Events and News

Calendar

EVENTS COMING IN 2012

• The Annual Meeting at the Steiner House, the Argyle Rd. residence of Mary and David Kimerling, with Jeremy Erdreich AIA discussing the mountain top villa tradition, Feb. 12, 3-5 p.m., remarks 3:15.
• A Spring Solstice Plowing Party at Duncan House Gardens, TBA in March
• The Annual Heritage Society Gathering at the Swann House, the Redmont Rd. Residence of Brooke and Daniel Coleman, April 22 at Noon
• The publication and celebration of the Jemison Magazine II, 1926-1930: Redmont and Mountain Brook, TBA in May.
• Historic of Ice in Alabama, a talk by historian David Robb of Huntsville at the Avondale Brewery, July 15, 2 p.m.
• Preservation Awards, Iron City Live Music Hall, in September
• Presentation of the Historic American Landscape Survey (HALS) project on Mountain Brook by Birgit Kibelka, ASLA, TBA
• The Arthur Shores Scrapbook-An Exhibition at the Birmingham Public Library Gallery, Nov. 4-Dec. 28
• Opportunities every Second Saturday to join in the fun to help fix up Duncan House, Birmingham Historical Society's Offices at Sloss
  

Annual Reports

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News and Newsletters

• November 2011
  The Birmingham Scene: Seldom Seen Artwork from the 1930s and 1940s. Artists and Their Work in the Birmingham Scene Exhibition.
  
  
• September 2011
  Jemison Book Debuts: Forward-thinking Birmingham. Sky's the limit. Growth,
  prosperity, promise, and innovation. A city on the rise, notable on the national scene. Vibrant and important. That's the way our city looked in 1910.
  New Exhibit to Open November 6 at the Library Gallery
  
  
• Special Publication from the Archive: Two Industrial Towns: Pratt City and Thomas.
  
  
• April 2011
  BRIDGING THE PARKWAY
  A New Road for a New Era--"New" Montgomery Highway
  Parks and Parkways: The Lake and Lakeshore Parkway
  The Lakeshore Bridge-The R.H. "Bob" Wharton Bridge
  What Is a "Functionally Obsolete" Bridge?
  
  
• February 2011
  ANNUAL MEETING FEATURES TALK ON ARCHITECTURE
  Local Ash Can Advocate to Be Featured
  From Plantation to Suburban Community-The History of Smithfield and Dynamite Hill
  Jemison Magazines to Be Issued
  
  

• November 2010
  DEPRESSION-ERA MURALS LIVE ON
  Where to See the Real Murals
  Murals, Murals Artists
  Historical Panorama of Alabama Agriculture
  
  
• 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