What a great party we had for the “Hope Springs” premier! Thanks to our hosts at the Guilford Food Center and Breakwater Books and to all of the merchants who sponsored the very successful fundraiser. The event on August 8th brought together excited moviegoers, local and state politicians, and even a few local businessmen in tuxes. Guilford Preservation Alliance board member Ellie Green’s husband Barry took great photos capturing the spirit and excitement of the evening. [Read more…]
Anthony Sblendorio, a pioneer in the field of sustainable and regenerative architectural and landscape design, will present a talk entitled “Principles of Sustainable Development” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 5, in the meeting room of the Guilford Free Public Library, 67 Park Street. Cosponsored by the GPA and the library, the event is free and open to the public.
218 Water St. ready to move, photo Ellen Ebert
[By Penny Colby] In 2005 the Guilford Board of Selectmen adopted a Delay of Demolition Ordinance at the instigation and with the assistance of the Guilford Preservation Alliance. If a demolition permit is requested this ordinance gives [Read more…]
The first edition of Sarah Brown McCulloch’s Guilford: A Walking Guide, The Green & Neighboring Streets was published in 1989 with principal funding provided by the Guilford Preservation Alliance. We are presenting for the first time an online version of the text (from the 2006 seventh printing, revised, with a few editorial notes in brackets from 2012). In the future we plan to present an illustrated version. A new revision of McCulloch’s book is expected to appear in the summer of 2012.
You can click here to begin reading Guilford: A Walking Guide.
On Tuesday, October 18, 2011, the Guilford Preservation Alliance sponsored a workshop on Heritage Tourism. The workshop was led by Carolyn Brackett, the Senior Program Associate for the Heritage Tourism Program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Susan Misur covered the event and her article appeared in the Friday, October 21, 2011 issue of the New Haven Register.
We have just posted on our website (on the page entitled GPA Survey of Historic Places) a new, comprehensive annotated list of properties in Guilford. This survey, entitled “Significant Structures Fifty Years Old or More, Guilford, [Read more…]
We had a great turnout for our spring program “Back on Track,” celebrating trolley days from New Haven to Guilford, and Stony Creek to Ivoryton. We’ll be posting some of the historical photos and other displays here on our website. At the spring program we gave out 2 Awards of Merit for 2011–you can read about them on our Awards Page.
The Guilford Preservation Alliance is looking for photos of the railroad in Guilford (including the old station buildings, people associated with the buildings, locomotives, etc.) from after 1900, particularly the World War II era. The photos could be used as part of a permanent historical exhibit to be installed in the Shoreline East commuter rail station. Please contact Ellie Green at 203-458-2262 or [email protected].
