
Historic wrought iron and steel bridges are being replaced at an alarming rate. Those that remain are often rehabilitated using inappropriate techniques or are downgraded for limited highway traffic or pedestrian use...

A live webcast of the Nationwide Cemetery Preservation Summit was streamed on October 19. 2009. View the webcast.

The 2010 PTT Grant proposal submissions closed as of 11:59:59 PM central time on October 15, 2009. Twitter It!

2009 Award Entry Announcement The Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG) invites entries for its’: John Wesley Powell Prize (Historic Preservation) The award alternates annually in recognizing excellence in the fields of historical display and historic preservation. ...

Today we join the historic landscape preservation maintenance curriculum roundtable discussion hosted by NCPTT and the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation...

Washington, D.C.—The Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (FAIC) has launched a new wiki website based on a digital version of the conservation catalog literature. ...

The deadline for paper submission to the 2010 Structural Analysis of Historic Constructions conference has been extended to October 23, 2009. The conference will be held in Shanghai, China, on October 6-8, 2010 (SAHC-2010)...

The Walters Art Museum, with collections from antiquity through the early 20th century, seeks applicants for a senior conservation scientist position...

Ohio State University is looking to provide ethnobotanists, archeologists and analysts with a new way to identify fibers found in prehistoric artifacts...

Today The Preservation Technology Podcast joins NCPTT’s Andy Ferrell, as he speaks with Tom Jones, an urban conservator for the West Ward Urban Ecology Project in eastern Pennsylvania. They will discuss the West Ward Ecology Project and something called the Green Design Laboratory. ...

NCPTT recently partnered with the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation to host a round table to discuss creation of a historic landscape preservation maintenance curriculum...

This post outlines the contents of the poster presentations at the Nationwide Cemetery Preservation Summit which will be held from October 19-21, 2009 in Nashville, TN.

Source: www.ncptt.nps.gov
Around this time each year, I'm asked these questions: What is the PTT Grants program and what are we really looking for in a good grant application?















