Preparing Your Historic Home for Winter

A Windows Weatherization Workshop

Friday, Sept. 30, 2011

Arthurdale, West Virginia

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Preservation Alliance of WV is pleased to collaborate with Arthurdale Heritage, Inc. to offer a historic windows weatherization demonstration project on Friday, September 30, 2011, at the E-15 Homestead, part of the New Deal Homestead Museum, in historic Arthurdale.

Preservation historian, Lynn Stasick, will begin the workshop with a window restoration PowerPoint presentation on the National Park Services' best practices describing Class I, II, and III methods of historic windows restoration. Stasick will then present a historic windows steam chest demonstration showing the basic steps to rehab a historic wooden window. A hands-on weatherization demonstration by window preservation expert Phil Davis of Allegheny Restoration will follow. The workshop will be held on September 30, 2011 from 11:00 am to 3:30 pm. The workshop fee is $35; lunch is included. Call 304-864-3959 or email ahi@arthurdaleheritage.org to register. Please pre-register by September 28.

This windows weatherization workshop is made possible through collaboration with Arthurdale Heritage, Inc., a grassroots organization supporting historic preservation in Arthurdale, the nation's first New Deal Homestead Community. You can learn more at www.arthurdaleheritage.org.

The demonstration is financed in part through Federal funds from the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, and administered by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office.

This activity funded by the WV Division of Culture and History and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. However, the contents and opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of the Interior. Regulations of the US Department of the Interior strictly prohibit unlawful discrimination in departmental Federally Assisted Programs on the basis of race, color, national origin, age or handicap. Any person who believes he or she has been discriminated against in any program, activity, or facility operated by a recipient of Federal assistance should write to: Director, Equal Opportunity Program, US Department of the Interior, National Park Service, PO Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127.