Heritage Ohio’s 2023 Preservation Month Photo Contest: And the winner is…..
The votes have been tallied and it’s time to announce this year’s winner. Congratulations go out to Brian Hiles for his photo of Elder High School in Cincinnati!
Be sure to catch the winning image on a future issue of Revitalize Ohio. Thank you to everyone who entered the contest and who voted for their favorite image.
Webinar: Strengthening Your Business Community: The Importance of Regular Check-Ins
Wednesday, June 28th – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Join us for an informative webinar on the importance of regular check-ins with your business community to ensure the health of your local economy. As a Main Street director, it is crucial to support and strengthen the businesses in your community by regularly checking in with business owners to understand their challenges, successes, and needs. In this webinar, Justin from Urality will explore why check-ins are important, how check-ins can impact your long-term success as a Main Street, how to conduct effective check-ins, and the tools and processes that will make them an essential tool for your economic development. Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your business community and ensure the success of your local economy!
About Justin:
Justin Copenhaver is the CEO and Founder of Urality, a technology company dedicated to improving community and economic development. With a 20-year technology background in enterprise SaaS, GIS, and Augmented Reality, Justin has spent the last five years working closely with main streets and business improvement districts (BIDs) to utilize technology to improve both community based marketing and economic development initiatives.
Webinar: The History of Color
Wednesday, May 17th – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Join Sherwin-Williams as they explore the company’s manufacturing history and the technological developments that have influenced how we use color to brighten the world around us. Our hosts will share what went into the development of color offerings throughout the decades and the major influences for each time period that directed the color trends that defined generations of homes and businesses.
Webinar: The Historic Summit Station
Wednesday, June 14th – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Columbus’s legendary Logan’s Off Broadway, Jack’s, Jack’s A Go-Go, or Summit Station (it was known by all of these names) served as a haven for lesbians, trans, queer and their friends for nearly four decades. On June 10th, patrons of Summit Station will dedicate Central Ohio’s first LGBTQ+ Ohio Historical Marker outside of the former bar. Join us to hear from Julia Applegate, one of the community leaders that helped make this marker possible to learn how the marker application process morphed from quest to memorialize lesbian life into a documentary focused on preserving this important community her story, We will also be sharing how the Ohio History Connection’s Gay Ohio History Initiative (GOHI) is hoping to spark a memorialization of LGBTQ place-based history across Ohio in the coming years.
Presenters
Julia M. Applegate is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Julia holds a Masters of Public Health and a Master of Arts in Women’s, Sexuality and Gender Studies from The Ohio State University and has 25 years of teaching experience. In addition to teaching she has served as a public health professional, an HIV/AIDS activist, a barista, swim coach, storyteller and most recently an aspiring filmmaker. She lives with her wife of 21 years, two kids, three cats, one leopard gecko and a ball python in the Glen Echo neighborhood of Columbus.
Ben Anthony is the Manager of the Community Engagement Department at the Ohio History Connection. Ben’s background in community trust building, Asset-Based Community Development and equity inform his team’s work to catalyze and empower marginalized and historically excluded Ohioans. Before joining the Ohio History Connection, Ben worked across Ohio as a community and political organizer. Columbus is now home for his wife, three incredible children and two cats. A lover of all things Ohio and the outdoors, Ben is an Ohio State and Columbus Blue Jacket fan who will sneak away to go backpacking whenever he finds the time.
Financial Tools & Incentives for Downtown Revitalization: Historic Preservation Tax Credits and the Main Street Approach Workshop
Wednesday, June 7th – 9:30 am – 3:30 pm
OJ Work Auditorium – Wadsworth
Join us for a conversation about community development, and how to create vibrant downtowns and thriving communities through the Main Street approach. Then, participate in a deep-dive discussion on the Federal and State Historic Preservation Tax Credit programs for historic building rehabilitation. Learn how to qualify, apply, and use the financing tools you need to breathe new life into your historic structures.
Agenda
9:30 AM: Registration & Morning Refreshments
10:00 AM: An overview of community revitalization, and the role of preservation and revitalization in community pride and quality of life. Introduction to the Ohio Main Street Program for sustainable downtown revitalization – Heritage Ohio Staff
11:00 AM : Understanding the National Register of Historic Places
11:30 AM: Overview of the Certified Local Government (CLG) Program
12:30 PM: Lunch (included with registration)
1:00 PM: The Federal Historic Preservation Tax Credit Program
2:00 PM: The Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit Program
3:00 PM: Q&A
Heritage Ohio’s 2023 Preservation Month Photo Contest | The Story of Historic Preservation
Help us celebrate Preservation Month this May by participating in our annual Preservation Month Photo Contest. This year’s theme is “The Story of Historic Preservation” and we’ll be looking for your great images that capture what YOU think celebrates historic preservation. In tandem with your image, we want to hear the great story that goes with it. Whether it’s a story of a formerly endangered building that has been saved, a story of the people who built it, or a story of the people today who love it, we want to know why your subject material is important.
Once you get that perfect image and write the story behind it, submit your entry using our online submission form below (available beginning April 14). Our Preservation Committee and Board of Trustees will choose finalists from all of the entries we receive, and then we’ll open the contest to online voting. As in years past, your online votes will determine the winner! The winning image will be featured on the cover of a future issue of Revitalize Ohio. Good luck!
Dates to remember
Entries accepted: Friday, April 14-Friday, May 12
Online voting of finalists: Friday, May 19-Thursday, May 25
Winner announced: Friday, May 26
Financial Tools & Incentives for Downtown Revitalization: Historic Preservation Tax Credits and the Main Street Approach Workshop
Wednesday, May 24th – 9:30 am – 3:30 pm
Buckeye Hills Regional Council Office – Marietta
Join us for a conversation about community development, and how to create vibrant downtowns and thriving communities through the Main Street approach. Then, participate in a deep-dive discussion on the Federal and State Historic Preservation Tax Credit programs for historic building rehabilitation. Learn how to qualify, apply, and use the financing tools you need to breathe new life into your historic structures.
Agenda
9:30 AM: Registration & Morning Refreshments
10:00 AM: An overview of community revitalization, and the role of preservation and revitalization in community pride and quality of life. Introduction to the Ohio Main Street Program for sustainable downtown revitalization – Heritage Ohio Staff
11:00 AM : Understanding the National Register of Historic Places
11:30 AM: Overview of the Certified Local Government (CLG) Program
12:30 PM: Lunch (included with registration)
1:00 PM: The Federal Historic Preservation Tax Credit Program
2:00 PM: The Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit Program
3:00 PM: Q&A
Lunch & Learn: Access to Capital & Resources for Small Business
Wednesday, April 27th – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Join Tim Kehoe, Director of Strategic Partnerships & Initiatives at ECDI to learn more about small businesses resources and programs available through ECDI.
Listen in over your lunch time to learn about:
- Entrepreneurial education and advising opportunities for new or established businesses throughout Ohio
- Business support programs including Women’s Business Centers of Ohio, Minority Contractor Resource Center, Food Business Incubation, & Social Enterprise Hub
- Small Business Lending programs, who is eligible, and the process for applying
- Training tools and resources available to small business owners
Presenter
Tim Kehoe serves as Director of Strategic Partnerships after joining ECDI in 2015 as Portfolio Manager focused on post-loan technical assistance for ECDI’s lending clients. His career started as an entrepreneur, and experienced both the upside and the risk of starting a small business. He has spent his career working for and with small businesses across a wide range of industries. Combining this experience with knowledge of lending programs proves to be a valuable mix of expertise for entrepreneurs needing guidance and assistance.
Webinar: Preparing for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse in Ohio
Wednesday, April 12th – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
You don’t have to be a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court to harness the power of a total solar eclipse! On April 8, 2024, we’ll experience total solar eclipse and the darkest path goes right through Ohio. If you miss this one, you’re going to have to wait until 2099!
Join us for this webinar to learn about how this event can generate an economic benefit for your community with watch parties, tourism, and much more. You’ll also hear about potential profit sharing with the sale of specially designed eclipse watching glasses.
Presenters
Amy Pulles has served as president and CEO of Prevent Blindness, Ohio Affiliate since January 2022. Working in concert with a 33-member board of directors, her responsibilities are to coordinate a paid staff of 14 and 3,600 volunteers across Ohio in implementing sight-saving programming to provide direct services to 1,000,000 Ohioans annually and educate millions of consumers about what they can do to protect and preserve their gift of sight. With Prevent Blindness since 2012, Amy has served as Vice President and as Development Director of Prevent Blindness. Previously, Amy held leadership positions with the League of Women Voters of Ohio, the League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Columbus and the American Red Cross. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from The Ohio State University.
Alan Gunner, President and CEO of Solnomo, the exclusive wholesaler of Prevent Blindness ISO certified solar eclipse glasses, serves in multiple volunteer capacities for Prevent Blindness. Alan began volunteering for the Northeast Ohio Chapter of Prevent Blindness in 2015. He serves as Chair of the Swing Fore Sight Golf tournament in Cleveland as well as serves on the Executive Council for the Northeast Ohio Chapter of Prevent Blindness, Ohio Affiliate. Alan joined the Prevent Blindness, Ohio Affiliate Board of Directors in 2021 and then the Prevent Blindness America Board of Directors in 2022. Alan serves as Vice President, Revenue Cycle Management for AEG Vision, a national 350 location full-service optometry practice organization.
Webinar: Ohio’s First Female Architects
Wednesday, March 22nd – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Ohio has over 4,000 listings on the National Register of Historic Places. Of those, very few are attributed to women architects. In celebration of National Women’s Month, we will look at some of the buildings in Ohio designed by pioneering women architects, as well as other historic buildings outside of our state that were designed by women with Ohio roots. We hope you’ll join us to learn more about this important legacy.
Presenters
Melinda Shah is an architect with Schooley Caldwell who has spent 20 years working on historic buildings for public and private clients. Through this experience, she has gained valuable knowledge of how to work with existing buildings to preserve them while bringing them to life for new and modern uses. She is also experienced at working with the various requirements for buildings listed on historic registries, in districts with design review, and with historic tax credits. She has worked on over 30 buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Melinda received both her Bachelor and Master of Architecture degrees from the University of Cincinnati, where she had the opportunity to co-op with other design firms and gain significant experience in preservation design. In addition, she received a Certificate of Historic Preservation from the University of Cincinnati.
Amanda Fuson is an architectural designer who has been with Schooley Caldwell since in 2015. She is a graduate of Miami University and has a Master of Architecture and a Master of Historic Preservation degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her role involves architectural design and document support on various projects, including the Hoster Brewery, Newark Arcade, Lakeside, and Perry County Courthouse. Outside of work, Amanda loves to travel and see new places — she caught the travel bug when she lived in England for a year as a child. She is also obsessed with all things history (art, architectural, film, U.S., European…really, any).
Webinar: Certified Local Government (CLG) Grants
Wednesday, February 8th – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
This webinar will be to discuss the now open federal fiscal year 2023 CLG grant program. We will provide an overview of the grant program with project examples and will answer any questions that participants would have about potential projects or applications.
Presenter
Adam Eltrich is the Grants Manager for the State Historic Preservation Office of the Ohio History Connection. Adam has been in this role for nearly five years. Prior to working in the State Historic Preservation Office, Adam worked for the City of Columbus, Department of Public Service and the State of Ohio, Department of Commerce. He has an BA in History and Political Science from Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, OH and an MA in Public Administration from the University of Akron. Adam resides in Hilliard and is originally from Lorain.
Webinar: First Ladies Foundations
Wednesday, March 8th – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Come learn about the park! First Ladies National Historic Site is the home to an extensive collection of stories, places, and artifacts. Representing all of the First Ladies of the United States – past and present – our site covers a large expanse of American history. Join us virtually as we explore the lives and legacies of the first ladies, the historic buildings at the park site, and our museum and research library.
Presenters
Rebekah Knaggs serves as a Park Guide and Volunteer Coordinator at First Ladies National Historic Site in Canton, OH. As a park guide, Rebekah gets to work with the public through programing, house tours, education for students, digital media, and community outreach. First Ladies National Historic Site is the third National Park detail she has had, along with William Howard Taft National Historic Site and James A. Garfield National Historic Site. Rebekah has an MA in History-Museum Studies and license in Historic Preservation from Cleveland State University, following a BA in Archaeology and license in Historic Preservation from the University of Cincinnati. Outside of work, she exercises her passion for historic preservation and history with various community groups in her hometown of Medina, OH.