Pratt Institute Historic Preservation Program

Help this! http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2012/06/final-days-for-4th-avenues-church-of-the-redeemer/

Demolition Slated for 4th Ave’s Church of the Redeemer Plans are in motion to demolish the Church of the Redeemer, the Gothic Revival structure at 24 4th Avenue at Pacific Street. A tipster alerted us to an item on tonight’s Boerum Hill Association agenda saying that the building is in severe disrepair and will therefore be destroyed. A mixed-use buildi...

Your Representatives Need to Hear from You — Historic Preservation Works! The federal historic tax credit is a powerful tool that has created 2.2 million jobs, saved 38,000 buildings and attracted $100 billion in investment to communities nationwide. Now tax reform threatens the credit.

Happy Preservation Month!
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Preservation Month 2012 Preservation Month was designed to raise awareness about the power historic preservation has to protect and enhance our homes, neighborhoods and communities.

Don't forget about Jane's Walks going on this weekend. Check out the website for details. http://www.janejacobswalk.org/events/2012-events/new-york-city-ny/

Jane Jacobs Walk Jane Jacobs Walk is a series of free neighborhood walking tours that honor the legacy and ideas of urban activist and writer Jane Jacobs.

Save the Date: Twitter Chat About Preservation Jobs is Wednesday, May 2 - PreservationNation It's hard to believe, but it's almost Twitter chat time again! And, for the first time, we're revisiting an earlier topic: preservation jobs. With graduation season upon us, and many newly accredited preservation professionals looking for work, it seems worth discussing again. We'll be chatting abou...

Events - The Greene Space: Preservation in New York: The Evolving Conversation - The Greene Space Studio 360 host Kurt Andersen will lead a conversation about the shape of New York present and future. His guests include Bonnie Burnham, president of the World Monuments Fund and an expert in the protection and preservation of cultural heritage; Paul Goldberger, who has written about architecture a...

WMF and Social Impact | World Monuments Fund World Monuments Fund’s preservation work helps bring greater recognition of historic sites around the world and contributes tangible benefits to the communities that care for them. Each time we collaborate with local colleagues and engage the people who live near a site, we create a beneficial chain...

Jane's walks are coming up soon! This one sounds really neat. http://www.janejacobswalk.org/irubny-celebrates-gramercy-park-in-a-creative-new-way/

Jane Jacobs Walk Jane Jacobs Walk is a series of free neighborhood walking tours that honor the legacy and ideas of urban activist and writer Jane Jacobs.

Sweet!

Preservation Round-Up: The Barn from Charlotte’s Web Edition - PreservationNation "The barn was very large. It was very old. For more than a century before E. B. White and his wife, Katharine, purchased the farm in 1933, the barn had stood on a rise above Allen Cove, Me., near the village of North Brooklin. For White, the barn was the center of their 40 acres, even more so than t...

Nice to see plant preservation initiatives.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation | Request for Proposal Plant Conservation Strategies The Plant Conservation Alliance strategies for native plant conservation are summarized below.

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America's Greatest Main Streets Cheers to these small towns for great Main Streets, where you can admire architecture, sample the lo...