Now in its 10th year, the DeMuro Awards promote historic preservation and reuse in Oregon by spotlighting and celebrating outstanding rehabilitation projects, and sharing the lessons learned from those case studies. The DeMuro Award honors the legacy of our friend and Board member, Art DeMuro, whose career embodied vision, persistence, creativity, excellence, and sound economics. The purpose […]
Portland Adopts Historic Resources Code
The Portland City Council’s January 26th meeting officially approved the Historic Resources Code Project. The code changes are now scheduled to go into effect on March 1, 2022. Restore Oregon has participated in the process and been an active member of the preservation community in this multi-year journey. City staff are hosting an online Lunch […]
Oregon Legislature Short Session in Full Swing
The 2022 session of the Oregon state legislature opened on February 1, and will be in full swing until it concludes at the end of March. Restore Oregon has a short legislative agenda. Our staff, alongside the volunteer experts on our Policy and Advocacy Committee, are focused on two main bills, while we are tracking […]
Oregon’s Most Endangered Places Celebrate Major Accomplishments in 2021
Over the last decade, Restore Oregon has delivered the only statewide program dedicated to saving our unique and diverse historic resources through technical assistance. At the close of 2021, Oregon’s Most Endangered Places program has assisted the stakeholders of 56 individual places in 27 of our 36 counties–as well as settlement era homesteads in the […]
Please Welcome Restore Oregon’s New Board President and Directors!
Rebecca Ziegler begins her first year as Restore Oregon’s President in January 2022, having served as our Vice President for the past two years; while Rachel Browning and Tama Tochihara are the newest members of our Board of Directors. Rebecca Ziegler Many of you may know that Rebecca runs her own historic preservation consultancy, Adaptive […]
January Dates Set to Finalize Historic Resources Code Project
The Walnut Park neighborhood in Northeast Portland. Photo credit: Dan Everhart. The final steps for adopting the Historic Resources Code Project (HRCP) are scheduled to happen in January. Per City of Portland staff, the City Council has scheduled a two-step process: The January 19th at 9:45am meeting will allow City Council to formally accept revised project […]
Celebrating Oregon’s 2021 National Register Designations
Historic preservation in Oregon took a big step towards equity in 2021, focusing largely on culturally diverse designations in the National Register of Historic Places. In total, 18 properties were designated. Twelve more have been approved by the State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation, and forwarded to the National Park Service (NPS) for listing. Included […]
Portland ADVOCACY ALERT: HRCP Hearing 12/15/21@2 pm
The Walnut Park neighborhood in Northeast Portland. Photo credit: Dan Everhart. Portlanders and Preservation Advocates – Time to Testify Restore Oregon SUPPORTS HRCP Amendments: #3, #5, #6 The City has invited the public to testify on potential amendments to the Historic Resources Code Project (HRCP) Recommended Draft. How? In writing via the Map App or […]
An Update on Oregon’s Most Endangered Places in 2021
Over the last decade, Restore Oregon has delivered the only statewide program dedicated to saving our unique and diverse historic resources through technical assistance. Oregon’s Most Endangered Places program has assisted 56 individual places in 27 of our 36 counties, as well as settlement era homesteads in the Willamette Valley, and rural historic theaters statewide, […]
Racist Attacks State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation
The State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation (SACHP) meets three times a year to review nominations to the National Register of Historic Places. Normally, this is a low-key, yet public event. Unfortunately, an anonymous, cowardly racist joined SACHP’s October virtual meeting to harass the all-volunteer committee with vile slurs — a committee which includes members […]