Upcoming Programs
The Architectural Heritage Center hosts over 40 education programs each year. Whether you’re fixing up an old house, love great design and craftsmanship, or are interested in preserving Portland history, you’ll find a lot of interest. Topics range from:
- Architectural styles to researching the history of your house.
- Period-authentic renovation to vintage home tours.
- "Do-It-Yourself" workshops to neighborhood history.
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Modern Views: A Conversation on Northwest Modern Architecture
a Film
Wednesday, May 16 - 2 showings
Free
Pre-registration is Required
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The Olmsted Brothers’ Park and Boulevard Plan
Saturday, May 19, 2012 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Members: $10 General Public: $18
In 1903, the Olmsted Brothers of Brookline, Massachusetts, were hired by the City of Portland to create a plan for a vast network of city parks and landscaped boulevards. The Olmsteds were well known and revered for their citywide planning and landscape designs. Their plan for Portland included many places we know today, such as Terwilliger Boulevard and Mt. Tabor Park, but some parts of the plan were never implemented; other parks that existed in 1903—perhaps most notably Hawthorne Park—have since been lost.
Pre-registration is strongly suggested
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From Factory to You: Kit Houses in Portland and the U.S.
Saturday, June 16, 2012 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Members: $10 General Public: $18
From the early 1900s until the Second World War, so-called “mail order” houses played an integral role in the U.S. real estate market. The ability to mass produce and ship entire home kits epitomized post industrial revolution manufacturing and marketing. Join us as historian and AHC Education Manager Val Ballestrem takes a fresh look at the mail order house phenomenon and its impact on Portland.
Pre-registration is strongly suggested
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Historic Preservation and the Portland Plan -
Understanding and Untangling all the Parts!
Saturday, June 30, 2012 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Members: $8 General Public: $15
What could be more fitting for our very last formal “Partners in the Field” National-Trust-supported preservation advocacy program than the subject we started our initiative with—the Portland Plan? As all of the related planning work has proceeded, we’ve participated every step of the way—and we find that there is lots of public confusion out there. Of course, we want to dispel that and we have just the right program to do it!
This program is assisted by a Partners in the Field challenge grant from the
National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Supported by: Spirit Mountain Community Fund, Oregon Cultural Trust, and Multnomah County Cultural Coalition
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