Blog Additions

This is an "off" weekend for the Building Conservation program (no school) and students are on their own doing research and studying existing conditions in the Congress Street corridor.

In the meantime, we've added more items to the sidebar, such as:

-- Several links to the Rensselaer and Troy section, including Wikipedia's article on Troy; Preserve America City: Troy, New York; NY Times Escapes article about Troy, and 33 Plusses to Life in the Capital Region from the Russell Sage Colleges web site. Many of us in Troy LOVE this city, and many more have discovered or rediscovered it in recent years. You can still find bargains, but it is getting harder and harder, and many people are rehabilitating older and historic houses and historic buildings. You don't have to travel far in the city to see "Enjoy Troy" signs and we hope you will too!

-- Several links to the Historic Preservation (and related) Organizations - National list, including the New York Preservation Archives Project; the National Vacant Properties Campaign; and NeighborWorks America.

-- The Historic Barns of Connecticut site in the Historic Preservation (and related) Organizations - Northeast list, and

-- The New York City Subway - 150 Years of Rapid Transit, Owego, New York Historic Preservation Commission, and John J. Harvey Fireboat Restoration sites to the Historic Preservation (and related) Organizations - New York State list.

As always, if you know of any appropriate organizations that we should consider adding, please pass them along!

We would also like to congratulate Building Conservation program friend Terry Page, the Oakwood Cemetery Association, and the Friends of Oakwood Cemetery. You can read about their extraordinary efforts over the past eight or so years to restore Troy's magnificent rural cemetery in this article from the Albany Times Union. Nearly every Building Conservation class has toured the cemetery, and marveled at the unparalleled views of the Hudson and Mohawk River valleys, the historic Gardner Earl Crematorium, and numerous fine monuments. But these are subjects for another story...