Saving Albany’s stories one brick at a time

This program is currently on hold, but check out the resources from the posts below!

Welcome to Technical Tuesdays: a blog and accompanying FacebookLive post every Tuesday at noon to talk the technical side of preservation. In the absence of the ability to walk in to our office and chat about tax credits, your house project, and anything else preservation on your mind, we are going digital.

I will try to address a new technical topic each week and answer your questions on FacebookLive. Any documents or resources referenced will get posted here. The next week’s topic will be announced in our weekly newsletter. Questions you’d like answered can be emailed to info@historic-albany.org or posted on Facebook during the event.

May 19, 2020

The dirty "M" word: maintenance

May 19, 2020/ Historic Foundation

Today we talked about how now is the time to get outside, take some deep breaths of spring air, and give your house a quick once over. Whether you are type A and have a running spread sheet of needs for your house with a schedule of when you’re planning to work on them or just have a sort of mental to do list in your head, now is a good time to take a look and update that list.

Here is a great resource for what to look at and how to organize your list, spreadsheet, notebook, or mental.
NPS Preservation Brief No. 47: Maintenance of the Exterior of Small and Medium Sized Buildings

Now get out there and get some vitamin D!

About the Director of Preservation Services, Cara Macri
Cara has been with Historic Albany for over a decade working on a wide variety of projects: helping historic property owners rehabilitate, restore, and maintain their historic properties, developing educational programming, grant writing, and managing the stabilization of the Van Ostrande-Radliff House.

Cara has a background in building conservation and written multiple National Register nominations including a nomination for a Frank Furness designed B & O train depot in Aberdeen, Maryland. She was also the co-author of a historic structures report for the Bretherns' Workshop at the Watervliet Shaker site. She has previously served on the Board of Directors for Troy Proctor's Foundation and the Aberdeen Room Museum and Historical Society.

When not focusing on historic buildings in Albany, Cara lives with her husband and brood of three children in their 1870s home in Troy. In the summer months, she can be found canning and gardening. In the cooler months, she is often baking something rainbow sprinkled with her children. Scones are their favorite.

Technical Tuesdays

Saving Albany’s stories one brick at a time

This program is currently on hold, but check out the resources from the posts below!

Historic Albany Foundation