Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Preservation Trust of Vermont, founded in 1980, is a nonprofit, charitable, organization designed to preserve and protect the architectural heritage of the U.S. state of Vermont. The Trust provides assistance to individuals, groups, and other organizations, involved in the historic preservation of Vermont's built environment.
The Preservation Trust of Vermont acquired the Vermont Marble Company in 2014. [2] Also, the town of Proctor has many sidewalks made of marble, and the high school and Catholic church are both faced in local stone. Most of the buildings of the former Vermont Marble Company still stand, and many are constructed of Vermont marble.
After its closure, town residents decided to donate $500,000 to purchase the building and its 1.25 acres and reopen it, where it became operated through a new non-profit entity, the Barnard Community Trust. [6] This relatively unique effort to sustain the store was guided by the Preservation Trust of Vermont. [2]
The home was in the Webb family until 2000 when the structure and its contents were acquired by the museum. Following a 4.4 million dollar campaign by the museum to restore the home to Mrs. Webb's decor, the museum was recognized by Preservation Trust of Vermont in 2005 for their efforts in preserving the Brick House. [4]
The campus consists of twenty studio and residence buildings clustered along the Gihon River in the village of Johnson. Several of the buildings date to the nineteenth century and their restoration have won awards from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Preservation Trust of Vermont.
The Vermont Historical Society (VHS) was founded in 1838 to preserve and record the cultural history of the US state of Vermont. Headquartered in the old Spaulding School Building in Barre, the Vermont History Center is home to the Vermont Historical Society's administrative offices, the Leahy Library and a small book shop.
The Chazy Fossil Reef National Natural Landmark includes three islands in Lake Champlain.Included within the designated area are two preserves on Vermont's Isle La Motte; the 20-acre (8.1 ha) Fisk Quarry Preserve and the 83-acre (34 ha) Goodsell Ridge Preserve are both open to the public and managed by the Isle La Motte Preservation Trust. [2]
Vermont Association of Snow Travelers; Vermont Council on Rural Development; Vermont Energy Investment Corporation; Vermont Foodbank; Vermont Housing Finance Agency; Vermont Land Trust; Vermont Public Interest Research Group; Vermont Sustainable Heating Initiative; Volunteers in Medicine