For immediate release For more information, contact: Will Glasco, wglasco@preservationvirginia.org (804) 338-1357 Eleven historic sites facing insensitive development or neglect were named to this year’s list RICHMOND, Va. (May 10, 2022) – Each May — National Historic Preservation Month— Preservation Virginia releases a list of historic places across the Commonwealth that face imminent or sustained …

For immediate release For more information, contact: Will Glasco, wglasco@preservationvirginia.org (804) 338-1357 The only surviving judicial robe of the “Great Chief Justice” was recently conserved and will be displayed at the John Marshall House. RICHMOND, Va. (April 15, 2021) — Through a partnership between Preservation Virginia, The John Marshall Center for Constitutional History & Civics …

For immediate release For more information, contact: Will Glasco, wglasco@preservationvirginia.org (804) 338-1357 Preservation Virginia has received $8,950.00 from the Virginia Tourism Corporation’s (VTC) Recovery Marketing Leverage Program (RMLP), designed to help local and regional tourism entities attract more visitors by leveraging limited local marketing dollars through a local match of the state grants funds. More …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Video: https://vimeo.com/461193500/c2f06a36a1  — Rassawek, the historic capital and sacred site of the Monacan Indian Nation located at the confluence of the Rivanna River and James River in Fluvanna County, is included on a national list of threatened historic sites.  RICHMOND, Va. (September 24, 2020) – Threatened by a local water intake and …

For immediate release  For more information, contact:  Will Glasco, wglasco@preservationvirginia.org  (804) 338-1357  Preservation Virginia identifies commonwealth’s most endangered historic places  –This year’s list reflects importance of historic preservation in time of crisis and recovery and how, now more than ever, we can look to our history for encouragement  RICHMOND, Va. (May 19, 2020) – A …

–April 3 gala will also honor business leader, philanthropist and author David M. Rubenstein RICHMOND, Va. (March 4, 2020)—Preservation Virginia’s Historic Preservation Awards on April 3, 2020, at the Bolling Haxall House will recognize innovative initiatives that include rehabilitating historic structures for reuse as affordable housing in Roanoke; spearheading a historic marker project in Virginia …

August 1, 2019 For immediate release: Preservation Virginia Completes Architectural Survey of Historic African American Rosenwald Schools The project included locating more than 380 Rosenwald-funded structures built in Virginia during segregation RICHMOND – Preservation Virginia, a private, non-profit historic preservation organization, has completed a two-year architectural survey of historic African American schools built in Virginia …

Joint Statement by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Preservation Virginia (Washington) May 31, 2019 – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied Dominion Energy’s request for a rehearing regarding the court’s March 1 ruling that the permit for Dominion Energy to build a massive power line across the James …