Portage Historic Preservation Month Event

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Destinee Udelhoven (destineekae@hotmail.com)
Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:14:41 -0500



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From: Destinee Udelhoven <destineekae@hotmail.com>
Subject: Portage Historic Preservation Month Event
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:14:41 -0500

As a lover of history, and a member of Portage's Historic Preservation Co mmission, I highly recommend the following FREE event:
 
 
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
  CONTACT: Erin Foley, 608-742-1400 OR Wolffoley5@frontier.com
 
  DID YOUR HOUSE COME BY MAIL? EULBERG TO DISCUSS CATALOG HOMES
  Portage, WI, April 25 – Architectural historian Judy Eulberg will kic k off this year’s National Preservation Month on Tuesday, May 3, at 7
 p.m., with her illustrated talk on “Mail-Ordered Houses.” The publi c is welcome to attend this free event at the Portage Public Library. Refr eshments will be served after the talk. Thousands of mail-order homes were built between 1906 and 1940, using pla ns designed and built by companies such as Sears, Gordon Van Tyne, and Aladdin. Although these homes could be built with locally obtained materia ls, many people opted to purchase the building materials with the plans.
 An average catalog home arrived in 30,000 pieces packed into two rail fr eight cars. The order included everything from the doorknobs to the shingl es, and included 700 lbs. of nails and 27 gallons of paint and varnish.
  Eulberg’s knowledge of mail-order houses comes from her graduate work in Historic Preservation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, supplemente d by her career as a preservation consultant. She has discovered a number of Portage homes that were ordered from catalogs, and will feature severa l of them in her talk. National Preservation Month is an event promoted by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This year’s theme is “Celebrating America’s T reasures,” a reminder to communities to protect the places that tell th e nation’s story, create jobs, and spur economic development in our M ain Streets. For more information about National Preservation Month, ple ase visit http://www.preservationnation.org/take-action/preservation-month/
. Eulberg’s talk is sponsored by Portage’s Historic Preservation Commissi on, a group of community members appointed by the Mayor, to recognize
, educate, and preserve the historic and cultural resources within the City of Portage. The Historic Preservation Commission normally meets on the
 third Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. in the Municipal Building.
 
 

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  Destinee K. Udelhoven Executive Director Historic Indian Agency House Portage, Wisconsin
(608) 742 - 6362 Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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