Over the course of the past year, the Piedmont Area Preservation Alliance emerged publicly in a series of media events with the aim of increasing community awareness and dialogue surrounding the issues of preservation of place and sustainable growth and development. Outreach programs like Preservation Week 2009, executed by Preservation Piedmont, realized the overarching goals of many of the Alliance’s individual member organizations. Several [...]
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The Alliance in the Community (an update)
Posted in Albemarle County, Charlottesville, Cultural Preservation, Uncategorized on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Preservation Piedmont’s Fall Tour Weekend: October 17-18, 2009
Posted in Albemarle County, Charlottesville, Cultural Preservation, National Register, Uncategorized on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This year, on Saturday the 17th, we feature both historic and contemporary homes in the Woolen Mills neighborhood to show how new architecture can complement and enrich historic areas. Modern, sustainable architecture expresses our approach to design and living today, and adds a “21st century layer” to the history of our neighborhoods. This tour includes [...]
Request for ‘Preservation Week’ sessions
Posted in Albemarle County, Charlottesville, Compton House, Cultural Preservation, PAPA Organizational Information, Rural Preservation, Uncategorized on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This September the Piedmont Area Preservation Alliance will hold a press conference to announce the date for its first annual ‘Preservation Week.’ The goal for Preservation Week is to more-effectively publicize, celebrate, and educate about our collective preservation and conservation missions and accomplishments while also examining our missed opportunities. In a region internationally-recognized for its blend [...]
Monticello Names New President
Posted in Albemarle County, Charlottesville, Cultural Preservation, UNESCO World Heritage List on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From 5/15/08 Press Release:
Leslie Greene Bowman, director of Winterthur Museum & Country Estate in Delaware, was today named the next president and chief executive of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the private, nonprofit corporation that owns and operates Monticello.
Bowman, 51, will succeed Daniel P. Jordan, Monticello’s chief executive since 1985, who announced last year that he [...]
County of Albemarle Historic Preservation Committee Seeks Applicants
Posted in Albemarle County on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The County Board of Supervisors advertisement describes the Committee and the Position as follows:
The committee implements the County’s Historic Preservation Plan, which is a part of the Comprehensive Plan. The committee aids County Planning staff in identifying local historic properties; working with new owners of historic properties, promoting and encouraging preservation by making available information [...]
G. Earth Explains Rural Preservation to Albemarle County
Posted in Albemarle County, Charlottesville, Cultural Preservation, Rural Preservation on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The six photos above are all taken at, according to Google’s handy altimeter, roughly 27,000 feet (8230 meters) above mean sea level. Thus, each shows approximately the same number of acres or hectares of the planet surface, the differences in land surface elevation being a trivial component of the view. Five of the six photographs [...]
Mr. G. Earth Tours the UNESCO World Heritage List for You
Posted in Albemarle County, Charlottesville, Cultural Preservation, UNESCO World Heritage List on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Above are satellite photographs of six UNESCO World Heritage List properties. Well, technically, five, since Monticello and the University of Virginia form two parts of a combined listing. These two may be joined in that listing by a third site, the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, forming in a kind of World Heritage Archipelago [...]
Kenridge, Albemarle County, Added to Virginia Landmarks Register
Posted in Albemarle County, National Register, Virginia Landmarks Register on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Overshadowed by the Fifeville discussion and vote at the March 20th joint session of the State Review Board and the Virginia Board of Historic Resources, there was another local action: Kenridge (PDF), in Albemarle County, was added to the Virginia Landmarks Register and recommended to the National Register of Historic Places. The house [...]
