SHPA Series: Space for Place

������ In class yesterday, I spoke of some opportunities out there�for furthering one's education, and even developing and furthering craft skills.� There are a few to choose from, more than I can mention here -- and probably many more cropping up -- but a good place to start would be with the Preservation Trades Network.� Their yearly gathering is the International Preservation Trades Workshop.� I have been fortunate to attend several over the past few years, and I�can share some images in t...

Saving Ellis Island's South Side

By Margaret Foster | Online Only | Apr. 6, 2010

In addition to early Save America's Treasures grants, Save Ellis Island recently received a $100,000 grant through the National Trust's partnership with Lowe's for the Ferry Building's restoration, completed in 2007.

Credit: Kevin Daley, National Park Service Every year about two million people visit Ellis Island, where they can glimpse the ...

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"The Timber Framers Guild is dedicated to promoting the centuries-old craft of timber framing. The reason for its increasing popularity is clear: Timber framing is a building style that unites sound construction techniques with handsome materials to produce a natural, yet beautiful, result. Timber frames offer a feeling ...

Below is a video clip of the fire at the First Congregational Church on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.

This fire is said to have been caused by a lightening strike, which ignited the oak roof and interior wood work... leaving nothing but an unsteady masonary exterior shell.

Sadly, this buidling was not able to be salvaged.

Here is the Link:

Mar 22, 2010

Representative Marcia Fudge

Longworth House Office Building, Room 1513

Independence and New Jersey Avenues, SE

Washington, DC 20515-3511

Dear Representative Fudge,

I am writing to ask you to join your colleagues in signing a letter to

Interior Appropriations Subcommittee Chair James Moran and Ranking

Member Mike Simpson in supporting restored funding to historic

preservation programs for FY 2011.

The proposed budget term...

http://www.designshare.com/index.php/projects/john-hay-high-school-owpp/narratives

This is an article that explains the sustainable mission to retain historic integrity in the Cleveland Public Schools System...

Space for Place is currently seeking Landscape Architects or Designers, who would like tobecome involved in a student project to develop the green spac...

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There will be a SHPA meeting MARCH 17th... before the Issues class...

We will be discussing the Event One...etc.

Space for Place: Event One

Preservation Awareness Month: May 2010

Cleveland Heights, Superior Schoolhouse

14391 Superior Road (at Euclid Heights BLVD)

Tentative Opening Night Event Scheduled May 7, 2010

Historic Preservation is active critical thinking about human action. It is thoughtful consideration about the social needs of the past, present, and future. It is about people, for people, and it is inclusive of all people.

Ursuline College St...