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Featured Listing: “SawMill” - 18th Century Pennsylvania Stone House

(Almost) every week on this blog, we highlight a historic property that captures our attention. Each Listing of the Week is currently offered for sale and listed on our sponsor website, www.HistoricHomesMarketplace.com. We hope that you will not only enjoy a look at a beautiful antique property, but you might even pick up some marketing [...]

Birmingham (AL) Library to Host “Historic House Research Workshop”

A FREE workshop on historic house research is to be held at the Birmingham Public Library on Saturday, July 18th.  Sponsored by the Jefferson County Historical Commission & the Birmingham Historical Society, the event will feature 3 speakers and 2 authors who will be signing books.   The event starts at 9:30am, at the Central Library [...]

Historic House Preservation . . . & Demolition– When to Save, & When to Destroy?

A 142-year-old, Italianate-turned-Victorian historic house was just demolished in Smithland, Kentucky this week.  The Dunn-Cherry House, built in 1867, was razed by town officials to make way for a new office building & library on the site. 
As usual in cases such as these, local preservationists protested the loss of a one-of-a-kind historic property, with its links to prominant figures [...]