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 [...]
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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 »
Dan Bluestone is (sort of) Wrong About the New Jefferson Scholars Foundation Building!
Posted in Charlottesville, Compton House, Cultural Preservation, USGBC on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After making a set of reasonable criticisms of the proposed replacement for the Eugene Bradbury 1913 Compton House in a sharply-worded Letter to the Editor of The Daily Progress, University professor Daniel Bluestone challenges the rainwater harvesting aims of VMDO Architects, the designers of the complex in which Jefferson Scholars Foundation plans to cloister [...]
