Lecture: A Common History: Historic Preservation Nationally and Locally

Jason Sloan, the Director of Preservation for the Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation will be speaking tonight, June 8, 2015 at the Beaumont Branch of the Lexington Public Library. The lecture, A Common History: Historic Preservation Nationally and Locally, will begin at 7:00 p.m.

Sloan is expected to discuss national trends of preservation from the mid-1800s until present and how they are mirrored in the local Lexington/Central Kentucky context. Also covered are the National Register of Historic Places, local historic districts (H-1s), and the role of preservation in urban planning.

Jason’s been a contributor to the Kaintuckeean as well. Check out some of his posts below:

• Historic Clark Hardware Store becoming Shakespeare & Co.
• Kinkead House, home of Living Arts and Science Center, ready for contemporary architecture addition
• Parking tickets now paid in the most important surviving building of Victorian period
• Only a Park Rose from the Ashes of the Once Mighty Phoenix Hotel