Architect Barbara Campagna actively pursuing Sustainability at Historic Sites

Barbara Campagna, AIA, LEED AP, Graham Gund Architect at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has plunged deep in the conversations on sustainability and historic sites. This is a major initiative at NTHP and the Historic Sites department is fortunate it can support this effort with someone so thoughtful and passionate. If you’ve [...]

Drayton Hall launches an interactive landscape tour on DVD

Drayton Hall, a National Trust Historic Site in Charleston, South Carolina, recently launched an interactive landscape tour on portable DVD produced by The History Channel. For the first time ever, “The Voices of Drayton Hall” allows visitors to experience this historic site through the stories and voices of its people in a self-guided companion piece to Drayton Hall’s popular interpreter-led house tour.

NTHS Buildings, Grounds, and Preservation Staff Conference announced for 2008

Barbara Campagna, Graham Gund Architect of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has announced that the next internal conference for Buildings & Grounds/Preservation Staff of the National Trust Historic Sites will be held this summer in California. NTHP sponsors the event and typically pays for the expenses for one person per Site to attend. [...]

Easement workshop for historic properties

Learn about the use and benefits of preservation and conservation easements to protect historic properties in Connecticut and surrounding areas in a two-hour workshop on January 14, 2008. Open to homeowners, real estate agents, historical societies, and preservation organizations across the state of Connecticut, this workshop will use New Canaan’s abundance of modernist buildings as [...]