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Conservation Landscape Initiatives: A Growing Opportunity for Preservation Partnerships

April 10, 2013 / Bryan Van Sweden / 0 Comments

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 […]

PHMC Executive Director Jim Vaughan and Teresa Mandic, Vice President of Programs, Pearl S. Buck International at the Keystone Awards Ceremony. Photo Courtesy of Mindy Crawford, Preservation Pennsylvania.

Keystone Fund Projects Receive Awards

March 27, 2013 / Cory Kegerise / 1 Comment

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.

3-story brick building with rows of many windows.

Celebrating the Fallon Hotel

May 28, 2024 / Elizabeth Shultz / 0 Comments

Prominent landmarks in small towns hold a special type of nostalgic significance for those who have interacted with them.

Celebrating the Slate Hill Cemetery

May 22, 2024 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 2 Comments

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

May 15, 2024 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 0 Comments

This week’s 2023 Community Initiative Award winner spotlight is on the Titusville Iron Works in Titusville. The Titusville Iron Works traces its roots to the Titusville Manufacturing Co., the first foundry and machine shop exclusively serving the oil industry, founded in 1860. Local businessmen purchased the company in 1895, renamed it the Titusville Iron Works, […]

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

Celebrating the Nicholson Train Station

May 8, 2024 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 3 Comments

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

Head and shoulders image of a woman on a bike along with the words "looking forward to 2024" above three green arrows.

24 Things to Look Forward to in 2024

January 4, 2024 / Andrea L. MacDonald / 2 Comments

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.

Text "2023 Year in Review" over a collage of six photos of buildings and people.

ICYMI: PA SHPO’s Blog in 2023

December 27, 2023 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 0 Comments

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 […]

Small stone building with large chimney and arched doors. — A recent Keystone Grant helped stabilize and repair the bosh (the smelting chamber within the furnace structure), which was very deteriorated. Photo from PA SHPO files, July 2023.

Celebrating Hay Creek Valley Historical Association

May 31, 2023 / April Frantz / 0 Comments

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.

Man talks to group of seated audience. — Township Council member manager John Gillespie speaks about the history of the building and project. Photo courtesy of Ted Goldman.

Celebrating Concord Township and the Spring Valley AME Church

May 24, 2023 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 2 Comments

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 […]