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	Stay in the loop - JOIN OUR FACEBOOK GROUP! Preservation Events Calendar Building Philadelphia: Architecture, History, & Politics Tours of Free Library of Philadelphia Locations Savery & Scheetz, Architects, A Walking Tour Overbrook Farms House Tour and Tea Philip Johnson: Diary of an Eccentric Architect Preservation Achievement Awards Luncheon Historic Preservation Day in Tacony Stenton Mansion Garden Party Trees of the Woodlands Historic Railroad Stations of the Main Line The Next Generation of Manufacturing in Philadelphia The Schuylkill River: Past and Present Queen Village Open House and Garden Tour Society Hill Open House and Garden Tour Please Support Historic Preservation JOIN THE ALLIANCE		MAY 2012 A Few Tickets Remain for Preservation Awards Join in the celebration of outstanding achievements in historic preservation in the Philadelphia region! Individual tickets are still available for the 19th Annual Preservation Achievement Awards Luncheon on May 8. Click here to see the complete awards list and to purchase tickets to this highly anticipated event. Architectural Walking Tour Season Opens This Week The Preservation Alliance's Architectural Walking Tours start up again on Wednesday, May 2 and will run 4 times a week. The "Best of Philly" award-winning tours interpret the past, present and future of the Philadelphia region as expressed through architecture, urban design and social history. The 2012 tour season will feature a FREE tour on Saturday, May 5 at 2pm, for Jane Jacobs Walk, an annual commemoration of the birthday of the great urban thinker Jane Jacobs. There will be a brief “birthday party” for Jane, an exclusive tour of The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, followed by a walking tour "Around Washington Square." See details and complete May/June tour schedule here. Emerging Preservation Leaders Application Deadline is Today Don’t miss the opportunity to participate in the Alliance’s Emerging Leaders Training. This training will provide motivated community-based individuals interested in historic preservation the skills and knowledge to serve on non-profit preservation boards and become effective leaders in their own communities. Seven sessions will be held on Wednesdays from May 16 to June 27, 6– 8pm. Click here for an application. Applications are due May 1. For more information email amy@preservationalliance.com. Alliance to Explore Collaborations with African American Sites The Preservation Alliance has received a discovery grant from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage (PCAH) to investigate a model for cooperative management and coordinated fundraising for area 20th century African American historic sites and house museums. The Alliance will explore best practices and possible management structures for a collaboration between these emerging historic sites that represent the significant impact of African Americans on Philadelphia, the nation and the world. Leaders from the Paul Robeson House, the Charles Albert Tindley Institute (Tindley Temple) and the Uptown Theater will discuss and test the findings and help develop an approach that will be relevant to a collaborative effort. The grant is a joint award from the Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative and the Heritage Philadelphia Program at PCAH aimed at providing learning opportunities that will promote the programmatic excellence and the organizational health of the Alliance and participating organizations. Planning Grant for John Coltrane House The Preservation Alliance has been awarded a preservation planning grant from the Heritage Philadelphia Program of the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage to work with the owners of the John Coltrane House in North Philadelphia to plan a revitalization strategy for the 20th-century jazz great's former home, as well as an adjacent property. Coltrane lived in the house from 1952 to 1958, during which time he overcame personal struggles with drug abuse and transformed his life to become an internationally influential jazz musician—a story that has the potential to inspire young audiences today. The Preservation Alliance will co-host an interactive and interdisciplinary process to design a program that also aids in the revitalization of the Coltrane House neighborhood. Working closely with community members, music scholars, musicians, educators, and preservation experts, the Alliance will host a series of focus groups to discuss potential ideas, leading up to a final charette. An online public forum will provide an opportunity for a national audience to show support for the house and potential programming. The Alliance will also produce a video with WHYY on Coltrane's time in Philadelphia, hold a public festival near the house on Coltrane's birthday in September 2013, and feature related materials on WRTI and Hidden City Daily. Hidden City Philadelphia Inviting Proposals for 2013 Festival The Hidden City Philadelphia Festival celebrates the power of place through the imagination of contemporary artists by creating an avenue for the public to visit lesser-known and inaccessible sites of historical and community interest throughout the city. Artists of diverse disciplines and media, as well as from architecture and design disciplines, are welcomed to submit proposals for site-specific work that illuminates the memories (and possible futures) of these places. Building upon the success of the 2009 Hidden City festival, which featured art installations and performances in obscured or inaccessible heritage sites, the next festival (May 23 – June 30, 2013) will encompass roughly twelve heritage sites that will be open to the public for six weeks. For more information click here. Register Now for NJ Preservation Conference Today is the deadline to get the early discounted rate ($65) to the New Jersey Historic Trust’s Sustaining the Past – Inventing the Future conference to be held on June 7 at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. Registration includes educational sessions, field workshops, tours, admission to the exhibit and vendor area, and closing reception. After May 1 the registration fee is $85. Conference tours include a walking tour to study preservation planning and development in Princeton and a tour to explore the restoration of Louis I. Kahn's Bath House and Day Camp, a modern landmark, and the stabilization and reuse of 18th century church in Ewing. Educational sessions will include Site Stewardship, Historic Roads, Cultural Landscapes, Historic Site Surveys, Archaeology, and African American sites. Penn Treaty Park Nomination Celebration Penn Treaty Museum and the Friends of Penn Treaty Park are hosting a “Nomination Celebration” on Saturday, May 12 to commemorate the recent inclusion of Penn Treaty Park to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places. The Park was officially recognized for its association as the alleged meeting location of William Penn and the Lenni Lenape Chief Tamanend in 1682 and is home to one of the oldest public monuments in Philadelphia. Come out and enjoy live music and visit the Penn Treaty Museum, at Delaware and Columbia Avenues, which will be open from 1-3pm. The celebration begins at 12pm, in Penn Treaty Park. Building Philadelphia Lecture Series Continues "Building Philadelphia: Architecture, History, & Politics" explores our city's diverse architectural styles, population changes, advances in building technologies, and the personalities behind our greatest building projects. The weekly lectures continue to May 8 at the Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch Street. Alliance members can attend at a discount. MONTHLY MYSTERY PHOTO Do you know where and what this is? Click here to see a larger image. Email your answer to info@preservationalliance.com. The first five people to submit the correct answer will receive a packet of limited edition Preservation Alliance note cards! APRIL MYSTERY PHOTO 15-21 S. 11th Street Philadelphia, PA Built in 1912, the building’s original tenants included a Horn & Hardart Automat and a Gueting’s Shoe store. The Preservation Alliance’s Ben Leech did a little digging on this magnificent, but mysterious, building – click here to learn more and see additional photos. Congratulations to our contest winners, Paul Fellman, Andrew C. Thompson and Lawrence Weintraub AIA.