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Monday Evening, March 1, 2010, 7:00 p.m. The Auditorium, Mountain Brook Elementary School.
• • • • ILLUSTRATED TALKS • • • •
Nature as Your Nearest Neighbor-Planning for Mountain Brook, 1926-1929, Marjorie White, Historian, Birmingham
The Roads Didn’t Just Happen-How Design Shaped Community,
Richard Anderson, Historic Architect and Documentation Specialist, Sumter, South Carolina
Comments, Paul Dolinsky, Chief, Historic American Landscape Survey, National Park Service, Washington, D.C.
Monday Evening, March 1, 2010, 7:00 p.m. The Auditorium, Mountain Brook Elementary School.
ABOVE: Riders Heading Through the Golf Links Bridge, At Overhill and Cherokee Roads. 1928 from The Jemison Magazine, courtesy Birmingham Public Library Department of Archives and Manuscripts.
Annual Reports
News and Newsletters
- February 2010
The Roads to Mountain Brook
Naturalistic Design Philosophy
- November 2009
Digging Out of the Great Depression: Federal Programs at Work
The Alphabet Agencies
What New Deal landmarks remain?
A List of Major WPA Projects, 1935-1941
- March 2009
A Time to Celebrate Local Landmarks.
Election of Officers and Trustees
PRESERVATION AWARDS 2009
- February 2009
Grandmother's Garden.
What is an heirloom plant? Why grow heirloom plants?
Sources of Seeds and Plants.
What We Do at Duncan House Garden. Heirloom Varieties Currently Grown at Duncan House Gardens.
Tips to Try a Home Garden This Year.
Lists of Most Common Vegetables, Annuals, Perennials, and Medicinal Herbs.
- November 2008
Architecture As Art-Drawings from the D. O. Whilldin Collection (1904-1962) at the Birmingham Public Library Archives.
About D. O. Whilldin.
About Thomas Mark Shelby, His Research, and the Forthcoming BHS Book.
About the Whilldin Collection At Archives.
- February 2008
Society Publishes Park Letters: Hand Down Unharmed-Olmsted Files on Birmingham Parks, 1920-1925.
Annual Meeting Salutes Our Hero: M.P. Phillips
Cataloguing School Closures
Models for Successful Reuse of Historic School Buildings
- November 2007
Turning On Alabama-An Exhibition of Images and Artifacts from the Collections of the Alabama Power Company and the Alabama Historic Radio Society at Birmingham Public Library
Hand Down UnHarmed-Olmsted Files on Birmingham Parks, 1920-1925, the Society's forthcoming publication.
All Fixed for Fall-A Report from the Society's Duncan House Garden.
- May 2007
PRESERVATION WORKS. 2007 Preservation Awards.
- February 2007
An Evening in Celebration of Parks and People: Looking at Birmingham's Exciting Park Developments and a talk with Tupper Thomas. Feb. 27, 2007.
The Society's Olmsted Project.
The Caldwell of Caldwell Park.
Society News: Endowment Thriving; New Trustees and Officers to be elected.
- December 2006
Celebrating 40 Years of Historic Presevation. The Keynote Address to the Alabama Preservation Conference, By Richard Moe, President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation,
Preservation Organizations in Birmingham,
Alabama Historical Commission: 40 Years of Educating and Preserving. By Ellen Mertins, AHC Director of Outreach. (Originally published in and reprinted with permission of DesignAlabama Journal.)
- November 2006
Parks for Birmingham, Putting Flesh on the Bones of Birmingham’s Civil Rights History.
- June 2006
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Movement, Documenting and Listing Movement Churches on the National Register of Historic Places, and more...
- May 2006
Celebrate the 50th of the Movement at an Old Fashioned Movement Meeting
About "The Movement" and the Movement Churches
- February 2006
Revisit The Olmsted Vision and the Annual Meeting and the exhibit at the Botanical Gardens Phillips High School: Can It Be a National Historic Landmark?
- May 2005
"Restore America": Preservation Week 2005 Activities 2005 Preservation Award Winners
- February 2005
Reflections on Art of the New South: Women Artists of Birmingham—Talks for the Annual Meeting The Olmsted Vision: announcement of the forthcoming exhibit and publication Registering Civil Rights Resources
- May 2004
"New Frontiers in Preservation": Preservation Week 2004 Activities 2004 Preservation Award Winners
- February 2004
The Houses We Live In—A Talk by Frances Robb at the Annual Meeting Let's Hear for "the Ladies" of the Birmingham Art Club
- November 2003
Name That Style! About the Illustrator of Birmingham Homes: Cheryl Morgan Birmingham Illustrated: The Variety of Styles in the Magic City Quick. How many house styles can you name in the Birmingham area?
- May 2003
"Cities, Suburbs and Countryside": Preservation Week 2003 Activities 2003 Preservation Award Winners
- February 2003
Theatrical Tales to be Told at the Little-Virginia Samford Theatre—Talks for the Annual Meeting Birmingham Parks and Parkways: You Don't Know What You Have The Little Theater—A Brief History
- November 2002
Maps from the Collection of Rucker Agee Exhibition Rucker Agee: The Man Behind the Maps
- May 2002
"Preserving the Spirit of Place": Preservation Week 2002 Activities 2002 Preservation Award Winners
- February 2002
Motor on Over to the Motorsports Museum for the Annual Meeting All Jazzed Up—J.L.Lown's book on Birmingham Jazz Greats Motorcycle Mania— a look at the Barber Motorsports Museum
- November 2001
Discover Downtown Anew: Society Reissues The Discovery Tour The Birmingham Public Library Archives Celebrates Twenty-five Years Digging Deep—The Collections of the Birmingham Public Library Archives Title That Treasure (architectural details of city center buildings)
- May 2001
"Renew, Restore, Rediscover Historic Schools": Preservation Week 2001 Activities Powell School and its Honoree—James P. Powell, Birmingham's First Elected Mayor and Friend of Education A Community Guide to Saving Older Schools Alabama Architecture: Alice Bowsher's new book
- November 2000
Aspiration Attained—Birmingham's Historic Houses of Worship published and exhibited Title That Treasure (churches and synagogues)
- November 1999
Vive Vulcan!: Long Live Our City Symbol - an exhibit and publication National Trust for Historic Preservation lists Vulcan as an American Treasure 4th-6th Grade Teachers Receive 3,000 Vive Vulcan Packets Vulcan and the Society
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