by Preservation CT | Apr 22, 2021 | Education, Organization
Five years ago, Preservation Connecticut continued its journey to make our office building more sustainable by installing solar panels. For those of you who don’t know, our office is the historic Whitney Armory Boardinghouse, built in 1827 to house workers at Eli...
by CT Trust | Mar 5, 2021 | Education, Organization
A component of our work in preservation is tracking demolition notices. Of our 169 towns, 59 have enacted a Demolition Delay Ordinance whereby a citizen may object to the proposed demolition of a historic building, which in turn triggers a waiting period (often 90...
by CT Trust | Feb 24, 2021 | Education, Event
Join us on Wednesday, March 3rd when we will have Mary Falvey, president of Connecticut Preservation Action and executive director of Hartford Preservation Alliance, who will talk about 2021 legislative goals in the time of a pandemic for preservation. If you support...
by CT Trust | Feb 14, 2021 | Education, Event
Join us on Wednesday, February 24th for a special presentation by a teacher and students! Over the past academic year, history teacher Rhonan Mokriski and his students at the Salisbury School began a project-based learning course in public history focused on...
by CT Trust | Feb 9, 2021 | Education, Event
Join us on Wednesday, February 17th when we will have Maisa Tisdale, board member and founder of the Mary and Eliza Freeman Center. The Freeman Houses are among the oldest houses built by African Americans in Connecticut (1822) and are located in the neighborhood once...
by CT Trust | Jan 26, 2021 | Education, Event
Join us on Wednesday, February 10th to hear from the newest member of the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) staff, Jonathan Kinney, who is the Director of Operations/Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer. He will give a refresher on SHPO’s role in...
