Preservation Maryland is pleased to announce the new class of Six-to-Fix projects. The Six-to-Fix program is an innovative impact-focused effort designed to help provide real solutions to big preservation challenges across the state. For 2019, Preservation Maryland...
The Campaign for Historic Trades
Campaign for Historic Trades: Jermaine Peterson Named Workforce Development Manager
After an extensive search and recruitment effort, Preservation Maryland is pleased to announce the hire of Jermaine Peterson as the organization's first Workforce Development Manager of the recently launched Campaign for Historic Trades. Jermaine Peterson, an...
Preservation Maryland Launches National Campaign for Historic Trades
After months of planning and coordination with the National Historic Preservation Training Center, a unit of the National Park Service, Preservation Maryland is pleased to officially announce a new partnership and program: The Campaign for Historic Trades. The...
PreserveCast: Training the Next Generation of Tradespeople with Moss Rudley of the National Preservation Training Center
Saving the historic fabric of America’s National Parks is a massive job – and it requires a wide range of skills. Teaching those skills and passing down the historic trades within the National Park Service is the responsibility of the National Historic Preservation...
Summit Session: Historic Cemetery Documentation Workshop
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...
Best of Maryland: Catoctin Furnace Historic Building Trades Program with Silver Oak Academy
The Catoctin Furnace Historic Building Trades Program in Western Maryland embodies the mythology of the phoenix as the symbol of rebirth and new life for both the historic buildings and the young people who take part in their preservation. Preservation Maryland is...
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[FILLED] Job Opportunity: Workforce Development Manager
Preservation Maryland is currently recruiting for a full-time Workforce Development Manager to join our growing organization. Update: The Workforce Development Manager position for The Campaign for Historic Trades has been filled. More Employment and Internship...
New Statewide Cemetery Documentation Project Underway
Working with the Maryland Department of Transportation and the State Highway Administration, Preservation Maryland has embarked on an ambitious project to document 100 cemeteries and burial sites across the state. Last month, Preservation Maryland began to document...
African American Burial Ground Network Act Introduced in Congress
Preservation Maryland commends Representatives Alma S. Adams (NC-12) and A. Donald McEachin (VA-04) for introducing the African American Burial Grounds Network Act and urges swift passage of the bill to chronicle and preserve African American burial grounds for future...
Veterans Sought for Traditional Trades Apprenticeship Program
In partnership with the National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center, Preservation Maryland's newest effort, The Campaign for Historic Trades, is assisting with the recruitment of post-9/11 veterans to participate in a dynamic trades apprenticeship...
Official Statement: Historic Cemeteries Should be Protected and Preserved
In light of ongoing debate over the development of several historic cemeteries across the state, including the Christopher Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland, Preservation Maryland Executive Director Nicholas Redding issued the following statement: Historic cemeteries,...
Six-to-Fix Update: WUSA Tells History of Mt. Hope Baptist Cemetery
The intact cultural landscape of the Mt. Hope Baptist Church and Cemetery in Charles County was the focus of a recent feature about forgotten cemeteries by WUSA Channel 9. Reporter John Henry brought to a large audience the area's important African American history...
Preservation Trades Network will Host Hands-On Conference in Maryland
Preservation Trades Network will host their annual International Preservation Trades Workshop in partnership with the National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center in Frederick, Maryland this year at the end of October. This annual hands-on conference...
Six-to-Fix Update: Foundation Evaluation at Historic Dielman Inn
The Dielman Inn in New Windsor, Maryland is a commercial corner property of several buildings that were cobbled together over almost 200 years of occupation and use. This complex structure of different construction methods and materials offers up some challenges...
Video Resource: Maryland Cemetery Conference
Through a Six-to-Fix partnership, Preservation Maryland is pleased to offer video recordings of the annual conference of the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites that was was held on Saturday, May 5, 2018 at the Shepard-Pratt Conference Center in Baltimore...
Call for Demonstrators: Preservation Trades Workshop in Maryland
Preservation Maryland is pleased to announce that the International Preservation Trades Workshop will be held at the National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center in downtown Frederick, Maryland this October. OCTOBER 26-28, 2018 INTERNATIONAL...
Announcing the 2018 Best of Maryland Awardees
Preservation Maryland looks forward to highlighting the amazing work of Maryland's preservationists each year at our Best of Maryland awards during Preservation Month. This year, the awardees include strong preservation advocates, committed stewards and volunteers,...
State Preservation Advocacy Update from Annapolis
This year's Session of the Maryland General Assembly is more than a half way concluded. With less than a month remaining, Preservation Maryland and our partners have been hard at work to get several key pieces of preservation policy passed into law. There are many...
Six-to-Fix Update: Architectural Documentation at the Dielman Inn Complex
Architectural documentation is often one of the first steps to a preservation rehabilitation project! At the nearly 200 year old structure of the Dielman Inn in New Windsor, Maryland, documentation was essential to understanding the evolution of the building over time...
Volunteers will Lead Updating the Montgomery County Cemetery Inventory
On the heels of new Montgomery County legislation that supports the inventory and protection of the County's burial sites, Montgomery Preservation, Inc, will kick-off a volunteer-led effort to update existing records across the County. The current Cemetery Inventory...
Six-to-Fix Update: Cemetery Workday at Mt. Hope Baptist Church in Charles County
Preservation Maryland convened dozens of volunteers at the historic Mt. Hope Baptist Church in Charles County this October for a volunteer workday addressing church history, cemetery conservation, archaeology, and historic preservation projects. Building on a...
Heritage Fund Grants Awarded to Ten More Deserving and Unique Projects
Since 1997, the Heritage Fund grant program has distributed over a million dollars in direct support for historic preservation projects in Maryland! This November, the selection committee awarded nearly $150,000 to ten deserving and unique projects across the state....
Video: Six-to-Fix Impact Report
Preservation Maryland’s Six-to-Fix program began with a simple question: Could we do more to help save threatened history across our state? Update: On the afternoon of May 27, 2018, Ellicott City, Maryland endured yet another devastating flood — the second time in...
Six-to-Fix Update: Montgomery County passes Cemetery Legislation
On Tuesday, October 31, 2017, the Montgomery County Council adopted legislation to protect burial sites within the County as advocated for and reported by the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites. On October 31, the Montgomery County Council unanimously enacted...
Six-to-Fix Update: Meet the New Class of Major Projects
The new class of Six-to-Fix projects represent the next step for Preservation Maryland's proactive preservation program and are one of the broadest, most diverse and inclusive collection of projects we have ever tackled. We are accepting big, bold and complex...
Six-to-Fix Update: National Historic Preservation Training Center Workday at Shafer Farm
In early October, the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Training Center completed a day of service at the historic Shafer Farm. Nearly 60 craftspeople including carpenters, masons, roofers and their apprentices worked at the historic Shafer Farm, one of...
Help Restore Vandalized St. Thomas Cemetery
In early June 2017, vandals damaged dozens of historic gravestones in the cemetery of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. The congregation is now reaching out to preservationists and the community to help make the needed repairs. Prince George's...
Video: Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites Conference
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...
PreserveCast S1E10: Cemetery Preservation with the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites
When you picture a historic cemetery, you probably imagine a place that's calm and serene...when you picture cemetery preservation, the fact is that the work done by folks like our guest this week Eileen McGuckian, of the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites,...
Traditional Trades Youth Initiative Positions Available
The Historic Preservation Training Center of the National Park Service, based in Frederick, Maryland, has announced a Summer 2017 pilot of a Traditional Trades Youth Initiative. The Traditional Trades Youth Initiative is a partnership between the Historic Preservation...
Events
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.