Preservation in the News - Today's Stories

Ditmer: Saving Historic Preservation
Ditmer, Joanne 03/12/10
Outlet: Denver Post, The

A drop in federal funding — from $25 million to none in one year — has historic preservationists in shock. That's what the 2011 budget shows for Save America's Treasures, which began in 1999 and is the only bricks-and-mortar federal preservation g...

Don't eliminate funding for historic preservation
Woolley, Beth 03/11/10
Outlet: Asbury Park Press

I was shocked when I received an e-mail informing me that President Barack Obama's recently released budget proposal eliminates the Save America's Treasures and Preserve America grant programs and cuts the National Heritage Areas funding by 50 percen...

OLD IS THE NEW GREEN
03/11/10
Outlet: Green Builder Magazine

I just read an interesting article in the magazine “Preservation” that’s put out by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The article, written by Blair Kamin, was entitled “Friends or Foe”. It was about the ongoing battle between architecture...

After Hollywood, Webb considers Franklin his home
Hopper, Kathi 03/11/10
Outlet: Citizen

They both caught the historical preservation bug and when reading Preservation magazine, they saw ads for classic old homes for sale across the country. They began traveling to the east coast to shop for a home, looking as far south as Virginia and n...

Collaboration vital to downtown
Mailman, Erika 03/11/10
Outlet: Gilroy Dispatch

They said Gary Walton had told them that each space directly in front of a business is worth $10,000 a year. Walton later told me that the figure comes from the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Web site on their Main Street program. La...

Planning bigwig to weigh in on city's biz future
03/11/10
Outlet: Salem News, The

Smith is a consultant with The Community Land Use and Economics Group, served as the director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's National Main Street Center, and last year was No. 1 in a list of "100 Top Urban Thinkers" by Planetizen,...

Celina 2009 Year in Review
Rathbun, Penny 03/10/10
Outlet: Celina Record

The Texas Historical Commission and the National Trust for Historic Preservation recognized Celina as one of the 56 National Main Street Cities in Texas. Cities chosen as National Main Street Cities must show above average performance in 10 categorie...

Outlookfor arts is blue
Wever, Hannah 03/10/10
Outlet: Orange County Review

Meanwhile, what’s left of arts and humanities school staff and faculty, and officials at non-school entities like the James Madison Museum, the Arts Center in Orange and even The Montpelier Foundation, are wringing their hands over anticipated losses...