN](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/moon-lorn/)
- [MEADOWBROOK FARMSTEAD](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/meadowbrook-farmstead/)
- [EKIN HOUSE](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ekin-house/)
- [MONESSEN SAVINGS AND TRUST](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/monessen-savings-and-trust/)
- [KIDDIE KLOES FACTORY](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/kiddie-kloes-factory/)
- [THE YORKTOWNE HOTEL](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/the-yorktowne-hotel/)
- [Dennis Farm](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/dennis-farm/)
- [Potters Mills](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/potters-mills/)
- [Story Map](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/story-map/)
- [Brush Valley Historic District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/brush-valley-historic-district/)
- [Kahn Warehouse; MMPartners; North Scranton Junior High School; Goodwill North](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/kahn-warehouse-mmpartners-north-scranton-junior-high-school-goodwill-north/)
- [Keating Site](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/keating-site/)
- [Acid Mine Drainage](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/acid-mine-drainage/)
- [mine sealing](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mine-sealing/)
- [WPA](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/wpa/)
- [Carlisle; Community Heart & Soul](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/carlisle-community-heart-soul/)
- [Site Criteria](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/site-criteria/)
- [PASS](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pass/)
- [historic preservation month](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/historic-preservation-month/)
- [Frank Matero](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/frank-matero/)
- [Kathy Dowdell](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/kathy-dowdell/)
- [Chestnut Hill Conservancy](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/chestnut-hill-conservancy/)
- [Community Futures Lab](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/community-futures-lab/)
- [Powelton Village](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/powelton-village/)
- [PlayArts](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/playarts/)
- [Pennovation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennovation/)
- [Chester](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/chester/)
- [Third Presbyterian Church](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/third-presbyterian-church/)
- [asset mapping](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/asset-mapping/)
- [Chester Made](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/chester-made/)
- [geospatial](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/geospatial/)
- [jasper](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/jasper/)
- [South Mountain; Adams County Fruit Belt; National Apple Harvest Festival](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/south-mountain-adams-county-fruit-belt-national-apple-harvest-festival/)
- [Pennsylvania Agricultural History Project; agri-tourism](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-agricultural-history-project-agri-tourism/)
- [Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/standards-for-the-treatment-of-historic-properties/)
- [Dr. Leon H. Sullivan](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/dr-leon-h-sullivan/)
- [Hester Vaughn](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hester-vaughn/)
- [Jefferson Street ballparks](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/jefferson-street-ballparks/)
- [Philadelphia Jewish Hospital](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/philadelphia-jewish-hospital/)
- [John S. Trower](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/john-s-trower/)
- [Marc Blitzstein](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/marc-blitzstein/)
- [Mary Engle Pennington](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mary-engle-pennington/)
- [MOVE bombing](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/move-bombing/)
- [Samuel V. Merrick](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/samuel-v-merrick/)
- [Smith Memorial Playground](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/smith-memorial-playground/)
- [Dr. James C. Hepburn](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/dr-james-c-hepburn/)
- [Fairview Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/fairview-park/)
- [Huber Coal Breaker](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/huber-coal-breaker/)
- [Inez Mecusker](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/inez-mecusker/)
- [James Bell's Tavern](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/james-bells-tavern/)
- [Pennsylvania Canal](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-canal/)
- [Repasz Band](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/repasz-band/)
- [Simon Girty](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/simon-girty/)
- [hazard mitigation plan](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hazard-mitigation-plan/)
- [hazard planning](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hazard-planning/)
- [Pittsburgh Penguins](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pittsburgh-penguins/)
- [Point State Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/point-state-park/)
- [George Christian and Anna Catherine Spangler Farm](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/george-christian-and-anna-catherine-spangler-farm/)
- [Tacony Disston Community Development Historic District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/tacony-disston-community-development-historic-district/)
- [St. Thomas Memorial Church](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/st-thomas-memorial-church/)
- [row house](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/row-house/)
- [Decoupage style](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/decoupage-style/)
- [Data Management System](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/data-management-system/)
- [Business Needs Analysis](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/business-needs-analysis/)
- [Perma-stone](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/perma-stone/)
- [Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village; Pine Bank Bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/meadowcroft-rockshelter-and-historic-village-pine-bank-bridge/)
- [hackathon](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hackathon/)
- [open data](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/open-data/)
- [data visualzation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/data-visualzation/)
- [APA PA](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/apa-pa/)
- [Delaware County Planning Commission](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/delaware-county-planning-commission/)
- [Healthy Communities in PA](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/healthy-communities-in-pa/)
- [Plan4Health](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/plan4health/)
- [The Progress Fund](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/the-progress-fund/)
- [James L. Brown IV](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/james-l-brown-iv/)
- [Parkside Development Corporation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/parkside-development-corporation/)
- [Shirley Hanson](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/shirley-hanson/)
- [Carroll Cabin](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/carroll-cabin/)
- [Wilkinsburg Neighborhood Restoration](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/wilkinsburg-neighborhood-restoration/)
- [Walnut Lane Bridge Over Wissahickon Creek](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/walnut-lane-bridge-over-wissahickon-creek/)
- [Washington's War Tent](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/washingtons-war-tent/)
- [Buddy's Brew on Carson](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/buddys-brew-on-carson/)
- [Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/uptown-knauer-performing-arts-center/)
- [The Millworks](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/the-millworks/)
- [Easton Public Market](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/easton-public-market/)
- [Dollar Bank](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/dollar-bank/)
- [Beaver Station Cultural and Event Center](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/beaver-station-cultural-and-event-center/)
- [The Big Mill Apartments](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/the-big-mill-apartments/)
- [Tarbell House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/tarbell-house/)
- [Dickson Tavern](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/dickson-tavern/)
- [Governor George Wolf Building](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/governor-george-wolf-building/)
- [East Park Canoe House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/east-park-canoe-house/)
- [Willow Grove Ave Bridge over SEPTA](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/willow-grove-ave-bridge-over-septa/)
- [York College Center for Community Engagement](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/york-college-center-for-community-engagement/)
- [Keim House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/keim-house/)
- [Conneaut Lake Town Hall](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/conneaut-lake-town-hall/)
- [Musselman/Vesta Iron Furnace Center](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/musselmanvesta-iron-furnace-center/)
- [International Archaeology Day](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/international-archaeology-day/)
- [Fort Hunter](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/fort-hunter/)
- [Meadowcroft](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/meadowcroft/)
- [Philadelphia Archaeological Forum](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/philadelphia-archaeological-forum/)
- [Newlin Grist Mill](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/newlin-grist-mill/)
- [Historic Stoddartsville](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/historic-stoddartsville/)
- [Eckley Miners' Village](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/eckley-miners-village/)
- [Historic Hanna's Town](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/historic-hannas-town/)
- [Pennsylvania Archaeology & Shipwreck Survey Team](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-archaeology-shipwreck-survey-team/)
- [PASST](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/passt/)
- [Presque Isle State Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/presque-isle-state-park/)
- [Great Lakes Shipwreck Exhibit](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/great-lakes-shipwreck-exhibit/)
- [Erie Maritime Museum](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/erie-maritime-museum/)
- [Tom Ridge Environmental Center](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/tom-ridge-environmental-center/)
- [Community Heart and Soul](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/community-heart-and-soul/)
- [storytelling](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/storytelling/)
- [Craig Wise](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/craig-wise/)
- [Bald Eagle's Nest](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/bald-eagles-nest/)
- [Hatch site](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hatch-site/)
- [jasper quarry](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/jasper-quarry/)
- [Tudek](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/tudek/)
- [Houserville Jasper Quarry Archaeological District; PHAST](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/houserville-jasper-quarry-archaeological-district-phast/)
- [French Second Empire style](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/french-second-empire-style/)
- [Francois Mansart](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/francois-mansart/)
- [Calvert Vaux](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/calvert-vaux/)
- [James Renwick Jr.](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/james-renwick-jr/)
- [Charity Hospital](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/charity-hospital/)
- [Corcoran Art Gallery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/corcoran-art-gallery/)
- [Philadelphia City Hall](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/philadelphia-city-hall/)
- [mansard](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mansard/)
- [Reinhardt Dempwolf](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/reinhardt-dempwolf/)
- [William C. Goodridge Freedom Center](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/william-c-goodridge-freedom-center/)
- [William C. Goodridge Freedom Center and Underground Railroad Museum](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/william-c-goodridge-freedom-center-and-underground-railroad-museum/)
- [Ancestry.com](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ancestry-com/)
- [Allegheny Arsenal](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/allegheny-arsenal/)
- [Fort Indiantown Gap](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/fort-indiantown-gap/)
- [Heinz History Center](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/heinz-history-center/)
- [Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/southern-alleghenies-museum-of-art/)
- [John Anderson](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/john-anderson/)
- [Solomon Filler](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/solomon-filler/)
- [Pfaffmann + Associates](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pfaffmann-associates/)
- [State Route 0224](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/state-route-0224/)
- [State Street Bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/state-street-bridge/)
- [Mahoning Township](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mahoning-township/)
- [Edinburg Site (36LR0003)](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/edinburg-site-36lr0003/)
- [Ashton Cemetery Site (36LR0165)](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ashton-cemetery-site-36lr0165/)
- [Late Woodland period](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/late-woodland-period/)
- [Middle Woodland period](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/middle-woodland-period/)
- [Andrea W. Lowery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/andrea-w-lowery/)
- [PHMC](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/phmc/)
- [Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-historical-and-museum-commission/)
- [Pennsylvania Heritage magazine](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-heritage-magazine/)
- [United States Colored Troops](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/united-states-colored-troops/)
- [USCT](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/usct/)
- [PA Hallowed Grounds](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pa-hallowed-grounds/)
- [Locust Grove Cemetery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/locust-grove-cemetery/)
- [Underrepresented Communities Grant](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/underrepresented-communities-grant/)
- [Cooper House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/cooper-house/)
- [Nescopeck](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/nescopeck/)
- [Meyers High School](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/meyers-high-school/)
- [Wilkes-Barre](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/wilkes-barre/)
- [Mt Tabor AME Church](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mt-tabor-ame-church/)
- [Greater Carlisle Heart & Soul](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/greater-carlisle-heart-soul/)
- [Pennsylvania Railroad](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-railroad/)
- [tipple](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/tipple/)
- [Sen. Ben Cardin](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/sen-ben-cardin/)
- [Sen. Susan Collins](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/sen-susan-collins/)
- [Rep. Mike Kelly](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/rep-mike-kelly/)
- [Rep. Earl Blumenauer](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/rep-earl-blumenauer/)
- [Cassidy Amendment](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/cassidy-amendment/)
- [Lawrence Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lawrence-park/)
- [General Electric](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/general-electric/)
- [Garden City](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/garden-city/)
- [Lawrence Park Historic District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lawrence-park-historic-district/)
- [Lawrence Park Historical Society](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lawrence-park-historical-society/)
- [Beaver Creek watershed](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/beaver-creek-watershed/)
- [Harry Wilson collection](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/harry-wilson-collection/)
- [PA-SHARE](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pa-share/)
- [Project Review Form](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/project-review-form/)
- [McAllister Family of Opticians](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mcallister-family-of-opticians/)
- [Philadelphia Flower Show](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/philadelphia-flower-show/)
- [Ruth Plumly Thompson](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ruth-plumly-thompson/)
- [D.T. Watson Home for Crippled Children](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/d-t-watson-home-for-crippled-children/)
- [Lois Weber](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lois-weber/)
- [Isaac and Dinah Mendenhall](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/isaac-and-dinah-mendenhall/)
- [Sunset Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/sunset-park/)
- [Eddystone Rifle Plant](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/eddystone-rifle-plant/)
- [Slinky](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/slinky/)
- [Benjamin Lay](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/benjamin-lay/)
- [John Philip Boehm](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/john-philip-boehm/)
- [Barney Ewell](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/barney-ewell/)
- [Ham Fisher](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ham-fisher/)
- [Oliver Pollock](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/oliver-pollock/)
- [Richard Moore](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/richard-moore/)
- [William J. McKnight M.D.](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/william-j-mcknight-m-d/)
- [H.J. Heinz](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/h-j-heinz/)
- [ketchup](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ketchup/)
- [Western State Penitentiary](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/western-state-penitentiary/)
- [Rices Landing](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/rices-landing/)
- [Rivers of Steel](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/rivers-of-steel/)
- [Rices Landing Historic District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/rices-landing-historic-district/)
- [Ralph Modjeski Award for Excellence in Transportation Design](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ralph-modjeski-award-for-excellence-in-transportation-design/)
- [F. Otto Haas Award](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/f-otto-haas-award/)
- [Henry A. Jordan Award](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/henry-a-jordan-award/)
- [Disaster Planning for Historic Properties Initiative](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/disaster-planning-for-historic-properties-initiative/)
- [#31for31](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/31for31/)
- [Preservation Services ITQ](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/preservation-services-itq/)
- [Historic Preservation specialist](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/historic-preservation-specialist/)
- [Star Barn](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/star-barn/)
- [Barns of the Susquehanna Valley](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/barns-of-the-susquehanna-valley/)
- [Historic Barn and Farm Foundation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/historic-barn-and-farm-foundation/)
- [Barn Preservation Project](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/barn-preservation-project/)
- [USS Olympia](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/uss-olympia/)
- [USS Becuna](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/uss-becuna/)
- [Independence Seaport Museum](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/independence-seaport-museum/)
- [National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/national-historic-mechanical-engineering-landmark/)
- [#preservationhappenshere](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/preservationhappenshere/)
- [Natural Lands](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/natural-lands/)
- [Brandywine BBC](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/brandywine-bbc/)
- [Ridley Creek State Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ridley-creek-state-park/)
- [Appalachian Trail](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/appalachian-trail/)
- [Pennsylvania trails](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-trails/)
- [Doyle Hotel](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/doyle-hotel/)
- [Palmerton](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/palmerton/)
- [Benton MacKaye](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/benton-mackaye/)
- [Appalachian Trail Conference](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/appalachian-trail-conference/)
- [Myron Avery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/myron-avery/)
- [Allentown Hiking Club](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/allentown-hiking-club/)
- [Civilian Conservation Corps](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/civilian-conservation-corps/)
- [Earl Shaffer](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/earl-shaffer/)
- [St. Anthony's Wilderness](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/st-anthonys-wilderness/)
- [National Trails Act](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/national-trails-act/)
- [Appalachian Trail Conservancy](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/appalachian-trail-conservancy/)
- [Statewide Historic Bridge Inventory](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/statewide-historic-bridge-inventory/)
- [PennDOT Bridge Management System](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/penndot-bridge-management-system/)
- [Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-department-of-community-and-economic-development/)
- [PlaceEconomics](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/placeeconomics/)
- [Senator David Argall](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/senator-david-argall/)
- [521 Armandale Street](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/521-armandale-street/)
- [1010 Morrison Street](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/1010-morrison-street/)
- [Arrott Building](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/arrott-building/)
- [Bayard School](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/bayard-school/)
- [Bonn Building](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/bonn-building/)
- [Rogers School](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/rogers-school/)
- [Kutztown Silk Mill](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/kutztown-silk-mill/)
- [Hoffer Building](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hoffer-building/)
- [Awl House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/awl-house/)
- [349 Market Street](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/349-market-street/)
- [Lehigh Valley Cold Storage](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lehigh-valley-cold-storage/)
- [Samter Building](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/samter-building/)
- [Welles Mansion](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/welles-mansion/)
- [R&H Silk Mill](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/rh-silk-mill/)
- [257 N. 3rd Street](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/257-n-3rd-street/)
- [Beury Building](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/beury-building/)
- [Max Levy Autograph Building](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/max-levy-autograph-building/)
- [Meckey Company Building](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/meckey-company-building/)
- [Penn Wynn House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/penn-wynn-house/)
- [Washington Trust Building](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/washington-trust-building/)
- [Yorktowne Hotel](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/yorktowne-hotel/)
- [Donora Smog Event](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/donora-smog-event/)
- [Donora Zinc Works](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/donora-zinc-works/)
- [American Steel & Wire Companty](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/american-steel-wire-companty/)
- [U.S. Public Health Service](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/u-s-public-health-service/)
- [Air Pollution Control Act](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/air-pollution-control-act/)
- [Clean Air Act](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/clean-air-act/)
- [FCC Nationwide Programmatic Agreement](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/fcc-nationwide-programmatic-agreement/)
- [cell towers](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/cell-towers/)
- [Colonial Theater](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/colonial-theater/)
- [St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/st-vincent-de-paul-roman-catholic-church/)
- [Hill College House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hill-college-house/)
- [Century Inn](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/century-inn/)
- [Sydelle Zove](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/sydelle-zove/)
- [Adams Township Municipality](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/adams-township-municipality/)
- [Astride McLanahan](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/astride-mclanahan/)
- [Pine Bank Covered Bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pine-bank-covered-bridge/)
- [Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/erie-county-gaming-revenue-authority/)
- [Assissi Residence](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/assissi-residence/)
- [Drury Plaza Hotel](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/drury-plaza-hotel/)
- [F.A. Winter and Sons Music Store](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/f-a-winter-and-sons-music-store/)
- [Charles McManus Tavern](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/charles-mcmanus-tavern/)
- [Hill-Physick House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hill-physick-house/)
- [Marker Advocates of Tobyhanna Township](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/marker-advocates-of-tobyhanna-township/)
- [Walk In Art Center](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/walk-in-art-center/)
- [Jefferson County History Center](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/jefferson-county-history-center/)
- [Redbank Valley Trails Association](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/redbank-valley-trails-association/)
- [Keystone Fund](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/keystone-fund/)
- [Old Economy Village](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/old-economy-village/)
- [The Highlands](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/the-highlands/)
- [Academia-Pomeroy Covered Bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/academia-pomeroy-covered-bridge/)
- [Pennsylvania Hallowed Grounds](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-hallowed-grounds/)
- [West Branch Susquehanna Byway](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/west-branch-susquehanna-byway/)
- [McGees Mills Covered Bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mcgees-mills-covered-bridge/)
- [Bilger’s Rocks](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/bilgers-rocks/)
- [Curwensville Lake](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/curwensville-lake/)
- [Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/dennys-beer-barrel-pub/)
- [Pennsylvania Silver Jackets](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-silver-jackets/)
- [National Preparedness Month](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/national-preparedness-month/)
- [floodproofing](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/floodproofing/)
- [structural floodproofing](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/structural-floodproofing/)
- [non-structural floodproofing](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/non-structural-floodproofing/)
- [Hufnagle Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hufnagle-park/)
- [Meadowcroft Rockshelter](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/meadowcroft-rockshelter/)
- [Fort Ligonier](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/fort-ligonier/)
- [American Veterans Archaeological Recovery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/american-veterans-archaeological-recovery/)
- [Pandenarium](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pandenarium/)
- [LGBT Center of Central PA](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lgbt-center-of-central-pa/)
- [LGBT History Project](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lgbt-history-project/)
- [Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/dickinson-college-archives-and-special-collections/)
- [PA LGBT History Network](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pa-lgbt-history-network/)
- [Lincoln Motor Court](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lincoln-motor-court/)
- [Lazy Brook Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lazy-brook-park/)
- [lenticular truss bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lenticular-truss-bridge/)
- [Smithfield Street Bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/smithfield-street-bridge/)
- [Corrugated Metal Company](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/corrugated-metal-company/)
- [Berlin Iron Bridge Company](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/berlin-iron-bridge-company/)
- [Bach Steel](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/bach-steel/)
- [Humanities Month](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/humanities-month/)
- [The Opportunity Atlas](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/the-opportunity-atlas/)
- [Community Heart & Soul](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/community-heart-soul/)
- [National Endowment for the Humanities](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/national-endowment-for-the-humanities/)
- [Hales Opera House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hales-opera-house/)
- [Keystone Theatre](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/keystone-theatre/)
- [Bradford County Regional Arts Council](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/bradford-county-regional-arts-council/)
- [Cornplanter](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/cornplanter/)
- [Handsome Lake](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/handsome-lake/)
- [Allegheny Reservoir](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/allegheny-reservoir/)
- [Ohio Indian Wars](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ohio-indian-wars/)
- [Cornplanter Grant](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/cornplanter-grant/)
- [Statewide Conference on Heritage](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/statewide-conference-on-heritage/)
- [Wilson College](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/wilson-college/)
- [Historic American Landscapes Survey](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/historic-american-landscapes-survey/)
- [Heritage Documentation Programs](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/heritage-documentation-programs/)
- [gingerbread](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/gingerbread/)
- [Mason and Dixon West Line Milestone Markers 76 and 77](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mason-and-dixon-west-line-milestone-markers-76-and-77/)
- [Martin Guitar](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/martin-guitar/)
- [Whiteford House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/whiteford-house/)
- [Public Schools](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/public-schools/)
- [Charles Carroll Public School](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/charles-carroll-public-school/)
- [M. Hall Stanton Public School](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/m-hall-stanton-public-school/)
- [Ivy Cottage](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ivy-cottage/)
- [Crown Can Company Building](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/crown-can-company-building/)
- [Strawbridge and Clothier Department Store Warehouse](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/strawbridge-and-clothier-department-store-warehouse/)
- [Donora](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/donora/)
- [Representative Robert Freeman](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/representative-robert-freeman/)
- [Historic Preservation Research Methods](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/historic-preservation-research-methods/)
- [Temple University](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/temple-university/)
- [Class and Nachod Brewery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/class-and-nachod-brewery/)
- [Quaker City Dye Works](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/quaker-city-dye-works/)
- [Smaltz Building](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/smaltz-building/)
- [Goldtex Apartments](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/goldtex-apartments/)
- [Delaware Tribe](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/delaware-tribe/)
- [Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/eastern-shawnee-tribe-of-oklahoma/)
- [Seneca Nation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/seneca-nation/)
- [Society for American Archaeology](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/society-for-american-archaeology/)
- [Carlisle Indian School](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/carlisle-indian-school/)
- [Woodburne Mansion](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/woodburne-mansion/)
- [Colebrook Grist Mill](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/colebrook-grist-mill/)
- [Morton and Lenore Weiss House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/morton-and-lenore-weiss-house/)
- [Camp Archbald](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/camp-archbald/)
- [Negro Motorist Green Book](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/negro-motorist-green-book/)
- [Green Book](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/green-book/)
- [Victor Hugo Green](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/victor-hugo-green/)
- [Diamond Street Historic District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/diamond-street-historic-district/)
- [Crawford Grille No. 2](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/crawford-grille-no-2/)
- [The Crawford Grill](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/the-crawford-grill/)
- [Sochatoff Building](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/sochatoff-building/)
- [William “Gus” Greenlee](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/william-gus-greenlee/)
- [Broomall Rockshelter](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/broomall-rockshelter/)
- [Fred Veigh](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/fred-veigh/)
- [Allegheny National Forest](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/allegheny-national-forest/)
- [Independent Fiscal Office](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/independent-fiscal-office/)
- [Irish American History Month](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/irish-american-history-month/)
- [Appalachian Regional Commission](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/appalachian-regional-commission/)
- [Molly Maguires](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/molly-maguires/)
- [Center for Rural Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/center-for-rural-pennsylvania/)
- [Anna T. Jeanes](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/anna-t-jeanes/)
- [Bethel Burying Ground](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/bethel-burying-ground/)
- [Thomas J. Gola](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/thomas-j-gola/)
- [William J. Murtaugh](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/william-j-murtaugh/)
- [Women's Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/womens-pennsylvania-society-for-the-prevention-of-cruelty-to-animals/)
- [COINTELPRO](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/cointelpro/)
- [Jim Croce](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/jim-croce/)
- [John Updike](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/john-updike/)
- [Thomas Wistar](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/thomas-wistar/)
- [Fruit Research & Extension Center](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/fruit-research-extension-center/)
- [Dorothy Mae Richardson](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/dorothy-mae-richardson/)
- [Dr. Thomas E. Starzl](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/dr-thomas-e-starzl/)
- [Charles Freemont West](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/charles-freemont-west/)
- [Marianna Mine Explosion](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/marianna-mine-explosion/)
- [Alien Gun Law of 1909](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/alien-gun-law-of-1909/)
- [Cynthia Catlin Miller](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/cynthia-catlin-miller/)
- [Pennsylvania Memorial Home](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-memorial-home/)
- [Van Amringe Granite Company](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/van-amringe-granite-company/)
- [APA Architects](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/apa-architects/)
- [Soldiers and Sailors Monument](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/soldiers-and-sailors-monument/)
- [Watts Mill Road Bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/watts-mill-road-bridge/)
- [West Penn Bridge Company](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/west-penn-bridge-company/)
- [Pratt Pony Truss](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pratt-pony-truss/)
- [Little Beaver Historical Society](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/little-beaver-historical-society/)
- [North County Trail Association](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/north-county-trail-association/)
- [Representative Jim Marshall](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/representative-jim-marshall/)
- [Workin' Bridges](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/workin-bridges/)
- [Laurel Highlands](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/laurel-highlands/)
- [Laurel Mountains](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/laurel-mountains/)
- [Recreational Demonstration Areas](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/recreational-demonstration-areas/)
- [PA S.P.-8](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pa-s-p-8/)
- [PA S.P.-15](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pa-s-p-15/)
- [Laurel Hill State Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/laurel-hill-state-park/)
- [Cultural Resource Management Plan](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/cultural-resource-management-plan/)
- [Survey123](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/survey123/)
- [Agricultural Resources of Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/agricultural-resources-of-pennsylvania/)
- [Pennsylvania Downtown Center](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-downtown-center/)
- [Eugene DiOrio](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/eugene-diorio/)
- [Tom Mayes](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/tom-mayes/)
- [Design Guidelines](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/design-guidelines/)
- [Titusville Historic District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/titusville-historic-district/)
- [Ida Tarbell](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ida-tarbell/)
- [W.H. Abbott](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/w-h-abbott/)
- [William B. Sterrett](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/william-b-sterrett/)
- [Electronic Data Submission](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/electronic-data-submission/)
- [Peter Wentz Farmstead](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/peter-wentz-farmstead/)
- [Billy Strayhorn](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/billy-strayhorn/)
- [Jump for Joy musical](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/jump-for-joy-musical/)
- [King Fought the Battle of 'Bam](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/king-fought-the-battle-of-bam/)
- [Governor Milton Shapp](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/governor-milton-shapp/)
- [Pennsylvania Council for Sexual Minorities](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-council-for-sexual-minorities/)
- [Kiyoshi Kuromiya](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/kiyoshi-kuromiya/)
- [Critical Path AIDS Project](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/critical-path-aids-project/)
- [LGBTQ Pride Month](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lgbtq-pride-month/)
- [Stonewall Inn](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/stonewall-inn/)
- [Frick Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/frick-park/)
- [Innocenti and Webel](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/innocenti-and-webel/)
- [Simonds and Simonds](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/simonds-and-simonds/)
- [Andrew and Elizabeth Miller House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/andrew-and-elizabeth-miller-house/)
- [Century Architectural and Engineering Company](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/century-architectural-and-engineering-company/)
- [The Berks County Trust Company](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/the-berks-county-trust-company/)
- [Abner A. Ritcher](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/abner-a-ritcher/)
- [Muhlenberg Greene Veres](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/muhlenberg-greene-veres/)
- [John and Alice Fullam House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/john-and-alice-fullam-house/)
- [Paul Marvin Rudolph](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/paul-marvin-rudolph/)
- [Edelman Schoolhouse](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/edelman-schoolhouse/)
- [William Brown Company Hosiery Mill](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/william-brown-company-hosiery-mill/)
- [First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Philadelphia Northeast Branch](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/first-federal-savings-loan-association-of-philadelphia-northeast-branch/)
- [Oaks Cloister](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/oaks-cloister/)
- [Joseph Huston](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/joseph-huston/)
- [John Russell Pope](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/john-russell-pope/)
- [HistoriCorps](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/historicorps/)
- [Indian Paths of Pennsylvania](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/indian-paths-of-pennsylvania/)
- [Paul. A. W. Wallace](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/paul-a-w-wallace/)
- [Mod Betty](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mod-betty/)
- [Sines 5&10](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/sines-510/)
- [Shuey's Pretzels](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/shueys-pretzels/)
- [Shankweiler's Drive In](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/shankweilers-drive-in/)
- [Tri-County Regional Planning Commission](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/tri-county-regional-planning-commission/)
- [Hurricane Agnes](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hurricane-agnes/)
- [Tropical Storm Agnes](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/tropical-storm-agnes/)
- [City of Harrisburg](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/city-of-harrisburg/)
- [Paxton Creek Master Plan](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/paxton-creek-master-plan/)
- [Jennies Diner](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/jennies-diner/)
- [Dunkles Gas Station](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/dunkles-gas-station/)
- [Tiny Jane Jacobs](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/tiny-jane-jacobs/)
- [Stroudsburg](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/stroudsburg/)
- [Stroud Mansion](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/stroud-mansion/)
- [Monroe County Historical Association](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/monroe-county-historical-association/)
- [Fort Hamilton](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/fort-hamilton/)
- [Juniata College](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/juniata-college/)
- [black basalt ceramic](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/black-basalt-ceramic/)
- [pearlware slop bowl](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pearlware-slop-bowl/)
- [bone lice comb](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/bone-lice-comb/)
- [Palmer projectile point](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/palmer-projectile-point/)
- [State Senator Mario Scavello](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/state-senator-mario-scavello/)
- [Hassrick House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hassrick-house/)
- [Jefferson University](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/jefferson-university/)
- [McAllister's Mill Underground Railroad Station](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mcallisters-mill-underground-railroad-station/)
- [Frederick Douglass](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/frederick-douglass/)
- [Freedom Road](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/freedom-road/)
- [Harriet A. Baker](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/harriet-a-baker/)
- [A.M.E. Book Concern](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/a-m-e-book-concern/)
- [Robert Lee Vann](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/robert-lee-vann/)
- [C. Delores Tucker](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/c-delores-tucker/)
- [Martin Delany](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/martin-delany/)
- [Father Devine](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/father-devine/)
- [Sadie T.M. Alexander](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/sadie-t-m-alexander/)
- [400 Years of African American History Commission Act](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/400-years-of-african-american-history-commission-act/)
- [Lykens](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lykens/)
- [Mather Mill](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mather-mill/)
- [Hope Lodge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hope-lodge/)
- [Wissahickon Valley Watershed](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/wissahickon-valley-watershed/)
- [Whitemarsh Township](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/whitemarsh-township/)
- [Lincoln Highway](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lincoln-highway/)
- [#400YearsPA](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/400yearspa/)
- [Franklin Square](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/franklin-square/)
- [Eastern Gray Squirrel](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/eastern-gray-squirrel/)
- [Frances Dorrance](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/frances-dorrance/)
- [Wyoming Historical and Geological Society of Wilkes Barre](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/wyoming-historical-and-geological-society-of-wilkes-barre/)
- [Indian Site Survey](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/indian-site-survey/)
- [Pennsylvania Archaeologist](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-archaeologist/)
- [Pennsylvania Archaeology Month](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-archaeology-month/)
- [August Wilson](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/august-wilson/)
- [August Wilson House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/august-wilson-house/)
- [Daisy Wilson Arts Community](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/daisy-wilson-arts-community/)
- [Duquesne University](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/duquesne-university/)
- [Swatara State Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/swatara-state-park/)
- [Reading Railroad](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/reading-railroad/)
- [Union Canal](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/union-canal/)
- [Waterville Bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/waterville-bridge/)
- [Inwood Iron Bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/inwood-iron-bridge/)
- [Pittsburgh Bridge Company](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pittsburgh-bridge-company/)
- [Pennsylvania thru truss bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-thru-truss-bridge/)
- [Petit thru truss bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/petit-thru-truss-bridge/)
- [18th Amendment](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/18th-amendment/)
- [Prohibition](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/prohibition/)
- [21st Amendment](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/21st-amendment/)
- [Wayne Brewery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/wayne-brewery/)
- [Yuengling Brewery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/yuengling-brewery/)
- [Public Works Administration](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/public-works-administration/)
- [Blain](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/blain/)
- [James Blaine](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/james-blaine/)
- [General Ephriam Blaine](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/general-ephriam-blaine/)
- [Douglass Mills](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/douglass-mills/)
- [Newport & Sherman’s Valley Railroad](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/newport-shermans-valley-railroad/)
- [Sherman’s Valley Heritage Day](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/shermans-valley-heritage-day/)
- [Fighter's Heaven](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/fighters-heaven/)
- [Muhammad Ali](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/muhammad-ali/)
- [Mahoning Drive-in Theater](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mahoning-drive-in-theater/)
- [Lehighton](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lehighton/)
- [Orwigsburg](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/orwigsburg/)
- [CinemaScope](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/cinemascope/)
- [Lazaretto](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lazaretto/)
- [Tinicum Township](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/tinicum-township/)
- [Lazaretto Preservation Association of Tinicum Township](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lazaretto-preservation-association-of-tinicum-township/)
- [Roxian](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/roxian/)
- [Roxian Theatre](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/roxian-theatre/)
- [McKees Rocks](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mckees-rocks/)
- [McKees Rocks CDC](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mckees-rocks-cdc/)
- [Sarah Josepha Hale](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/sarah-josepha-hale/)
- [Abraham Lincoln](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/abraham-lincoln/)
- [Thanksgiving](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/thanksgiving/)
- [Girard College](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/girard-college/)
- [Thomas Ustick Walter](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/thomas-ustick-walter/)
- [Stephen Girard](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/stephen-girard/)
- [Climax Tunnel](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/climax-tunnel/)
- [Brandywine Battlefield Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/brandywine-battlefield-park/)
- [Pyramid Lofts](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pyramid-lofts/)
- [North Scranton Junior High School](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/north-scranton-junior-high-school/)
- [Jimmy Stewart](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/jimmy-stewart/)
- [James Maitland Stewart](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/james-maitland-stewart/)
- [Hosanna Church](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hosanna-church/)
- [Hinsonville](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hinsonville/)
- [McKees Rocks Mound](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mckees-rocks-mound/)
- [Philadelphia Opera House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/philadelphia-opera-house/)
- [Metropolitan Opera House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/metropolitan-opera-house/)
- [Met Philly](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/met-philly/)
- [William Elfatrick](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/william-elfatrick/)
- [Oscar Hammerstein](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/oscar-hammerstein/)
- [Penn Street Bridge; PennDOT District 5-0; concrete bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/penn-street-bridge-penndot-district-5-0-concrete-bridge/)
- [Berks County Planning Commission](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/berks-county-planning-commission/)
- [West Reading](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/west-reading/)
- [Grotto Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/grotto-our-lady-of-lourdes-shrine/)
- [Nesquehoning](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/nesquehoning/)
- [Traditional Cultural Property](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/traditional-cultural-property/)
- [Placido Guido LaRizzio](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/placido-guido-larizzio/)
- [Lawrenceville Historic District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lawrenceville-historic-district/)
- [Ebensburg Historic District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ebensburg-historic-district/)
- [Highland Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/highland-park/)
- [HJ Heinz Company](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hj-heinz-company/)
- [First United Presbyterian Church of Braddock](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/first-united-presbyterian-church-of-braddock/)
- [Jacob Stover Farmstead](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/jacob-stover-farmstead/)
- [Stoehr and Fister Building](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/stoehr-and-fister-building/)
- [Lancaster City Historic District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lancaster-city-historic-district/)
- [Wilkes-Barre Silk Company Mill](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/wilkes-barre-silk-company-mill/)
- [Humane Fire Engine Company No. 1](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/humane-fire-engine-company-no-1/)
- [Sykes Brothers Yarn Mill](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/sykes-brothers-yarn-mill/)
- [Wharton Street Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church and Sunday School](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/wharton-street-memorial-methodist-episcopal-church-and-sunday-school/)
- [Provident Mutual Insurance Company](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/provident-mutual-insurance-company/)
- [Harrisburg Historic District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/harrisburg-historic-district/)
- [William Penn Memorial Museum & Archives Building](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/william-penn-memorial-museum-archives-building/)
- [Lawrie & Green](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lawrie-green/)
- [Pennsylvania State Capitol](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-state-capitol/)
- [Civic Club of Harrisburg](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/civic-club-of-harrisburg/)
- [Williamsport](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/williamsport/)
- [Mount Holly Springs](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mount-holly-springs/)
- [Mount Tabor Church](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mount-tabor-church/)
- [David Peters Collection](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/david-peters-collection/)
- [Otter Timber Management Project](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/otter-timber-management-project/)
- [Wynkoop House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/wynkoop-house/)
- [Broad Mountain](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/broad-mountain/)
- [Kiski Notched point](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/kiski-notched-point/)
- [Northside Properties Residences](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/northside-properties-residences/)
- [Northside Coalition for Fair Housing](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/northside-coalition-for-fair-housing/)
- [Brewerytown Historic District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/brewerytown-historic-district/)
- [Bergner & Engel Brewery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/bergner-engel-brewery/)
- [Frederick Poth Brewery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/frederick-poth-brewery/)
- [Louis Bergdoll Brewery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/louis-bergdoll-brewery/)
- [Ortlieb Brewing Company](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ortlieb-brewing-company/)
- [Stegmaier Brewery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/stegmaier-brewery/)
- [Duquesne Brewing Company](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/duquesne-brewing-company/)
- [Eberhardt & Ober Brewery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/eberhardt-ober-brewery/)
- [Neuweiler Brewery](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/neuweiler-brewery/)
- [Folmont](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/folmont/)
- [Fort Dewart](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/fort-dewart/)
- [Forbes Road](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/forbes-road/)
- [Folmont Property Owners Association](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/folmont-property-owners-association/)
- [Sir Allan Maclean](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/sir-allan-maclean/)
- [Castle Duart](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/castle-duart/)
- [Clan Maclean Heritage Trust](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/clan-maclean-heritage-trust/)
- [East Liberty Development](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/east-liberty-development/)
- [Fighters Heaven](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/fighters-heaven-2/)
- [Berwyn School Fight](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/berwyn-school-fight/)
- [Charles "Chuck" Cooper](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/charles-chuck-cooper/)
- [Elwyn Institute](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/elwyn-institute/)
- [Ona Judge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ona-judge/)
- [George A. Romero](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/george-a-romero/)
- [Night of the Living Dead](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/night-of-the-living-dead/)
- [George Croghan](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/george-croghan/)
- [Gloria Casarez](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/gloria-casarez/)
- [Holbert Racing](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/holbert-racing/)
- [Hysong v. Gallitzin School District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hysong-v-gallitzin-school-district/)
- [Garb Law](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/garb-law/)
- [Susquehannock Indian](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/susquehannock-indian/)
- [Liberty Bell](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/liberty-bell/)
- [Nile Swim Club](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/nile-swim-club/)
- [Palestra](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/palestra/)
- [Lemoyne](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lemoyne/)
- [Pauline Hanauer Rosenberg](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pauline-hanauer-rosenberg/)
- [Philadelphia Gay News](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/philadelphia-gay-news/)
- [National Council of Jewish Women](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/national-council-of-jewish-women/)
- [Plastic Club](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/plastic-club/)
- [Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/sisters-of-charity-of-seton-hill/)
- [Sylvania Electric Products](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/sylvania-electric-products/)
- [William Lightfoot Price](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/william-lightfoot-price/)
- [Rose Valley](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/rose-valley/)
- [Embassy Theatre](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/embassy-theatre/)
- [Friends of the Embassy Theatre](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/friends-of-the-embassy-theatre/)
- [Albert Douglas Hill](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/albert-douglas-hill/)
- [Hodges and Hill](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hodges-and-hill/)
- [Lewistown](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lewistown/)
- [Downtown Lewistown Inc.](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/downtown-lewistown-inc/)
- [Wharton-Wesley United Methodist Church](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/wharton-wesley-united-methodist-church/)
- [Infill Philadelphia: Sacred Places/Civic Spaces](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/infill-philadelphia-sacred-places-civic-spaces/)
- [Christo Rey High School](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/christo-rey-high-school/)
- [A. Meckey Company](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/a-meckey-company/)
- [Wilkinsburg](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/wilkinsburg/)
- [Mt Lebanon](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mt-lebanon/)
- [Erie](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/erie/)
- [Oil City](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/oil-city/)
- [Washington](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/washington/)
- [Main Street](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/main-street/)
- [Elm Street](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/elm-street/)
- [Main Street America](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/main-street-america/)
- [Alpenglow Rockshelter](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/alpenglow-rockshelter/)
- [Council Rocks site](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/council-rocks-site/)
- [rockshelter](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/rockshelter/)
- [Nightwish](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/nightwish/)
- [Alpenglow](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/alpenglow/)
- [James Mulholland Vaughan](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/james-mulholland-vaughan/)
- [Nancy Moses](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/nancy-moses/)
- [#FavoritePAPlaces](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/favoritepaplaces/)
- [Union Meeting House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/union-meeting-house/)
- [Marietta](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/marietta/)
- [Julie Fitzpatrick](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/julie-fitzpatrick/)
- [Ira Beckerman](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ira-beckerman/)
- [Pottsville](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pottsville/)
- [Radius](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/radius/)
- [Kutztown](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/kutztown/)
- [French Azilum](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/french-azilum/)
- [Marie Antoinette Scenic Overlook](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/marie-antoinette-scenic-overlook/)
- [Wyalusing](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/wyalusing/)
- [Endless Mountains Heritage Region](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/endless-mountains-heritage-region/)
- [Cain Chamberlin](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/cain-chamberlin/)
- [SPIKE funding](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/spike-funding/)
- [historic metal truss bridge](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/historic-metal-truss-bridge/)
- [Melinda Meyer](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/melinda-meyer/)
- [Jrs Comedy Club](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/jrs-comedy-club-2/)
- [Reliable Home Furnishing Company](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/reliable-home-furnishing-company/)
- [Malcolm Johnstone](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/malcolm-johnstone/)
- [West Chester Business Improvement District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/west-chester-business-improvement-district/)
- [West Chester BID](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/west-chester-bid/)
- [Marshall Square Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/marshall-square-park/)
- [Marty Long](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/marty-long/)
- [Horseshoe Curve](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/horseshoe-curve/)
- [National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/national-historic-civil-engineering-landmark/)
- [Mt Gretna](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mt-gretna/)
- [Mount Gretna](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mount-gretna/)
- [Mt Gretna campmeeting](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mt-gretna-campmeeting/)
- [Pennsylvania Chautauqua](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pennsylvania-chautauqua/)
- [Paul Steinke](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/paul-steinke/)
- [Guthrie Memorial Library](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/guthrie-memorial-library/)
- [Hanover](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hanover/)
- [Mindy Crawford](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mindy-crawford/)
- [Rodef Shalom](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/rodef-shalom/)
- [Matthew Falcone](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/matthew-falcone/)
- [Preservation Pittsburgh](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/preservation-pittsburgh/)
- [Emmaus](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/emmaus/)
- [Emmaus Theater](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/emmaus-theater/)
- [Jane Jacobs](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/jane-jacobs/)
- [Baked](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/baked/)
- [Switchback Pizza](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/switchback-pizza/)
- [Emmaus Run Inn](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/emmaus-run-inn/)
- [South Mountain Cycle and Cafe](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/south-mountain-cycle-and-cafe/)
- [Oil City Main Street Program](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/oil-city-main-street-program/)
- [Oil Region](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/oil-region/)
- [Tudor Revival](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/tudor-revival/)
- [Roadside architecture](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/roadside-architecture/)
- [Gas Station](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/gas-station/)
- [Curtin Village](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/curtin-village/)
- [Eagle Ironworks](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/eagle-ironworks/)
- [Roland Curtin Foundation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/roland-curtin-foundation/)
- [Curtin Mansion](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/curtin-mansion/)
- [Pleasant Furnace](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pleasant-furnace/)
- [Easton Main Street Initiative](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/easton-main-street-initiative/)
- [Greater Easton Development Partnership](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/greater-easton-development-partnership/)
- [Easton High School](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/easton-high-school/)
- [Hegins](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hegins/)
- [Hegins Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hegins-park/)
- [Schuylkill County Wine Festival](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/schuylkill-county-wine-festival/)
- [Rodef Shalom Congregation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/rodef-shalom-congregation/)
- [Black Moshannon State Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/black-moshannon-state-park/)
- [Beach and Day Use District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/beach-and-day-use-district/)
- [Family Cabin District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/family-cabin-district/)
- [Maintenance District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/maintenance-district/)
- [Bendigo State Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/bendigo-state-park/)
- [Bendigo](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/bendigo/)
- [Johnsonburg](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/johnsonburg/)
- [Dormont Pool](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/dormont-pool/)
- [Dormont](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/dormont/)
- [Rock Run](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/rock-run/)
- [Loyalsock State Forest](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/loyalsock-state-forest/)
- [Graeme Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/graeme-park/)
- [William Keith](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/william-keith/)
- [Dr Thomas Graeme](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/dr-thomas-graeme/)
- [Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/elizabeth-graeme-ferguson/)
- [Historic Structures Report](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/historic-structures-report/)
- [Karlton Cafe](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/karlton-cafe/)
- [Quakertown Historic District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/quakertown-historic-district/)
- [Quakertown Alive!](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/quakertown-alive/)
- [Quakertown](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/quakertown/)
- [Hollidaysburg](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hollidaysburg/)
- [Allegheny Ridge Corporation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/allegheny-ridge-corporation/)
- [Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/secretary-of-the-interiors-standards-for-rehabilitation/)
- [Fishtown](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/fishtown/)
- [take out windows](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/take-out-windows/)
- [Mexico](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/mexico/)
- [Riverside](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/riverside/)
- [Harrisburg Area Community College](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/harrisburg-area-community-college/)
- [Special Flood Hazard Area](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/special-flood-hazard-area/)
- [William Lynch Murray and Associates](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/william-lynch-murray-and-associates/)
- [Oley Hills site](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/oley-hills-site/)
- [Oley Hills](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/oley-hills/)
- [stone features](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/stone-features/)
- [cairn](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/cairn/)
- [cairns](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/cairns/)
- [Fred Werkheiser](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/fred-werkheiser/)
- [Norman Muller](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/norman-muller/)
- [New England Antiquities Research Association](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/new-england-antiquities-research-association/)
- [NEARA](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/neara/)
- [United South and Eastern Tribes](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/united-south-and-eastern-tribes/)
- [USET](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/uset/)
- [ceremonial stone landscapes](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/ceremonial-stone-landscapes/)
- [Justice Bell](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/justice-bell/)
- [Katherine Wentworth Ruschenberger](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/katherine-wentworth-ruschenberger/)
- [19th Amendment](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/19th-amendment/)
- [Washington Memorial Chapel](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/washington-memorial-chapel/)
- [Valley Forge National Park](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/valley-forge-national-park/)
- [Melester Barn](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/melester-barn/)
- [Waynesboro Historic District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/waynesboro-historic-district/)
- [John Wagner Family Farmstead](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/john-wagner-family-farmstead/)
- [John and Elizabeth Swarr House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/john-and-elizabeth-swarr-house/)
- [Locust Grove Archaeological District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/locust-grove-archaeological-district/)
- [Penn Pilot](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/penn-pilot/)
- [PASDA Imagery Navigator](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pasda-imagery-navigator/)
- [Historical Aerial Viewer](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/historical-aerial-viewer/)
- [county courthouses](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/county-courthouses/)
- [Lancaster County Courthouse](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lancaster-county-courthouse/)
- [Luzerne County Courthouse](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/luzerne-county-courthouse/)
- [Allegheny County Courthouse](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/allegheny-county-courthouse/)
- [Fayette County Courthouse](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/fayette-county-courthouse/)
- [Blair County Courthouse](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/blair-county-courthouse/)
- [David Smith Gendell](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/david-smith-gendell/)
- [United State Census](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/united-state-census/)
- [Census 2020](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/census-2020/)
- [Gamble Mill](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/gamble-mill/)
- [Carl Mackley Houses](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/carl-mackley-houses/)
- [Pittsburgh Athletic Association](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/pittsburgh-athletic-association/)
- [Allegheny West Historic District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/allegheny-west-historic-district/)
- [Saleme Building](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/saleme-building/)
- [Altoona Downtown Historic District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/altoona-downtown-historic-district/)
- [Shirley Shoes](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/shirley-shoes/)
- [Glennland Building](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/glennland-building/)
- [Addison Leech House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/addison-leech-house/)
- [Scranton National Bank](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/scranton-national-bank/)
- [Lancaster Newspaper Building](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/lancaster-newspaper-building/)
- [Elizabeth Furnace](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/elizabeth-furnace/)
- [Boyertown Burial Casket Company](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/boyertown-burial-casket-company/)
- [R.K. Laros Silk Mill](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/r-k-laros-silk-mill/)
- [Gotham Silk Hosiery Company Building](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/gotham-silk-hosiery-company-building/)
- [HH Schell House](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/hh-schell-house/)
- [Somerset Historic District](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/somerset-historic-district/)
- [Seneca Nation of Indians](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/seneca-nation-of-indians/)
- [Beaver Borough](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/beaver-borough/)
- [Monongahela](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/monongahela/)
- [Beaver Falls](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/beaver-falls/)
- [Monaca](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/monaca/)
- [New Brighton](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/new-brighton/)
- [Rochester](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/rochester/)
- [Midland](https://pahistoricpreservation.com/tag/midland/)