Preservation Maryland

Statewide Partner - National Trust for Historic Preservation

Preservation and Revitalization Conference

The 2011 Preservation and Revitalization Conference will be held in Annapolis May 19-20 (dates tentative.) The Conference is the leading preservation education and networking event in Maryland. In addition to the slate of educational sessions, workshops and tours, this years conference will celebrate the 50^th anniversary of the Maryland Historical Trust.

Call for Session Proposals

Preservation Maryland is currently accepting proposals for the 2011 Preservation & Revitalization Conference. The audience for the conference includes preservationists, state and local government employees, Historic District Commissioners, Heritage Area employees, educators, Main Street Coordinators, architects, archeologists, and historians.

Each year the Preservation and Revitalization Conference presents high-quality sessions, workshops, and tours that address some of the most important issues facing preservationists in Maryland. The conference is also designed to highlight the successes and challenges of the host region. In 2011 this will be Annapolis. The Conference Steering Committee seeks sessions that will be interactive, engage the audience, present fresh approaches, and be easily applicable to participants.

Click here for the Complete Call for Proposals (attached PDF)

Click here for more information on how to put together a session proposal (attached PDF)

The deadline for submission is November 5, 2010. Please submit by mail to Jessica Feldt, Education and Outreach Director, Preservation Maryland, 24 W. Saratoga St. Baltimore, MD 21201 or send via e-mail to jfeldt@preservationmaryland.org.

2010 Preservation & Revitalization Conference

The 2010 Preservation & Revitalization Conference was held in Easton on May 20 and 21. Over 350 participants converged on Easton for two days of educational sessions highlighting both national and local trends in the field of historic preservation. In addition to the 24 classroom sessions, 12 field sessions showed off the preservation and revitalization efforts in Easton and along the Eastern Shore.

The conference also featured three special events including a reception to welcome attendees to Easton at the Mid-Shore Community Foundation's offices in the historic Bullitt House. We were pleased to welcome Rodney L. Swink, FASLA, as our keynote speaker for this year's plenary session. Mr. Swink discussed the challenges of uniting rural and urban preservation efforts and the need for preservationists to rise to this challenge in the coming years and decades. The final event of the conference was the Maryland Historical Trust Awards and Reception which presented 11 awards to outstanding projects and preservation leaders in Maryland.

Please contact Jessica Feldt at jfeldt@preservationmaryland.org or 410-685-2886, ext. 302 with any questions about the conference.

2010 Conference Materials

Conference Schedule-at-a-Glance

Conference Final Program

2010 Conference Attendee List

Speaker Biographies

Sessions: (large file size - may take time to upload)

Green Alphabet Soup - Maryland Codes Administration Information

The Maryland Heritage Areas Program

Mythbusters!

Reading the Design - Part 1 and Part 2

Shore Grown: Getting to Smarter Growth - Smart Growth on Steroids