Places we love: Lincoln Motor Court

This is a love letter – and an alert. The Lincoln Motor Court (Mann’s Choice, Bedford County) is for sale – the last of its kind along the fabled Lincoln Highway.

Gina M. Douty: Love Letter to the PA State Museum & Archives Tower

Historic preservation consultant Gina M. Douty shares her love for the Pennsylvania State Museum and Archives Tower in Harrisburg.

Mike Cuddy: Peevy Road Bridge

Michael J. Cuddy, P.E. takes us to his favorite truss bridge, an important historic survivor and example of the evolution of bridge technology

Brittany Reilly: Westinghouse Tele-Computer Center

Brittany Reilly, founder and chair of the Pittsburgh Modern Committee, has a cutting edge valentine in Pittsburgh’s Westinghouse Tele-Computer Center.

Love, Easton is full of heart

A partnership between Mercantile, a downtown shop and local hub of creativity, and the Easton Main Street Initiative, imagined an ambitious community art project that would create and install 28,127 hearts throughout the city of Easton; one heart for each resident.

Peter Brubaker: For Love of Lancaster

Board member Peter Brubaker and his wife moved back to Lancaster after 50 years, finding joy and beauty in the countryside and farmland that has remained unchanged since their high school days in the 1960s.

Marco Federico: Christ Church Burial Ground

Christ Church Burial Ground is located at the SE corner of 5th and Arch Streets in the Old City Neighborhood of Philadelphia. It was once a bucolic, lush setting away from the hustle and bustle of what was the center of the colonial city of Philadelphia in 1719.

Kim Hogeman: The Yorktowne Hotel, a Labor of Love

A Love Letter to a Pennsylvania place: the Yorktowne Hotel in York County

Are you feeling the preservation love?

Each February, Preservation Pennsylvania embraces its February tradition of inviting some of our preservation family to share with us their valentine to a special Pennsylvania place.

Amore for the Armory: the Uptown!Knauer Performing Arts Center

Roy Smith shares a love letter to the former National Guard Armory Building in West Chester (Chester County). The transformation offers a case study of creative financing used to develop what might have been a white elephant building into a lively community arts hub.

Paul Steinke: My Love Letter to Philadelphia’s Garden Court Neighborhood

Preservation Pennsylvania shares insights from Paul Steinke, Executive Director of the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, on one of his favorite places in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia’s Garden Court neighborhood.

A memory, a feeling, a view… pondering the love of a place

I wanted to write a love letter about a place that is meaningful to me for a myriad of reasons; the Cameron-Masland Mansion at Kings Gap State Park. This Italianate summer home was originally built in 1908 and now serves as a venue and bed and breakfast.

Pittsburgh Treasure: National Negro Opera Company House

In Pittsburgh, the former National Negro Opera Company mansion is located on Apple Street in the city’s Homewood neighborhood. The house has many stories to tell and owner Jonnet Solomon is pursuing restoration of the building and arts and music programming.

Wagner Free Institute of Science

Our Executive Director Mindy Crawford was reluctant to single out one place that captured her heart, but admits that the historic heating system at this National Historic Landmark makes her heart go pitapat.

Mill-Rae, now Cranaleith

Cranaleith was designed by Minerva Parker Nichols, the first woman in the country to open her own architecture practice.

McClintock-Steele-Waitz House

The McClintock-Steele-Waitz House tells the story of rascal Coal Oil Johnny and the worldwide impact of Pennsylvania’s oil region.

Mod Betty’s Sweet Valentine – The Wellsboro Diner

This Valentine’s season Mod Betty has declared the object of her affection to be the Wellsboro Diner (A Legacy Business in Tioga County). Add it to your road trip list!

Follow Your Heart: Save Our Bridge

Janice wears her heart on her sleeve, building an advocacy community to preserve a rare surviving bridge from the Phoenixville Bridge Co.

Longwood Gardens

Treat yourself to some flowers and enjoy an armchair trip to Longwood Gardens (Chester County). Preservationist Laura Kise shares her valentine to a place that grew on her over time.

The Bellevue Park Neighborhood

During the month of February, we’re sharing valentines to places we love in Pennsylvania. This heart from Brenda Barrett goes to a landscape in Harrisburg.