I n 2019, Color of Change , the country’s largest online racial justice organization, raised important issues regarding the practice of hosting weddings and other celebrations at historic slave plantation sites. In response, the National Trust for Historic Preservation hosted in December 2020...
Visitors watching " Liberty to Go to See " at Cliveden. | Credit: National Trust for Historic Preservation Fifteen years ago, Susan Schrieber, who was then the National Trust’s director of interpretation and education for its historic sites, wrote an article entitled ...
The preservation movement’s most important piece of legislation—the National Historic Preservation Act —will mark its 50th anniversary in 2016. That same year, we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Parks—often called America’s best idea. Chief Preservation Officer David Brown...
A century ago, the Virginia section of Route 1 was a dusty two-lane auto trail, winding its way along the state’s coastline. Today, however, in northern Virginia, it is a fearsome beast of four, heavily travelled lanes of traffic, lined by gas stations, strip shopping plazas, and apartment...
The parlor of Woodlawn Plantation as it appeared before the All American House project. | Credit: National Trust for Historic Preservation The winning design by UNCG students of the Woodlawn parlor.| Credit: David Wilson Take a close look at the two photos...
Following our post on Friday we received numerous requests for more before-and-after images of the window restoration project at Woodlawn. We put together the slideshow below with additional images to show more of the restoration work. The first six photographs illustrate the windows before...
Reinstalled windows on the north west façade shown with the operable windows in the closed position on the first floor. | Credit: Ashley Wilson The windows at Woodlawn, arguably the most elegant architectural feature of the residence, have been fully restored in the woodworking shop of...
Fundraising, marketing, legal work, advocacy—all come in to play when protecting historic sites. Saving a place is never easy, but if you can bring an array of expertise to solve a preservation problem it’s a completely different story. This all-hands-on-deck approach is the founding...