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The following are feature articles taken from "Connecticut Preservation News", a publication that is available to Connecticut Trust members. To receive "Connecticut Preservation News" please visit our Become A Member! page.

Around the State: Historic Commission Rejects Demolition

Around the State: Harwinton House to Go Home Again

New London: A Street with a View

Court Blocks Demolition in Wallingford

People in Preservation: Christopher Bergstrom Becomes Executive Director of Commission on Culture & Tourism

People in Preservation: Roger Clarke, Historical Architect (January 31, 1936 - January 8, 2011)

Energy-Saving Rehab in New Haven

Preservation is in the Details: The Eli Whitney Barn, Hamden

There’s Always Something New to Learn: Seven Hearths, Kent

Great Preservation Opportunities – Updated: New Haven

Around the State: Connecticut Freedom Trail

Connecticut Trust Awards Historic Preservation Technical Assistance Grants: Fall 2010

Modern Houses Added to National Register

Community Renaissance: Three Cities Make Plans to Build on Historic Assets

The 1827 Eli Whitney Boarding House gets a new roof!

State Grants to Fund New and Expanded Projects

Avon Old Farms School in Avon, CT recently celebrated the dedication of new walkways on the Pope Quadrangle of the historic camp

Norwalk Preservation Trust Presents Awards to Senator Duff and Representative Cafero

Connecticut’s Archaeological Heritage: Preserving the Battlefields of the Pequot War

Connecticut’s Archaeological Heritage: The Search for Lt. Eugene Bradley’s Plane Crash

Northwest District School Listed on National Register

Hartford. Community leaders and preservationists met in September to celebrate the inclusion of the Northwest District School on the National Register of Historic Places.

Resident Curator Program

A Resident Curator is a private individual, a private not-for-profit organization or a for profit company who is interested in historic preservation, who wishes to live in or, reuse a historic structure on state park or forest land.

New Canaan: The 134-year-old Maples Inn collapsed in a gust of wind on Wednesday afternoon.

Connecticut’s Archaeological Heritage: The Archaeology of the Isaac Camp House and Shop, Washington, Connecticut

National Trust Studies Federal Preservation Policy

New National Trust Advisor

Connecticut’s Archaeological Heritage: Giving Back - Disseminating Archaeological Study Information to the Public

Fire Destroys Weeks Hall, at Connecticut Valley Hospital

Over 50,000 National Register properties in Connecticut!

Stolen Cemetery Statue Recovered

Study Confirms Economic Benefits of Historic Tax Credits

2010 Barns Grant Recipients

UPDATED SEPTEBER 22, 2010: Rules Govern Lead in Older Buildings

Bridgeport’s Wheeler Fountain Restored

Buildings of Connecticut

Buildings of Connecticut is a statewide architectural guidebook which will focus on a wide range of periods and building types, as well as landscape and engineering sites that go beyond the usual idea of “architecture.”

www.historicdistrictsCT.org

Introducing a new website dedicated to Connecticut's local historic district commissioners.

Lawmakers Introduce Legislation to Make Coltsville a National Park

Historic Preservation Technical Assistance Grants Awarded June 2010

June 2010 HPTAG Recipients Announced

Historic Preservation Guides Disaster Relief

For the Merritt Parkway, the Biggest Threat is Traffic

The National Trust for Historic Preservation included the Merritt Parkway on its annual list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.

State Launches Resident Curator Program

The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has announced a new way to care for some of its historic but underused properties.

Floods and Winds Damage Historic Sites

North Stonington. The flooding that ravaged eastern Connecticut and Rhode Island at the end of March caused damage to a number of historic properties.

Developer Announced (Again) for Seaside Hospital

Waterford. After a long and unnecessary delay it appears that Mark S. Steiner is back on track to redevelop the Seaside Hospital site overlooking Long Island Sound.

Connecticut River Museum fire

Preservation Opportunities 2010

What are the opportunities for historic preservation this year? What great buildings are available for reuse, what new ideas or tools are available for preservationists, what challenges are waiting to awaken our ingeniuty?

The Gubernatorial Candidates on Preservation

In preparation for the upcoming gubernatorial election, the Conencticut Trust asked the major party candidates for their thoughts on preservation issues facing the state.

The Connecticut Humanities Council Announces Big Changes to the Heritage Revitalization Fund

Good News for Heritage Organizations! In response to the tough financial challenges that cultural institutions continue to face, we are pleased to announce new, streamlined guidelines for all grant programs.

Strategic Plan

Settlement to Preserve Norwalk House

House and Garden: New Listings on the National Register

Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation Presents Awards

Connecticut Modern: New Listings on the National Register

Connecticut Snapshots: Boothe Memorial Park, Stratford

Simsbury Designated a Distinctive Destination

Technical Assistance Grants Awarded

Bridgeport Arcade Reopens

Cemeteries at Risk

Westport Modern: When Cool Was Hot

Update: What Is Preservation Worth?

From Stone House to Glass House: Connecticut’s House Museums

Connecticut Snapshots: Salt Meadow, Westbrook

Town Hall Becomes Theater

Book Notes: Hidden in Plain Sight: The Whittemore Collection and the French Impressionists

Archaeology at the Ebenezer Story Site, Preston

Hartford Preservation Ordinance Made Permanent

Lawsuit Filed over Saint Andrew’s Rectory

Energy Audits and Historic Windows

What Is Preservation Worth? Some Results from Other Places

What Is Preservation Worth? The Need for Studying Economic Impacts

Litchfield: Lawsuit Filed over Synagogue Proposal

Berlin: New Life for Former Factory

John Leeke's Historic HomeWorks(tm)

New Haven: Once-Threatened House Restored

Industries and Industrialists: New Listings on the State and National Registers

Westport: Micheels House Recorded in Digital Images

Visit the New Heritage Resource Center Web Site

Merritt Parkway Named to World Monuments Watch List

Community Renaissance: Towns and Cities Look to Historic Assets

Community Renaissance: Additional Projects

Hartford: Historic Park System Threatened

New Canaan’s Modern Houses on New Website

John Leeke's Historic HomeWorks(tm)

Great Preservation Opportunities for Tobacco Sheds

Feasibility studies for adaptive re-use options of tobacco sheds

Great Preservation Opportunities: 2009

Recycling and Preservation: Making It Work

O’Rourke House Demolished in Bridgeport

CT Trust Awards $111,000 to Three Cities for Preservation Planning

Portland Update: Town approves demolition of Brainerd house

Stimulating Preservation

“Ancient and Ordinary” Archaeology and Changing Perceptions of Connecticut’s 18th-Century Architecture

Book Notes

John Leeke's Historic HomeWorks(tm)

Around the State: New Haven

New Listings on the National Register of Historic Places

Around the State: Portland

Unsung Heroes: Environmental Review Teams Aid Municipalities

Searching out Connecticut’s Barns

Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven and Northside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance Receive Griswold Award

Around the State: New London

“Living Modern in New Canaan: Celebrating and Preserving Our Modern Past” at the CCT Gallery, April – June 2009

Elms on the Rebound

AIA Connecticut Gives Awards for Preservation Projects

The Most Important Threatened Historic Places -- Updates

Downtown Torrington (2006).

John Leeke's Historic HomeWorks(tm)

Alsop House Is Connecticut’s Newest National Historic Landmark

New Listings on the National Register: Apartments and Textile Mills

The Most Important Threatened Historic Places – Updates Grumman-St. John house, Norwalk (2006).

The Most Important Threatened Historic Places – Updates Coltsville, Hartford (2001).

Archaeological Perspectives

Welcome to Negrotown African Diaspora Archaeology in Western Connecticut

John Leeke's Historic HomeWorks(tm)

Around the State: Fairfield County

Celebration of the Merritt Parkway’s 70th birthday (see CPN, September/October 2008) continued in December with the unveiling of a new film about the historic road.

Around the State: Bridgeport

Around the State: Norwich

Around the State: Sharon