Adventures in Preservation

Adventures in Preservation Offers Window Restoration Workshop Rolled into Volunteer Preservation Project at Vintage Virginia Gas Station

AiP announces its newest historic preservation-based volunteer vacation, during which volunteers will help restore one of Virginia's original Texaco stations, the 1930 Edge Hill Service Station, in Gloucester, Virginia, May 23-28, 2011.

Adventures in Preservation (AiP) has launched a dynamic new website, www.adventuresinpreservation.org, to promote the non-profit’s hands-on volunteer vacations based on historic preservation projects.

SIUC Architecture students Antoinette Lettiere and James Schmidt will present their work creating affordable housing by restoring shotgun-style houses in Cairo, Illinois, at the 2010 National Conference "Posters-on-the Hill" in Washington, D.C.

Adventures in Preservation announces a summertime volunteer vacation for homeschooled students and their families in the Old West town of Nevada City, Montana June 20-26, 2010.

Neal Moore, CNN citizen journalist, featured AiP’s shotgun house restoration project in Cairo, Illinois, on his October 9 video blog, Flash River Safari. Volunteers are needed to continue the project next year.

Travel with a Challenge’s October/November 2009 web magazine covered Adventures in Preservation’s 2010 volunteer vacations itinerary, which includes trips in Armenia, Slovenia, Albania, Illinois, Montana and New York.

Adventures in Preservation offers a family vacation in the Old West town of Nevada City, Montana, that enables the entire family to immerse themselves in history, from panning for gold to preserving historic buildings.

Adventures in Preservation is offering people the chance to rediscover the soul of Swahili tradition and take an active role in the preservation of the World Heritage site of Lamu, Kenya, while taking a volunteer vacation to the tropical paradise.

Adventures in Preservation's 2010 projects offer historic preservation-related travel, training and volunteer opportunities around the world. Project locations include Kenya, Slovenia, Armenia, Albania, and several US states.