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Special Labor Day Weekend Hours for Historic Ithaca and Significant Elements
Friday, September 3
9am-3pm
Saturday, September 4
CLOSED
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Historic Ithaca to Hold Window Restoration Workshops
Can you really believe everything the window salesman says about replacing your historic wood windows? Many old windows have lasted 100 or more years. With the right repairs and maintenance, they’ll last another 200 and be as energy-efficient as replacement windows.
Historic Ithaca is offering two hands-on wood window restoration workshops in September: a four-day intensive course for contractors, painters, and other building professionals and a one-day hands-on workshop for homeowners, landlords, and property managers.
The one-day workshop will equip building owners to keep their old windows in good working order. Participants will learn the basic skills to perform affordable and lasting window repairs. This workshop will be held on Saturday, September 25, 10am–4pm at Historic Ithaca’s headquarters, 212 Center Street, Ithaca NY.
Click HERE for more information.
Click HERE to register for the four-day workshop September 21-24.
Click HERE to register for the one-day workshop September 25.
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Historic Ithaca Announces New Friends Fundraising Drive
Click the Friends button above for more information!
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Carriage House Photo Contest
This summer Historic Ithaca Intern Caitlin Schickel completed an informal survey of carriage houses in Tompkins County with grant support from Bryn Mawr College. Historic Ithaca plans to host a series of events this fall celebrating local carriage houses and their history.
To start off the fall events, Historic Ithaca is conducting a photo contest of carriage houses in Tompkins County.
Click HERE for details and submission instructions.
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Free Friday
Friday, September 17 will be Free Friday once again at Significant Elements!
Overstocked building materials and odds and ends will be available for free on a first-come first-served basis.
Free Friday is always the third Friday of each month.
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Weatherization for Older Homes: Getting Ready for Fall
A FREE class in the Preservation Basics series
Saturday, September 18
1:00 pm-2:00pm212 Center Street, Ithaca NY Learn how to reduce your energy expenses with weatherization maintenance, from adding storm windows to insulating against air infiltration, without sacrificing your home's historic character. This series of classes is offered each month on the Saturday following the third Friday.
Call 273-6633 or email kristen@historicithaca.org to register. $5 suggested donation.
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Enhancing Main Street: Making Upper Floors Work Again
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 / 10 am – 3 pm
Moravia Fire Department, Keeler Avenue, Moravia, New York
Participants in this special workshop will come away with a better understanding of building codes, funding sources, and design issues, and will also hear how successful upper-floor conversion projects have brought new investment to other downtowns.
This program is supported by the Empire State Development Corp.
September 12th, 2008
The Tompkins County Barn Project
The Tompkins County Barn Project has three components: The first is a contest. We’re looking for barn owners to submit contest application forms. These can be downloaded here or by calling our office 607-273-6633 x 802. These applications will be accepted from mid-February through the summer of 2008. Over the summer, our staff will conduct an intensive-level survey of the rural landscapes of Tompkins County – including the barns and outbuildings from the contest. This will create an inventory of our precious rural history, for future generations and researchers. The third component of the Project will be a Barn Seminar, to be held in early October. We’ll take a tour of several barns throughout the county, and hear from professional timber-framers and architectural historians about the significance of these quickly-disappearing buildings.
September 10th, 2008
