Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

DC Preservation League Historic Window workshop

Anatomy of a Double-Hung window

conflicts with this Saturday's WalkingTownDC events, but if you need to learn about this topic, now is the time and it's cheap to do so. Ironically, the upcoming DesignDC conference sponsored by the local American Institute of Architects chapter has a workshop led by someone from Marvin Windows about window replacement.
Replacement windows

Historic Window Workshop
Come and learn the “how to” and the “must know” on replacing and repairing your historic windows!

Click on these links for more information or to register.

Note that the Capitol Hill Restoration Society has graciously put online its extensive collection of information-guidelines documents that it has created over the years about a variety of historic preservation topics (click here for descriptions of all available guidelines), including these two items on windows:

- Windows: The Eyes of a Building
- Replacement Windows
Pigeons and disinvestment, 2nd and T Street NE
This building's potentially historic windows needed work... (the building is now boarded up)

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