Speaking Engagements Winter and Spring 2021
We are speaking this winter and spring at national, state, and local preservation organization conferences and giving talks about the second edition of our best selling book New Solutions for House Museum: Ensuring the Long Term Preservation of America’s Historic Houses.
Tufts University Museum Studies Program, June 17, 2020, Overview of New Solutions for House Museums
Lunch with NEMA October 29, 2020, Updating New Solutions for House Museums: lessons Learned.
Ohio Heritage...
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Columbus Landmarks Foundation Revolving Fund Study
We love it when our clients go on to receive well deserved grants for projects that we helped them create. The Columbus Landmarks Foundation (CLF) in Ohio recently reviewed a $100,000 grant from the 1772 Foundation to match funds already in hand to begin a Home Preservation Loan Fund to assist low and moderate-income homeowners to make needed repairs to homes in targeted neighborhoods.
We worked with CLF last Spring and Summer to create guidelines for the Home Preservation Loan...
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Another Two Grants for the Interactive Kiosk Project
We have been working on a long-term heritage tourism project for the City of Camden to design a compelling and fun heritage tourism interactive touchscreen kiosk wall display about the City of Camden history, historic sites, and history attractions in the first‐floor elevator lobby of City Hall in Camden. Three 42” HD video touchscreen monitors will be mounted side by side in portrait orientation on the display wall between the elevator and the café.
Last year...
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Haddon Heights Design Guidelines We have been a fan of the band of historic preservation activists
We have been a fan of the band of historic preservation activists in Haddon Heights for close to 30 years now. I met them when I worked as the Assistant Director of the National Trust regional office, then located in the historic house, Cliveden the Germantown section of Philadelphia. In the mid-1980s, Haddon Heights preservationists were working with their new historic preservation ordinance and trying to designate more historic districts.
Haddon Heights is a small, dry town; in...
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Evaluating Camden County History Week
With all the anticipation of Camden County History Week, (October 13 to 21, 2018) we felt that it was important to formally evaluate this event so that we could get direct feedback from visitors, the historic sites, and history organizations that hosted activities during the nine-day event. We were successful in obtaining a $5,000 grant from the New Jersey Historic Trust License Plate Grant for Heritage Tourism for this work. T
We collected visitor surveys from the 32 organizations open for...
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