End of Semester, Christmas/New Year Break, Historic Preservation Blogs

Building conservation students completed final classes and exams last weekend and have now dispersed for an approximately one month break. Classes will resume Friday, January 12th, so until then, blog postings may be nonexistant or more infrequent than usual.

We do want to wish everyone a fantastic holiday, however they choose to observe or celebrate it, and we look forward to the coming semester.

In the meantime, in the event our students and other readers have some blog reading time, we thought we would call attention to other historic preservation, building rehabilitation, and history blogs that may be of interest. We do this because we think others will find them as interesting as we do, but also to show other examples of how preservationists are using blogs as an information sharing and communication tool. We hope that you, our readers, will share your own preservation blog discoveries with us; feel free to notify us using the comment function below this post.

As far as we have been able to discover, the number of preservation (and related) blogs is still fairly small. Here are a few we like, in no particular order:

--My Hometown Ohio, the "online magazine for Ohio's preservation and revitalization community."

--Fixer-Upper, an online journal that tracks the progress of a web designer and her contractor husband as they rehabilitate their 1890s Victorian Italianate house in central New York.

--Historic Districts Council Newsstand, "an open forum featuring news, events and alerts (and even the occasional report) from New York City's preservation community - collected and posted by the Historic Districts Council, the citywide advocate for New York's historic neighborhoods."

--PreserveLA.com, a combination web site/blog that presents "a collection of historic preservation-related news and information gathered from a wide variety of sources across the Los Angeles area and throughout Southern California."

--Brownstoner (Brooklyn inside and out), which describes itself as having "an unhealthy obsession with historic Brooklyn brownstones and the neighborhoods and lifestyles they define."

--Save Our Sarasota, a blog about "preserving Sarasota's [Florida] quality of life."

--The Gowanus Lounge, "musings and photos about life and real estate development in post-industrial Brooklyn and New York City."

--CECPP (Citizen's Emergency Committee to Preserve Preservation), a blog developed by a group that recently organized "to save New York's architectural heritage by demanding that the Landmarks Preservation Commission perform its legal mandate by upholding the landmarks law."

We will add other blogs as they are discovered and time allows, and may eventually add a "blog roll" to the sidebar at right. However, please note, that inclusion here does not reflect endorsement: these blogs are presented for informational purposes only.