As a member of Smart Growth Maryland you have a front row seat to the extraordinary breadth of programs which are helping save what makes Maryland, Maryland. Together, we have accomplished a great deal by focusing on preserving Maryland’s unique heritage and forging a...
Preservation Maryland has made uncovering LGBTQ history in Maryland a priority project through our Six-to-Fix program. Today, the 50th Anniversary of the riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York City that marks a major turning point in the fight for LGBTQ equality,...
Preservation Maryland and the State Highway Administration have entered into a partnership to document historic cemeteries across the state using a new mobile app. Attendees to the Old Line State Summit, on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 in Frederick, will have the...
Preservation Maryland will host Maryland's annual historic preservation conference in Frederick on Wednesday, July 24, 2019. The historic Delaplaine Building will host many of the event's sessions with some sessions at McClintock Distilling and several opportunities...
Earlier this month, Preservation Maryland was recognized by Baltimore Heritage, Inc. for managing the creation and installation of eight interpretive signs along Baltimore's Jones Falls Valley. In 2016, Preservation Maryland received grant funding from the Baltimore...
Many Maryland communities are advancing sustainability projects and policies to improve quality of life for residents, save money, and care for the environment. Mayor Don Briggs of Emmitsburg and former Charles County Commissioner Ken Robinson will discuss...
Adaptive reuse projects can foster renewed vitality and transform communities. Additionally, adapting buildings for new uses while maintaining their historic features is an effective way to reduce sprawl development and its environmental impacts. Case studies of two...
Placemaking is a collaborative process that invites all members of a community to reimagine and reinvent shared public spaces. More than urban design, placemaking facilitates creative use with particular attention to the physical, cultural, and social identities that...
Did you know? Visitors of Hispanic descent are one of the fastest-growing and biggest user groups to Maryland’s state parks. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources and other agencies like the Chesapeake Conservancy are creating new connections between Maryland's...
The Old Line State Summit is Maryland's annual historic preservation conference. This year, Preservation Maryland will offer three workshop-style sessions including an opportunity to get out into historic Frederick to explore its architectural specimens and the...
The Old Line State Summit is Maryland's annual historic preservation conference. This year on Wednesday, July 24, 2019, Preservation Maryland will offer three workshop-style sessions including an off-site session led by the Maryland Historical Trust to present an...
Preservation Maryland will host two museum futurists at our annual statewide conference to highlight active virtual and augmented reality projects that can be implemented at small or large scales. Join Matt Briney of Mount Vernon and Dorothy Stoltz of Carroll County...
A Howard County-appointed committee created through Executive Calvin Ball's "Safe and Sound" plan has recommended the creation of a Community Development Organization (CDO) focused on the revitalization and sustainability of historic Ellicott City. In his announcement...
Preservation Maryland has been engaged in Brunswick, Maryland over the past few years, offering support on preservation issues and now through serving on the Preservation and Revitalization Committee. In order to learn more about Brunswick and its history, we met with...
In response to the startling demolitions of two historic stone homes from the 1840s in Baltimore’s Woodberry neighborhood on May 21, 2019, Preservation Maryland issued the following statement: As the statewide historic preservation advocacy organization, Preservation...
Preservation Maryland will convene Maryland’s statewide historic preservation and smart growth conference, the Old Line State Summit, in Frederick on Wednesday, July 24, 2019. As the Summit's keynote speaker, Jim Lindberg, Senior Policy Director for the National Trust...
For many years the historic Glenn Dale Hospital complex was de facto protected from incongruous development by a long-standing deed restriction. Now that there is a committed interest from a team of public agencies, preservation organizations, and private firms, in...
Delegate Steve Lafferty of Baltimore County is a long-time advocate for investment in Maryland’s cities and towns and protection of the environment. He will be recognized with the Legislative Champion Award by Preservation Maryland at the 2019 Best of Maryland annual...
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Thanks to a bill sponsored by Senator Katie Fry Hester, with language provided, in part, by Preservation Maryland, the Maryland Department of Planning is now seeking a qualified consultant to conduct a study to address the challenge of reusing large campuses of...
Preservation Maryland is pleased to announce Ken Robinson, former Charles County Commissioner, has joined Preservation Maryland as an Advancement Officer to help expand the organization's efforts in southern Maryland and across the state. Ken Robinson served two terms...
As the City of Hagerstown continues to debate the future of the historic structure at 335 Jonathan Street, Preservation Maryland issued the following statement: Preservation Maryland joins with many citizens of Hagerstown, the editorial Board of the Herald-Mail and...
Following the election of Delegate Adrienne Jones as Speaker of the House of Delegates of Maryland, Preservation Maryland Executive Director Nicholas Redding issued the following statement: Yesterday, the Maryland House of Delegates made history through its election...
Over the course of a studio semester, students from the University of Maryland College Park have created a new public toolkit for documentation LGBTQ history in Baltimore City with a specific focus on Mount Vernon, Abell, Waverly, and Greater Waverly. The authors of...
Leadership of the National Park Service has proposed substantial and worrisome changes to the rules that govern nominations to the National Register of Historic Places which would severely and negatively impact the preservation of historic places around the country....
Today, as flames engulfed the priceless and storied towers of the Cathedral at Notre Dame in Paris, France, the world looked on in horror. Social media exploded with gripping images of the conflagration and millions of voices across the globe lamented the loss....
Preservation Maryland is now accepting applications for an internship to conduct research and a survey of historic places in Maryland associated with LGBTQ history and culture. Update: This position has been filled through 2020. More Internship Opportunities...
In September 2017, Governor Hogan established the Commission on the Future of the Pikesville Armory with the purpose of consulting with Pikesville community members and other persons with relevant expertise on future uses for the historic Pikesville Armory. Now, the...
As a part of our ongoing work in LGBTQ history, Preservation Maryland is excited to announce a week of five upcoming listening sessions across the state to help inform a forthcoming context study on LGBTQ history across the state. Preservation Maryland received...
The 2019 Legislative Session of the Maryland General Assembly came to a close on Monday, April 8, 2019. After 90 days of championing key bills and testifying on many other pieces of important legislation, it is safe to say that Preservation Maryland had one of its...
Civil War Trails, Inc. is the non-profit behind nearly 150 historic interpretive signs across Maryland and a thousand more across the U.S. All of their signs are now 100% recyclable and they have been accepted into the Maryland Green Registry. Civil War Trails closed...
Preservation 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.