Mid-Atlantic Historic Preservation Services LLC

03/12/2026

🔨 Applications close March 16 for the Harrison Goodall Preservation Fellowship! 🔨

The fellowship awards $10,000 to support an innovative project in the field of historic preservation.

To celebrate the Fellowship’s five-year anniversary, past Fellows joined our recent webinar, “Harrison Goodall Preservation Fellowship: Five Years and Counting,” to share how their projects shaped their careers and impacted the field.

Watch the webinar & playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aN-NZgpoEA&list=PLkJ18FLPSHjK5r4rHsAW5Ub7OJ2DOQNXn

🌟 Apply by March 16 🌟

🔗 Link in bio and at historictrades.org/goodall

10/30/2025

Visited Otts Exotic Plants and its mountain of Mums a few days ago. The greenhouse and related buildings are eligible for listing on the National Register significant as an example of mid century modern greenhouse design and as a traditional business. Located at 861 Gravel Pike. Schwenksville, PA.

10/25/2025

Full Committee Hearing to Examine the Section 106 Consultation Process Under the National Historic Preservation Act October 29, 2025 09:30 AM 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building The hearing will be held on Wednesday, October 29, 2025, at 9:30 am in room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in ...

10/25/2025

With Lansdale Historical Society – I just got recognized as one of their rising fans! 🎉

08/09/2025

On Friday the National Park Service listed Ridge Valley to the National Register of Historic Places. The village, in West Rockhill Township is significant for its social history as a place that has a union church and cemetery that were shared by three congregations. It is also significant for architecture and funerary arts with examples of Gothic Revival buildings and late 18th to late 19th century burial grounds and gravestones. Mid-Atlantic HPS prepared the successful nomination.

11/23/2023

BACK THEN by DICK SHEARER

Earlier this week, President Biden followed tradition and spared the lives of three turkeys as Thanksgiving Day rapidly approached.
We assume the birds seen here didn’t fare as well. They were herded into a field near Salfordville where they were fattened up for a few weeks before they were sold at public sales back in the early 1920s when this photograph was taken. Auctions and public sales of turkeys were common in the region a century ago, most notably in Hatfield.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.

06/08/2023

Frank Lloyd Wright’s was born on this date, June 8, 1867. His design of the Beth Sholom synagogue in Elkins Park, Pa.

Beth Sholom Synagogue
Old York & Foxcroft Roads
Elkins Park, Montgomery County, PA

Photographer: Jack E. Boucher
20 August 1994
National Register of Historic Places - NPS Number: 07000430

SIGNIFICANCE
Beth Sholom represents the later work of nationally recognized architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It is among the designs that The American Institute of Architects has suggested be preserved as an example of Wright's contribution to American culture.

See the rest of the HABS documentation in the HABS/HAER/HALS Collection in The Library of Congress at http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa2986/



Beth Sholom Congregation

06/08/2023

How flexible zoning in historic districts can support preservation and create affordable housing.

01/13/2022

The Congregation of Zion’s Reformed United Church of Christ voted in November 2021 to put the building up for sale.