Category: LSP Seminars

PHW will kick off our 2016 lecture series with “An Orientation to the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Training Center,” presented by Chris Robinson, Superintendent of the Historic Preservation Training Center in Frederick, Maryland. He will speak to the preservation construction services offered and how they dovetail employee learning and development into this work. As part of their presentation, he will spotlight their current initiative to employ youth programs in this work and their mission to develop the next generation of historic resource stewards.

Date: Tuesday, February 23

Time: Noon-1 p.m.

Location: June E. Jeffrey Education Center at OakCrest Companies, 126 N. Kent Street, Winchester, VA. The Education Center is at the upper parking lot, in the addition closest to the Winchester Star building.

Cost: The Lunch and Learn lectures are free and open to the public!

RSVPs: Appreciated but not required.

Parking: There is no off-street parking available at OakCrest. We recommend utilizing the George Washington Autopark at 131 N. Kent St.

Questions? phwi@verizon.net or 540-667-3577

PHW will kick off our 2016 lecture series with “An Orientation to the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Training Center,” presented by Chris Robinson, Superintendent of the Historic Preservation Training Center in Frederick, Maryland. He will speak to the preservation construction services offered and how they dovetail employee learning and development into this work. As part of their presentation, he will spotlight their current initiative to employ youth programs in this work and their mission to develop the next generation of historic resource stewards.

Date: Tuesday, February 23

Time: Noon-1 p.m.

Location: June E. Jeffrey Education Center at OakCrest Companies, 126 N. Kent Street, Winchester, VA. The Education Center is at the upper parking lot, in the addition closest to the Winchester Star building.

Cost: The Lunch and Learn lectures are free and open to the public!

RSVPs: Appreciated but not required.

Parking: There is no off-street parking available at OakCrest. We recommend utilizing the George Washington Autopark at 131 N. Kent St.

Questions? phwi@verizon.net or 540-667-3577

Patricia Zontine and Gene Fisher present the PHW Lunch and Learn lecture covering the adaptive reuse of the Old John Kerr School, the Feltner Building, and the old Solenberger building, among other Shenandoah University rehabilitation projects in Winchester. The lecture was recorded October 14, 2014. Watch the lecture on YouTube.

The interview with Mr. Feltner at 22:30 can be viewed separately and full screen on Shenandoah University’s YouTube channel.

Preservation of Historic Winchester invites you to a “Lunch and Learn” Lecture “History of Douglas School-Winchester, Virginia,” presented by Judy Humbert. She will talk informally about the history of the school and the creation of the book she co-authored with June Gaskins-Davis, “History of Douglas School Winchester, Virginia: A Tribute to Endurance, Belief, Perseverance, and Success.”

Date: Thursday, November 12, 2015

Time: Noon-1 p.m.

Location: June E. Jeffrey Education Center at OakCrest Companies, 126 N. Kent Street, Winchester, VA. The Education Center is at the upper parking lot, in the addition closest to the Winchester Star building.

Cost: The Lunch and Learn lectures are free and open to the public!

RSVPs: Appreciated but not required.

Parking: There is no off-street parking available at OakCrest. We recommend utilizing the George Washington Autopark at 131 N. Kent St.

Questions? phwi@verizon.net or 540-667-3577

The October 8 PHW Lunch and Learn Lecture “New Techniques to Save Historic Masonry Structures” presented by Andrew Markopoulos of Masonry Solutions International and Donald Harvey Jr. of Atkinson Noland and Associates is now on YouTube for repeat viewing. The audio was recorded live at the lecture and contains much of the audience participation and questions. The images are from the case studies available at Masonry Solutions International, www.masonrysolutions.com.

Remember to mark your calendars for the next lecture on October 22, a two-part lecture “Expansion of the Winchester National Register Historic District” and “National Avenue Corridor Enhancement District” presented by Timothy Youmans, Director of Winchester City Planning and Zoning.

Please join us on Thursday, October 8 for the next fall lecture, “New Techniques to Save Historic Masonry Structures” presented by Andrew Markopoulos of Masonry Solutions International, and Donald Harvey Jr. of Atkinson Noland and Associates. This lecture is accredited for 1.0 Hour AIA/CES credits.

Additional information from Masonry Solutions International (all files are PDFs):
Masonry Solutions Tri-Fold Brochure
MSI Learning Outcomes
MSI Case Study – C&O Canal National Historical Park

Date: Thursday, October 8, 2015
Time: noon-1 p.m.
Location: June E. Jeffrey Education Center at OakCrest Companies, 126 N. Kent Street, Winchester, VA. The Education Center is at the upper parking lot, in the addition closest to the Winchester Star building.
Cost: The Lunch and Learn lectures are free and open to the public!
RSVPs: Appreciated but not required.

Parking: There is no off-street parking available at OakCrest. We recommend utilizing the George Washington Autopark at 131 N. Kent St.

Questions? phwi@verizon.net or 540-667-3577

Please join us on Tuesday, September 29, when PHW will start its Lunch and Learn lecture series with an encore presentation of Sandra Bosley’s “Images and History of Architecture and Industry Along Winchester’s Railroads.” This lecture was previously presented at the May 2015 National Preservation Month activities at Handley Library. If you missed the presentation in May, here’s your chance to learn about the the progression of industries that utilized the railroads and the buildings that housed them through pictures and quotations from roughly the 1860s to the 1960s.

Date: September 29, 2015
Time: noon-1 p.m.
Location: June E. Jeffrey Education Center at OakCrest Companies, 126 N. Kent Street, Winchester, VA. The Education Center is at the upper parking lot, in the addition closest to the Winchester Star building.
Cost: The Lunch and Learn lectures are free and open to the public!
RSVPs: Appreciated but not required.

Parking: There is no off-street parking available at OakCrest. We recommend utilizing the George Washington Autopark at 131 N. Kent St.

Questions? phwi@verizon.net or 540-667-3577