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Action Required to Protect Maryland’s Heritage
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...
Maryland Preservation News Weekly
March 18, 2016
Preservation Maryland Applauds Cumberland Citizens and Institute for Justice
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...
Maryland Preservation News Weekly
This week we led the Maryland delegation for National Historic Preservation Advocacy Week in DC, one of our Six-to-Fix projects, Dorchester County, received a grant from the Maryland Historical Trust, and much, much more happened in preservation around the State....
Endangered Historic Structures Fund
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....
Grant Received from Prestigious National Foundation
Preservation Maryland is pleased to announce it has been selected as the recipient of a grant from the Rhode Island-based 1772 Foundation. The grant will support a feasibility study and business plan to assist with the creation of a Maryland-based historic property...
Supporting Re-authorization of our State Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit
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...
Maryland Preservation News Weekly
Each week we compile news in preservation and history from around the state, and publish it on Storify, and here on our blog: https://storify.com/PreservationMD/maryland-preservation-news-weekly
Recap: Maryland History Advocacy Day
On February 23, 2016 Preservation Maryland joined together advocates and partners from across the state to make the case to State decision-makers for the value of Maryland’s history. Speaking with one voice, Marylanders joined together to let their state legislators...
Maryland Preservation News Weekly
Each week we compile news in preservation and history from around the state, and publish it on Storify, and here on our blog: https://storify.com/PreservationMD/maryland-preservation-news-2-19-16
Evergreen Heritage Center: Two Hundred Years of History
Nestled in the hills of Allegany County, the Evergreen Heritage Center preserves early American history from a time when the first settlers migrated westward to mountain land rich in natural resources, fish, and game. On the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties...
The Preservation Heartbomb Was Invented in Maryland in 1993
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...
Preservation Maryland Loves Cumberland
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...
Legislative Update: The Big Issues for Preservation
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...
Glenn Dale Hospital: Pressing Play on a Stalled Project
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...
Preservation Maryland Applauds Delegate Lierman
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...
Testimony: Operating Budget Bill Impacts to the Maryland Historical Trust
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...
Testimony: Oppose Division and Development of Stemmer House Property
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,...
Discover Historic Rolling Mill: Kingsley Methodist Church
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...
Legislative Update: What’s in Senator Madaleno’s Reauthorization?
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...
Statement Concerning the Proposed Demolition of Whites Hall, the Boyhood Home of Johns Hopkins
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...
Preservation Maryland Offers Assistance to City of Cumberland & Opposes Costly Demolition Project
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...
Sponsor Spotlight: Colonial Dames of Maryland, Eastern Shore
Two like minds, working towards a single goal, to preserve our state's great history. These were the thoughts on the National Society of Colonial Dames of America - State of Maryland, Committee for the Eastern Shore. We have chosen to give our support to Preservation...
Legislative Update: FY17 Operating Budget is Mixed Bag for Preservation
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...
At the Helm of Maryland’s Last Skipjacks Project
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 in Progress: Update on Six-to-Fix
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...
State of Preservation 2015: Is Maryland’s History being Protected for Future Generations?
The Future of Maryland’s Past is a visual report prepared by Preservation Maryland that attempts to answer the question: “Is Maryland’s history being protected for future generations?” Since 1931, Preservation Maryland has been at the front-lines of preservation,...
Rosenwald Schools: A Great Partnership for Education
The Rosenwald School building program played a prominent and pivotal role in the education of African Americans in the early 20th century. A result of a partnership between Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute and Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears, Roebuck...
Star Wars: Return of the Preservationist
A short time ago at a nearby historic building...a devious demolition team is trying to destroy a local historic building. Luckily, a member of an ancient order of Historic Preservationists stands ready to stop them! The force is strong with Preservation Maryland. ...
Maryland Music: An Interview with the band Pretty Gritty
Preservation Maryland had the opportunity to sit down for a Q&A with Blaine Heinonen and Sarah Wolff, the Montgomery County, Maryland natives behind the band, Pretty Gritty, a folksy duo act that self describes as, “Americana, Country, and lots of Soul.” Their...
Events
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