Today's Preservation News

Today's News

• New Life for an Old Depot
  Modern meets historic at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga., where on October 29, the campus’ Museum of Art opened an expansion that incorporates surviving elements of an 1853 railroad depot.
  
  
• Honoring Charleston's Civil Rights History
  Meet Aurora Harris: a 2011 College of Charleston graduate, a Diversity Programs Intern for the Preservation Society of Charleston, and the leader of the newly-formed Charleston African American Preservation Alliance.
  
  
• Small Wonder
  Every centenarian deserves a celebration, and the wooden tug Delaware is no exception. For the vessel's 100th birthday next year, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum will give the floating exhibition a fitting gift: a makeover that will restore her 1912 appearance.
  
  
• Artful Discoveries
  What do Frederic Church's Olana, Elisabet Ney's Formosa, Daniel Chester French's Chesterwood, and Russel Wright's Manitoga have in common?
  
  
• Good News for 'Happy Retreat'
  Last month, following years of efforts to save the 1780 mansion where George Washington's brother and his family once lived, Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss confirmed that his Dreyfuss Initiative will help to protect the property known as Happy Retreat.
  
  
• Students Organize to Save Historic Hall
  This fall, students at the University of Georgia will move into Rutherford Hall for the one of the last times. The university, located in Athens, requires additional student housing, and is considering demolishing a historic red-brick dormitory built in 1939, and constructing a new facility in its place.
  
  
• Renewed Hope for Ryer House
  In 1873, David G. Ryer, a merchant whose family made their fortune selling produce in New York City, built a towering, three-story house in the French Second Empire style in Matawan, N.J.
  
  
• President Lincoln's Cottage Shaken Up By August Earthquake
  When a 5.8 magnitude earthquake sent powerful tremors through Washington, D.C., on August 23, President Lincoln’s Cottage and other historic buildings on the grounds of the National Trust Historic Site sustained significant damage.
  
  
• Saving History in New Jersey
  Two hundred thirty-five years after George Washington crossed the Delaware River and triumphed in the Battle of Trenton, another battle is raging nearby.
  
  
• Channeling Progress in Preservation
  Only weeks after Connecticut residents were told that two of the oldest continuously operating ferries in the country would be closed due to budget cuts, advocates for the Chester-Hadlyme and Rocky Hill-Glastonbury ferries breathed a sigh of relief: On August 18 the state Department of Transportation announced it would continue to fund and operate the services for at least two more years.