The Eighth Community Initiative Awards

Posted by on Dec 1, 2025 in | Comments Off on The Eighth Community Initiative Awards Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) announced the winners of its Community Initiative Awards acknowledging accomplishments made in 2024. The Community Initiative Awards program recognizes the hard work and dedication of outstanding organizations, municipalities, agencies and individuals that advance and expand the definition of historic preservation...
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From the Executive Director

Posted by on Jun 11, 2025 in | Comments Off on From the Executive Director History is all around us. When you drive through one of the more than 2,500 cities, boroughs and townships across the commonwealth, history informs the character of each place. The local traditions, the appearance of the buildings, and the planned open space all reflect the people, their responses to the environment, and their choices — both conscious and unconscious. Pennsylvania bank barns,...
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The Seventh Annual Community Initiative Awards

Posted by on Nov 18, 2024 in | Comments Off on The Seventh Annual Community Initiative Awards Each May, to celebrate National Historic Preservation Month, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) announces the winners of its annual Community Initiative Awards. PA SHPO started the awards program in 2016 to recognize the hard work and dedication of outstanding organizations, municipalities, agencies and individuals that advance and expand the definition of historic...
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Fallingwater and Historic Preservation at 50: A New Exhibit

Posted by on Mar 29, 2024 in | Comments Off on Fallingwater and Historic Preservation at 50: A New Exhibit In 1982 the Museum of Modern Art commissioned renowned architectural modelmaker Paul Bonfilio to create a 3/8-inch:1-foot scale model of Fallingwater, the summer home of Pittsburgh department store magnate Edgar Kaufman, nestled in the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The model took Bonfilio more than two years to execute — not quite as long as it had taken...
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Community Initiative Awards

Posted by on Sep 18, 2023 in | Comments Off on Community Initiative Awards Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) announced the winners of its Community Initiative Awards acknowledging accomplishments made in 2022. PA SHPO started the awards program in 2016 to recognize the hard work and dedication of outstanding organizations, municipalities, agencies and individuals that advance and expand the definition of historic...
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Community Initiative Awards for 2021

Posted by on Sep 12, 2022 in | Comments Off on Community Initiative Awards for 2021 The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) has announced the winners of its Community Initiative Awards to recognize accomplishments made in 2021. These awards acknowledge the hard work and dedication of outstanding organizations, municipalities, agencies and individuals whose work is advancing and expanding the definition of historic preservation in Pennsylvania. The awards...
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Chimney Rocks

Posted by on Mar 10, 2022 in | Comments Off on Chimney Rocks Among the more unusual listings for Pennsylvania in the National Register of Historic Places is a natural rock formation. Chimney Rocks is a prominent outcrop of fingerlike spires of limestone along the southwest face of Chimney Ridge overlooking PA Route 36 and the borough of Hollidaysburg in Blair County. The ridge is made up of two different formations of limestone, and a small vertical fault...
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Preservation Success in All Shapes and Sizes

Posted by on Dec 1, 2021 in | Comments Off on Preservation Success in All Shapes and Sizes In May 2021 the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) asked Pennsylvanians to send in their preservation success stories to celebrate National Historic Preservation Month. Now, PA SHPO is welcoming success stories all year long — not just in May. A preservation success story can be an activity, event, person, organization or place that shines a spotlight on efforts across the...
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PA-SHARE Strengthens Preservation in the 21st Century

Posted by on Jun 7, 2021 in | Comments Off on PA-SHARE Strengthens Preservation in the 21st Century   It has been more than 50 years since the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) was created. Over the past half century, PA SHPO has helped thousands of Pennsylvanians, municipalities and partners through state and federal historic preservation programs like the National Register of Historic Places, Historic Tax Credits, Pennsylvania Historical Markers, Keystone Grants,...
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Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Spring 2021

Posted by on Mar 25, 2021 in | Comments Off on Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Spring 2021 Topics in the Spring 2021 Newsletter: E-Digest, New PHF Membership Benefit What Does PHF Do?   spring-2021-newsletter...
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