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 [...]
Historic Charlottesville House Needs Good Home
Posted in Charlottesville, Cultural Preservation on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A historic Charlottesville resource is in danger of being demolished. It’s a house. The owner of the house is making a good-faith effort to sell it rather than demolishing it. The property is adjacent to and faces the former Under the Roof building.
110 10 ½ Street NW is a contributing building in the West Main [...]
Richard Moe, Director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, confirmed as Preservation Week’s keynote speaker
Posted in Cultural Preservation, National Register, PAPA Organizational Information, Uncategorized, tagged Add new tag on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Courtesy of Preservation Piedmont’s Preservation Week Committee:
Preservation Week 2009 will commence with a lecture, an exhibition, and an opening reception at the Charlottesville Community Design Center on Friday, April 3, 2009. Following the opening reception, historic house tours, a bus tour of work by Milton Grigg, and neighborhood walking tours will be offered over the weekend. [...]
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 [...]
Charlottesville Architectural Review Board Recommends Ten New Individually-Protected Properties
Posted in Charlottesville, Cultural Preservation, Uncategorized on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On April 29th, the City of Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review recommended that ten historic properties be added to the city’s roster of those protected by the city’s zoning ordinances. Two other properties were deferred: Designation of the Zion Union Baptist Church at 1015 Preston Avenue was put on hold pending City consultation with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
