Joyce Barrett
Joyce began her career while at Iowa State where she earned her BS in history while working for the Brunnier Museum. In 1994, Joyce took the position as the first Executive Director of the Iowa Historic Preservation Alliance. She finally moved to Ohio in 2002 and began her work with us in 2004.
Photography Contest
By Joyce Barrett on March 22, 2010
Heritage Ohio announces our first Preservation Month Photography Contest. This contest is to celebrate the best of Ohio’s Preservation and Revitalization movement. Both adults and youth (under 18) were encouraged to participate. 2010 PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST WINNERS Congratulations! Thank you to the many wonderful submissions 1st Place Cynthia D. Miller Toronto Ohio 2nd Place Perry Hodies [...]
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Heritage Ohio Recieves USDA ARRA Funding
By Joyce Barrett on January 26, 2010
Heritage Ohio is happy to announce that we have received a $99,000 grant from the USDA to provide technical assistance to business people in targeted rural communities. Our program “Retail is Detail” provides market analysis and individual business recommendations to participants to fine-tune their strategy for succeeding in bringing more more jobs and business to [...]
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Green Historic Preservation Symposium
By Joyce Barrett on January 22, 2010
Yesterday in Indianapolis I attended a symposium sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA Region 5) entitled “Green Historic Preservation Symposium: What Works, What Doesn’t, What Should Change” What I learned was that the “green-sustainability” constituency from the professional environmental sector knows little about historic preservation and the historic preservation community knows little about the [...]
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Historic Windows can be more Energy Efficient than Replacement Windows
By Joyce Barrett on January 13, 2010
There has been a great deal of angst in the preservation community as the government, media and general public banter misinformation regarding incentives for replacing windows as an smart energy saving move. DO NOT be mislead. There are, of course, cheap, usually windows of the past 50 years, that should go. But old growth lumber, [...]
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