Preservation Maryland is proud to partner with the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites to commence their statewide conference and annual meeting on the topic of Maryland's historic cemeteries including sessions from the National Park Service and a focus on...
Thanks to Preservation Maryland's involvement, active efforts to breathe new life in to the long vacant Glenn Dale Hospital in Prince George's County have taken a major step forward with the selection of a qualified team from The Alexander Company to complete a...
The Burkittsville Preservation Alliance, owners of the Shafer Farm, have been busy taking small, and necessary steps to safeguard the property. Here's an update: One of the major tenants of Preservation Maryland's Six-to-Fix program is the participation of the...
Community Forklift in Hyattsville is one of many awesome non-profit reuse centers in Maryland; they take unwanted buildings materials and offer them to the public along with training and education to keep the cost of home repairs affordable throughout the community....
The Burkittsville Preservation Alliance, owners of the Shafer Farm, have been busy taking small, and necessary steps to safeguard the property. Here's an update: One of the major tenants of Preservation Maryland's Six-to-Fix program is the participation of the...
The National Park Service recently announced the distribution of African American Civil Rights grants that includes two Maryland projects; surveying African American community spaces in Anne Arundel County and collecting oral histories related to Lillie Carrol...
On January 11, 2017, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel announced that Schifferstadt in Frederick County has met the distinction of exceptional value to the history of the United States and was named a National Historic Landmark - the highest historic honor in the...
With the inclusion of Maryland's sacred burial places as a statewide focus for Preservation Maryland's Six-to-Fix program in the coming year, we are proud to continue our partnership with the Coalition for the Protection of Maryland's Burial Sites by sponsoring their...
There are five structures on the Civil War-era Shafer Farm property located in Frederick County that would have served distinct purposes for the running of a farm business and household. Preservation Maryland and the Burkittsville Preservation Association have...
The Maryland Milestones Heritage Area serves portions Prince George's County to promote historic and cultural tourism - and is nearing in a milestone of their own - opening a Heritage Center in downtown Hyattsville. Preservation Maryland was pleased to join State...
Preservation Maryland proclaims the earliest known occasion of preservation heartbombing in Maryland to be 1993 at the Wire Hardware Store in Rockville saved with love by Peerless Rockville, Inc. When the likely buyer of the historic Wire Hardware building had plans...
Situated on a wooded campus of over 200 acres in Prince George’s County, the majority of the two dozen Georgian Revival buildings of the Glenn Dale Tuberculosis Hospital and Sanatorium date from the 1930s. Once the area’s largest employer, Glenn Dale hospital was...
Cyndy Carrington Miller is an inspired-Marylander, starting the Last Skipjacks Project in order to answer the question she most frequently heard as crew and first mate on the Skipjack Nathan of Dorchester: “How many skipjacks are left?” Beginning in 2009, Cyndy set...
Preservation Maryland supports the Maryland Heritage Area Authority, and each of the Heritage Areas - every county and Baltimore City are served by the Authority's heritage and cultural tourism promotion and dollar-for-dollar grants. When the Maryland Heritage Area...
Barns are highly recognizable structures throughout rural Maryland, but as their intended purpose has largely disappeared their function and futures are in question. Barn-specific funding has dried-up, but there may be other programs you can use to support barn...
Preservation Maryland has just uploaded nearly 1,500 photos from our digital image collection to Flickr – complete with detailed metadata, such as architectural style, building materials, and relevant information about the history of the site. Much of the planning,...
December 10 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pmSAVE THE DATE! More information and registration page coming soon.
January 8, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Save the Date! Join Preservation Maryland on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, to learn more about the He...
January 22, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pmPreservation Maryland participates in and hosts many events in and around Maryland. Take a look at our upcoming events to see where we’ll be next.