Press Releases Archive
Memeria and Historic Seattle Make City's History More Accessible Memeria digitizes 3500 historical photographs for Historic Seattle - SEATTLE, Apr. 30, 2008 - Memeria, Incorporated, a pioneer of house-call, photo-scanning, brought their equipment and personnel to Historic Seattle, the region's foremost architectural preservation organization, and scanned a significant portion of their collection of historic photographs and post cards. The photos include a rich architectural history of Seattle, its various neighborhoods and valuable architecture. The onsite scanning was donated by Memeria to lay the groundwork for a digital collection at Historic Seattle's newly developed Northwest Resource Center for Preservation on the ground level of its First Hill headquarters, the historic H.H. Dearborn residence.
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HISTORIC SEATTLE CELEBRATES PRESERVATION MONTH 2008
Historic Seattle invites you to help us celebrate Preservation Month 2008 in May with a series of local events. National Preservation Month serves as a showcase for our country’s diverse heritage and has been celebrated for over thirty years. Our commemoration of Seattle's unique heritage is part of a larger celebration. To learn more about the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the month-long schedule of activities going on nationwide, visit www.nationaltrust.org.
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Mid-Century Modern
Cosponsored by Rejuvenation, DocomomoWEWA Atomic Ranch, and National Trust for Historic Preservation
There are a staggering number of buildings that are part of the "recent past." While there is consensus that century old buildings have historic and architectural significance worth preserving, it's more challenging for those of us who grew up in the second half of the twentieth century to value the buildings that served us well but don't have the romantic "old world charm" of older architecture. Nevertheless, post-World War II commercial, institutional, and residential architecture is being explored and written about and is developing an international following concerned for its preservation. Join Historic Seattle and its co-sponsors to learn more about these buildings and the preservation challenges they present.
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LEARNING FROM HISTORIC SITES AND MEMBERS MEETINGS
Presentations and Tour Northwest African American Museum (former Colman School)
Quarterly, Historic Seattle invites its members and the public to learn about built heritage programs and projects of interest taking place in our community. These programs are held at sites of historic or architectural interest. The evening's program follows a short quarterly business meeting.
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Quarterly, Historic Seattle invites its members and the public to learn about built heritage programs and projects of interest taking place in our community. These programs are held at sites of historic or architectural interest. The evening’s program follows a short quarterly business meeting.
Where: Moore Theater
Location: Second Avenue and Virginia Street, Seattle
Date: Monday, January 28, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Tickets: None needed. Free/donation
Join Historic Seattle in acknowledging John Chaney, its Executive Director, on the eve of his retirement after 15 years with the organization. Also celebrate the Centennial of the Moore Theater, one of the city’s fine remaining landmark theaters. A presentation by Laura Drake on theaters and vaudeville will be followed by tours of the theater.
Historic Preservation and the Imagined West
Historic Seattle is pleased to present Judy Mattivi Morley, the author of Historic Preservation and the Imagined West (University Press of Kansas, 2006), a fascinating study that compares the historic districts of Seattle, Albuquerque, and Denver. A free lecture and book signing held on Wednesday, November 14th at 6:30pm at the Klondike Gold Rush Historic Park auditorium in the Cadillac Hotel Building on 2nd Ave S. and S. Jackson St.
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Learning from Historic Sites & Fall Members Meeting: Celebrating Historic Resources (October 4, 2007)
While the new downtown library has garnered the attention of the press and huge numbers of tourists since its opening, it is the treasures housed under its roof that Historic Seattle members and the general public will explore on this evening. Jodee Fenton, Manager, Hugh and Jane Ferguson Seattle Room, will provide some background about the development history of the collections in the library over a century and share some of its most important books, maps, and ephemera.
Celebrating the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Centennial: The Penthouse Theater, University of Washington (July 5, 2007)
The strikingly “moderne” Penthouse Theater (1938-40) was the first true “theater in the round” in America. Moved to the north edge of the University of Washington campus from its original location on 15th Avenue N.E., this early expression of modernism with period murals provides the setting to present ongoing plans to honor the campus role in putting Seattle on the international map.
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The 2007 Bungalow Fair celebrates a decade as the premier event of its kind in the Pacific Northwest and Historic Seattle’s most popular yearly offering. Town Hall Seattle once again provides a warm and inviting setting for a show and sale of antiques and new work by fifty of the nation’s leading designers and craftspeople in metal, tile, glass, textiles, ceramics, and lighting, antique dealers, architects, and interior designers.
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Historic Seattle, along with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation, and other groups, sponsor a one-day conference, Incentives for Historic Preservation in Seattle. The conference, presented by Institute for Professional and Executive Development (IPED), looks at creative ways to use new preservation and rehabilitation development tools, including low income housing credits and new markets tax credits, to accomplish meaningful preservation.
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Historic Seattle is pleased to partner with Rejuvenation…for homeowners who respect the age, style, and quality of their houses, Preserving Your Old House programs area a must.
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Historic Seattle is pleased to partner with Rejuvenation… the first program in this series, Old Window Repair, was sold out.
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Historic Seattle is pleased to partner with Rejuvenation, whose mission is “To passionately preserve and enhance the beauty and integrity found in older homes and buildings,” to present three lecture and questions and answer sessions that take away the mystery and fear of old home stewardship and repairs.
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Historic Seattle welcomes lovers of buildings and heritage to participate in its 2007 Events and enjoy its popular design and neighborhood history, lectures, private home and out-of-town tours, the September Bungalow Fair, with its show and sale and Arts & Crafts lectures, and exclusive special events that bring people closer to understanding and appreciating the rich varied built environment that the organization seeks to preserve.