Kicking off National Park Week on April 16, 2016, and being one of the first public Six-to-Fix volunteer event, Preservation Maryland with Save Historic Antietam Foundation brought over 50+ volunteers to Antietam National Battlefield to clear invasive species, remove...
Preservation Maryland and the Polm Companies jointly announced their intention to find a viable preservation solution for Whites Hall, the historic boyhood home of Johns Hopkins. After discussions with Preservation Maryland and representatives of Anne Arundel County,...
Preservation Maryland worked tirelessly this session to secure important budget language that will quantify the need for preservation funding across the state. The budget language, which is contained in the 2016 Joint Chairman’s Report, requires that the “Maryland...
On April 8, just a few days before the end of the 2016 session of the Maryland General Assembly, the state's Heritage Structure Rehabilitation Tax Credit was re-authorized by both Houses of the Legislature. After a unique and challenging legislative session,...
Learn how Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act sets up a framework for handling the adverse effects of government undertakings – and how Preservation Maryland uses these tools to save places that matter. Established in 1966, the National Historic...
An update on the latest bills, policies and funding packages introduced to the Maryland General Assembly that impact preservation. https://storify.com/PreservationMD/preservation-maryland-legislative-update-4-4-16
We need your help to make preservation a priority and to reauthorize the critical Historic Rehab Tax Credit in Maryland. Since its creation, the 20% tax credit for historic building rehabilitation has: Rehabilitated over 4,018 residential and 625 commercial...
Since announcing our opposition and concern over a City of Cumberland plan to demolish a historic neighborhood and displace its residents, local citizens, and a growing chorus of organizations have continued to call on the city to reconsider its unsustainable plan. In...
All across Maryland, the forces of demolition are on the march. Using the tired refrains of ‘urban renewal,’ leaders have called for millions of dollars to be funneled into demolition projects that have the potential to eliminate thousands of historic structures....
With the support of Preservation Maryland, legislation is moving forward that would alter and extend the state’s historic rehabilitation tax credit for an additional five years. The re-authorization legislation is House Bill 939 and Senate Bill 759 "Altering the...
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...
After we announced our concern over a project that proposes demolishing owner-occupied historic homes in Cumberland, we received some critical barbs from the proponents of the project – comments in the press and local media that suggested we have never cared about...
The pace of activity in Annapolis has picked up over the past few weeks with a flurry of new bills introduced each day and many hearings and briefings taking place on a variety of important issues. Preservation Maryland has been on the ground almost every day for the...
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...
During the February 8, Maryland House of Delegates Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation and the Environment hearing on the Maryland Historical Trust budget, Baltimore City, District 46 Delegate Brooke Lierman addressed the difficult funding situation for...
Executive Director of Preservation Maryland, Nicholas Redding, testified today at a hearing of the Maryland House of Delegates Appropriation’s Subcommittee on Transportation and the Environment concerning funding for critical preservation programs. Specifically, his...
In early February, at the invitation of the Valley Planning Council, Preservation Maryland's Director of Preservation Services, Margaret De Arcangelis, testified in opposition to a redevelopment project that would infringe on the historic setting of the Stemmer House,...
The City of Cumberland and the Cumberland Economic Development Corporation, an instrumentality of City government, plan to demolish portions of the historic Rolling Mill neighborhood to build incompatible and economically unsustainable low-density sprawl. Proponents...
On Monday, February 1st, the Maryland General Assembly's Tax Credit Evaluation Committee (TEC Committee) met to review the Department of Legislative Services (DLS) report on the state's historic rehabilitation tax credit. The credit received a favorable review, and...
Preservation Maryland strongly supports the rehabilitation and reuse of Whites Hall, the 18th century boyhood home of Maryland icon Johns Hopkins. We emphatically oppose the current effort to demolish this nationally significant structure and believe many prudent and...
ALTERNATIVES TO EMINENT DOMAIN AND COSTLY DEMOLITION PROJECT EXIST Preservation Maryland, the state’s oldest and largest historic preservation advocacy organization, joined a growing chorus of concerned local citizens in announcing their serious concern today over a...
Governor Hogan's proposed FY17 operating budget is a mixed bag for historic preservation. While cuts to the Maryland Heritage Area Authority have been avoided - and full-funding preserved at $3M - this budget marks the sixth straight year that no funding has been...
2015 was a busy year. In addition to our ongoing advocacy work, grantmaking efforts and education programming, we also launched our Six-to-Fix program, which has been quietly picking up steam. The next big announcements will include opportunities for Marylanders to...
This Giving Tuesday we’re offering our friends six specific opportunities to help save and protect Maryland history as a part of our Six-to-Fix program. “We’re not makers of History. We are made by history.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King spoke those...
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...
In the spring of 2015, we at Historic London Town and Gardens decided to participate in a museum dance off video competition. Yes, seriously, there is a museum dance off video competition. No, I’m not making that up. It’s even international. While predominantly...
In 2015, Preservation Maryland enhanced their long-standing Endangered Maryland project into Six-to-Fix, an innovative new program that will design new futures for threatened historic buildings across Maryland. SIX-TO-FIX Maryland’s Six-to-Fix is an innovative new...
“Now is the time for action.” With those words, Preservation Maryland Executive Director Nicholas Redding concluded the inaugural Six-to-Fix announcement in the posh and mid-century modern showroom of the Price Modern company of Baltimore. The October 9th event, which...
In the Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area—one of Maryland’s thirteen certified Heritage Areas covering portions of Carroll, Frederick, and Washington Counties—we’re using 21st century technology to help visitors and residents discover our Civil War heritage. Over...
In the shadow of the historic Phillips Packing Plant in Cambridge Maryland, Preservation Maryland joined with preservationists from across the state to announce the creation of two diverse coalitions: the Campaign for Maryland History and the Maryland Historic Tax...
December 10 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pmSAVE THE DATE! More information and registration page coming soon.
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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.