PreserveMidtown founders are very proud to be featured on the cover of Tulsa People magazine for October.  A special thanks goes to Jim Langdon, Michelle Weeks and all the other staff  members that made this possible.

Tulsa is hosting the very important 5-day national preservation conference sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, October 21-25, 2008.  Lee Anne Zieglar, executive director of the Tulsa Foundation for Architecture, has succeeded in securing this conference for our Tulsa community after many years of effort.  She has been working tirelessly to make this a fantastic event for everyone who is interested in or just curious about preservation of older historic buildings.

We encourage you to  read the inside article on Endangered Tulsa and about the This Place Matters new program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.  This is something we can all take part in to help secure our older important structures in Oklahoma’s relatively short history.  Now is the time to take action!

Please come down to our Tulsa Convention Center and be prepared to learn about preservation activities not only in Tulsa, but across the nation! 

We will see you there!

(Remember to turn to the last page in Tulsa People to read my son Jeff’s article about my granddaughter, Lucia Ann, learning to surf!  We are so proud!)”

The National Trust for Historic Preservation launched an new initiative to celebrate and protect distinctive places as part of its “This Place Matters” Program for Preservation Month, May 2008.

” This Place Matters campaign is designed to help people share the place that matters to them, wherever these places happen to be.”

Visit www.preservationnation.org/thisplacematters and/or register on the National Trust’s website, www.preservationnation.org

Read the full article from the Blog: Architecture Research and/or go to the October issue of Tulsa People, http://www.tulsapeople-digital.com/tulsapeople/200810/?pg=62

Everybody who has been through Midtown Tulsa lately has seen it…home teardowns, a proliferation of empty high dollar lots, two and sometimes three oversized McMansions or Snout Houses1 going up where once there had been one modest or even upscale home, and houses that simply don’t fit the existing neighborhood. On rare occasion, the home being torn down is dilapidated beyond reasonable rehabilitation, but in most cases the home being demolished is perfectly good older, and sometimes historic, housing stock.

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Attend the National Preservation Conference 2008!

Have you wondered what it means to be designated an historic neighborhood?
Do you know what are the environmental effects of tearing down an old house or building?

Answers to these questions and a lot more will be available this October when Tulsa hosts the annual National Trust for Historic Preservation national conference at the Tulsa Convention Center, October 21-25th.
The National Preservation Conference 2008 is the premier educational and networking event for historic preservation professionals, volunteer leaders, and community advocates. Expert practitioners lead approximately 100 educational and field sessions, all designed to provide tools that participants can use to improve their own communities while maintaining its historical character.

Patty Southmayd and Barbara VanHanken from PreserveMidtown will be panelists for a conference session,Residential Infill Development–Tearing Down the Environment along with Adrian Fine and Vicky Jacobsen of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.This
This is a great opportunity to learn more about what “preservation” means and how we can be “green” while preserving our architectural and cultural heritage.

You may sign up online until October 20th. Please click here to register.