About Preservation Week
Mission statement
Preservation Week is an opportunity for local and regional organizations and citizens interested in historic preservation, history, sustainable community development, and green design to come together to encourage public dialogue about local preservation and to promote our region's historic resources as defining elements integral to our community's current well-being and future development.
Summary of events
The week will commence with a lecture, exhibition opening, and reception at the Charlottesville Community Design Center (CCDC) on Friday, April 3, 2009. The month-long exhibition, titled "Preserving Place=Sustaining Community," will highlight the relationship between historic preservation and sustainability by examining local case studies. Following the opening night, historic house tours, a trolley tour of the work of a renowned local architect, Milton Grigg, and neighborhood walking tours will be offered over the weekend. There will be two speakers for Preservation Week. The first, Roger Kennedy, former Director of the National Park Service from 1993 to 1997, will speak at the CCDC on Friday, April 3, at 7pm. On Monday April 6, Richard Moe, Director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, will give a lecture at the School of Architecture. The remainder of the week will be dedicated to educational sessions such as: how to make your historic house more energy efficient, how to research your historic house, and how tax credits can be used to help preserve your house.
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