Maryland's preservation community will convene at the Old Line State Summit on Wednesday, July 12, 2017 in Annapolis, Maryland. The one-day conference will focus on innovative and adaptable sessions, including a group session on essential and effective strategies for...
Continuing her twenty-four Maryland counties in twenty-four months travelogue, Preservation Maryland Board Vice-President, Diane Caslow, spent a lovely May weekend in Western Maryland. Her travels took her to Cumberland and along to the Western Maryland Scenic Railway...
The Mid-Atlantic preservation community will convene at the Old Line State Summit on Wednesday, July 12, 2017 in Annapolis, Maryland. The one-day conference will focus on innovative and adaptable sessions, including a how-to session by leaders in the field of LGBTQ...
Under and among an amazing collection of historic aircrafts, the Maryland preservation community celebrated the Best of Maryland awards on Thursday, May 11 at the College Park Aviation Museum. The stories told at this Museum showcase perseverance, ingenuity, and...
The Maryland preservation community will convene at the Old Line State Summit on Wednesday, July 12, 2017 in Annapolis, Maryland. This one-day conference will focus on innovative and adaptable sessions, including a thought-provoking keynote on The Future of History by...
The Mid-Atlantic preservation community will convene at the Old Line State Summit on Wednesday, July 12, 2017 in Annapolis, Maryland. The one-day conference will focus on innovative and adaptable sessions, including a detailed session on the flood recovery efforts in...
The Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites annual conference brought over 60 attendees to Anne Arundel County to hear about current events, like the response to the vandalized Mount Carmel in Philadelphia and the latest in conservation technologies. The sessions...
Civil War history is a popular topic, especially in a state with as complex a history in the Civil War as Maryland. Medical advances may not be the first thing that comes to your mind as a lasting impact of the long and bloody conflict, but thanks to our guest Jake...
On it's way to celebrate 65 years of connecting Maryland, take a quick trip into the history of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. BEFORE THE BRIDGE The Chesapeake Bay separates the two sides of Maryland, the main land and the Eastern Shore and they were relatively isolated...
This April, our Board Vice President, Diane Caslow and crew explored the Horse and Hounds Scenic Byway through Baltimore County. One of eighteen designated Maryland Scenic Byways, the route took the crew to horse races and historic sites. Follow along in the...
On the Bay sits a historic beach community founded by the youngest son of activist and abolitionist Frederick Douglass as a resort town for the African-American community. Incorporated as a year-round town in 1922, it is still home to many descendants of the original...
President Trump submitted his first full year budget proposal to Congress on May 23rd and included in the multi-trillion dollar document are several major potential impacts to preservation. While a president's budget proposal is far from a final document, it does set...
The history of the diamondback terrapin turtle in Maryland can be traced at least as far back as the Native Americans with two important contemporary milestones that led to the University of Maryland mascot and team name - the Terps. What's a terrapin? These turtles...
History can't preserve itself. Most cars, on the other hand, may soon be driving themselves. This week on PreserveCast, we talk to Atul Sharma, an urban planning expert in Maryland who's been working all over the country and now focusing on Montgomery County right...
All of your questions about the Preakness and Pimlico are answered below - by history! How'd Baltimore get the race? Why is it called the Preakness? And how much does the winner take home? Read this blog before the annual race starts: What we know today as the...
May 18, 2017, marks the 40th anniversary of International Museum Day. Museums are imperative to preserving and interpreting cultural heritage and history, and this celebration of museums hopes to encourage education and understanding about what museums mean to our...
Does living in a historic house located within one of Maryland’s scenic State Parks, Natural Resource Management Areas or other protected state lands sound like a dream come true? The James Stephenson House in Susquehanna State Park is now available through Maryland’s...
In 2016, thanks to the support of our loyal donors, Preservation Maryland dramatically expanded the operations and impact of the organization. We rose to meet a series of new and dynamic challenges and held true to our commitment to defend and preserve Maryland's...
Marylanders looking to get their caffeine fix, you’re in luck! We’ve put together this list of coffee shops in historic buildings throughout the state. Each of these stores artfully integrates the character of their historic buildings into their cafes, offering...
This April, Preservation Maryland hosted an Open House at our archive held at the Hornbake Library at the University of Maryland. The event was curated by Jen Wachtel, a UMD graduate student, who has been working with the collection over the semester. Read on to find...
Working with the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, a team from The Tower Company, along with Citadel DCA and Battle Creek Construction, restored the 19th century gatehouses of the Naval Academy in Annapolis. For their skillful work, this team will take home the...
On York Road in Baltimore, a 95-year-old former car dealership was transformed with style into an incubator for food entrepreneurs known as B-More Kitchen and the Accelerator Space for events. While not a designated historic building, the renovation was executed in an...
Our recent successes in increasing state support for preservation could not have been possible without a strong commitment from legislators in the General Assembly, including Del. Brooke Lierman, Sen. Bill Ferguson, Speaker Pro Tem Adrienne Jones, and Del. Brett...
The City of Hyattsville, with creative regional non-profits including the Maryland Milestones Heritage Area, adapted an existing structure into a vibrant arts and cultural center in the heart of Hyattsville. This project showcases preservation partnerships and will...
Maryland hosts the largest and longest-running sheep and wool festival in the United States! It's a Maryland tradition that teaches us about heritage breed conservation, historic spinning and weaving, and - it's a fun and entertaining event taking place this month in...
As the great urbanist and author, Jane Jacobs, spent her life challenging citizens, planners, and architects to design better, safer, and more interesting cities, it's fitting that an annual celebration of her work takes form in an international day for...walking!...
On Saturday, May 20, the Burkittsville Preservation Association invites you to explore Burkittsville, Maryland, an historic, virtually unchanged example of an American village of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The walking tour will include 10 stops including...
On May 22 and June 8, the Maryland Historical Trust will host a workshop for local governments and non-profit organizations interested in pursuing funding from the agency's non-capital grant fund. Thanks to advocacy led by Preservation Maryland, the non-capital grant...
Dr. G. Ray Thompson dedicated his professional life to the preservation of buildings and artifacts of the Eastern Shore and been a professor and mentor at Salisbury University for 44 years. Upon his recent retirement, Preservation Maryland will recognize Dr. Thompson...
Officials in Mount Airy, Maryland are currently debating the future of the historic flat-iron building and are considering a costly demolish-and-replace proposal that would degrade their "remarkably cohesive historic downtown." Preservation Maryland understands,...
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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.